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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
mind that my views on the subject of horse management in the 
abstract are: 
I. That he should be stabled in airy, clean, commodious, well- 
situated buildings, and that when with others it would be 
better should the number in each building not exceed twelve or 
fifteen. 
II. That care should be exercised to prevent the sacrifice of 
the protection of the animals from draughts, &c., to exaggerated 
ideas of ventilation, or vice versa. 
III. That he be well fed, watered, clothed, cleaned, harnessed, 
shod, and judiciously worked. 
IV. That kindness, tempered with firmness, be shown to him 
on all occasions. 
Y. And, lastly, that we should divest ourselves of the thread¬ 
bare idea that it is a wild animal we have to manage and provide 
for, for the horse w r ith which we have to do is one removed from 
his original haunts (certainly for the benefit of mankind, if not 
for his own), an animal requiring the greatest care and attention 
to breed and develop in the highest form (and I would ask, 
where is the animal which does not need the same?), but one that 
will repay us tenfold for our labour and kindness by his useful¬ 
ness, coupled with his willingness to work for us in the end. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
This disease, although existing in the provinces of Bes¬ 
sarabia, Warsaw, Yhlhynia, Ekaterinoslav, Podolia, Kherson, 
and Taurida, in the Empire of Russia, has not again extended 
into that of Austro-Hungary. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
The annual report of the Veterinary Department of the 
Privy Council, which has been recently issued, contains an 
account of the extensive prevalence of this disease in the 
United States of America. The statements are based on 
the authority of the Commissioner of Agriculture of that 
country, who, in a report dated November, 1878, remarks 
that, “ since the appearance of this affection on our shores, 
it has prevailed at different times in the States of Massa¬ 
chusetts, Connecticut,New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
