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lard, copperas, garlic, poke-root, and other medicines, in indefinite quantities, were admin 

 istered. Let alone was the best remedy. The animal died in about a week after being 

 attacked. There seemed no difficulty in getting physic to operate; the bowels were gen 

 erally active and open. After death there seemed to have been a high fever in some localities ; 

 sometimes in the stomach, sometimes in the kidneys, sometimes in the lungs As a gen 

 eral rule the stomach was dried up; the bladder full of red water, but not bloody. The 

 eyes looked as usual and the fore -quarters seemed strong. I account for the different 

 appearance in different animals by the fact that injurious medicines of different kinds 

 had been given to different animals which I examined. All this stock had pure water 

 and good grass. The first case that occurred was that of an ox, which belonged to a 

 logging team of seven yoke. This ox, on account of his breachy propensities, was kept 

 at night in a stable, and watered from a well of pure water. When not at work in I he 

 day-time he was staked out to grass with a long rope About two weeks before he was 

 attacked with this disease a herd of Texas cattle came along and were stopped and fed 

 around him for an hour or more. Soon after the rest of this team were attacked, and all 

 died but one, which escaped the disease. Along the trail of this Texas herd, which left 

 the Sante Fe road at Burlingame, and traveled north, almost every farmer lost stock. 

 Cattle that belonged to Burlingame, and ranged north over this trail, nearly all died, 

 while those which ranged south all escaped, though they were herded at night in the 

 same yards. Another herd of Texas cattle passed through the county eight miles east of 

 Burlingame, in another direction, and they left their trail, whole herds dying where they 

 passed along. People here are unanimously of the opinion that the disease came from 

 Texas. Cattle from the Cherokee country do not bring that disease. Neither do these 

 cattle after they have been wintered here.&quot; &quot;Spanish fever was brought in by Texas cattle, 

 (in Leavenworth,) but was confined to certain limits, on uninhabited Indian reserves, as 

 the people would not allow any to be pastured around farms in the settlements. It 

 appeared from three to four weeks after the Texas cattle came in or passed by, among 

 cattle that grazed on the same ground where the Texans had grazed over night, or staid 

 for a greater length of time. It appeared in the latter part of July. The Texans arrived 

 in June. At four different times in seven years this has been the case, always three or 

 four weeks subsequent to the Texan arrivals. Loss, ninety-five per cent, of those 

 attacked. Bleeding, cathartics, stimulants, hydropathy, &c., have been tried by multi 

 tudes. I have personally exhausted the whole range of cattle medicines, and lost very 

 largely in 1857, 1858, and 1859, but found no remedy in any direction; in a word there 

 is none known. All were attacked that were exposed to the cause. &quot;The Spanish fever 

 broke out in December, (in Woodson,) arid raged until the 1st of January, when the cold 

 weather set in and checked it. In the immediate localities where the Texas cattle crossed 

 the country the losses were heavy. Some farmers lost all they -had, and no less than 

 thirty per cent, of the cattle have died. The methods of treatment have been various. 

 I have treated the disease in its incipient stages, and have seen everything tried that 

 ingenuity could devise. Calomel did no good; salts and alkalies all failed.&quot; &quot;TheSpanish 

 fever, or something similar, (in Douglas,) made its appearance about the 1st of February 

 among a few cattle that were driven from the South. I think the severity of the winter 

 caused the greatest loss ; about one-third of all the cattle brought from the South have 

 died. The only treatment was to give the weaker ones a little more care, and separate 



