ON THE HOOVE IN CATTLE. 731 
From Mr. Mogford, of Guernsey, relative to certain queries 
respecting Cattle and Horse Insurance : — 
In Guernsey, horses used for agricultural purposes, for car- 
riages, for riding, or for stallions, &c., frequently attain from 30 
to 35, and sometimes to 42 years. A mare, aged 42, had, as T 
was credibly informed, a foal not long since. There are few hun- 
ters ; and with respect to mares, there is no difference. 
The general duration of life varies from 25 to 30, hut many die 
or are killed from extreme old age. 
The most prevalent diseases are cholic, indigestion, lodgments in 
the caecum from taking in too much sand, owing to the horses 
being pinned, and eating the grass too near the roots. Bronchial 
diseases, strangles, scrofula of the mesenteric glands, in which a 
quantity of worms are frequently found, together with epidemical 
diseases, coughs, running at the nostrils, & c. Glands and farcy 
were rife, the infection having been taken from horses imported 
from England and France ; but, since the Royal Court of Guernsey 
ordered that all glandered horses should be destroyed, the disease 
has been rare. In Jersey there is no order of this kind ; the con- 
sequence has been, that a few years ago a man lost his life, and 
from 30 to 40 horses either died or were destroyed. 
The most prevalent disease is inflammation of the bowels. 
The most fatal is scrofula of the glands and strangles ; but these, 
if properly attended to, are not dangerous. 
The rate of insurance may be based on the longevity of horses, 
as before stated, which, perhaps, is greater in this island than in 
England. 
ON THE HOOVE IN CATTLE. 
By Mr. J. H. SHENTON, Pendleton, Manchester. 
In reading over some of the early numbers of your useful and 
interesting Journal, I find there is a great deal written on those two 
very troublesome and common, but too often fatal diseases, hoove 
and what is sometimes called the mephitic indigestion of horned 
cattle. Not seeing, however, much communicated on these diseases 
of late, and having had within a short time a great number of cases 
of both diseases under my superintendence, I am induced to relate 
one or two, together with a few cursory remarks on these trouble- 
some complaints. 
The first of these diseases, hoove, hoven, or blown, is, in my 
