624 KEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



been for a number of years, and many of the native cattle are still sus- 

 ceptible and die during' tlie summer months. At Batesvillo, in Inde- 

 pendence County, and in the vicinity of Kensett, Judsonia, and Searcy, 

 of White County, it was learned that animals brought from farther north 

 almost always contracted this malady, and a large i)roportion of them 

 die<l. A drove of cattle from Prairie County was taken to Marion 

 County in 1878, and produced the disease among native cattle tliere. 

 At Carlisle, Lonoke County, it was found that there was permanent in- 

 fection which had existed in that vicinity for many years. In 1881, a 

 herd of cattle from Faulkner County and adjoining districts were taken 

 to Boone County and caused infection of native cattle there. At Saint 

 Joe, Searcy County, 4 miles northwest of Marshall, in the same county, 

 native cattle are infected and die as the result of feeding on pastures 

 infected by Southern stock. No signs of permanent inl'ection were dis- 

 covered at these places. Cattle from Conway and Pope Counties caused 

 outbreaks of Southern fever in Boone County in 1881 and 1882. Cattle 

 from Jackson County caused disease in Boone and Carroll Counties in 

 1880 and 1882. A herd from Franklin County also infected animals in 

 Carroll County. Crawford and Sebastian Counties are also infected, 

 and animals taken to these counties from farther north contract the dis- 

 ease. 



The reports from Washington, IMadison, Boone, and Carroll Counties 

 are more conllicting. They indicat* that many places in these counties 

 arc pei-manently infected, and that loss of cattle occurs even when no 

 new infection is brought there from year to year by Southern cattle. 

 Other reports from Eureka, in Carroll County, and from Prairie Grove 

 and Fayetteville, in Washington County, and from Beutonville, in Ben- 

 ton County, indicates that the pastures at these places are permanently 

 infQcted, and that cattle contract the disease from grazing upon them, 

 though no fresh infection has been introduced during the year. Cattle 

 irom Boousborough, Washington County, carried the disease to Benton 

 County some years ago. For many years cattle from the Indian Terri- 

 tory and Texas have been driven through Northwestern Arkansas on 

 their way to market, and it appears that this constant renewal of infec- 

 tion has carried the northern limit of the infected district considerably 

 farther northward in this part of the State than it is farther east. 



Taking into consideration the facts that have been given above and 

 many others that for lack of space cannot be enumerated, it would ap- 

 pear that the northern line of infection leaves the IMississippi River at 

 about the southern boundary line of Mississippi County. This is very 

 nearly opposite the point in Tennessee, on the ■ Mississippi Eiver, to 

 which the boundary line of the infected district was traced in that 

 State. Going westward, this lino would appear to follow the southern 

 boundary line of Poinsett County, crossing Jackson and Independent 

 Counties, going a few miles north of Batesville, and then proceeds 

 westward through Stone and Searcy Counties, leaving Mountain View 

 and Marshall a few miles to the north. It then takes a more decidedly 

 northwestern direction, crossing Newton .and Carroll Counties, to Eu- 

 reka, and is then directed westward to Bentonville, and from this town 

 goes to the extreme northwestern corner of the State. 



We have not been able to learn of any infected places north of such a 

 line, and, as has already been stated, there are many localities south of 

 this line which are not permanently infected. Our cn<l>eavor has been 

 in drawing this line, as it Avas in drawing the line from the Atlantic 

 Ocean to the Mississippi Eiver, to include all the permanently infected 

 I)lacesj and "while this may do some injustice to j)laces south of the lino 



