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power to infect until the rains of September came. Nine-tenths of those affected died. 

 Several gentleman are named, each of whom lost his entire herd. 



The loss in Newton is estimated at three hundred ; in McDonald five per cent, of all 

 native cattle ; in St. Louis one thousand four hundred milch cows and two hundred and 

 fifty to three hundred heifers and steers ; in Henry two hundred to three hundred ; in 

 Montgomery forty-five, and but three recovered; in Mississippi forty; in Bade twenty-five 

 per cent, of the stock; and small losses occurred in Benton, Bates, Butler, Cedar, Clark, 

 and Polk. 



Kentucky. Occasional outbreaks of splenic fever have occurred in Kentucky, origi 

 nating in conjunction with the importation of southern cattle, since the first introduction 

 of such stock. In Anderson County, in 1868, the disease first appeared on Salt River. 

 A drove of southwestern cattle arrived on the loth of May. They were shipped at Bayou 

 Sara, Louisiana, and brought up the river to Louisville ; ninety-six head were received 

 into the county during the season, all in fair condition and apparently healthy, and but 

 one sickened subsequently, about the 1st of October, which recovered, after displaying the 

 same symptoms as the native stock, viz: &quot;loss of appetite, droopiness, stiffening of the 

 joints, contraction of the muscles, and foaming at the mouth, shrinking away of the flesh, 

 and when first observed they are generally traveling around in a circle until they get 

 down ; most of them showing symptoms attendant upon lock-jaw.&quot; About twenty native 

 cattle died, and but one or two affected with the disease have recovered, most of them 

 dying within twenty-four hours of the first observable symptoms. One farmer claims to 

 have cured a cow by administering a pint of whisky as a dose. The disease broke out 

 five months after the introduction of the foreign cattle, and was only communicated to 

 animals fed in pastures which had been occupied by southern herds, and no case has oc 

 curred of the infection of one native by another. 



In Jefferson County the disease appeared in and around Portland. Cattle coming by 

 steamer from New Orleans and by the Mobile & Ohio Railroad began to arrive during the 

 winter months, but no disease broke out till the June arrivals. About 6,000 head were 

 received into the country during the season of 1868, all apparently healthy, and some in 

 such good condition as to be immediately forwarded to the New York market, others being 

 sent to pasture. About fifty or sixty native cows died at Portland, (a part of the city of 

 Louisville, and one of the principal landing and crossing places for Texan stock on the 

 Ohio River.) No deaths occurred beyond this range, and no secondary infection was com 

 municated. 



No disease has occurred in Franklin County since 1866. The Texan cattle, coming 

 by the turnpike from Louisville, passed through the county in June or July, 1866 ; they 

 were very thin in flesh and sore in the feet, but otherwise appeared healthy. None of 

 them remained to be fed or grazed in the county. About one week elapsed from their 

 introduction to the outbreak of the disease among the native stock, of which about twenty 

 head died, being all that were attacked. The disease was communicated to animals passing 

 over the same road as the Texans. but no case occurred of infection of one native animal 

 by another. 



Texas fever prevailed in Henry County in 1859, since which time no Texas drove 

 has traversed it except one in the winter of 1866, which communicated no disease. 



Infection was brought to Carroll County by fifteen head of Texan cattle coming up 



