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soon rot off. The disease sometimes extends to the knees. Over a liundred animals 

 have been attacked in a few days. Great consternation among the cattle owners. 

 Can your De[)artuient send here a competent veterinary snrgeon ? No one here can 

 advise what to do. 



G. W. GLICK, Governor of Kansas. 



Two days later the following dispatch was received : 



ToPEKA, Kans., March 5, 1884. 

 Hon. Geo. B. Loring, 



Comviissioner of Agriculture : 

 Veterinary surgeon reports disease of which I advised yon tobefoot-aud-month dis. 

 ease. 



G. W. GLICK, Gorerrior of Kansas. 



Ou the receipt of this dispatch, and similar representations by the 

 Senators from Kansas, Dr. M. R. Trambower, a veterinarian whose pre- 

 vious reports of various diseases had leil us to put great confidence, in 

 bis knowledge and judgment, was directed to proceed at once to Neosho 

 Falls, and make an early report in regard to the nature of the disease 

 among cattle which was said to exist at that i)lace. He started on the 

 6th, but could not reach the aftected farms until the 9th of March. 



In the mean time, at tht- request of the governor. General Augur de- 

 tailed Dr. Holcombe, of the arjiy veterinary service, to make an im- 

 mediate investig tion. In company with the governor, the secretary 

 of tilt' State Board of Agriculture, and a delegation of citizens from 

 Emporia, Dr. Holcombe reached Neosho Falls March 6, and after a hur- 

 ried examination of the Keith, G-oodrich, and Bearl herds he rei)orted 

 that the disease was the genuine epizootic aphtha of Europe. The fol- 

 lowing dispatch was received at the Department of Agriculture the 

 same day : 



Neosho Falls, Kans, March 6. 

 Hon. Geo. B. Lohixg, 



Commissioner of AgricuJture : 

 Veterinary surgeons A. A. Holcomb and A. H. Wilhite have to-day made an exami- 

 nation of the infected cattle, and pronounce it foot-and-mouth disease. Over 100 

 Lead are affected, but the disease is contined to stock cattle on a half dozen farms. 



G. W. GLICK, Governor of Kansas. 



When Dr. Trumbower reach d Neosho Falls, he found an excited 

 throng of people who urged upon him the necessity of making an im- 

 mediate diagnosis, and relying rather upon the represent itions of others, 

 which in many important respects i)roved to be incorrect, than upon 

 what he was actually able to see, and a careful judgment bas -d upon 

 this alone, he was led to concur in tlu' opinion of the professional gen- 

 tlemen who had been upon the ground for the i)reciHling three or four 

 days. 



On Mar(;h 10, Dr. Holcombe made his formal report to the governor, 

 in which occurred the following sentence: 



That it is (oot-and-niouth disease cannot l)e di)ul)ti(Ml whtMi the symptoms are cou- 

 sider«Ml ; for to recai)itulat(», the various cases sliow vesicles and ulcers of the mouth ; 

 A'esidesand ulcersiii thecleft ofthe hoof; suppuration and sloughing atthefoot ; ulcers 



