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 . ps, and arealways observed to poise themselves, during a few seconds, in theair, while the egg is preparing on the extended point of the abdo-men. When several of these flies are confined in a close place,they have a particularly strong, musty smell; and I have observedboth sheep and horses, when teased by them, to look into the graw 174 DADDS VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. and smell it very anxi
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 . ps, and arealways observed to poise themselves, during a few seconds, in theair, while the egg is preparing on the extended point of the abdo-men. When several of these flies are confined in a close place,they have a particularly strong, musty smell; and I have observedboth sheep and horses, when teased by them, to look into the graw 174 DADDS VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. and smell it very anxiously; and if they, by these means, dis-cover the fly, they immediately turn aside and hasten to a distantpart of the field. I once saw, in a meadow or field, upon thecliffs of ^largate, a fly of this sort teasing a horse that was con-fined to a small space by a spike stuck in the ground, to which acord was tied. He could not get away from its attack, and becamequite furious, for in kicking at the fly with his fore-foot, which hedid vehemently, he often struck the bone of the lower jaw, creatingexcessive pain ; for in that direction, while grazing, the fly comesto the beard of the lower
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