134 avery's own farrier. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



" The world is my country, and to do good is my religion." 



GLANDERS AND FARCY. 



This is a very difficult and important part of this work, 

 and the more so in consequence of its always being con- 

 si(iered so fatal to the horse, and embarrassing because 

 it has been pronounced incurable (by the learned pro- 

 fession) from time immemorial. Perhaps I am the first 

 to say that it has been cured. It is as easily managed as 

 many other diseases. Among the various remedies here- 

 tofore given there seem to be only two worthy of notice, 

 or of much consequence to the horse or its owner, viz: 

 The first of these is, to destroy the glandered horse im- 

 mediately on suspicion being confirmed that he is such, 

 for the safety of others around him. Now, this one 

 certainly contains a moral that I can not object to, pro- 

 vided the parties interested give their consent. The 

 second consists in trading him off as soon as you have 

 any suspicion of his having the glanders. This I will 

 not attempt to answer here, only by saying, as Michael 

 Hoffman said when challenged to fight, bad. 



Before I became acquainted with the nature and rava- 

 ges of this disease, I used to wonder and think it strange 

 that, among the thousand and one diseases that this noble 

 creature was liable to, this one alone w^as incurable, 

 while all the rest had so many remedies given for their 

 cure. And I am rather inclined to think now, that this 

 declaration, coming as often as it has from the learned 

 (of the old school), has deterred many from an investi- 



