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fair success. Grass, warm weather and long time are the best 
remedies that can be resorted to. 
Aggravated cases lie down the greater part of the time and 
consequently get bedsore. This complication must be obviated as 
much as possible by plenty of clean litter. If bedsores do super¬ 
vene, attention must be given to them. 
Those cases that are unable to rise but can stand when up, had 
better be kept in slings at night to guard against injuries. 
As to the prophylaxis, which is the most valuable information 
pertaining to osteo porosis, I cannot explain with any marked 
degree of certainty, owing to the vague knowledge concerning its 
origin. There is one thing, however, that I would advocate, and 
that is, the disposal of wooden floors and have the stall filled with 
clay, liberally supplied with pine or poplar sawdust. 
RAILROAD HORSES, 
THEIR SELECTION, MANAGEMENT, SOME OF THEIR DISEASES 
AND TREATMENT. 
A paper presented to the New York State Veterinary Society by R. Kay, D.V.S. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen : 
The subject I bring before yon this evening comprises railroad 
horses, their selection, management, some of their diseases and 
treatment. 
Since we have about fifteen thousand head of horses working 
on the surface railroads of this city, it becomes the duty of ns as 
veterinarians to give encouragement to each company to employ 
the best talent they can procure. It should be the work of the 
veterinarian to make the proper selection of such stock; secondly, 
he should overlook the handling of green horses during the period 
of acclimatization, or the change from country to city life and 
work; thirdly, he should note carefully their special ailments, 
that are brought about by this kind of work; and lastly, to see 
they are relieved or treated by the most scientific methods, and 
such as will result in the quickest recovery, using mild in prefer- 
