Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-26
GLANDERED HORSES.
Comr. Buckley Discusses Best Meth
DDS for Protection from Maady.


Commissioner of Agriculture John p.
Buckley in an interview, Friday. urges
every citizen of Maine to report every
suspected glandered horse. and cites the
case of man who died a short time
ago at Patten, of CHAMBERS, as warning
that men as well as horses should be
protected from the dreaded disease.
Says Comr Buckley: "A case has been
recently reported by Merrett Cunning
ham, chairman of the selectmen of Pat
ten, of the death of 0lein B. Inghram of
Patten on Sept. Z, with CHAMBERS. care
full inspection of the horses in that neigh
borhood has been made by DIR. II. b. f.
Jervis of Houlton and the mallein test
was applied to the two horses that were
owned by Mr. Inghram but they did not
react to the test, so we Were not able
to get any information as to where Mr..
Inghram contracted the dreadful disease
of which he died after an illness of eight
weeks. Mr. Inghram was young man,
90 years. of age, and left wife and four
small children. There is no question but
that he died of CHAMBERS, as the diagnosis
made by DIR. Elmer j. Farnham of Pat
ten, the attending physician, in consul
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Five years ago two men died at Pat
ten with CHAMBERS, when there was an
outbreak of CHAMBERS among the horses
in the woods, but it was generally known
that they contracted the disease by
drinking out of a water pail from which
a glandered horse had drank, but in this
case of Mr.. Inghram no one living
knows when or where he contracted the
disease. This should be a warning to
those having horses suspicious of CLAN
ders or farcy. that they should take the
proper steps to learn whether their
horses are glandered or not. Since the
discovery of the mallien test, this has
been of great assistance to the owners
of horses in ascertaining whether a horse
is glandered or not, by employing a vet
erinarian to make the test. 1t is strange
how many people owning suspicious
horses will conceal them, knowing that
they are a source of danger to all horses
with which they come in contact, as well
as the human family.
THE law enacted by the last Legisla-
ture requiring the malien test to be ap-
piled to all horses brought into the State
has kept out many glandered horses. The
lHOSl danger IL from Olu, second -Hdnu
horses that are shipped into the State,
and we find cases where the owner of a
cheap suspicious horse will distribute the
disease to valuable horses owned by
him, by not having such horse cared for.
Every horse that is suspicious in any
way of being glandered should be tested
with mallien.. We also find horses that
have no outward signs of CHAMBERS which
on applying the mallien test are found
to be bad cases of CHAMBERS.
$50 every case of a suspicious horse
should be reported and inspected in order
to stamp out this awful disease that is
so dangerous in horses. When We con-
slider that there is no medical aid for d
man who contracts the disease of CLAN
ders, that he must die, and it is an aw-
full death for one to meet, we will realize
the Importance of this matter. SO | hope
every citizen of this State will make it
his duty to report every suspicious horse
that he has any knowledge of, for the
protection of the people and the horses
of the State.''