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the dams were afflicted and in two cases the sires ; in one case 
both sire and dam were afflicted; in one case each grandam and 
grandsire were so afflicted. In two cases several other offspring 
of same sire were similarly afflicted. 
The remarks in these cases are very interesting ; in the case 
of the stallion (he is by Henry Gilbert) one of his colts was 
foaled blind, one other went blind as a yearling, and*many others 
at different ages. 
In the case developed at five years old it appears to have 
skipped one generation and appeared in the next; as the grand¬ 
sire was afflicted, but the sire and dam were sound. 
In the case that developed at six years old, the subject (a 
female) has raised four colts, the eldest of which went blind at 
four years old, and the other three have small, sunken eyes. The 
observer remarks that he thinks they will all go blind with age. 
In the case that developed at nine months the remarks say that 
mother was blind for four days with pink-eye when nine months 
old. 
One observer remarks that he has seen in the past year prob¬ 
ably thirty or forty cases of ophthalmia not traceable to hered¬ 
ity, but many following attacks of pink-eye. 
Of the kickers, in sex five were males and four females; in 
color four were bays, four sorrels and one black; in four the 
breed is not given, the remaining five all being grade Normans. 
The age of development in one is not given, in five it was de¬ 
veloped from foaling, and in three during the third year. In no 
case were sire and dam both free from the habit; in six cases 
dam had habit, and in one the sire; in one case both sire and 
dam had habit, in one case grandam had the habit, and in an¬ 
other both grandam and great-grandam. 
The remarks in these cases are not only interesting, but posi¬ 
tively amusing in the case of one that developed the habit at 
three years old, the subject, a female, produced seven colts that 
were kickers. 1 hey would acquire the habit without the dam 
teaching them. Eight of the cases of kicking recorded were 
related, and observer’s remarks are as follows: 
“These animals, although kept hard at work on a farm, be- 
