HORSE-TRAINING MADE EASY 163 



BEWARE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 



There is one point upon which we desire t) 

 caution our readers — a point which we deem all- 

 important, and which, we trust, will challenge 

 their earnest and prompt consideration As 

 rapidly as army horses, whether from disease or 

 accident, become unfit for service, they are put 

 up at auction and sold to the highest bidder. As 

 the prices obtained for them are not large, many 

 farmers are induced to make purchases. It is 

 now a well-established fact, that that most loath- 

 some, contagious, and fatal disease, the glanders, 

 prevails to a large extent among the army horses, 

 and that, of those already sold, a great many 

 have been afflicted with it. These glandered 

 animals have been distributed through every 

 section of the country, and it is a notorious fact 

 that there are now ten cases of this dangerous 

 disease among our farm-horses, where there was 

 a single one two years since. What is to be 

 done in such a case? Shall this introduction 

 of a most pestilent • disease be permitted to go 

 on ? If it be, we may confidently look forward 

 to the almost complete extermination of our 

 horses ; for the facility with which the disease 

 communicates itself from one animal to another, 

 and the speedy and fatal termination of the dis- 

 ease, where it is the result of contagion, point to 

 no other result. The government should at 

 once take this matter in hand, and remedy the 

 crying evil, by ordering the immediate killing 

 of every glandered horse in the army. — Culturist 



