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that undue exposure to the weather, transition 

 from heat to cold, improper feeding, uncleanli- 

 ness, and bad ventilation, are the very means to 

 bring about such diseases as glanders, farcy, and 

 other diseases of a debilitating character. 



One day the animals, as I have been informed 

 by persons in the Grovernment service, will have 

 more food placed before them than they can pos- 

 sibly consume, and probably for several days 

 previous they have been on the verge of starva- 

 tion, eager to devour almost anything within 

 their reach, not excepting the fences they were 

 tied to. How then can anything else be expected, 

 but a great many of them will die from disease of 

 the bowels or stomach ? 



Catarrhal affections are very naturally to be 

 expected amongst a large number of horses ex 

 posed to the various changes of the weather ; but 

 do not a great many of these affections, for want 

 of proper treatment, run into glanders? That 

 they do, I have not the shadow of a doubt ; but 

 as the government does not employ competent 

 persons to examine the horses regularly, why the 

 disease runs on ; the glandered horse coming in 

 contact with his associates transfers it to them, 

 and thus the disease is spread throughout the 

 -^amp. Furthermore than this, not only are the 

 horses in danger of communicating the disease 

 to their own species, but are in danger of trans- 

 ferring the disease to the persons who have 

 charge of them, and who little know the fearful 

 risk they are incurring, of becoming inocuiated 



