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have attained to anything like such an age as this; but a few 
have lived to ages varying from 40 to 50 years. A famous old 
barge horse died at Warrington in his sixty-second year; and the 
oldest horse known in New York was, until quite recently, doing 
steady work there at 38 years of age. A few months ago, also 
a mule 46 years old died at Philadelphia .”—National Live Stock 
Journal. 
Glandered Horses in Maine. —The cattle commissioners re¬ 
cently paid $175 for three glandered horses condemned and de¬ 
stroyed at Oldtown. There is no question but horses diseased 
with glanders ought to be put out of the way, but there is a ques¬ 
tion whether we want a law that will pay such prices in compen¬ 
sation for stock already rotten with disease .—Maine Farmer. 
Glanders in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. —We take the 
following extract from the Indiana Farmer , Indianapolis : “ Con¬ 
siderable excitement has been aroused in the vicinity of Farmers’ 
Institute, Tippecanoe County, Inch, over the discovery that glan¬ 
ders, in very serious form, has broken out among the horses in 
that neighborhood. A veterinary surgeon found two horses be¬ 
longing to A. H. Crouse very bad, and by order of the board of 
health officer they were shot. Other horses have contracted the 
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disease, it is claimed, but the owners deny that it is the glanders, 
and decline to kill their animals. The veterinary pronounces the 
disease acute glanders.” 
Glanders in the Crow Reservation. —The following was 
sent from Washington last Saturday: “The Secretary of the 
Interior has received, through the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
a communication from Gov. Leslie, of Montana, transmitting a 
report from the veterinary surgeon of that territory, relating to 
the disease known as glanders, existing in horses within the Crow 
Reservation, and also a letter from Indian Agent Williamson on 
the same subject. The veterinarian says that after making an 
investigation of the character of the disease, during which several 
chronic cases of glanders were discovered and the animals de¬ 
stroyed, he is fully satisfied that the disease prevails to a limited 
extent among the horses, on the reservation, and says that he 
