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loose ; this mare showed the same symptoms at the time the 
mules were dying-, but was not glanderous, as proved not only 
by the character of her symptoms, but by the soundness of the 
colt and the other stock. And still the mare and the two 
horses became affected at the same time and pasture as the 
dead mules, two years before. 
Mr. Murphy of Salida, one year before, lost six mules out of 
a band of fifty to sixty head, while in pasture, of the same 
complaint. Never any measures of precaution were taken 
before or after the disease appeared and disappeared, and no 
more sick animals were heard of. The history of glanders 
never will mention a single case where this contagious affect¬ 
ion will leave the premises so easily after having taken such a 
strong, fatal foothold on the same. 
Wm. Dale, of Modesto, and three of his neighbors, had 
each one mule dying in the corral and stable from this affec¬ 
tion, and never suffered any further loss, although none of 
these men ever cleared or disinfected their premises. 
From 1885 to 1887 a t least one thousand mules died or 
Avere killed in Stanislaus Co. as victims of this disease ; only 
a few horses and mares were affected, and some of them are 
yet suffering from that disease to-day. Only a few ranches 
were spared. Nearly all these animals were treated by injec¬ 
tion, inhalations, steaming, smoking, insufffutions, all kinds of 
patented and non-patented condition powders, iron tincture, 
arsenic, calomel, copperas, etc., and not one person in the 
Avhole county died of glanders or even septicemia. And still 
in Illinois and other places, cases of glanders appeared in 
families where one or a few horses only were found affected 
with chronic glanders. It can therefore be safely admitted 
that the disease Avas not very benign or not the glanders at 
all. 
I will now report one more instance in support of the non¬ 
contagiousness of this affection. Three farmers near Modes¬ 
to had turned their Avorking stock in an alfalfa pasture on the 
Avest side of the San Joaquin River, where about four hun¬ 
dred head of stock, horses, mules, brood mares and colts, 
were kept together about four months. About June 1st they 
