GERMANY. 283 



Bavaria has 1 royal breeding stable, 2 principal breeding 

 stables, 5 stallion depots, and 123 stallion stations. 



Saxony has 1 breeding establishment for the production of 

 draft horses ; it is of limited extent and of not much impor- 

 tance. 



Wurttemberg. has 3 small breeding stables, which are also 

 stallion depots. The government stallions in Wurttemberg 

 number 126. 



The total number of government stallions in Germany is 

 3,000, exclusive of the colts. 



SUMMARY OF THE VETERINARY MEDICAL REPORT OF THE 

 PRUSSIAN ARMY, 1900. 



The Militar-Wochenblatt publishes a summary of the vet- 

 erinary medical report of the Prussian army for 1900. The 

 total number of service horses was 81,039, and of these 32,996 

 or 40.71 per cent came under treatment, with the result that 

 30,399 or 92.12 i^er cent of the treated horses were cured, 320 

 were declared unfit for further service, 1,1-48 or 3.48 per cent 

 died, and 368 or 1.11 per cent were killed, making a total loss 

 to the service of 1,836 horses or 5.58 per cent of the horses 

 treated, and 2.26 per cent of the total strength. Compared 

 with the previous year there was an increase of 6,410 in the 

 number of cases treated and 284 in the number lost. Deaths 

 from glanders were more numerous than in the two years 

 immediately preceding, the figures being 13 in 1898, 1 in 

 1899, and 52 in 1900. Of the 52, 47 cases came from one reg- 

 iment, but in 21 of these there was some doubt as to the real 

 nature of the disease. Chest murrain affected 1,618 horses, 

 of which 1,498 were cured, 70 died, 1 was killed, and 49 

 remained under treatment. No less than 1,019 cases, with 43 

 deaths, occurred in the first quarter of the jeav. The cases 

 were less numerous than in either of the four preceding years, 

 the numbers for these years being 2,277, 3,116, 3,265, and 

 2,301. The far less dangerous murrain or intestinal fever 

 showed a great increase in the number of cases, the figures 

 being 4,325 for 1900 and only 861 for 1899, but only 1 horse 

 died from this disease and 1 was shot. Colic was, as usual, 

 much more fatal, as out of 3,746 horses treated, 528 horses 

 died, both these numbers being higher than those of any of 

 the five preceding years. Inflammation of the throat and 

 larynx aft'ected 527 horses, but only 1 died ; 420 of the cases 



