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old steer, U)2^; six-year old cow, 102.8"^; two-year old steer, 102.4°; two- 

 year old steer, 102.8°; three-year old heifer, 102.6°; three-year old steer, 

 102. (!°; ten-year old cow, 103.1°; six-year old cow, 103.2° ; two months 

 old calf of the latter, 104,9° ; one lame cow, a stray, ox yoke brand, 

 which has been lyin*; aronnd with these cattle since the Jnly round-np, 

 indicated a temperatnre of 103.7° F. 



These cattle did not appear wild and undomesticated, and stood very 

 kindly under my examination. Here I wish to mention a word about 

 the July round up. In the latter part of June or the first of July about 

 2,000 head of cattle were brought to and centered upon Boyd's range in 

 the round-up ; nearly all of the neighbors of Mr. Boyd, and many others, 

 came to this place and cut out their own cattle. Some of the strange 

 cattle remained several days on the Boy<l range. If any cattle were 

 in this herd that carried the germs of the Southern cattle fever, it fel- 

 lows that all the cattle in this round up were equally exposed, or nearly 

 so. In this herd of 2,000 were about 10 head of stray cattle, for which 

 no owners ai)i)eared, and it is not huown to-day where they belong, nor 

 from where they originally came. Again, Mr. R. B. McGee, secretary 

 of the Cedar Hills and Sand Creek Pool, gave me the names ot the 

 membership of said pool, as follows: McGee and Lovett, Jesse Boyd, 

 M. B. Moore, William Garrison, Mr. Hufacker, Mr. Beals, David Clough, 

 Perry Clough, John McKeever, John Elmore, Hink, Moore, Munger 

 Brothers, J. H. Warren, E. C. Davis, Mr. Holmes, M. McGuire, and 

 Mr. Cross. All, or nearly all of these parties, had a greater or less 

 number of cattle in this pool during the winter or spring, where they 

 remained until about the 1st of July. If any of the ground over which 

 these cattle passed was capable of imi)arting the Southern cnttle fever, 

 or, if any cattle were in this herd carrying the germs of this disease and 

 discharging them, then all of the cattle in the herd were exposed to such 

 grounds or cattle. On Monday, October 15, Mr. Boyd and Mr. Cochran 

 accompanied me to Mr. John Elmore's ranch, located on range 1 oand 16, 

 T. 33, R. 10 W., Barbour County, or four miles southwest of Boyd's 

 range. Mr. Elmore stated that lie held on his range 210 head of grown 

 cattle and 40 calves, all wintered cattle exce[)t 38 head, whii-li were 

 brought in from Atchison County, Missouri, in the spring. Mr. Elmore's 

 cattle began to die on the 1st day of July ; 13 head died in two weeks; 

 the disease then checked up but broke out again about the 1st of Sep- 

 tember. During this month 143 died, including 3 or 4 spring cialves. 

 Out of the 38 head brought from Missouri, 15 died. He states tiiat he 

 <loes not know of his cattle being exposed to any through cattle, or other 

 diseased cattle, except the Boyd herd. Several of his cattle drifted away 

 ill the spring and were gathered in the round-iq); one of them was 

 gathered in the Territory round-up some fifty miles south of the line. 



Last year Arkansas and indian cattle were held on this range by 

 Munger ]3rothers. Late in the fall Mr. Klmore brought 362 iiead of cat- 

 tle irom Xortheastern Kansas and Northwestern Missouri and placed 



