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their foals the full time. The duration of the disease is 

 usually six to ten days if uncomplicated; a constant 

 watch most be kept for lung or blood complications. 

 Give good food, pure air, sunlight, etc., avoid draughts; 

 hot mashes containing powdered ginger and chlorate of 

 potash, of each half an ounce, will be useful until the 

 veterinarian is called: if the throat is sore, the ammonia 

 liniment may be rubbed in and the head steamed. 



A STEER KOl'Kn KOI! THKIIWIN14. (SEE 1'. LS3. ) 



The front hitch should be lower down the neck, the back hitch should 

 be six inches further ahead to obtain the best results. Thirty feet of rope 

 is required. 



Gonorrhoea of stallions and mares. A contagions dis- 

 ease of some moment during the breeding season some- 

 times appears in stallions, which may be termed gonor- 

 rhoea, being a catarrhal inflammation of the urethra; as 

 the disease can be transmitted to the mare or vice versa 



