98 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



After my arrival I called upon Dr. A. Bassett, mayor of the city. He 

 told me that Mr. W. B. Collinsworth, residing 14 miles west, reported 

 to him that he had a cow which appeared very stiff and lame, and that 

 she had sores on tbe tongue. I drove out early in the morning of the 

 15th and examined the cow belonging to Mr. Collinsworth, and' found 

 her to be recovering from a mild attack of puerperal apoplexy. I re- 

 urned to Xeosho Falls on the same day. On the 17th I went to Hall's 

 Summit, Coffey County, at the request of the county commissioner of 

 that district. I was directedto visittheresidenceof Mr. George E. Smith, 

 who had a cow which had lost some of her feet. I found the cow pre- 

 senting the following conditions : The left forefoot had come off at the 

 joint within the hoof, the left hind leg had broken off half way between 

 the fetlock and hock joint carrying the lower end of the metatarsal bone 

 •with it ,and the right hind leg was coming off at the same place. The 

 right horn had also broken off close to the head. The cow was re- 

 duced to a mere skeleton, and was suckling a calf. Mr. Smith gave the 

 following history: 



On New Year's night the cow became cast by being tangled up in the 

 rope with which she was tied; she was found by him in the morning j 

 was loosened, when she got up and walked away. She ate and drank as 

 usual. About a month afterwards she began to show lameness in her 

 hind limbs ; frothed a little at the mouth, and did not eat well. She 

 gave birth to a calf on the last daj^ of February. This cow was bought 

 just before the holidays, and at about the same time he bought another 

 cow. This second cow had a calf one day later than the diseased one. 

 Both cows and calves have been kept in the same yard and on the same 

 kind of feed, but only the one developed the disease. They were fed on 

 choj) feed and wild hay. 



I returned again to Neosho Falls on the 18th. ' On the 19th, in company 

 with Professor Stalker, I visited the Keith and Goodrich herds. On the 

 20th, in company with Dr. D.E. Salmon, of yonr Department, Dr. Stalker, 

 Dr. G. C. Faville, of Colorado, and Dr. E. T. Haggard, of Lexington, Ky., 

 I visited again the three affected herds, and also a fourth one owned 

 by Christian Pribbernow, on Owl Creek, 12 miles south of Neosbo Falls, 

 Woodson County. Mr. Pribbernow owns 183 head of cattle, 54 of which 

 are yearlings, 24 two-year-old steers, 15 three-j-car-old steers, 13 

 heifers with calf, the remainder cows and calves. At this place we 

 found 16 affected, the symptoms and lesions being similar to those of 

 the Keith and the Goodrich cattle. Seven of them will lose one or more 

 feet, and the other 9 manifest lameness. Two or 3 which were slightly 

 lame have recovered. 



Mr. Pribbernow stated that the disease made its first api)earance on 

 the 15tli of February, when several of the older cattle Avere noticed to 

 be lame ; soon thereafter swelling of the hind feet and extreme lameness 

 appeared, rendering them unwilling to walk. He then placed 7 of 

 the worst cases into a small yard by themselves. This yard was 



