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in carrying out this humane and commendable retrenchment to the 
extent of their power. In peaceable times like these, our war 
horses are fairly mulcted of a portion of their rations ; nor will 
they thereby sustain any great loss, providing the diminished 
ration of provender be made the most of. Establishments and in- 
dividuals who are constrained or determined to feed their horses 
on hay and corn — to the exclusion of any other kind of food that 
might be made available — are recommended to bruise their oats, and 
cut their hay into chaff; procuring hay of the best quality they 
can, and such as has been early and well got, with the seeds in it. 
Attention to all this will go a long way towards compensating for 
the lost or surrendered ration in the usual allowance of corn. Bet- 
ter still, no doubt, »for our scheme of retrenchment, where corn can 
be saved altogether, as in the case of agricultural and brewery 
horses it very well can, on account of the efficient substitutes for it 
farmers and brewers possess in their own establishments. And at 
such a time as the present, when gaunt and meagre famine is awfully 
staring us in the face, we repeat, it becomes our bounden duty to 
make the best of all substitutes for aliment of a kind on which human 
as well as brute creatures can feed. — Ed. Vet. 
Mortality among Geese, occasioned by Bilious Fever. 
By M. Dupuy. 
M. R., of Toulouse, consulted us respecting a mortality that 
had broken out, a few days before, among his geese. He had at 
his house, near Castanet, twenty-six of these animals, and in less 
than ten days their number was reduced to seven. He found 
nothing, either among the aliment or their habitation, to which the 
mortality could be attributed. We opened two of them. 
We observed in the intestine near the rectum a great number of 
rounded substances, of variable extent, from the size of a lentil to 
that of a nut. They were formed of filiform prolongations of the 
mucous membrane, separated only at their free extemity, and 
covered by a yellow granulated matter of slight consistence. The 
remainder of the mucous intestine, throughout its whole extent, 
was remarkable for the great development of its villosities, and by- 
two small white points a little deepened, appearing otherwise in 
every part to differ only in the smaller development of their vil- 
losities. 
