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equine syphilis when bred to Utopia, and that they had contracted 
the disease from the Moore horse in 1883. Certain it is, that the 
Wilson mare was bred to the Moore horse in 1883 and to Utopia in 
1884, and that she was seriously diseased in 1884, undoubtedly of 
equine syphilis, partially recovered, was sold to a Mr. Yakle of 
Waynesville, Ill., and by him to an unknown shipper. The other 
Chapin mare was traded to itinerant liorse-traders and was toon 
lost sight of, but being at that time twenty years old or more it is 
probable that she is ere this dead. 
Returning then to Utopia, after having served the Chapin and 
Wilson mares, he was kept in stud by Harrold & Culbertson, 
serving among others the “ Marvel ” mare (Uo. 383), and was sold 
apparently sound in March, 1885, to Foley & Seniff, and proving 
unequal to the demand, Black Brilliant (XIII) was purchased of 
Harrold & Culbertson to assist, and he proving unsatisfactory was 
exchanged June, 1886, for Perie (III). 
During the summer of 1885 Utopia served about sixty mares 
without, so far as learned, diseasing any, and in the fall of 1885 
he served some twenty mares, of which a few proved in foal, while 
some fifteen of them became affected, nine of which have died, 
and the others have mostly partially recovered, some of them 
scarcely showing any trace of the disease. 
Here matters were allowed to rest apparently quiet until early 
in April, 1886, when the disease had assumed such alarming pro¬ 
portions in Wilson township that Messrs. Foley & Seniff asked me 
to see their stallions and some of the affected mares and advise 
with them as to the proper course to pursue. I examined six or 
eight mares affected since the fall of 1885, all exhibiting the con¬ 
stitutional symptoms of the disease as hereafter described. 
The two stallions were carefully examined. Black Brilliant 
(XIII) appearing perfectly sound, and Utopia (XII) well except 
a slight swelling and redness of the urethral opening in penis and 
a slight dirty-brownisli watery discharge from the urethra, which 
might occur in any stallion without attracting special notice. 
Hot being fully aware of the extremely insidious, misleading and 
serious nature of the disease with which I had to cope, and hoping 
that the disease could be successfully confined to its then appar- 
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