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in very small quantities; to make up for this oats that have been 

 carefully crushed, with a suitable proportion of cracked beans or 

 split peas must be given in increased quantity by fifty per cent, to 

 that which the horse would receive were it in receipt of the 

 common mixture of hay or chaff; and succulent diet such as 

 vetches, clover and lucerne in the summer, and carrots in the 

 winter should be allowed in moderate quantity as aids to nutrition 

 on the one hand and digestion on the other; if the horse has fast 

 work to perform care must be observed to so order the time of the 

 meals that the work has not to be performed upon a full stomach. 

 During the daytime the horse's head should be tied up short to 

 prevent the possibility of getting at bedding straw, and at night 

 when head must of necessity be let down, a muzzle should in- 

 variably be used; in order to avoid the practice of taking large 

 quantities of fluid at one time it is a good plan to have 'a constant 

 suppl}' always available, as under these circumstances only small 

 quantities of water will be taken in the stomach at one time. 



NEWMARKET FEVER. 



Gentlemen who take an interest in sport, and racing in particu- 

 lar, have doubtless often read in English sporting papers of a 

 disease called "' N'ezvmarket Fever,'" and as it is frequently de- 

 scribed as very fatal, and by some writers as infectious and there- 

 fore likely to spread through a stud, it may be of some service to 

 devote a chapter to the consideration of its principal characteris- 

 tics, more especially as some of the leading sportsmen in the 

 United States are sending over their thoroughbreds to compete on 

 our English race-courses. 



With a view to confirmation as to the pathology of the disease 

 w^e placed ourselves in communication with one of the most emi- 

 nent resident veterinary practitioners in Newmarket, Mr. E. H. 

 Eeach, F. R. C. V. S., who promptly and very kindly furnished 

 some interesting details of cases that had passed through his 

 hands, and a post-mortem specimen consisting of a piece of a lung 

 taken from a two-year-old filly, w^hich had been a subject of the 

 disease, and with great pleasure we own our thankful indebted- 

 ness to Mr. Eeach for the trouble he took in this matter. The 

 disease, according to this eminent practitioner, is called ''New- 

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