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r>0. Tin' deaths were among the cows of people who kept two or three, and let them 

 run at large and get their own living. The dairymen kept their stock in fenced 

 pastures, mid tlie\ did not lose any. He u;ot alionl "Jnii cattle from the stockyards 

 during a yeai\ lnt that they died from getting down in the cars and trampled upon 

 by the other cattle, or from accidents or injuries received in shipping. 



;i M -i >. n. i.. 



At (Jeneseo. 111.. on the Chicago. K'ock Island and I'acilie Kailroad, are exteiishe 

 feeding-yards for stock shipped liy this railroad. In 1^?1> there \\ere fed In-re '. 

 head of cattle; l^so. <^U>-J. and i'n ten months of lss|, lor>.lisl. Most of the cattle 

 arrive here in the morning, are unloaded from, the cars, are led and watered, and 

 remain in the pens until night, when they are again put into the cars and started olf 

 lor Chicago, where they arrive next morning. 



Col. .1. (Jalligan, manager of the yards, stated that they never have any sick 

 cattle here. Texas cattle do not come 1\ this route, so that there is no Texas lever. 

 Fanners and feeders living within ttLX or eight miles unload their stockers at these 

 yards, and then drive them out ii] ton their farms. They do not contract any disease by >o 

 doing. Owing to the scarcity of feed this year, luit fe\\ stockers have passed through. 

 The scarcity of feed has also prevented as many eastern dairy calves from passing 

 through as last year. One hundred car-loads passed through on their way west last, 

 vear; this year not half that number. The calves were brought from Michigan, 

 Ohio, and New York, from districts that arc not infected with long plague. There 

 were no such cattle in the yards at the time I visited them. 



Walter Yon n; has had from 15 to 18 head gra/ing in a pasture adjoining the yards 

 all summer. Only a hoard fence separated them from the cattle in the pens. Mr. 

 Young stated that none of his herd had been sick or had died during the summer. I 

 examined six of the herd, the others belonged to persons. living in town and were 

 sent out to pasture, and found them perfectly healthy. 



GALESBCKG. ILL. 



At Galeshurg, 111., on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad are also ex- 

 tensive feeding yards for stock ; W. Seacord, superintendent. In 1880, there were fed 

 here 127,184 head of cattle, and it was stated that this year the number would be con- 

 siderably larger. The cattle remain from rive to twenty-four hours. The yards were 

 built in lH?d, and there had never been any trouble from sick cattle since that time. 

 The calves that come through here from east come from Indiana, Ohio, and New 

 York. Texas cattle do not come here directly, but after they have been fed a season 

 or two in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, or other Western States. About 100 head of 

 "stockers" had been unloaded here this season going to farms within six or eight 

 mi les. A good many cows come here from Iowa on their way to Elgin, 111., where cows 

 are kept that supply a large part of the milk for Chicago. 



In a tield adjoining the yards there had been a number of cows pastured belonging 

 to the superintendent and other persons in town, and cold or stormy nights they had 

 been put into the sheds of the cattle pens for protection. Never had any of them 

 been sick or in the least affected with disease. Stray cows would also come into the 

 yards and wander around the alleys and pens without becoming infected. 



(Jeo. W. Foote. M. 1)., president of the board of health, said cattle in this section 

 hadbe.en invariably healthy. For the last forty years he had been more or less in- 

 terested in cattle and he could say with perfect certainty that there had been no 

 disease among them. 



Win. Clay said he fed about 12~> head of cattle and had no disease among them, 

 neither had he heard of any in this section. 



I'KORIA, ILL. 



The next place I visited was IVoria, 111., November 26th. At the distillery of Wool- 

 ner Bros. Distilling Company, K. Meyers & Co., of Chicago, are feeding cattle. The 

 present number is 1,300, of which 100 are bulls and the remainder native steers or 

 steers from Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, or Minnesota. The lirst had been put in about 

 six weeks before. The annual loss was stated to be about 1 per cent. The causes nf 

 death being from eating too much (tympanitis), from being choked by the chains, 

 from slipping and breaking a leg, or from Texas fever. I examined the lungs of two 

 that had died recently and found them healthy, as were the cattle in the sheds. The 

 sheds are built in the ordinary manner, with the exception of two which are built in 

 t\\o stories with cattle in the basement. These basements are but <i feet high, which 

 would allow for each only ^0.5 cubic feet space. They are dark, light only entering 

 at each end of the feeding alley and by a few windows on one side next to" the river. 



