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106° F. She was lying down. I made her get up; her gait ai)i)eared 

 very stiff and painful, and as she slowly moved away she voided bloody- 

 colored urine. She eats and ruminates. I examined another cow which 

 liad been sick for ten days; pulse Gi), temperature 104^' F; very thin 

 in tlesh ; eats and ruminates. October 24 saw Mr. Wood in town ; he 

 stated that both the cows which I examined were alive and gaining in 

 strength and health. 



From Mr. \Vood's place we proceeded to ]\Ir, Jesse Boyd's, in Barbour 

 County. Here we remained over night. During the evening and the 

 followiug morning I received the following information from Mr. Boyd 

 and Mr. Cochran, viz: Mr. Martin Cochran, of Harper, spent nearly all 

 winter at Judsonia, on Red River, White County, Arkansas. Mr. Coch- 

 lan bought 342 head of cattle in this county, most of them being in a 

 \ er^' ])()()r condition.. attribute<l to cold weather and insufficient feed. 

 One hundred of this number were bought 12 miles north of Searcy. 

 Mr. Cochran collected 242 head and drove them to Judsonia on or about 

 tlie 24th day of March. Mr. Jesse Boyd came to White County, Ar- 

 kansas, about the 1st day of February. He bought 228 head of cattle 

 in this county, brought them to Judsonia, and there he and Mr. Cochran 

 pooled their cattle, the combined herd then numbering 470 head. Tiiey 

 drove them 55 miles to Conway, a railroad station, adding at Searcy 100 

 head more (those which Mr. Cochran bought 12 miles north of Searcy). 

 They shipped at Conway, on the 1st day of April, the whole number of 

 the combined herd (570) and unloaded at Harper, Har[)er County, Kan- 

 sas, on the 5th. About 50 of them died on the cars before they ar- 

 1 ived at Harper ; got down in the cars and were trampled to death. At 

 Harper these cattle (520) were kept for three or four days, ranging north 

 i)f the railroad track and tra^'eling over a space of 2 miles, the range 

 extending northeast to Sisson's Grove and to a small creek where they 

 had to go to water. At night they were yarded at the stock-yards. 



Twenty of theni being disabled were watered in the yards and fed 

 on corn, cane, and millet-hay for a week or longer. On the 9th of April 

 Mr. Boyd drove 500 head of them from the stock-yards, in a south- 

 western course, to the edge of town, passed I. J. Campbell's held, thence 

 west 1 mile, then southwest 1 mile, west again 8 miles, crossing L. M. 

 Pratt's range one-half mile north of /^,is residence, then came on the road 

 at the school-house on Bluff Creek, thence along the main road as far as 

 Richard Botkin's place, beyond whose })lace they encamped one night. 

 From there the^' left the road to the south of the trail, but came back 

 to the road again at W. E. Kline's. From Kline's they i)assed in a 

 southwesterly direction to the I^Tine Cottonwoods Creek, east of Mr. 

 (lardnei's; here they stopped the second night. From this place they 

 l)assed due west iintd they reached Boyd's range, on the Little Sandy 

 Creek, 4 miles across the Harper and Barbour County line. From Boyd's 

 range 102 head of these cattle drifted away and were gathered in again 

 in the roiindupin June and July. They went south to the line of the 

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