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Lucerne .—Lucerne is a boon to the sick, but large quantities 
would not be beneficial for horses in hard work. 
Long grasses .—The long grasses, if used in the green state, 
with the unripe barley so freely given in this country, I consider 
absolutely hurtful, notwithstanding their general popularity, and 
am sure that numbers of horses fall as their victims annually. 
If given at all, these should be chopped small and exposed to 
the sun for some hours, and the dhoop grass also during the 
rains, if wet from rainfall or dew, should be dried prior to issue. 
Carrots .—Carrots are very useful in improving the condition 
of horses, especially if there be a scarcity of green grass; but 
the quantity given should never exceed, for each horse, two 
seers per diem, and this amount may be divided with advantage 
into four portions. 
Oat straw .—Clean sweet oat straw, when procurable, is highly 
valuable cut and given as chaff. 
Bedding .—The grass used as bedding is of a rushy nature, 
and the allowance per horse is about 8 lbs. per day. 
(To be continued.') 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Recent reports from St. Petersburg state that the cattle 
plague continues to prevail in the following provinces bor¬ 
dering on Austria and Germany, and in those adjoining the 
Black and Baltic Seas, namely:—Bessarabia, Warsaw, 
Yolhynia, Ekateriaoslav, Podolia, Kherson, and Plotsk; but 
has diminished in the district of Berdiansk. 
The Austro-Hungarian Dominions are now declared to be 
free from the cattle plague. 
The disease has ceased in the Island of Rhodes, but has 
appeared in the neighbouring Island of Lymi, and is said to 
be still prevailing at Macri in Asia Minor. 
This disease continues its ravages in the Island of Mau¬ 
ritius, and between the 20th of December of last year, and 
the 24th of January, 1880, no less than 1790 cattle and 19 
goats have succumbed to this fatal malady. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
This disease still continues in various parts of the United 
States; fresh outbreaks have been reported from West 
Chester in Philadelphia, 
