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kins, and adjoining counties, putting tbem in pasture with cattle native to those 

 counties. I also, at the same time, bionght with those cattle ahout 150 grade Short- 

 horn Walls that had been bred in some of the aboTe-namcd counties. Neither natives 

 nor those driven in have ever liad any disease. 



Mr. A. Moore, Frio Eavch. — Referring to your printed circular of April 25. I beg to 

 anssver the questions contained therein, as follows: 



(1) I will state that I bave not imported any bulls-or other cattle from outside this 

 State. I use lull-blood, Texas-raised Durhams and Devons, and have never bad any 

 losises from acclimatization fever or experience in regard to that disease. 



In answer to your second question, I will state that in September, 1880, 1 purchased in 

 Austin County, Texas, 1,100 head of stock cattle, and during the same month brought 

 tbem to this ranch and allowed them to pasture on the same range with my native 

 cattle. During the summer of 1881 I alsb purchased about GOO head of stock cattle 

 iu Nacogdoches and Rusk Counties, in Eastern Texas, and allowed these also to past^ 

 ure with my other cattle. Out of 0,000 bead no disease of any kind, to my knowl- 

 edge, ever appeared amongst them, and the cattle from the counties named began to 

 show immediate signs of imiirovement from tbe day they arrived on the range. 



VICTORIA COUNTY. 



Mr. K. C. Gullett, Victoria. — I am in receipt of your circular letter to "Texas cat- 

 tle owners," and although not a resident of any of the counties named therein, as a 

 resident of Southwestern Texas, I take the liberty of answering the questions made 

 iu your letter. 



(1) For a number of years graded cattle have been introduced most successfully in 

 this and surrounding counties from the States of Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio; and 

 only last year Mr. J. W. Lake, of Newark, Licking County, Ohio, brought down fully 

 100 head of graded stock from the State of Ohio, and selling in Victoria, Goliad, Bee, 

 and Refugio Counties, sold on time with guarantee against disease and death from 

 disease. And, as he will tell you if you will address him on the subject, his guaran- 

 tee was without loss to him, as ho collected on all animals sold. I have 1 or 2 im- 

 proved animals I bought from D. M. Wilson, who has been importing fine stock from 

 Missouri for tbe last seven years. 



To inquiry number two, I would state that the cattle from this section and those 

 of the counties named have come in contact almost every year, and have grazed to- 

 gether on the same pastures without cither classes being aftected in the least; and 

 as evidence of the falsity of the charges to tbe contrary, I would only cite the fact 

 that at present this section is selling thousands of cattle to the owners of the ranches 

 in the Territory, Pan-handle, and in New Mexico and Colorado, who are moving 

 them north to and across tbe thirty-fourth line, when they will call them high-bred 

 Northern cattle, aud be loudest in raising the cry of quarantine against "Texas fever." 

 As a matter of course, the cattle they are getting from here now, altbough liner than 

 ever before, are being sold to them very cheap iu consequence of this prohibition, to- 

 wit, one-third less than last year, all of which is very detrimeutal to the industry 

 and has caused heavy loss here. 



WILLIAMSON COUNTY. 



Messrs. D. H. ^- J. TV. Snyder, Georgetown. — Referring to yours of April 2-5 we will 

 state that we have been engaged in the cattle business exclusively since 18G8, and 

 during that year drove cattle to New Mexico and sold at Fort Union. In 1869 we 

 drove to Kansas ; in 1670 to Schuyler, Nebr. ; in 1871 to Cheyenne, Wyo. We also 

 drove tbe same year to Idaho. We have been driving and ranching in Wyoming aud 

 Colorado ever since. W^e now own the old IlilF range and cattle on the South Piatte 

 in Weld County, Colorado, in connection with Mrs. Iliff and Messrs. Brown, of Denver. 

 We also own a large herd in Stonewall County, Texas, and iu Mitchell and Tom Green 

 Counties, Texas. We mention these facts to give you a correct idea of our knowledge 

 and exiiGrience in the catlle business. In 1875 we bought a car-load of Shorthorned 

 cattle, shipped from Boone County, Missouri, to this (Williamson) county, and lost 

 40 i)er cent. In 187(3 we shipped a car-load of 25 head from Cheyenne aud lost only 'li 

 head. We have bad other shipments since from Missouri aud Kentucky, losiugfromS)} 

 to 50 per cent. We bave known of several shipments along the line of the Texas and 

 Pacific Railroad, west of Fort Worth, into the counties of Taylor, Nolan, Mitchell, Tom 

 Green, and others, all of which have lost more or less from the same cause — acclima- 

 tization fever. We have driven cattle from the coast of Texas, and from all other 

 parts of the State as far north and west as tbe counties above named to our ranches 

 in Colorado aud Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska, and have never lost by coming in 

 contact with them. We have as fine a bred herd on our ranch in Colorado as there Ls 

 anywhere iu that country, aud do not consider that we are taking any risk iu driving 

 cattle from any part of Texas aud turning them loose on our range with our native- 



