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ANSWERING QUESTIONS. 
By Mr. J. B. Carlisle, Wigton. . 
Answer 1st.—B roken-Winded mares are not barren. I have 
frequently known broken-winded mares breed; and during utero- 
gestation the laborious action of the abdominal muscles has very 
much subsided, and the symptoms of broken-wind became scarcely 
perceptible. 
Answer 2d.— Stringhalt -does render a horse less fit for work 
than he would otherwise be. About two years ago I had a 
splendid hackney mare, and an excellent hunter, which had the 
stringhalt badly: she was able to do ordinary work well; but after 
a long and hard day’s work, particularly in harness, she was on 
the next day very stiff, and lay down as much as she could. When 
pressure was applied to the hocks and muscles on the inside of the 
thigh, she betrayed considerable pain. This is generally the case 
with horses that have the stringhalt: and, in addition to this, after 
hard work they will be a little shy about feeding. This mare 
would wear out a pair of hind shoes in ten days when regularly 
worked. 
I beg to ask whether it is common for a horse with the string- 
halt to have bone spavin 1 
Answer —The LOSS OF A JUGULAR VEIN has more evils at¬ 
tending it than one. First, the horse is, nineteen times out of twenty, 
never again able to feed from the ground, on account of the parotid 
gland becoming so exceedingly congested and painful as to com- 
])letely prevent the animal from reaching the ground. He is also 
more than usually subject to ophthalmia, and frequently attacked 
with other diseases of the head, particularly when made to go fast in 
harness. The principal canal being obliterated or plugged up, the 
blood is returned by an interrupted course. The vessels of the 
brain often become congested in consequence of this, and we may 
easily imagine the result. 
Answer ^\\\.—I have not yet ascertained IIOW LONG A CRIR- 
BITER MAY LIVE, but I think he will live as long as other horses, 
unless some illiterate veterinarian kills him with a drench, by some 
of the medicine passing down the trachea, and producing suffocation 
or some other mortal disease. He is afrecjuent subject of flatulent 
colic, tympanitis, &c., therefore we must place him among the un¬ 
sound, or at least, the uncertain tribe. 
I will venture to ask another (juestion : Is it common for a crib- 
biter (o be a roarer ? 
His next (juestion is on GROGGINESS, — the very thing that pre¬ 
vents me at tliis tune from writing; so that I must take my leav(? ol’ 
the Professor and others for a short |)eriod, hoping, how(;ver, thnt 
he and they will diligentiv contimn^ the cnlerhising system. 
