of the raw product. The apathy now existing among the
producers of milk and cream is ominous of evil, and discouraging to
those who are working in the interest of unadulterated goods. We have no
doubt that the time will come when not only the adulteration of butter,
but the adulteration of other food products as well, will only be
carried on under the stamp and inspection of Government supervision.

The thoughts I have presented are intended to be suggestive rather than
dogmatic, and I leave the subject with the hope that the intelligence of
the average dairyman may be as active in tracing and comprehending the
subtler principles of trade and commerce relating to the products of his
labor as he is in comprehending the more immediate facts of his calling,
such as breeding, seeding, and the handling of the raw products of his
herd.

[A] Paper read before the Illinois Dairymen's Convention by C.C. Buell,
of Rock Falls.

VETERINARY.

FEVER.

Many kinds of horse fevers have been described by antiquated veterinary
writers; but most exist only in the imagination of the writers, or have
been manufactured out of the mistaken analysis of human fevers. All the
real fevers of the horse may be comprised in two,--the idiopathic, pure
or simple fever, constituting of itself an entire disease, and the
symptomatic fever, occasioned by inflammatory action in some particular
part of the body, and constituting rather the attendant of a disease
than the disease itself.

Though idiopathic fever is comparatively infrequent in occurrence, it
unquestionably meets the attention of most persons who have extensive
stable management of horses, and its general tendency to degenerate into
local inflammation and symptomatic fever, seems to arise far less from
its own nature than from foul air, vicissitudes of temperature, and
general bad management. If idiopathic fever is not easily reduced, the
blood accumulates in the lungs, the viscera, or some other internal part
of the body, and provokes inflammation; or, if a horse, while suffering
under this fever, be kept in a foul or ill-ventilated stable, or be
exposed to alternations of heat and cold, he speedily becomes locally
inflamed from the action of the filth or exposure. The symptoms of
idiopathic fever are shivering, loss of appetite, dejected appearance,
quick pulse, hot mouth, and some degree of debility; generally, also,
costiveness and scantiness of urine; sometimes, likewise,