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ing the hands in it, and the soap curdling and swimming 

 on the top. This, if drawn and instantly drank by 

 horses, will induce internal inflammatory complaints, 

 tubercles on the liver, &c., and in many instances colic 

 and death Soft water is by far the best, but whichever 

 it may be, it ought to be procured some time before it is 

 required for use, and kept in a tank or cistern, exposed 

 to the sun ; and where obnoxious kinds cannot be avoided, 

 less at a time should be given, and oftener. Chalk or 

 whitening is a very good corrector of hard water. But, 

 were I an owner of race-horses, travelling from meeting 

 to meeting, I would insist upon all the water my horses 

 drank being boiled. 



GLANDERS. 



"No disease with which the horse is affected is 

 more contagious or more fatal than glanders. Thou- 

 sands of horses have died or been destroyed while suffer- 

 ing from this terrible disease. Many hackney-coach 

 proprietors and livery-stable keepers have been ruined 

 by one of their horses coming in contact with strange 

 horses in strange stables which have been suffering from 

 glanders ; and my tyro may readily conceive the havoc 

 which the introduction of the disease would make in a 

 stable full of valuable horses ; therefore, he should be 

 very careful when from home where he puts his horse, 

 for the practice of placing a valuable horse at the nearest 

 and most convenient stable while the rider makes a call 

 cannot be too scrupulously guarded against, and I am 



