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Mr. Hitt. My catalogue did not come out until we got a copy. 
We get the first copy before it gets into the catalogue. 
The chairman read as follows: 
No. 471.] Unitep States DEPARTMENT oF AGRICULTURE, 
Division or Pusiications, 
Wasuinaton, D. C., September 19, 1908. 
THE HORSE BOOK. 
The Special Report on Diseases of the Horse has been revised under a joint 
resolution of the Fifty-seventh Congress, is now in press, and will soon be issued. 
This report was prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Animal Industry of 
the United States Department of Agriculture, and was first issued in 1890, and the 
limited edition that the Department was able to publish was soon exhausted. The 
demand was then turned on Congress, and that body has from time to time ordered 
reprints for distribution by its own members, exclusively, until the number already 
issued has reached nearly half a million copies. 
The resolution under which the present revision was made provides for the print- 
ing and binding, in cloth, of 200,000 copies, the same to be first revised and brought 
up to date under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture; 128,000 copies for 
the use of the House of Representatives; 64,000 copies for the use of the Senate; and 
8,000 copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture. The allotment to the 
Department is so small that it will have none for general distribution, and those who 
may desire copies of the report should apply to members of the last Congress (the 
57th), to whom all copies of the Congressional allotment will be delivered. 
New members of the present Congress will not be entitled to a quota. 
The report has been carefully revised, either by the authors of the several articles 
or by veterinarians of wide reputation. An entirely new article on The Examina- 
tion of a Horse, by Dr. Leonard Pearson, State veterinarian of Pennsylvania, is 
included; also a chapter on shoeing, written by J. W. Adams, professor of surgery 
and lecturer on shoeing, veterinary department, University of Pennsylvania. 
The report also contains the following articles: Methods of Administering Medi- 
cines, Diseases of the Digestive Organs, and Wounds and their Treatment, by Ch. B. 
Michener, V. S.; Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Diseases of the Generative Organs, 
Diseases of the Eye, and Diseases of the Skin, by James Law, F. R. C. V.8.; Dis- 
eases of the Respiratory Organs, by W. H. Harbaugh, V. §.; Diseases of the Nerv- 
ous System and Diseases of the Heart, Blood Vessels, and Lymphatics, by M. R. 
Trumbower, V. 8.; Lameness, by A. Liautard, M. D., V.8.; Diseases of the Fetlock, 
Ankle, and Foot, by A. A. Holcomb, D. V. 8.; General Diseases, by Rush Shippen 
Huidekoper, M. D., Vet.; and Surra, by Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D. . 
It is illustrated by 41 plates and 18 text figures. 
Mr. Hitn. That was information that was given to us from the 
House folding room. 
The CHarrMan. It was issued from your Division of Publications. 
Mr. Apams. And states that it will soon be issued. 
Mr. Hitz. Will be issued in the future. 
The Cuarrman. What was the necessity for issuing that? 
Mr. Hix. To answer our innumerable correspondence that came to 
us through the newspaper reports to the effect that the new edition of 
the horse book would be issued and would soon appear. 
Mr. Henry. I dislike very much to criticise the work of your divi- 
sion, but it does seem to me that this announcement might have been 
delayed approximately to the time the publication reaches the House 
folding room and save all of this annoyance. 
Mr. Scorr. Sometimes the newspapers will not only announce the 
fact of the publication about to issue but they give a lot of detailed 
information as to what is in the book. 
Mr. Bowrs. I suppose that can not be prevented. : 
Mr. Burteson. And they also urge that everyone who wishes to 
read this book will immediately write their Congressman for it. 
