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by his company was located in Eoberts, Gray, Carson, and Hutchinson 

 Counties. A portion of the herd was infected by a herd of cattle iu 

 1884, driven firoiu near Colorado City, Tex. As a result of this infec- 

 tion (j5 of the cattle died. 



Mr. G. A. Brown, of Wichita Falls, had 40 cattle iu Donley County 

 \Thich were exposed to 200 that came from Williamson County. "^ Twenty 

 of these contracted Southern fever and died. 



Mr. J. W. Sacra, of Gainesville, Cook County, stated that his raucii 

 was located in Donley and Armstrong Counties ; that in the summer of 

 1884 he-took two herds from the Concho and Colorado Eivers, in Tom 

 Green and Concho Counties, to his ranch, and that they caused no in- 

 fection. He also stated that he took 500 animals iu June, 18S3, from 

 Clay County to his ranch, and no disease was produced by them. 



It was stated that Messrs. Gunter & Muusou, of Sherman, brought 

 during the years 1879 to 1882 300 fine bulls from Northern States to 

 Grayson County, and that they lost more than half of them from South- 

 ern fever. 



Mr. S. Dyer, of Briscoe County, near Paloduro, lost 100 Hereford cat- 

 tle in 1884 by infection from a herd from Southern Texas. 



Mr. W. Dyer, of Hall County, near Paloduro, lost 300 cattle in 1880 

 from the same cause. 



Mr. AY. C. Harris, of San Angelo, Tom Green Cotmty, has a ranch 15 

 miles west of San Angelo. In the winter of 1883 Mr. Harris brought 30 

 bulls to his ranch and these did well until he put a herd from Trio 

 County upon the same ranch ; as a consequence of this they contracted 

 Southern fever and 15 died, but none of the natives raised in Tom Green 

 County died from this infection. Mr. Harris and Mr. Peacock both stated 

 that it was perfectly safe to bring cattle from the Northern and Eastern 

 States to Tom Green County, provided they were not allowed to come 

 iu contact with a ranch infected by cattle from the southern part of the 

 State. 



Colonel Young, of Fort Worth, stated that of 100 fine bulls taken to his 

 ranch in Garza County at various times in recent years he has only 15 

 or 20 left, and that the majority of these have died from Southern fever. 



Mr. T. Odham, of Wichita Falls, has a ranch iu Gray and AYheeler 

 Counties. A part of his herd in the summer of 1884 strayed on a trail 

 that was infected by cattle from the country around Fort Worth and 

 west of it. Forty animals died from this infection. 



As the information given above was not considered sufficient upon 

 which to base even a preliminary line locating the extreme boundary of 

 the permanently infected district, the following circular was issued iu 

 April, 1885 : 



Department of Agkicultuke, 

 Bureau of An'imal Ixdustry. 

 Washington, D. C, April 18, iSSa. 

 Importaui to Texas caW.e-oivners : 



My utteutiou lias rcceutly becu directed to tlie fact that various States and Tcrii 

 topics have prohibited the iutrodnction of Texas cattle, because of the alleged daugor 

 tliat they ^vill commuuicate a fatal disease to the nativo cattle of such "States iuiil 

 Territories. Such prohibition is Tcry detrimental to the cattle industry of the -\vhoJi; 

 State of Texas, and I am informed by the Chief of Bureau of Animal ludiistrv and bv 

 many others acquainted -uith the subject that the cattle from a considerable part i.t 

 tliis Slatre do not communicate such disease and are not sources of danger to the cattle 

 of other States. 



Therefore to secure reliable and abundant information as to the limits of that part 

 of Texas from -n-hir.h cattle ma-y be safely taken to other States without restrictions, I 

 hircby request the eattlemcn of the following-named counties to send answers to the 



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