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times happen that organic impurities from surface leakage 
into wells will take place, which have a constant action on 
the glands of the body. In all cases, therefore, of extra hard¬ 
ness of water or of organic impurity, the use of such water 
should be discontinued for horses kept or raised in an arti¬ 
ficial condition. In the cases above there is no doubt but 
that the exceptional hardness of the water and its close prox¬ 
imity to the stables, was to a great extent the cause of the ab¬ 
normal glandular enlargements found on almost all the young 
bred stock on the farm. 
The importance of the water supply can hardly be over¬ 
estimated, as apart from the potency of hard water to cause 
all catarrhal and eruptive fevers to assume a higher activity, 
it will arrest development of the animal. In the case of the 
Johnson horses, if better water cannot be obtained by sinking 
deeper, the water should be drawn from the Dolores river. 
It is a fact worthy of note that a wonderful improvement 
took place in the chronic cases, which were turned out on the 
river in March. Next in importance as a preventive measure 
is a thorough cleansing and disinfecting of the stables period¬ 
ically, and especial attention should be paid to the floor of the 
box-stalls. These are for the most part of earth, and this 
should be removed for at least twelve inches, and fresh soil 
put in, after first covering the old floor with slacked lime. 
All the walls should be whitewashed with half a pint of carbol¬ 
ic acid in each bucket of wash. The wooden feed-boxes and 
mangers should be taken out and destroyed and fresh ones 
substituted. 
The chronic cases should be brought up once a week and 
an ointment of one part of idoform to eight parts of lard in¬ 
serted into both nostrils by means of a piece of soft sponge 
attached to a stick. As soon as a fresh case develops, which 
can easily be determined by the high fever, enlargement 
under the jaw and scarlet spots appearing in the nostrils, the 
animal should be at one * isolated from the others and the 
fever reduced by doses three times a day of two drachms of 
potash, two drachms bicarbonate of soda, and one drachm of 
chlorate of potash. The throat must either be poulticed con- 
