Chaptee VI. 



1. GLANDERS AND FARCY. 



2. STRANGLES, 



Of all the maladies to which the equine race is subject, 

 none are more dreaded than the two forms of the same 

 disease which is described as glanders if it affects the 

 interior of the animal, and farcy if the exterior. 

 Whereas glanders usually appears in or about the region 

 of the head, farcy may appear in any part. 



The absorbent system is the seat of the disease, and 

 it is possible for an animal to have it in a latent form 

 for a considerable time before the objective symptoms 

 appear. Fortunately, however, a test, which has 

 proved of the utmost value, was discovered some years 

 ago, the application of which produces unmistakable 

 evidence as to whether or not the disease is present in 

 its incipient form. Probabh- one of these days the 

 periodical application of this test by regularly-appointed 

 Government officials may be made compulsory, especially 

 where studs are kept, a step which would, undoubtedly, 

 tend towards the eradication of this fearsome scourge. 

 Like most other diseases, it finds its victims more easily 



