The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-03
HORSE MORTALITY
 BIG IN HARTFORD
Many Animals Sentenced to Death By State Au-
 thOrities.
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 Dr. Charles L. Cotton, deputy state commissioner on domestic animals, has yet to finish his work of exam ming Hartford horses for glanders. Animals have been killed from time to time and some owners put the number as high as 75.
 Two additional horses were killed Friday afternoon. They were the property of Burdette H. Sloan MT Sloan said yesterday that he had not known that the horses had gIanders, and noticed no symptoms However, the horses were taken out and shot, he said. and other horses owned by him may be killed. The pair shot Friday were valued by MT. Sloan at $500, and the state allowed him S1O0 for each.
 Four horses owned by Downing &o Perkins draymen, were killed, and Daniel c. Perkins of that firm said that the horses were about the best four in the barn. He added that he has worked around horses more than 10 years, has been with them nights, as well as days, and that he has learn ed considerable about the animals. MT. Perkins said that the veterinaries, working under the direction of the state commissioner on domestic ami maIs, went to his barn and inocuIat- ed some of the horses. Two of the animals were big and strong, Mr. Perkins said, and never showed any signs of islanders.
 They were good and sound," said MT. Perkins, "and on Nov. 5, were in ocuIated. On Nov. they were kill cd and I signed the death warrants On the day the horses were killed, they were taken from my barn with out permission, and taken to the South Meadows. There they stayed five hours, on one of the meanest days of the year, without any blankets. After the five hours were up, the off ciaIS came to me and wanted me to sign the death warrant. I informed them that, in my opinion, the animals were not suffering from glanders, but that, as long as they had been out in such weather without any protection, they certainly had pneumonia, and would die anyway. So I signed the death warrants.
 When they inocuIate the horses. they put a small pellet in the animals eye. Then they---the offcials---come back and make an examination again. It is claimed, too, that when a horse is inocuIated, then it has glan- QeFS. put l asked CO0rnISSlOnGr Col ton if every child that was vaccinated for smallpox had smallpox. The com rnissiOne wouldn't answer. When a child is vaccinated, it is immune from smallpox for seven years. When a horse is inoculated,' 1t has to be shot. Why kill the horse, if not the child? We are all animals, only men and wO- men are intelligent and have the power of speech. We all eat alike, sleep alike and are doctored for dis eases alike but it seems, in this case, that horses have to be shot after they ara inocuIated.
 Men who own horses in Hartford say that when a horse is inoculated with the substance that is now being used the animal develops glandePs, Six years ago, a member of the staff of the commissioners on dO- mestic animals made an examination of one of my horses, and said the an imaI was suffering with gIanders, and would fall any day. He hasn't fallen yet. If a horse has glanders kill him. But be sure he has gIanders.''
 Dr. Cotton, when told that horse men were saying that animals were being killed that were showing no signs of glanders, said he did not care to discuss the matter, but asked why the men signed for the $1O0 a. horse, if they didn't Believe the horses were suffering from glanders.
 Hartford veterinaTies are assisting the state in inoculating the horses, and when the disease first became noticeable. all watering troughs in the city were ordered closed.