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Title: Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
Leonard Pearson
Rush Shippen Huidekoper
Ch. B. Michener
W. H. Harbaugh

Release Date: November 7, 2007 [EBook #23403]

Language: English

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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.

A. D. MELVIN, CHIEF OF BUREAU.

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SPECIAL REPORT

ON

DISEASES OF THE HORSE.

BY

Drs. PEARSON, MICHENER, LAW, HARBAUGH, TRUMBOWER, LIAUTARD, HOLCOMBE,
HUIDEKOPER, MOHLER, EICHHORN, HALL, AND ADAMS.

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REVISED EDITION, 1916.

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WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1916.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

_Washington, March 30, 1916._

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Transcriber's note: The italic markup for single italized letters are
deleted for easier reading. Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes
moved to the end of the sections.

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This edition of the Special Report on Diseases of the Horse has been
prepared in compliance with House Concurrent Resolution No. 13, passed
February 3, 1916, as follows:

_Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring)_, That there be printed and bound in cloth one
hundred thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases
of the Horse, the same to be first revised and brought to date,
under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture; seventy
thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives and
thirty thousand for use of the Senate.

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