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countries like Iceland where erysipelas and its coadjutors are 

 common, its absence from secluded breeding farms and districts 

 in America, though prevailing all around them, the rapidity of its 

 spread when introduced in a sick colt, and the entire failure to 

 extend in the same way from an erysipelatous man to susceptible 

 young horses with which he comes in contact show that preven- 

 tive measures may be successfully applied for its restriction and 

 extinction. The conceded family resemblance of the microbes 

 and the experimental production, by their inoculation, of lesions 

 showing many points of similitude leave them still sufficiently 

 distinct in their pathogenesis to warrant measures for the sup- 

 pression of the variety which produces strangles. 



Precautions for the private owner. During the existence of 

 strangles in the district, exclude strange horses, asses or mules from 

 the farm or stable. Keep young susceptible horses from public 

 stables or yards (livery, feeding, training, fair, market, and above 

 all, dealers' and sale stables) a.n.d even ir ova. public drinki7ig troughs 

 and buckets used in common. Provide against their contact with 

 manure from strange or infected stables, or with pastures, fields 

 and wagons on which this has been put, also against the use 

 around the stable or on fodder of forks or other implements that 

 have been used for such manure. Avoid hay or other fodder or 

 litter from a strange barn or one that is open to any suspicion of 

 infection. Avoid running water that has drained land, stables, 

 or yards where strange horses have been, or those open to sus- 

 picion. In shipping by car or other public conveyance disinfect 

 the latter before the animal is loaded. If a second hand wagon, 

 s/mfts, pole, harness, blanket or other object is brought on the 

 place or used, disinfect the same before using. 



Measures for Sanitary Police. Make it compulsory to report, 

 under penalty for failure; all cases of strangles, or of horses with 

 nasal discharge, or submaxillary swelling. Forbid removal from 

 the stable, or secluded enclosure, of all horses, etc. , suffering in this 

 way or which have been pronounced by the official veterinarian to 

 have strangles. Provide for exclusion of all other solipeds from such 

 stafiles, or from contact with or dangerous proximity to animals held 

 in them, also from infected yards, parks, cars, boats, etc. Close pub- 

 lic drinking troughs during an epizootic ; let each owner use his 

 own bucket. Circumstances may demand closure of public feed- 



