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with a suspected animal must be excluded from breeding for the 

 same period even if no active symptoms have been shown. 



3d. Every affected or exposed animal, should be quarantined 

 in the hands of his or her owner and placed on an official register 

 and the sale, gift or loan of such an animal, or its movement to a 

 new place where it might propagate the disease should be made a 

 misdemeanor. 



4th. In any county or district in which the disease exists all 

 stallions and mares should be registered and none should be 

 allowed to be used for breeding purposes without an official 

 certificate showing that each of the animals mated is free from 

 all suspicion of having been exposed to this infection. 



5th. If any stallion or mare is imported from a country in 

 which dourine exists it should be accompanied by an official cer- 

 tificate showing that it has not in the past three years been ex- 

 posed to the possibility of infection with dourine. 



6th. In the absence of such certificate the imported animal 

 (capable of breeding) should be kept in strict quarantine for the 

 period of three years. 



7th. A much more radical measure, which may be made to 

 supersede all of the above, would be to castrate every soliped 

 (stallion or mare) which has suffered from the disease in the past 

 three years, and every such animal that has by coition been ex- 

 posed during that length of time to even a remote opportunity 

 for contagion. This would embrace all apparently sound mares 

 that had been .served by a stallion which had shown slight symp- 

 toms of the disease, or by a .stallion which had not himself shown 

 such symptoms, but which had served a mare that had shown 

 .such symptoms ; or one that had served a mare that had not 

 shown such symptoms, but that had been previously served by a 

 stallion which had shown such symptoms, or that previously cov- 

 ered a mare that had .shown such symptoms. In such cases the 

 State might well afford to indemnify the owner for any reduction 

 in value of the castrated stallion from that borne by the animal as 

 a prospective breeder, the breeding for which indemnity is sought 

 being understood to count only from a date of three years after 

 the sanitary castration. A mare once attacked should be remorse- 

 lessly castrated or killed. A perfect recovery in a horse can be 

 better attested ; that of a mare is always uncertain, and most 



