982 VETEEINAEY HYGIENE 



Further, if at any time it is desired to examine the 

 quality of the work, the horses in the ' shod ' enclosure can 

 be let into the track, examined at the main crush, let loose 

 as they are individually examined, and allowed to find 

 their way around the track to the ' shod ' enclosure, or 

 placed at once in the paddock to which they belong. 



Neiv Arrivals. — We may here conveniently consider the 

 method of dealing with new arrivals at the depot. Let us 

 suppose 500 horses have come to hand, weary, empty- 

 looking, and ' tucked up.' There is a vacant paddock 

 ready for their reception and their feed is already put out. 

 They are examined one by one for contagious disease, any 

 suspected are taken to a place of isolation, the sick to 

 hospital, the rest, as they are examined, are let loose in the 

 track. Leading out of the track is a second watering place 

 reserved for new arrivals only ; this is done with the object 

 of limiting the possibilities of infectious disease. Into this 

 watering place the horses are at once allowed to find their 

 way, fill themselves with water, and permitted to lie and 

 roll in the sand. 



When the last of the new arrivals has been examined 

 and let loose in the watering place, the whole lot can be 

 allowed to find their way around the track, and into the 

 paddock in which their feed has been made ready. The 

 taking in of these horses has, it will be observed, occupied 

 very little time, and no delay has occurred in giving them 

 water and food. 



For the first few days they are worried as little as 

 possible, being merely observed as they do their allotted 

 exercise in the track. Later, however, they will have 

 sufficiently recovered to be tested with mallein; it is 

 important that this should be determined as soon as 

 convenient. Accordingly, a hundred of them are let out 

 quietly into the track, and taken to the crush, where they 

 are malleined while standing in the gangway ; the whole 

 hundred being done in a very short time, as the operator 

 has only to walk from one to the other. 



When the mallein results have been ascertained, restric- 



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