DeparTMENT or AGRICULTURE, 
Washington, March 30, 1916. 
This edition of the Special Report on Diseases of the Horse has 
been prepared in compliance with House Concurrent Resolution No. 
13, passed February 3, 1916, as follows: 
Resolved by 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 the 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 revised 
so as to embody the latest practical development of knowledge of the 
subject. 
D. F. Houston, 
Secretary. 
