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J. D. FAIR. 
during the past summer. Two extensive farmers, neighbors, 
having good barns and keeping quite a number of horses, they 
had a siege of sickness among them which assumed a contagious 
form. Those cases gave me a great deal of trouble, not think¬ 
ing them to be contagious myself, but the owners and the com¬ 
munity in general did. Mr. B. called at my office and requested 
me to come to his place to see a gray colt, one year old, that 
was down and not able to get up. The colt was in a large 
roomy stall, had gotten down during the night, was laying flat 
on its side, and apparently not able to raise its head. Temper¬ 
ature 103°; pulse 72 ; thin in flesh, and lousy. We turned the 
colt, put slings under it, and raised it, applying smart friction to 
its body and legs until it was able to stand ; took some water 
and grains. I noticed some difficulty in deglutition, but thought 
it a case of general debility and a little sore throat; prescribed 
for the colt, and left it to see it again the next morning. When 
called the next morning I found another one down, and the 
owner called my attention to several others that seemed to have 
sore throat. At this visit I concluded I had something more 
serious to deal with than sore throat, and made a more thorough 
examination and concluded I had a stable full of cerebro-spinal 
meningitis. This man had a siloe in his barn and was feeding 
ensilage to all his stock. This was in May and we had lots of 
rain at that time : some of the stock would eat the ensilage 
while others would not, and it would lay in the mangers and 
would get sour and very offensive. I gave my opinion of the 
trouble, and advised the man to change his feed and horses. 
He was very slow in doing it. A fine roan mare, belonging to 
another man, took the disease and was treated by a quack, who 
thought the trouble very simple, only an inflammation of the 
lining membranes of the oesophagus, and said he had lots of 
them, and they all got well. 
The owner of the roan mare consulted me about the trouble, 
and I told him his good mare was very sick and was going to 
die. She could get up by assisting her, but had complete par¬ 
alysis of the pharynx. She died. I suggested to the owners 
