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and these chiefly when they were given up to negroes to do with them as they liked 
or being turned out to die; in two cases the cattle were exposed to long continued 
and cold rains, for the season, and recovered. ‘The gentleman who reported the 
last cases added that, thinking he had learned something from this accidental use 
of cold water to the surface, the next and only case he has had since, being a 
favorite cow, he had cold water applied freely and frequently, which was followed 
by recovery. The negro treatment of the disease was very simple, but is said 
to be effectual in two cases. The tail of the animal was cut off very near the 
body, within a few inches, and green corn and apples, and similar things, used 
to entice the animal to eat. But I should not have troubled you with this tedious 
detail of description and treatment of this distemper if I had not some facts to 
make known to you as preventive of this disease, which the people here, who 
have tried it and known it for years, have as much confidence in as that vaccin- 
ation will protect them from small-pox. It has been known and practiced for 
years by many in this county, that the keeping and herding of goats with the 
cattle gives certain protection against this cattle plague or distemper above 
described. In all my inquiries, all say they never knew a case of this disease 
where goats were reared and used among the cattle; and in many instances, 
after a farmer had lost some of his cattle, he would secure goats afterwards to 
range with his herd, and never as yet had the disease to return. At Carters- 
ville, a village in this county, and its neighborhood, many years ago, this dis- 
ease prevailed to the almost entire destruction of the cattle. The people then 
obtained goats, and for many years they were free from the plague; but in time, 
by neglect and the boys, the goats were driven off or killed, and this distemper 
returned, the same and as fatal as ever before.” 
SPANISH FEVER. 
The disease known in a certain belt of country by this appellation, and 
sometimes as Texas fever, has proved exceedingly fatal, and has excited great 
apprehension in States in which it has ever raged; and in many cases it has 
aroused the hot indignation of stock-growers against Texan cattle drovers, 
who have been threatened with combined armed opposition, and compelled to 
desist from the prosecution of their trade. 
Few observers of this disease are qualified to describe its symptoms with suf- 
ficient accuracy to enable one to judge of its precise character. Indeed, it is 
probable that the most scientific medical men, after careful and skillful examina- 
tion, might differ widely in their conclusions. Our correspondents have fur- 
nished much information of a general character, not at all contradictory in the 
main facts, but by no means full in description of the symptoms. 
It has been assumed by some to be identical with rinderpest. The assump- 
tion is utterly erroneous. The Texas cattle, in whose path of migration the 
local herds receive the subtle infection and sicken and die without remedy, are 
themselves exempt from outward sign of disease while communicating a deadly 
poison to others, apparently through the excrementitious matter which they 
leave in their track. This is by no means a characteristic of rinderpest. In 
this Spanish fever the infected beast, according to these returns, generally has 
an appetite and eats regularly during the progress of the disease ; in rinderpest, 
on the contrary, the appetite is irregular, capricious, and then entirely lost. In 
the former, in some cases if not always, the bowels are open; while in the 
dreaded cattle disease of Europe constipation is the rule, succeeded in the pro- 
gress of the disease by dysentery. In. the Spanish fever there are discharges 
from the nose, as the disease progresses, of a greenish matter, which may or 
may not be similar to the greenish yellow and somewhat dense granular deposit 
upon the nasal orifices in rinderpest. 
The duration of the Spanish fever is variable. It appears to reach a fatal 
