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unless pressure was used, then it oozed out. The liver was consid- 

 erably enlarged and of a brick-red color, its surface being covered 

 with yellow streaks. The gall-bladder was enormously distended 

 and full of dark-green, inspissated gall. The kidneys were some- 

 what tatty, with more or less parenchymatous degeneration, and in 

 the pelvis a yellow, viscid fluid was present, somewhat adherent to 

 the mucosa. The mucous membrane of the bladder I did not see, 

 as it was too much covered up, but the lungs were somewhat con- 

 gested. The flesh was of a bright yellowish red, and the blood was 

 of a bright color, and coagulable. Coverglass specimens from the 

 spleen and liver stained with methyl-violet blue and with Johnis- 

 fuchsin, revealed nothing, and I gave as my diagnosis Southern 

 fever. 



At this ranch I interviewed the foreman, Mr. B. W. Carey, who 

 said: 



We have lost in all 21 head. We shipped cattle from the Penasquitos ranch on 

 the coast to San Bernardino by car, in April, 1888. These cattle remained there 

 three mouths. In July, 1888, we re-shipped them with others "back to the Penas- 

 quitos ranch, and in about two weeks after their arrival two deaths occurred, and 

 we started the cattle next day for the Cuyamaca ranch, driving them by way of 

 Poway and El Cajon, and on arrival at Cuyamaca 3 died the same night. We then 

 had no death for a few days, when 2 more died. They all exhibited the same symp- 

 toms. Mr. Shutton's cattle commenced to die after Governor Waterman's passed 

 through. Mr. Shutton then shipped the remainder to San Diego and they were 

 slaughtered. 



I must here refer you back to my interview with Mr. Hardy, at 

 San Diego. Mr. Hardy shipped cattle to El Cajon in April and 

 May, 1888, and they began to die in August, 1888. Governor Water- 

 man's cattle having gone through at the end of July or beginning 

 of August, on their way to Cuyamaca, it would appear that the gov- 

 ernor's cattle may have infected both these herds, as the two cattle 

 which Mr. Hardy slaughtered at San Diego, and which he believed 

 to be affected with Southern fever, were taken from the remainder 

 of Mr. Shutton's herd, which Mr. Hardy purchased from Mr. Shut- 

 ton. In connection with Governor Waterman's cattle I must state 

 that yearly deaths take place at the Penasquitos ranch. It is, how- 

 ever, a curious fact that none of the cattle shipped to San Bernar- 

 dino from Penasquitos died, but that the deaths took place two weeks 

 after their return with other cattle to Penasquitos, which the gov- 

 ernor's son informed me came from their San Bernardino dairy. It 

 is a well-known fact that deaths have occurred close to Colton (which 

 is 2 miles from San Bernardino), from Southern fever, and it may 

 be that Governor Waterman's cattle crossed a trail and became in- 

 fected, or became infected from the cars on their return to Penas- 

 quitos, but these being native cattle could not infect Hardy's and 

 Shutton's herds unless some Southern cattle were mixed in the herd, 

 It is also a fact that, the bull that died at Cuyamaca ranch was raised 

 on that ranch, and that there were no deaths there unt'l the arrival 

 of the herd from Penasquitos. I am informed that the original 

 stock of those two ranches was brought in by Colonel Taylor from 

 Springer, N". Mex. , Iowa, and Kansas. 



I also examined the remainder of the herd at Cuyamaca, and they 

 appeared healthy, with the exception of one Hereford cow. It was 

 very much emaciated, and I informed Mr. Waterman, after exami- 

 nation, that in my opinion it was a case of tuberculosis, and advised 

 him to destroy her, which he did, and the post-mortem confirmed the 

 diagnosis. 



