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moved on the high road , or found on a common or open pasture. 
Now, in tlie division for which I am an inspector a farmer has 
six horses badly affected with glanders, and that of long 
standing. 
I have reported them to the authorities, and have written 
for instructions to the Veterinary Department of the Privy 
Council, who have referred me to the local authority, i.e. the 
magistrates of the division, and they do nothing ; nor, indeed, 
do I see what they are to do under the Act, as the owner 
has assured me that he never allows them to go off the farm 
on which they are worked. I think that he is acting “ penny 
wise and pound foolish,” as he has to send up provender from 
his home-farm for them, and rides up there himself, as does 
his bailiff also ; and in hunting numbers pass over the farm, 
and surely there is a risk of communication of the disease 
under these circumstances, setting aside the danger to the 
men and boys employed about the animals themselves. 
You will, perhaps, favour us with an opinion on the 
matter, and oblige. 
[The course adopted by the persons alluded to, if not 
illegal, is highly injudicious. Is it quite certain that the 
diseased animals are never moved on a public road or by the 
side of a highway? Was notice of the existence of the dis- 
ease given by the owner ? We should imagine that the owner 
of the horses would be held responsible for any injurious 
consequences which may result. — Eds.] 
ABSCESSES IN THE THROATS OF CATTLE. 
By Thomas Cunliffe, M.R.C.V.S., Church, Accrington. 
On perusing the pages of the Veterinarian for the last 
month I find two cases of abscess in the throat of horned 
cattle recorded by a Mr. C. Grey, veterinary student, and 
as I have had similar cases in my practice in which I have 
been successful, I thought that perhaps it would not be 
considered presumptuous if I sent you a few lines on the 
subject. 
In so far as regards the abscess in these cases pointing 
externally I have found that it does not do so, but that as it 
progresses it will point anteriorly, or in a direction towards 
the mouth. 
I have often felt an abscess in its early stage by introduc- 
ing the hand to the back of the mouth, and as the abscess 
