140 ; 
J have not seen any of the diseased cattle this season. The number that died 
did not exceed fifty head, as the Texas cattle only passed through one corner of 
the county. The 24th day of June, 1860, there were driven on my farm, to 
stay over-night, some fifty head of Texas cattle. Some forty days after they 
left, about the 18th of August, the disease broke out among my milch cows and 
heifers and work cattle. I lost fourteen head, worth some seven or eight hun- 
dred dollars. At the same time I was grazing a lot of large fat cattle for one 
of my neighbors—some sixty head ; out of the number, eleven head died, valued 
about the same as my own. ‘This was the first appearance of the disease in 
this State. I tried all the remedies I could think of. Some of the diseased ones 
recovered, though I will not say what remedy reached the disease. Work 
oxen that crossed the road travelled by these cattle took the disease and died. 
In the last stages of the disease greenish and yellow matter exudes from the 
nose. ‘The animal will live, in some cases, ten or twelve days after being at- 
tacked. ‘This county has not been entirely free from the disease in the last ten 
years. Almost every farmer has aremedy of hisown. I have had the disease 
in my herd twice; the first time I lost one hundred and fifty—nearly all I had.” 
Fayette county, Kentucky.—*‘ Last summer my son bought at auction, in Lex- 
ington, twenty-four Kentucky raised cattle. Shortly after the purchase five 
of the cattle were taken sick, four of which died, It was ascertained that these 
five cattle had been driven along the road over which some Texas cattle had 
travelled. The former had been given green corn, and the one that eat freely 
of it recovered. They were all taken sick the same day, and the four died the 
second and third days after. None of the other cattle were affected, though all 
were in the same pasture. It is a well-known fact that Kentucky cattle pas- 
tured with, or shortly after Texas cattle, or driven along the road after them, 
will take this fever. It is believed, however, that Kentucky cattle will not 
take it from native stock. The Texas fever had been very destructive in the 
neighborhood from which these five cattle were driven to Lexington.” 
Grundy county, Illinois —“ My opinion in regard to the Spanish fever is, that 
there is no danger of that disease except where the cattle come in contact with 
the droves from Texas and the Indian country, more especially the region on the 
Red river. I lived some time on the route travelled by these droves from Texas 
to the Missouri river, and in all cases, when the Spanish fever made its appear- 
ance, it was'‘when one of these droves had just passed through, and I never 
heard of a case where the cattle had not been exposed in this way. I never 
knew the disease to break out spontaneously in a herd of northern cattle; but 
after exposure it was always more fatal among them than among the ‘Texas 
cattle ; so much so that it was considered quite an object to obtain the Texas 
cattle in preference to all others for use, in those sections of the country that 
were peculiarly exposed to the disease by being on or near the route of the 
Texas droves.” 
Perry county, lilinois— In the southern part of this county Spanish fever 
appeared in July last, among cattle that were pastured on ground that had 
been:previously occupied by a drove of Texas cattle. The loss was about 
seventy head. Various remedies were tried, but none of them were effectual. 
I understood that all the cattle were attacked with the disease that followed the 
Texas cattle in the pasture, and that all that were attacked died. It appears 
also that the Texas cattle, while feeding in the pasture, had no appearance of 
disease.” 
STARVATION. 
In a land where scarcely half the growth of grasses is depastured, it seems 
little less than deliberate wickedness, and something more than downright in- 
humanity, that domestic animals should die by thousands of starvation. Because 
some winters are so mild that the poor cow shivers through them without actual 
