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6. How many days elapsed from their introduction to the breaking out of the disease 

 among the native stock ? 



7. What number of natives died, and in what proportion to the whole number attacked ? 



8. Has the disease been communicated, except to animals that have fed upon pastures 

 or in lots soiled by the excrements of the southern cattle ? 



9. Has a case occurred of the infection by one native animal of another? 

 Responses were prompt and general, of a tenor similar to those of former years, but 



indicating a wider diffusion and greater losses than ever before. A synopsis of this mate 

 rial will convey its essential features, and avoid something of its reiteration. The States 

 suffering most severely were Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and Kentucky. 

 Those in which the disease was communicated by droves coming in on foot will be first 

 considered. 



Arkansas. In accordance with information previously received from this State, the 

 returns showed that certain locations were liable to the introduction of this disease, while 

 others, generally near the Mississippi or the Arkansas River, were wont to receive Texas 

 droves with impunity. Mr. Tennison, of Arkadelphia, Clark County, stated that he had 

 been pasturing droves of cattle for two previous years, and as long as they were kept 

 separate from his native stock, no outbreak occurred ; but in 1868 lie penned two droves 

 with his own herd and lost six out of eighteen, and at the date of writing feared he should 

 lose them all. The symptoms were &quot; depression of the eyes, falling of the ears, discharge 

 from nostrils, hair dry and rough, body swollen, no disposition to eat or drink, bloody 

 discharges mixed with water ; death occurred in from two to three days.&quot; 



About three thousand cattle from Western Texas passed through Drew County, all in 

 good condition, though not fat, and no disease resulted. Drew is in the southeastern 

 portion of Arkansas, in a latitude and location in which no infection would be expected. 



In Crawford County neither the &quot;Spanish fever&quot; nor any disease resembling it has 

 ever occurred. A very large cattle trade has been going on between the citizens of Craw 

 ford and those of Texas, for years before and since the war. Van Buren (the principal 

 town) is immediately on the north bank of the Arkansas River, and is the main crossing 

 on the route from Northern and Eastern Texas, droves of Texan cattle numbering from one 

 hundred to one thousand head crossing at Van Buren Perry almost every month for years 

 past. Herds of long-horned Texan cattle are continually pastured in the county, mixing 

 and intermixing with the native stock, so that fully one-half of the stock owned there 

 are Texan cattle. 



In Washington County the first cases occurred in the vicinity of Cincinnati. Cattle 

 coming through the Indian country, Choctaw, Creek, and Cherokee Nations, and entering 

 the State a few miles above Cincinnati, began to arrive about the 10th of April ; two or 

 three thousand passed through in 1868, and about half that number remained in the county, 

 all in healthy, thriving condition. The disease -broke out about three months after their 

 introduction, in the latter part of July, and destroyed about four per cent, of the native 

 cattle, four-fifths of the whole number attacked. 



Kansas. Since the legislative prohibition of the passage of Texas cattle through the 

 State at any point east of the hundredth degree of west longitude, except on the Union 

 Pacific railroad, the cattle of the State have been generally exempt from the disease. 

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