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hot and ^vater scarce. If they do not have it this season they need not fear it again 

 for the next five years, as the cattle going Xorth this season are starting later, by Ji" 

 days, than nsnal. 



MITCHELL COUXTY. 



Mr. A. P. Bush, Colorado. — I have not bought any bulls from north of thesouili 

 line of Kansas, but many have been brought to this section of the country during 

 Ibis season. McWiiliams & King, out of 32 bought in February, have lost msf 

 (located iu the southern part of the county). M. Z. Smisson, in Tom Green County, 

 lost 3 out of 38, and others have had more or less losses, but as far as my observatioii 

 and investigation has gone, bulls brought here at a season of the Sfn-ing ^v]u•n they 

 c;;n get fresh and tender grass, have shown lighter losses than when brought during 

 the winter. The bulls that have died have, as a rule, not come in contact with na- 

 tive cattle. I do not know of any cattle brought from Eastern Texas and turned 

 loose iu the counties named in your circular. 



llr. n. M. Catlett, Colorado. — In reply to yours of the 25th instant I will say that I 

 have no personal experience in handling Eastern or Southern Texas cattle in the coun- 

 ties north and south of Brown County. I purchased a few three-fourths bred Here- 

 fords in Ohio this spring, and have had them on the ranch in Tom Green Connty for 

 two mouths. As yet none of them has shown any symptoms of sickness or acclima- 

 tization fever. 



I do not know of a case where Southern or Eastern Texas cattle have given any dis- 

 ease by running on the same range with our native cattle. 



Mr. M. L. Adams, Colorado. — In reply to your circular of April 25, I will say that 

 there has been quite a number of bulls brought to the counties named from north of 

 south line of Kansas, and some have died, but in mj- opinion it was for want of feed 

 more than anything else. Cattle driven from the eastern counties into the counties 

 named communicate no disease to natives, but graze together and do well. My ranch 

 is located in Borden County. 



Mr. A. B. Fioherison, Colorado. — In reply to yours under date of 25th ultimo I have 

 to say that I have not only bought Durhams, Hcrefords, and Polled Angus bulls, and 

 had them shipped from even farther north than Kansas, but have been very familiar 

 with others' transactions, and can state without fear of contradiction that in but 

 very few instances, the cattle coming from the North have done exceedingly well; in 

 fact until quite recently there have been no losses in this part of the country of cat- 

 tle shipped from the Northern States, ai^d it is safe to suppose that they did' not die 

 of Texas fever. 



In reply to your second question, I will simply state that it has been known as an 

 established fact that the cattle driven from Southern Texas have caused no disease 

 whatever amongst either cattle in this section or the cattle driven trom the South. 



NUECES COL'iaT. 



Mr. IT. Seligsoti, Galveston Bancho. — Eefemng to your circular addressed to cattle 

 owners in Texas, I beg to state that I have been raising cattle iu Texas for thirty-live 

 years ; have resided here forty-six years. I know from my own knowledge that six years 

 prior to ISOl, when from 30,000 to GO, 000 cattle were driven to Kansas each year, wo 

 heard nothing of Texas fover. So long as they were driven through we heard very 

 little of it, but so soon as they were shipped by rail and crowded into cars in hot 

 weather they became fevered and no doubt iu some iustances infected others. But 

 a great deal of this hue and cry of Texas fever is founded on the fact that Kansas and 

 the Territories are well stocked with our cattle and they do not wish competition froia 

 Texas any longer. They know this to bo the great breeding grounds, averaging 90 

 per cent, of calves as against GO per cent, with them. Our people in the Pan-handle in 

 Texas, who now have their ranges fully stocked, have proclaimeda quarantiuc against 

 Southwestern Texas cattle. They average about 70 per cent, of calves, so ihcy, 

 too, realize that they cannot compete as a breeding ground, and they, too, proclaim 

 their independence of law, right, and justice. 



I purchased 21 bull calves from Smiths &. Powell, Syracuse, N. Y., last year, and 

 lost 7 from acclimatization fever. They were twenty-one days on the cars and the 

 weather was warm. 



Duriug forty-six years iu Texas, I have never known of any disease resulting from 

 cattle driven from any portion of Texas either from East or Southwest Texas, to the 

 counties named in. your circular. 



PARKER COUXTY. 



Mr. Samuel H. Milliken, TVeatherford. — To your circular of April 25, in regard to cat- 

 tle disease, I have to say that about February, lbri4, I purchased and brought from 



