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country, measures be taken to hinder horses having it, biting 
the crib any great deal. Many farmers indeed, possessing 
such horses, regard them, though perhaps through prejudice, 
as their most hardy workers. I often find a single crib-biter 
in a farmer’s stable, where perhaps he has been for many 
years among the other horses, where he has acquired this evil 
habit, without the farmer being at all able to divine the cause. 
And I have possessed a harness colt, who, no sooner was 
separated from his dam to be tied up in a stall, has commenced 
crib-biting without ever having before shown the slightest 
tendency that way. He is at present 6 or 7 years of age, and 
still bites the crib. If crib-biting, as some pretend, consists 
in swallowing air, to serve the purposes of digestion, certainly 
this colt ought to have ill-digested his food during the time he 
was kept from practising it ; and if there results from the act 
the generating of gas in the stomach, the animal from this 
cause would have found himself. disordered during his absti- 
nence from crib-biting. 
In general, crib-biting ought rather to be regarded as a 
vicious habit than as a disease : as the latter I have never been 
been able to regard it. Horses who are old crib-biters, pre- 
sent the inconvenience of being slow feeders ; they require a 
good deal to satisfy them ; and those who generate air in their 
stomachs are very subject to attacks of meteorization. To obvi- 
ate such inconveniences the following means have been recom- 
mended, — either the ordinary crib-biting strap, or an iron T, 
whose branches so embrace the throttle as to prevent the horse 
arching his neck after the peculiar manner in which he pre- 
pares for the act, and accomplishes it. — Bee. cle Med. Vet., 
Jan . 1853. 
CURATIVE TREATMENT OF CANKER. 
(Supplementary to the article on the same subject in a former No). 
By M. Fischer. 
I may premise here, that, cceteris paribus , the obstinacy of 
canker to yield to various agents is not always uniform. 
While some cases of benign aspect for a length of time prove 
untoward, others have unexpectedly given way to the treat- 
ment adopted. I have remarked that, in general, the disease 
is easier if subdued in the hind than in the fore feet. 
The method of cure I have recommended, after Eichbaum, 
as well as from the results I have myself obtained, admits of 
