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DISEASE OF OSSEOUS TISSUE IN THE HORSE. 
Questions. 
to the horses ? or were they, in con¬ 
sequence of being bred from, kept 
longer upon pasture, thereby getting 
less bran ? 
No. 5. Are there any indications 
at the present time of the disease 
existing in the mares ? 
No. G. Were there any horses at 
the other farm of the same age as 
those that died F if so, were they fed 
'precisely the same P 
No. 7. What is the nature of the 
soil—surface as well as the sub¬ 
stratum—upon which they were 
reared ? 
No. 8. Did the horses drink rain¬ 
water entirely, or of water which 
proceeded from springs ? 
No. 9. Is limestone abundant, or 
altogether absent in your immediate 
locality ? 
No. 10. Are you in the habit of 
using artificial manures, and if so, 
of' what kind, and to what ex¬ 
tent ? 
No. 11. Do you give your horses, 
as a rule, much salt F 
No. 12. What was the age of each 
horse at the time he was taken ill, 
and had he suffered from any pe¬ 
culiar disease previously F if so, 
wliat was its nature F 
Answers. 
the same as the horses, with the ex¬ 
ception of the supply of roots, up to 
Christmas, when they ceased to work. 
After this, if they were in low con¬ 
dition, they had pollard, but, as a 
rule, only hay until they foaled, 
when they had hay, pollard, and a few 
roots, and as soon as the grass was 
ready they were turned out until 
September. 
No. 5. No signs whatever of the 
disease. 
No. 6. Yes; and they were fed 
exactly the same as those that died. 
1 No. 7. Partly a wet gravel, and 
the other part clay. 
No. 8. Wholly from a pond, which 
is supplied with water both from sur¬ 
face drains and the slated roofs of 
the farm-buildings. 
No. 9. As a rule, limestone is 
found at a great depth, but in a few 
fields it crops out on the surface. 
No. 10. Not any. 
No. ] 1. They have the choice of 
licking rock salt in the winter, but 
I think they do not take much. 
No. 12. Two were taken ill at 
four years old, one at five, one at 
six, aud the others at three. 
Some of the horses had been ill; 
some from influenza, and others 
from injuries to their feet. If, from 
these or any other causes, they had 
to be laid bv, such seemed to de- 
velop the disease. 
Prom the inquiries I have made, 
I fiud that pollard has been used, 
even more freely than at Calcot, by 
many breeders of horses in this 
neighbourhood, for more than forty 
years, and without any injurious 
effects. My father has bought many 
colts, and kept them for years, and 
never had a case of the kind. 
To continue. According to arrangement, Dr. Harley 
