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Vol. IY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1901. No. 16. 



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CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



District Reports ... ... 483 



Veterinary. 



Strangles in Horses, ByH. Watkins- 



Pitchford, F.H.C.V.S. ... 481 



Stramonium for Horse Flies ... 487 

 Serum Treatment ; Government En- 

 quiry ... ... ... 51G 



Agriculture. 



Discing Lucerne ... ... 488 



Report on Irrigation. By Colontl 



Corbett ... ... ... 489 



Lion's River Agricultural Society, 



Ai.nual Report ... ... 506 



Ixopo Farmers' Association, Annual 



Report ... ... ... 507 



Ixopo Agricultural Society, Annual 



Report ... ... ... 508 



page. 



Fruit Culture. 



Handy Cyaniding Plant ... 495 



Miscellaneous. 



Bees in South Africa ... ... 509 



Correspondence. 



Thanks. By James Thorrold ... 468 



Horsesickness. By W. Hen wood ... 468 



Rinderpest Questions. By H. F. Raw 468 



Cane Cultivation by Plough. By C. 



H.Mitchell ... ... 387 



Garden Notes ... ... ... 511 



Gleanings. ... ... ... 497 



Market Reports ... ... 512 



Strangles in Horses^ 



By H. Watkins Pitchford, F.R.C.V.S. 



IN response to an enquiry which I have 

 seen expressed lately in the public 

 Press, I have decided to pen a few lines, 

 in reply, hoping that such information 

 may be of use to Horse-owners generally, 

 if called upon to undertake the treatment 

 of this disease, which, though a com- 

 paratively trivial one, is nevertheless an 

 exceedingly troublesome and undesirable 

 malady to find established in one's stud. 



Strangles belong to that large class of 

 diseases known as Catarrhal Diseases, and 

 in this case the membrane lining the air- 

 passages is particularly involved. It is 

 through the mucous-membrane of the 



nose that the disease generally gains its 

 entrance to the body, although from 

 certain post-mortem appearances we may 

 safely conclude that the mucous-mem- 

 brane of the intestine is also capable 

 of permitting the introduction of the 

 Strangles microbe into the system of the 

 horse. An understanding of these facts 

 will help us to avoid many of the risks 

 of infection. 



It may safely be said that a horse's 

 liability to Strangles is in inverse propor- 

 tion to the animal's age, i.e., that the 

 disease is one confined almost entirely to 

 the young equine, for all of the Equidse 



