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cause it to bolt or become unmanage- 

 able. 



Glanders. — This terrible disease is 

 almost entirely confined to the large 

 towns. Scientific research has thrown 

 some light upon its ravages, but un- 

 fortunately its cure up to the present 

 seems hopeless, whilst the infectious 

 powers of glanders are known too well. 

 Human being and animal alike are 

 endangered by the presence of a 

 glandered animal. " Glanders," says 

 Captain Hayes in Vetennary Notes^ 

 "is most readily communicated by in- 

 oculation with the diseased discharge 

 from the nostrils, the mere contact of 



