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DISEASE IN PIGS. 
they were brought into the stable, but after that were 
allowed to stop out altogether. In about nine days I was 
again sent for, when I found three of the horses suffering badly 
from glossitis ; these were treated in the usual way, and all 
recovered. When I went to see the horses for the second 
time the waggoner told me that they had never done well 
since they were put on the clover (Alsike), and that in fact 
they would not eat it. This observation raised my curiosity and 
I went to examine the field; it consisted of about twenty-five 
acres, a capital crop of Alsike up to one’s knees, but I found 
the waggoner’s statement true—the horses ivould not eat it, 
but had gnawed every blade of grass up around the hedge 
side and even preferred eating the young shoots of the quick 
to the clover. I ordered a change of pasture, and the horses 
have done well since. The field was then stocked with a lot 
of fat sheep, and they, like the horses, did not care for the 
clover, but would wander round the hedge sides, picking up 
whatever they could get, and they also had to be removed. 
To further test the matter I have taken at different times my 
hacks to the field, and of course green meat is a treat to them, 
but after feeding greedily for a very short time they would not 
touch the Alsike, but wander round the hedge side just as 
the other horses had done. I have also heard of a well- 
authenticated case exactly similar to mine where horses feed¬ 
ing on green Alsike presented the same symptoms, and upon 
being removed to another pasture quickly recovered. My 
motive for bringing the matter under the notice of the pro¬ 
fession is to elicit from my brethren proof either in support 
of or against my theory, because if I have fallen into an error 
it will not be the first one, and if, on the other hand, Alsike in 
its green state is injurious we ought to make it known to 
the public at large. 
DISEASE IN PIGS. 
By the Same. 
Yesterday I saw about thirty store pigs suffering from a 
disease that I at least have never seen before. The first attacked 
was a sow that had been sent to the boar; when she came 
back she was noticed to be unwell, and subsequently all the 
rest of the pigs on the farm were attacked, with the exception 
of one sow which had a litter of pigs (twelve) about three 
weeks old, but although the sow has escaped, the young pigs 
are affected with the disease. The symptoms are great difli- 
