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more than I analyze his urine, and do not think that a horse 
with a temperature of 102^ should be rejected. I would like 
to know whether 102 is a very abnormal temperature in the sale 
ring, at the Union Stock Yards—that is, take it in the morning 
and night. I know that the majority of these horses whose 
temperature I took varied between 101-102 every day. 
Dr. Campbell: Did you find an animal in normal health 
100 or below ? 
Dr. Hughes: I did. 
Dr. Campbell: I find as a rule that my thermometer regis¬ 
ters between 99 and 100, and I consider the horse then all right. 
Above that I do not, and by giving him drugs his temperature 
always goes down to 100. Has the size of the horse anything 
to do with it ? 
Dr. Hughes : I do not think it would in particular. 
Dr. Baker: I have taken the temperature of a great many 
horses, and I have come to the conclusion that the normal tem¬ 
perature of the horse is about 100. Some German authority 
tested as many as 600 at a time and found the average 99.9 F. 
Dr. Day ; I remember in Wichita, Kan., I had a horse to 
treat that was then racing. This horse was suffering from 
throat trouble, and I was asked to examine him. I found his 
temperature to be 101. I told the owner that I did not think 
the horse suitable to race, but that he could try it. It would 
not hurt the horse. After the race, I saw the horse and found 
his temperature to be 105 3-5, and I made up my mind that he 
did something very harmful, but to my surprise next morning 
I found that the horse’s temperature was but little above 100. 
I found all horses that I examined that had a temperature of a 
little above 100 or 101, especially race horses, after the exertion 
had a temperature as high as 104-5, but were all right again 
after a little rest. If we would reject horses that had no other 
trouble present but high temperature we would have to reject 
all these horses. 
_ Dr. Robertson: I have had considerable experience with 
shippers that go into the yards to buy and sell horses. I have 
had them take horses out of my hands that had a temperature 
of 105 and coughed. They took them into the yards and sold 
them as sound. If the party that purchased such a horse would 
have taken his temperature after going out of the ring he would 
have necessarily detected that there was something wrong, and 
I have no doubt that passing so many horses through the ring 
without taking their temperatures has to a certain extent caused 
