192 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



A drove of Texan cattle from New Orleans to New Albany by steamer, crossed White 

 River at Wood s Ferry, five of which died near that point. A Mr. Cobb subsequently 

 lost eight milch cows that pastured along the road they traveled. A Texas steer of another 

 lot sickened and died, the symptoms being profuse bloody discharges from the bowels, ears 

 drooping, and a generally dull, stupid appearance. From two thousand to two thousand 

 five hundred Texas cattle were received by steamer from the mouth of the Red River. 

 They were apparently healthy on their arrival, though in poor condition ; some died on the 

 way up. Few of the Texan cattle died at New Albany. About three weeks elapsed 

 from the introduction of the Texan cattle to the outbreak of the disease among the native 

 stock, of which seventy-four died out of eighty-one attacked. The disease was only 

 communicated to animals fed on the pastures occupied by the Texan cattle ; in pastures 

 adjoining the cattle remained healthy ; and no positive case has been reported of the 

 infection of one native animal by another. 



About three hundred were received in Washington County, coming up the Ohio in 

 boats to Louisville and New Albany. Some came in March, others as late as June. No 

 disease was communicated to natives. About four hundred cattle were received in Bar 

 tholomew County, coming by boat up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to New Albany, 

 thence overland, beginning to arrive in May. There was no infection of native stock. 



In Warren County about four thousand head of Texan cattle were received in or 

 driven through the county, coming either by the railroad or driven from Cairo, Illinois. 

 After being landed from the steamer, some were poor, others in good condition. Some 

 were taken off the cars dead, but this was supposed to be owing to bad treatment. The 

 Texan cattle commenced to arrive about the 1st of June, and the fever appeared about the 

 25th of July. About one thousand five hundred of the native stock died, being about nine- 

 tenths of the whole number attacked.* - 



* James Park, of Williamsport, Warren County, Indiana, gives the following particulars, in a letter to Gov. Baker, of one 

 of tlie principal of the infected herds sent east : 



&quot; On the 27th day of April, 1868, a herd of nine hundred and thirty head of Texas cattle was purchased in Colorado County, 

 :as. They were driven to the month of the Red River, a distance of about six hundred miles, reaching- that point May 31, 

 8. They were at once shipped from that point on steamhoats, and arrived at Cairo, Illinois, June 4, 1868. From thence 



Texas. 



1868. They were at once shipped 



they were shipped on the Illinois Central Railroad, and reached Tolono, Illinois, June 7, 1808. From this point they were 



driven into Warren County, Indiana, a distance of about sixty miles. They came into the western boundary of Warren County 



on the 12th of June, 1868. There was a loss of forty-four head, only eight hundred and eighty-six of the nine hundred and 



thirty head reaching Warren County. These cattle were from four to six years old, all apparently in good condition, nothing 



indicating any disease whatever. There were ticks on very many of them. 



&quot;This herd of Texan cattle on the 12th day of June, 1868, passed over a certain piece of prairie pasture on the western 

 boundary of this county, (Warren.) On the 19th day of June a lot of native cattle, numbering ninety-five head, weighing over 

 one thousand three hundred pounds each, was permitted to graze upon the same pasture, and continued to feed upon the same 

 until the 4th of August One of the herd was noticed to be sick on the 28th of July, and, up to the 4th of August, eleven were 

 sick and three had died. On the 4th of August eighty-four of this lot of ninety-five were driven to the West Lebanon station of 

 the Toledo and Wabush Railroad, and shipped for the New York market. There were eleven head of another lot that had not 

 been on this pasture, or in any way exposed to the Texas cattle shipped with the eighty-four. None of the eleven head were 

 taken sick on the road to New York, but the sickness was confined to the eighty-four head exposed to the Texas cattle, at least 

 herded upon pasture passed over by the Texas cattle. 



&quot; On the night of the 12th of June, 1868, this lot of Texan cattle herded on another piece of prairie where a lot of one 

 hundred head of native cattle were feeding. On the morning of the 13th of June the Texan cattle were driven to the north ot 

 the county. Fifty -five of the one hundred head of the native cattle were three years old, the rest were one and two all in good 

 growing condition. 



&quot;On the night of the 12th of June, 1868, there were twenty-six head of native fat cattle in an adjoining inclosure to the 

 ground occupied by the Texan cattle. About four weeks after the 12th of June, these twenty-six fat cattle broke out of their 

 inclosure and grazed upon thepiairie where the Texan cattle had been on the night of June 12. On the 2S)th of July, one of the 

 twenty-six was discovered to be sick, and died on the night of July 31 On the 1st day of August, two of the one hundred 

 head died, and some twenty-five more were sick. From that time up to the present, the entire herd have been taken sick, 

 eighty-eight head out of the one hundred have died; twenty-two out of the twenty-six have also died; total, one hundred and 

 ten out of one hundred and twenty-six. The remaining sixteen head have all been sick, and are now very poor and stupid, but 

 have the appearance of getting well. 



&quot;As a fact, wherever native cattle have passed over ground where this Texan herd have been, the native cattle have 

 sickened and died. It is also a fact that other Texan cattle have been brought into this county, have been herded with native 

 cattle two months, and, as yet, no disease lias made its appearance.&quot; 



