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MISCELLANEA. 
The Poisoning of Horses by Grooms and Carters. 
By Mr. Edward Harrison, Worksop. 
[The facts stated in the following letter ought to be made ge- 
nerally known. We copy the letter from the Nottingham Journal .] 
“ Sir, — I beg leave through the medium of your paper, to 
draw the attention of your agricultural readers to a fact which 
may not be generally known. Grooms and other servants having 
the charge of horses have long been in the habit of giving me- 
dicines to the animals under their care, for the purpose of pro- 
ducing a good coat or a clear skin ; and, were the practice con- 
fined to the administering of simple drugs, little objection could 
be made to it; but when your readers hear that arsenic, in large 
and uncertain quantities, is frequently administered by parties 
who, apparently, are ignorant of the deadly power they are 
wielding, I think they will concur with me in the opinion that 
the fact (for such it undoubtedly is) cannot be too generally 
known, or the practice of servants presuming to give such deadly 
medicines too much deprecated. 
“ Mr. Skelton, of this town, lately lost three horses in as 
many weeks, and at the time no suspicion was excited of the real 
cause, the veterinary surgeon suspecting that they had been 
poisoned by water hemlock. Mr. Skelton has since found the 
fatal medicine in the possession of his waggoner, who was se- 
verely reprimanded by the magistrates of the Worksop bench, 
and fined in the amount of all wages due to him. 
“ P.S. Since the above was written, arsenic, by analysis, has 
been found in the contents of the stomach of one of, the deceased 
horses.” 
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A Gure for Glanders. 
[A few days ago I received the following tempting offer. It 
caused a smile on my lips, as it probably will on those of my 
readers. I have the address of the person, if any one should 
wish to be possessed of so tempting an article. — Y.] 
Sir 
through* reading the newspapers i se an account of a Glan- 
derd Horse as i have got a Receipt above one Hundred years 
old for the Cure of Such Beast and Seing that you was to Be 
Consultred for the cure of Cattle i have taking the Liberty of 
riting to you to know if you will Purchase it. 
Sir yr Obt 
C. M. 
