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mixture of molasses, there is an inerease of the milk secretion, 
but scarcely sufficient to justify its employment. 
“ (3) Molasses is an excellent food for horses. These ani¬ 
mals eet used to it easily, and seem not to be inconvenienced 
by it; they remain as vigorous and gain flesh. 
“ (4) Molasses can be used with advantage to induce the 
consumption of spoiled fodder, to make food more appetizing 
and easy to digest. 
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“ In other words, and in a general way, it is proposed to 
consider molasses not only as an accidental resource in case 
of short production of fodder, but also and specially as a regu¬ 
lar food, producing in ordinary times results which are advan¬ 
tageous to the point of view of the feeding of animals during 
fattening.” 
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These results obtained by the experiments of MM. Dickson 
and Malpraux, are of great importance, and will prove of great 
value to agriculturists. Veterinarians may also take advan¬ 
tage of them, not only during health, but principally during 
sickness. Horses generally are fond of sweets; molasses is 
frequently used for the administration of drugs in the shape 
of electuaries, and is readily taken by the sick. If animals fed 
on it remain vigorous and gain flesh, it is evident that it may 
be very advantageous^ in many forms of disease. 
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Azoturia — H.^:moglobinuria. — If the symptomatology 
and etiology of this affection are already well known, the same 
cannot be said of its pathology, and, notwithstanding all the 
theories advanced, for many the explanation of the many 
phenomena which occur so suddenly, and too often so fatally, 
remain yet a problem unsolved. The brilliant theory which 
English-speaking veterinarians have admitted from the observa¬ 
tions and writings of the celebrated veterinarian of Edinburgh, 
Professor W. Williams, has received lately at the Societe Cen- 
trale from the hands of Prof. Eignieres an attack, which, if not 
yet positively successful, has a tendency at least to place it only 
in the rank of a predisposing cause. For Prof. Eignieres the 
