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pasture with two liimdred natives, mostly tliree-y ear-old steers 5 thirty- 

 fonr Ijond of the latter died of ihe fever. A drove in Cass County 

 lost seven tbat had contracted the disease by being shipped from ICansas 

 in cars in which Texas cattle had been carried. In fecott Coimty sev- 

 eral deaths from Spanish fever are reported. 



In Taney County, Missouri, twelve animals were attacked with splenic 

 fever; only one recovered. 



Tlio disease has existed in Kansas more tban elsewhere, on account 

 of exposure to (tattle from Texas. In the northeastern part of Sedj::- 

 wich County, where Texas cattle were pastured to the utmost capacity of 

 the "ran £^e,"' many of the native cattle died. In other portions of the 

 county, in which Texas cattle also ranged, the loss was small. Only na- 

 tive cattle were attacked, the improved breeds suffering most, and the 

 scrubs least. In the southern x>art of Keosho, where Texas cattle were 

 pastured, native cattle took the disease merely by crossing the track of 

 the Texas. In Morris, the loss by si)ienic fever w\as 25 per cent. ; some 

 farmers lost all their native stock. The loss in Marion is estimat- 

 ed at 100 per cent. The loss in Lyons is placed at 5 per cent.; in 

 Montgomery, 10 per cent., but no case occurred among cattle in 

 inclosures; in Allen, one hundred head; in Labette, where the 

 stringent law against the movement of Texas cattle was evaded by 

 driving across the border at night, many cattle in the vicinity of their 

 trail were attacked, and three-fourths of the number died. In Dicken- 

 son and Washington several cases occurred. A drove of Texans passed 

 through the southeastern part of Woodson in August, and in about two 

 weeks the disease broke out among the native cattle, v/ith fatal effect. 



The following is an account of the breaking out of this disease in a 

 high latitude : 



Fort EandalJ, Todd Counly, IJcilcoia. — Au outbreak of "^iplcuic or ])cnodic fever" 

 a'nong beef-cattle, (about two liuudred bead,) at tliis post, commcuccd iu May, 1871, 

 "when teu dcatlis occun-ed ; iu Juue, six ; iu July, teu ; iu August, tweuty-two ; aud iu 

 September, tbree. The epidemic reached its acme about the middle of July. The 

 total number of deaths, iu two hundred head of cattle, was fifty-oue. Mode of inva- 

 sion, rapidity of course of disease, aud death occurring at au eai'ly period, together 

 ■with ^)06f mortem appearances, prove conclusively that it Avas '• spleuic fever," the 

 affection described by Professor John Gamgee, in report of the Agricultural Department. 

 It is highly probable that the cattle arriviug here iu two differeut lots have had the 

 disease commuuicated to them by passiug.over, or having been herded iu, sections of 

 country previously traveled over by droves of Texas cattle en rouic to supply the vari- 

 ous Indiau agencies aloug the Missouri Eiver. 



The disease is reported by correspondents in Eentou, Prairie, and In- 

 dependence Counties, Arkansas. 



Independence Conntij, Arkansas. — Spanish fever has not been SQen for three years 

 past — that is, since the law was passed prohibiting the passage of Texas cattle through 

 the State — until last Juue, when live wagons from Texas, drawu by twenty yoke of 

 oxeu, passed northward on one of our principal roads, caminug a day or two in a place, 

 and their cattle allowed to graze near the road ; and, strange as it may seem, fever 

 attacked our own cattle at each of these camping places within this county, aud prob- 

 ably one hundred of these cases proved fatal. Those iu pastures, having no access to 

 these places, were not attacked. The infection seemed to lose its iuflueucc in about 

 thirty days after the passage of the Texas oxen. I am not able to give the actual loss 

 in tJiis county at that time. It was probably between one Imudred and one hundred 

 and lifty lioad. 



Several cases are reported in I^Temaha, Nebraska ; and heavy los.ses iu 

 Santii Clara, California, are imputed to splenic fever, but the facts are 

 not sufficient to identify the disease as splenic fever. 



PLErno-PNEUMONiA. — A dozen cases of this disease have occurred 

 in Ocean County, New .Tersey. It was treated by bleeding, blistering, 

 the use of carbolic acid about the stalls, of aperients and diaphoretics. 

 In Burlington County tlie county agricultural society, at its annual 



