The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

lGi The Management and Treatment of the Horse,
inmate, and frequently great havoc is wrought among
the horses in consequence. Many horses become
affected with glanders by being put into a stall in which
a glandered horse has been standing ; this is often the
case in a livery stable. The glandered horse is bought
at a fair or market and brought to a livery stable to be
fed, the pus from its nostrils drops into the manger and
the next horse that is fed out of the same manger becomes
innoculated with the pus ; especially if it happens to
have a slight scratch upon his muzzle, and it comes in
contact with the crib on which the mucous of the
glandered animal has been left, and is thus carried into
the circulation of the blood. All stalls, and especially
public stables, should have high divisions between them
to prevent the muzzles of horses coming in contact with
each other. Horses being very apt to smell each other
indeed it is by this faculty alcre they recognise each other
and distinguish their companions. From an ill-judged
piece of economy many persons, after being aware that one
of their horses is glandered, persist in keeping it in the
same stable with others and by so doing is every hour
risking all they possess. It is the duty of every person
as soon as he is certain of his horse having caught this
disease to destroy it as speedily as possible, for although
a glandered horse may be able to work for a considerable
time under the influence of this disorder, he will find
ultimately that it is a bad piece of economy to keep it.
Many persons who have lost horses by this disease have
resorted to extremes to prevent a continuance of it,
Some have gone so far as to pull down the stable, and
others have taken out all the internal fittings^ putting one