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bottom, or have made for it a removable false bottom 
haying legs half-an-inch high, to allow circulation of t 
on this false bottom, and sufficient water is put into the pail to reach the level of’ 
the surface of the milk in the bottle. A hole may be punched in the cover of the 
pail, a cork inserted, and a chemical thermometer put through the cork, so that 
the bulb dips into the water. The temperature can thus he watched without 
removing the cover. If preferred, an ordinary dairy thermometer may be used, 
and the temperature tested from time to time by 
i eo : temoving the lid. This is very 
easily arranged, and is just as satisfactory as the patented apparatus sold for 
this purpose. 
serforated with holes, and 
e water. The mill is set 
The Horse. 
STABLE NOTES. 
By W. ©. QUINNELL, M.R.C.V.S, 
DISEASES OF HORSES. 
INFLUENZA, 
Inrivenza has several synonyms, viz. :—Distemper, epidemic catarrh, the — 
epidemic, epizobtic catarrhal fever, courbature, morfondure, epidemic pleurisy, 
pink eyes, &c. The first record we have of this peculiar disease is an outbreak 
which occurred at Seville in the beginning of the fourteenth century. Spevgiae: 
epidemics occurred all over Europe in the years 1688 and 1693, and the® last 
great outbreaks in Europe were in the years 1863, 1864, 1871, 1872, 1890, 1891, 
and 1892. The disease is widely distributed over the old and new worlds, and 
is nearly always liable to be met with at all times of the year, but more so in 
the autumn and the spring. 
Definition.—1s a specific, contagious, and infectious febrile disease, chiefly 
affecting various portions of the respiratory tract of horses, and subject to a 
variety of complications. It generally appears as an epizootic. 
Symptoms of the Complicated Forms. 
1. Thoracic Form.—In this form the organs of perspiration especially, or 
the heart, or both, may become affected, more frequently the former. 
The general symptoms attending lung complication‘is often a slight catarrh. 
Sometimes, however, the attack comes on very suddenly, without any observable: 
premonitory symptoms. The attack itself is generally ushered in by sudden 
fits of shivering, followed by coldness of the ears and extremities, and other 
usual signs of inflammation, and a staring coat. The coldness of the extremities: 
isa marked sign throughout the disease. The horse is uneasy, and tums his 
