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A NEW ENGLISH HORSE DISEASE English racing stables are being ravaged by a newdisease known to veterinarians as the "heel hug." Professor Robertson, an expert veterinarian, declares that the disease does not come from any sort of "bugs," insects, or flies, but is caused by a bacillus similar to, but not the same as that which gives rise to the foot-and-mouth disease in cattle. It is highly infectious and mav be conveyed from one victim to another in scores of different ways: for instance, by using rubbers and brushes to more horses than one, by shoeing smiths aprons being uwd for a succession of hoofs and even by horses walking 011 a road where one affected by the microbe has already been. Horses touching one another would naturally communicate the evil and nothing but complete isolation of the affected subject will save the rest of a stable. Such matters are well understood in the case of foot-and-muuth disease, when one" Is not allowed in im affected area, to movu cattle to any other district or along the ruaiis ut all, j
