The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . erself for a fewseconds before it, suddenly darts upon it, and leaves the egg ad-hering to the hair. She hardly appears to settle, but merelytouches the hair, with the egg held out on the projected point oftlie abdomen. The egg is made to adhere by means of a gluti-nous liquor secreted with it. She then leaves the horse at a smalldistance, and prepares a second egg, and, poising herself before thep
The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . erself for a fewseconds before it, suddenly darts upon it, and leaves the egg ad-hering to the hair. She hardly appears to settle, but merelytouches the hair, with the egg held out on the projected point oftlie abdomen. The egg is made to adhere by means of a gluti-nous liquor secreted with it. She then leaves the horse at a smalldistance, and prepares a second egg, and, poising herself before thepart, deposits it in the same way. The liquor dries, and the eggbecomes firmly glued to the hair. This is repeated by these fliestill four or five hundred eggs are sometimes placed on one horse. The skin of the horse is usually thrown into a tremulous motionoc the touch of this insect, which merely arises from the very greatirritability of the skin and cutaneous muscles at this season of the»ear. occasioned by the heat and continual teasing cf the flies, hill. 172 DADD S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. at length, these muscles appear to act involuntarily on the sitouch of any body THE (E8TBUS EQUl. 1. The female fly, about to depoBit an egg. J. The male fly. S. The egg; its natural size. 4. The egg magnified. 5. The newly-hatchfid bffs. 6. The hot full-grown. 7. The head of a hot The chrysalis. The inside of the knee is the part on which these flies are mostfond of depositing their eggs, and next to this on the side and backpart of the shoulder, and less frequently on the extreme ends of thehairs of the mane. But it is a fact worthy of attention that thefly does not place them promiscuously about the body, but con-stantly on those parts which are most liable to be licked with thetongue, and the ova, therefore, are always scrupulously placedwithin its reach. The eggs thus deposited I al first supposed were loosened fromthe liairs by the moisture of the t
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