DANGER FROM GLANDERED HORSES.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2574, 7 April 1877, Page 3

DANGER FROM GLANDERED HORSES.

There is great danger to be appre- , hended from the contagion communicated , by glandered horses, to man. as well as i beast. A horse may be afflicted with i what is termed " chronic glanders," and j live a long time with proper care. He may even seem to be otherwise in good health, take on fat, eat heartily and work well; yet notwithstanding these favorable conditions, the virus discharged from the nose, or, when the disease resalts in farcy, from other "portions of body, is a deadly poison. It wilt inoculate a man's system where there is the slightest abrasion of the skin, when brought in contact with it; and its effect on other animals, at times - communicated in a mysterious manner, baffling the closest scrutiny, is equally fatal. Horses occupying a different stable from that of the affected animaVhave been known to contract and die of the disease, and this, 100, in the face of the fact that they were never brought in contact with each other. And yet with the full knowledge of the risk they run, some men arc foolhardy enough ' to keep a glandered horse on their I premises, prompted by the vain hope of being able to cure the patient- of the disease. Experience and common sense | should impress upon all alike the neces- | sity of destroying a glandered horse so soon as it Is discovered that the animal has the disease. The proper way to dispose of him is..to dig a pi 6 six or eight feet deep in some obscure, out-of-the-way spot; have him carefully remof ed'to the pit and there -destroyed, and Ms body covered with a thick layer of lime and ashes before the soil is thrown back into the pit, thus' avoiding all possibility of further mischief. This course will be-found not'only the most humane, but the roost economical in the end.—Turf, Field and Farm.