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Depaktment or Ageictjltuke, 



Washington, March SO, 1916. 

 This edition of the Special Keport on Diseases of the Horse has 

 been prepared in compliance with House Concurrent Eesolution No. 

 13, passed February 3, 1916, as follows : 



^e8oVoed iy the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring). That 

 there: be printed and bound in cloth one hundred thousand copies of the Special 

 Report on the Diseases of the Horse, the same to be first revised and brought 

 to date, under fhe supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture ; seventy thousand 

 copies for the use of the House of Representatives and thirty thousand for use 

 of tne Senate. 



Since the original edition issued by the Department in 1890 several 

 editions have been printed by order of Congress. The work was 

 reprinted in 1896, and revised and reprinted in 1903, 1908, and 1911. 

 In accordance with the foregoing resolution it again has been revi,sed 

 so as to embody the latest practical development of knowledge of the 

 subject. 



D. F. Houston, 



Secretary. 



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