THE SPLENIC FEVEH. 109 



Descriptions of the Texan fever, which have been published for years past, all agree 

 that the Texan and also Florida cattle, which have caused so much mischief, appear them 

 selves to be in perfect health; and the thriving condition of many herds in Indiana, Illi 

 nois, Missouri, and Kansas tended, at first, to convince us that whatever injured the im 

 proved breeds indigenous to these States hud no effect on the long-horned Texan cattle. 

 It is true that at Cairo we were informed, by a gentleman whose statement we had no 

 reason to doubt, that he had seen many Texan cattle die in the railway pens; and as 

 many as nine or ten in one morning had been found dead, having, in his opinion, succumbed 

 to the same disease as that destroying the cows of the inhabitants of Cairo. He supplied 

 the hay for nil the cattle landed there, and the first few lots, landed in April, appeared 

 sound; but he afterward saw three or four lots, numbering from two hundred and fifty to 

 five hundred head, which were affected by the prevailing disease. He distinctly avers 

 that six, eight, and even ten head of dead cattle were hauled off the boats when they 

 arrived laden with stock, and the men in charge got medicine for the disease. One lot of 

 two hundred and fifty animals, referred to by this informant, was taken off the cars at 

 Farina, after leaving Cairo for the North, simply because they were suffering severely, 

 and it was supposed that this arose from the journey; but they communicated disease to 

 all the cattle that fed in their path, and killed forty-seven out of fifty Illinois cattle with 

 which they grazed, from the 10th of May to the middle of June. 



In opposition to hearsay evidence, it was my duty to examine cattle alive and those 

 which were dead. I saw sixty-four Texan steers, fresh from New Orleans, which were 

 unloaded at Cairo on the 1st of August, They all appeared healthy. We had previously 

 seen a considerable number of the same kind of stock without being able to detect the 

 slightest evidence of disease, and were happy to receive an invitation to visit Mr. Alexan 

 der s farm, at Broadlands, near Homer, where there were four thousand five hundred and 

 twenty-seven Texan steers, which had been driven to Broadlands, and had communicated 

 disease not only to the cattle feeding on their trail, but also to a herd of Illinois cattle with 

 which they were mixed in reaching their destination. 



The numbers awl da ten rclatiny to the several importations at Broadlands are an folloira : 



Purchased at 



Date of arrival at J3roa&amp;lt;llamls. 



No. 



Tolono May 31, 1868 - 499 



Toloiio * i June 2, 1868 228 



Toloiio June 18, 1808 4% 



Tolouo June 20, 18G8 :!4 J 



Abilene lime 25, 1868 537 



Toloiio June 26, 1868 140 



Tolono Juue 30, 1868 107 



Abilene.. July 2, 1868 248 



Abilene July 3, 1868 241 



Chicago July 4, 1868 11)5 



Tolono July 22, 1868 362 



Tolono ! July 25, 1868 611 



Tolono July 28,1868 , 514 



Total.. I..V. 7 



