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bnlls from Mr. Miller, Beecher, in Illinois; 7 died, bnt I tliink this was cansed by 

 driving tlirough. It might have been the result of fever. In 1S74 I brought 10 Dnr- 

 hains from Kentuckv ; lost none ; in 1SS3 I brought 2 Hereford bulls from Missouri 

 find 9 Dnrharas, and" lost none ; in 1834, I bought 2i3 Hereford bulls from Low Hastings, 

 of Iowa, and 2 half Highland Scotch, none of which died during this winter. I don't 

 believe there is any danger here. 



C0IJE5IAN COUNTY. 



Mr. n. H. Overall, Coleman.— R&i&Tvia^ to your circular of 13th of April, I have to 

 t-ay that in January, 1884. I bought of agent of Messrs. A. A. Crano &, Co., Henry 

 Co"iinty, Illinois, 25 cross-bred Hereford and Durham bulls. They were immediately 

 transported to my ranch, in this county; they arrived about the 20th of the month; 

 wQre turned into feed-pens with native bulls and other cattle, fed on milled hay and 

 sorghum (sugar-cane) until the 1st of April, when they were turned loose in pasture 

 of 2.3,000 acres, with nearly 3,000 head of cattle. Up to the time of turning them 

 loose I saw them two or thre« times each day. I am confident I never saw a healthier 

 or more thrifty bunch of cattle. Several months after this my hands reported two of 

 them dead. On inspecting them one was found to have been gored by .-i bull; the 

 other was so decomposed that I could not make a critical examination of him. Theso 

 are all the lf)S8es I met with dttriug the season. If any of these cattle were affected 

 with Texas or splenic fever they all recovered, as we found none other than above do- 

 pcribed dead, and saw none sick. 



I have purchased several hundred head of cattle in Arkansas, on parallel with Little 

 Bock, and transported them to my ranch for breeding cattle, and have never known 

 a case of Texas fever among them. 



Mr. S. 0. Cotton, Coleman. — As a cattleman of Coleman County, Texas, I ask leave 

 to respond to your circular of 19th ultimo : 



(1) I have not brought any bulls or other cattle from north of south line of Kansas, 

 hut several cattlemen of this county have bought such Northern bulls, the number I 

 don't know. I have repeatedly made inqnirics of the purchasers of such bulls as to 

 the effect of the climate upon them, and I have never heard of one dying from ac- 

 climatization fever. 



(2) Yes ; I brought over 700 head of cattle from near the Gulf coast of Southeast 

 Texas to this county in Juno, 18S2. These were pastured along with the native cattle 

 here, and not one of the latter over died as the result of this contact, so far as I know, 

 and no disease of any kind occurred to any of the cattle. 



Many thousands of cattle are driven through this county annually from Southern 

 and Southwestern Texas, and I have never heard of any disease resulting therefrom 

 to the cattle of this county. 



I am authorized by my neighbor, Mr. Andrew Young, an extensive cattle-owner of 

 many years' experience in this county, to make the foregoing responses to your cir- 

 cular for him also. 



. We do not believe that cattle from this section have ever caused disease to Northern 

 cattle, and we consider the Kansas quarantine a groat and unnecessarj"^ hardship upon 

 us. We trust you will be able to grant us relief. 



COLLINGSWORTH COU^•TT. 



Mr, J. John Dreic, Xorlh Elm Creek. — I have during the last nine years been engaged 

 in the business of cattle ranching on the open prairie und in inclosed pastures in South- 

 western Kansas, the Indian Territory (that portion just east of the one hundredlh 

 meridian and north of the thirty-sixth parallel), and tliat portion of Texas .is indi- 

 cated by the heading of this letter, which lies just west of the one hundredth meridian, 

 with the thirty-sixth parallel running right through the center of one pasture. This 

 experience, and it is one that has been dearly ptirchased, has proven to me that there 

 is danger from the Spanish fever with cattle coming from that portion of our State, 

 say south of the thirty-third parallel. Under no circumstances would I permit any 

 cattle from a region south of the above lino to get near enough, or into, my pasture, 

 60 that there would be a liability of any of my cattle grazing or watermg where they 

 had beeji, until at least after a frost. 



We buy every year some Southern cattle, hut we always hold them out, under close 

 herd, until after first frost. 



COOKB COUNTY. 



Mr. J. G. WUlierspoon, Gainesville. — In answer to the first question asked by you in 

 your communication through the papers, I will say that we bought and put on onr 

 ranch in Hardeman County 73 Hereford and Shorthorn buUs this spring. Wo were 

 encouraged to do this from the fact that our neighboring ranchmen, Forsyth Cattle 

 Company, have been buying bolls from the same parties we bought from in the State 



