ON THE HORSE ANI) COW. 
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pearance of being all wrong , and breeding some serious disorder, 
which at first I suspected to be strangles ; but, as the nose did 
not run, nor the swelling appear to gather on any particular spot, 
I began to feel a little alarmed, lest it might prove to be sup- 
pressed strangles, having, in the preceding year, seen a case of 
the same in a two-year old, of a relation, which, at first, baffled 
all the farriers in the neighbourhood, and subsequently even the 
skill of the veterinary surgeon, from his being called in too late, 
the disorder ultimately ending in glanders. 
This circumstance being fresh in my mind, and having seen 
the filly above referred to when under treatment very soon after 
the disorder first made its appearance, and having myself lost a 
thorough-bred filly with the same disorder a few years ago, and 
for which 100 sovereigns had been offered, together with the 
knowledge that Mr. Mogford was at the time out of the island, 
made me suspicious about the fillies, which being both by a horse 
of my own, I took rather more than a usual interest about. 
I was very glad when I heard that Mr. Mogford was returned, 
and lost no time in sending for his valuable assistance. After 
giving my opinion that it was a case of suppressed strangles , Mr. 
IVIogford immediately hinted his suspicion that they had eaten 
some poisonous plant. He treated them accordingly, and they are 
both quite well now, without any appearance of strangles during 
their illness. It was by the exertion of great skill and judg- 
ment that the life of one of them was saved. 
A short time ago I had a valuable cow, taken ill the day after 
calving. On the next day to that, Mr. Mogford was requested 
to give me his opinion as to the case, as it had already assumed a 
very formidable shape. He scarcely had time to see the cow 
alive, for in a few minutes after his arrival she died. Mr. 
Mogford expressed a wish that the animal should be opened, as 
he thought the spine was affected, which turned out to be the 
case ; and I do not think that any treatment could have been 
of the slightest use in this case. 
That the colts were poisoned I have no doubt, as the meadow 
abounded with the crowfoot, and a ditch was full of the water- 
hemlock, which was all eaten by the colts. But the idea of their 
being poisoned at that time never entered my head ; nor did Mr. 
Mogford know that those weeds abounded in the meadow when 
he pronounced them poisoned, as they were then removed into 
a fresh field free from the weeds. 
