When  the  disease  appears  in  a  sound  stud,  the  horse
should  be  destroyed,  or  at  least  removed  without  delay.  It
is  possible  he  may  recover  ;  and,  if  he  can  be  kept  where  he
can  do  no  harm,  he  may  have  a  trial.  If  permitted  to  remain,
he  is  just  as  likely  to  give  the  disease  to  every  horse  in  the
stable,  as  to  get  better  himself.  It  is  generally  supposed
that  glanders  can  not  be  communicated  without  actual  appli-
cation of  the  matter.  This  is  not  certain.  I  am  pretty  sure
that,  in  some  forms,  it  will  spread  through  the  air.  It  is
prudent  to  suspect  and  to  watch  every  horse  that  has  breathed
under  the  same  roof  with  a  glandered  one.
When  several  are  diseased,  it  may  be  worth  while  keeping
them.  They  may  oe  all  put  to  one  road,  and  kept  in  stables
apart  from  the  others  ;  having  men,  harness,  pole,  and  pole-
chains,  entirely  to  themselves.  When  it  can  be  managed,
they  should  not  even  enter  the  stable-yard  where  there  are
sound  horses,  and  the  men  should  be  carefully  excluded  from
every  stable  but.  their  own.
When  the  horses  die  ofY,  so  that  sufficient  are  not  left  to  do
the  work,  their  place  may  be  supplied  by  others,  sound,  but
of  little  value.  In  this  way,  however,  the  disease  is  kept  up.
It  is  better  to  destroy  the  few  that  remain.  Let  the  stalls,
every  portion  of  the  stables,  from  floor  to  roof,  both  inclusive,
be  well  washed  with  soap  or  sand  and  water.  Let  the  wood-
work be  scraped  or  planed,  and  ragged  portions  chipped  quite
out.  If  the  mangers  and  racks  be  of  wood,  and  much  wasted,
remove  them  altogether,  and  replace  them  by  others  of  iron.
