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giving more definite information concerning losses among 
Mr. Carter’s cattle. He states that the first one died about 
Dec. 10. It had been found sick in the morning and died 
about 3:30 p.m. The second died about ten days later. On 
coming up a hill on its return the animal stumbled and fell 
over dead, and as he states, “it did not even kick after fall- 
ing.’’ This was a two year old steer. The third animal died 
about four days later. This one was taken sick at about 
eleven in the morning and lived until four o’clock the next 
morning, suffering very severely, at least so the owner sup- 
posed, This probably means that the animal did consider- 
able struggling and possibly groaning while down. The 
fourth animal was a young cow, and as he expressed it, 
‘“‘she also died hard.’’ About Jan. 5 or 6, two animals were 
found dead in the barn in the morning and the next morning 
two more animals were found dead. None of these four last 
animals had been noticed sick. At the time of this outbreak 
Mr. Carter had 16 head of cattle and lost eight. The owner 
informed Mr. Stark that those cases which had lived long 
enough to give an opportunity for observations had seemed 
very tender to the touch, particularly over the spine and near 
the base of the brain. The heads were drawn as far back as 
possible and the eyes ‘‘rolled up.’’ The animals that died 
had been fed corn on the stalk. 
One interesting bit of information in connection with 
this outbreak was to the effect that the owner had these 
eight animals drawn out just behind his stacks within afew 
yards of the barnyard after having removed the skin, and 
that no further cases appeared. One of the neighbors who 
skinned most of these animals for Mr. Carter had a nice lot 
of cattle, but his cattle receiyed no infection. 
Mr. Peter Nelson had lost eight and killed two out of a 
total of seventeen head. The first case appeared early in 
November. The deaths with the exception of two, came very 
close together. These twodied a week or so later. No care- 
ful examination postmortem was made, and no further in- 
formation was obtainable from Mr. Nelson. 
Mr. Jens Sorenson, of Monticello, wrote me on December 
7 concerning some disease among a neighbor’s cattle. His 
letter was to the effect that a certain neighbor had lost eight 
