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it, with the same drooping and rejection of food. He 

 drenched them with Glauber's salts, which operated on 

 most, and with turpentine diluted, but with no good 

 effect — all that sickened perished. On opening them he 

 found the manifolds stuffed nith fcecal matter as dry as 

 if found in the summer in a field ; the downward passage 

 closed up, except in one or two cases, in which it was 

 open about the length and diameter of the middle finger. 

 Anxiety to get the carcasses under ground prevented more 

 minute examination. The remaining four which died at 

 other places within his knowledge, had all, as he assured 

 me, the bloody murrain. He mentioned a case of bloody 

 murrain at his brother-in-law's, near West Chester, be- 

 fore the arrival of that drove ; on the whole, I believe 

 there is litde doubt that the Ohio cattle introduced it here; 

 that it is now providentially extinct; and that its effects in 

 this district were confined to the cases I have mentioned, 

 I remain with respect, thy friend, 



Henry Cox. 

 London Gt'ove^ 4th mo. 2d. 1819* 



Richard Ifistar, jr. 

 Sec'ry Philadelphia Society 



for promoting Agriculture. 



Spread Eagle, Chester Co. 22d March, 1819. 

 Sir, 



About the middle of October last, I purchased a 

 pair of remarkably fine catde, which were bred in the 

 northern part of the state of Ohio, about 80 miles distant 

 from Pittsburgh. The cattle rapidly improved in flesh, 

 being fed on go(^d timothy hay, and sometimes, b it 

 rarely, on well-cured corn fodder. Early in the month 

 of February, during a moist state of the atmosphere, one 

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