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-NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
On the 2d of April I examined the horses on Mr. Conoway’s 
farm, and condemned six out of lifteen head as having glanders. 
On the 6th, accompanied by J. J. Reiners, Y. S., of Morrison, Ill., 
made a second examination and found one more horse showing 
evidences of the disease. Two of the animals were shot immedi¬ 
ately, the remaining five were placed in quarantine, awaiting the 
action of the town Board of Health. The statutes of our State 
do not contain the word glanders. We have not one word of law 
in relation to the disease. 
Mr. Wellington Conaway, thirteen miles north of Sterling, 
was a so-called “boss doctor;” he cured all cases of nasal gleet; 
his library consisted of Dr. Stewart’s book; his knowledge of ma¬ 
teria medica did not extend beyond an infusion of tobacco and 
stramonium. He was totally unable to distinguish glanders from 
nasal gleet, consequently had one or two horses die each year of 
the former disease. 
One of the neighbors told me that one of Mr. Conaway’s dogs 
was suffering from boils and a discharge from the nose for several 
months last summer, and finally died. Comment is unnecessary. 
M. R. Trumbower, Y. S. 
Sterling, III., April 9th, 1883. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES, 
Quarantine Regulations will go into effect at Hew Orleans 
from May 1st. 
Hog Cholera has caused the death of four to five thousand 
dollars worth of swine near Providence, R. I. 
Petition. —The Hew York State Dairymens’ Association has 
petitioned Congress to appropriate $5,000,000 to stamp out the 
lung plague among cattle in the United States.— Farmers' Review. 
Foot and Mouth Disease.— Severe ravages of this disease in 
England, and which are growing worse day by day, have created 
an increased demand for American cattle .—American Cultivator. 
Diphtheria in Fowls. —Dr. L. Roth, of Kitzingen, observed 
