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lost several cows about the same time from causes unknown, so 
said the attendant. The same owner had bay colt one-year- 
old, cut on same day, June 2, 1888, and he died on June 6th, 
four days later; post-mortem showed lesions same as in the 
black colt, and both presented the same symptoms during ill¬ 
ness. In making the post-mortem examinations on these ani¬ 
mals, I was assisted by Dr. A. T. Sellers, of Camden, who 
entirely agreed with me in that death was due and caused by 
pneumonia. J. B. Justice, of Swedesboro, N. J., had a black 
three-year-old, cut June 20, 1888; he was ruptured on both 
sides and very difficult to reduce and replace; it took about 
four hours to reduce this hernia, and he died June 23d, three 
days later, showing summary of loss: blood-poison 1, pneu¬ 
monia 2, peritonitis 1, a total of 4. Joshua Joyce, Woodbury, 
N. J., double ridgling three years old (poor and weak), cut May 
18, 1889; this colt had been cut into on both sides by some one 
who failed to get either testicle, this rendered the operation 
more difficult. (Probably this was one of those on which Dr. 
Rogers failed, it being quite near his place of residence;) Cause 
of death, lock-jaw. Wm. J. Thompson, of Gloucester City, a 
Shetland pony two years old, cut April 8, 1890; died of lock¬ 
jaw April 18th, or ten days later. S. Burris Richardson, of 
Massey, Md., had five cut on May 10, 1890, ages ranging from 
two to five years. One three years old died of lock-jaw May 
29th, or nineteen days later, the others all did well. Richard 
Howard, of Monkton, Md., had two ridglings cut on May 23, 
1890, one aged nine years died of peritonitis four days later; 
the other, and also a three-year-old, cut same day, did well. J. 
T. Garrison, of Vineland, N. J., had black three-year-old cut 
October 16, 1890, which died of lock-jaw seven days later. 
Summary: Peritonitis 1, lock-jaw 3; total 4. Harrison Rob¬ 
bins, of Merchantville, N. J., had a bay three-year-old cut be¬ 
cause of a strangulated hernia on April 15, 1891; he died 
April 18th, three days later of peritonitis. The operation was 
performed as a last resource, the animal having been sick for 
two days, and all other means employed to produce the reduc- 
