A FEW PRIME FACTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE HORSE AND THE COW. 



FACT NUMBER ONE. 



THE DISEASE OF THE HORSE.. 



Section I. 



THE CAUSE OF THE SLOBBERS. 



It is a fact, generally known, and known too by dear-bought 

 experience, that, in this country, and probably in most others, 

 the horse kept in the summer season on ordinary grass feed, 

 contracts a disease called the Slobbers, the cause of which 

 has utterly baffled the enquiry of many a farmer and horse 

 grower for nearly the whole of the last half century. For 

 many years the complaint was regarded as inflicting noth- 

 ing more than a little inconvenience, a disagreeable drool, 

 &c. ; but experience soon proved that it plants other diseases 

 which, like the "jaw bone," have slain their thousands. 



The cause of the Slobbers has been attributed to the Ca- 

 nada Thistle by one set of farmers ; to Dr. Thompson's 

 cure-all, the Lobelia, by another ; one says it is the after 

 growth of Clover, called Rowen, or fall feed, and another 

 knows it to be Spider-icebs suspended on the grass feed, and 



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