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the territory along the line of Harper and Barbour Counties. The cow- 

 boys here reported a loss of 10 out of 500 head of cattle bought from 

 Hink Moore on the loth of September. Last year they lost on this 

 range 50 or CO out of 4,000 with Texas fever. Lost last winter 5 per 

 cent. Hold this year 0,000 head. Mr. Lathau, east of W. E. Camp- 

 bell's, lost 10 out of 500. 



We next came to H. Hale's ranch, 28 miles southwest of Harper, in 

 Barbour County. He holds 300-head of cattle. Tlie disease broke out 

 among his herd about the middle of September. He herds his cattle 

 on an open range. Lost 33 out of 300; 20 recovered. 



Tbe next jdace we stopped was at John Peters' camp. He is located 

 on an open range 6 miles south of Mr. Boyd's. He lost, out of 155 head 

 of grown cattle and 100 calves, 84 grown and 12 calves. Three of the 

 calves were only 2 months old; the other 10 were March calves. One 

 animal died in July; the remainder of the deaths occurred during the 

 first fifteen days in September. After 94 had died, he left the herd and 



went home, stating, so I was told, that they might all go to , he 



was not going to stay any longer to see them die. After a few days he 

 returned, and found 2 more dead; no deaths have occurred since his 

 return to the herd. Let us suppose for a moment that, had he com- 

 menced to exhibit medical treatment at the time he left them, and only 

 2 deaths occurred subsequently, would he not be justified in believing 

 that his treatment had effected the change? 



The Peters cattle were mixed up with the Boyd cattle from the middle 

 of Ai)ril until the 10th of July. A stage road passes across the Peters 

 range, and ox teams frequent this route. From the Peters ranch we 

 drove to Mr. Boyd's and stopped for the night. 



On the mornuig of the 17th Mr. Cochran and I left Mr. Boyd's and 

 went west 3 miles to the residence of David Clough. He gave me the 

 following history: His cattle began to die soon after the 4th of July. 

 He lost 35 head out of 300 during this month; the disease then disap- 

 peared. He sold 60 head of his cattle in August. In the early part of 

 September the disease reappeared and he lost 30 head more out of 205. 

 He wintered 150 head; among these the mortality was the greatest. 

 The wintered cattle intermixed, more or less, with the Boyd cattle from 

 the middle of April until they began to die. Two more deaths reported 

 October 21. Mr. Clough and several of his neighbors made a number 

 of jwst mortem examinations, and he described the appearances of the 

 pathological lesions of southern cattle fever very accurately. Mr. E. 

 C. Davis, 3 miles northwest of Mr. Clough, on the Medicine Lodge stage 

 road, and west of the Illinois colony, states that one of his cows died 

 on the 1st day of July, and that the last death occurred on the 0th in- 

 stant. The first aninial that died had been running with the Boyd herd ; 

 the r«'st of them had been exposed to oxen that Mr. McGuire bought 

 from !>oyd in the spring. Loss (5, and 3 I'ecoveries. 



The next jx'rson we saw was Mr. William (larrison. (Jarrison, Beals, 



