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climate, either from a colder to a warmer climate, or taking them from a warm 
climate to a more cool and healthy one. How it is that they carry the disease 
with them, and give to others without injury to themselves, is a mystery I am 
not able to solve, and will leave that to be discussed by the bureau of investi- 
gation. 
Respectfully, 
I. WILKERSON. 
Mr. White, the editor of the Cultivator, indorses Colonel Wilkerson as a man 
of experience and good judgment, whose statement of facts can be relied on. 
From all that has been learned from this correspondence or from other sources, 
all medication has thus far proved entirely futile. 
Without pretending to unravel the mystery of the terrible fatality of this 
disease, received through an animal that is apparently free from all maladies, 
we propose to give brief extracts from our correspondence on this subject, that 
readers may note for.themselves the agreements or discrepancies of actual ob- 
servers. 
Texas correspondents are indignant in their comments on the Texas fever. 
One in Dewitt county says he has been ia that State since 1849, and has never 
known any prevailing disease to exist among cattle there. He says there is 
sometimes a Spanish fever among horses, but never among cattle. 
Another in Collin county says that cattle brought there from the north are 
subject to such a disease. 
A correspondent at Goliad, Texas, deems the disease a myth, and says: 
“This tale was no doubt started to injure the sale of our cattle; but, strange to 
say, while our cattle have such terribly fatal diseases in the Indian Territory, 
Kansas, and Missouri, this pest never follows our stoek to New Orleans. No 
single complaint of this fever has as yet reached us, from the Texas cattle bought 
low, at an overstocked market, in that city and taken up the river to be fattened 
and reshipped, as stall-fed western beef. I can see no excuse for these com- 
plaints, and can account for them upon no other ground than selfishness.” 
In Linn county, Kansas, it has been prevalent in summer and fall, but is sel- 
dom, if ever, known in winter. 
In Butler county, Kansas, one hundred and forty-one cases are reported. 
Osage county, Kansas.—* A disease made its appearance at Burlingame, in. 
this county, about the 1st of August last, called by some Spanish fever; by 
some, dry murrain. Afterwards it prevailed in other parts of the county. It 
was principally confined to the Santa Fé road, which runs east and west through 
the county. Not one in twenty recovered. The damage from it could not be 
less than $5,000. Blooded stock were more frequently attacked, and rarely re- 
covered. ‘The usual remedies for murrain were tried, but were of no avail. Af- 
ter that medicines were given as experiments, but the cures were so few, if any 
there were, that nothing certain was established. The first symptoms were a 
moping and an apparent weakness about the loins. A high fever set in, and the 
animal kept on foot, eating and drinking as usual, until it laid down to die. 
Some were packed in wet cloths ; some were drenched with salts; to some, sul- 
phur, saltpetre, sweet spirits of nitre, lard, copperas, garlick, poke root, and 
other medicines, in indefinite quantities, were administered. Let alone was the 
- best remedy. 'The animal died in about one week after it was attacked. There 
seemed no difficulty in getting physic to operate; the bowels were generally ac- 
tive and open. After death there seemed to have been a high fever in some lo- 
cality ; sometimes in the stomach, sometimes in the kidneys, sometimes in the 
lungs. As a general rule the stomach was dried up; the bladder full of red wa- 
ter, but not bloody. The eyes looked as usual, and the fore-quarters seemed 
strong. I account for the different appearance in different animals from the fact 
that injurious medicines of different kinds had been given to different animals 
