2 1 S CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



he stated that the sick cattle whicli \ had seen at his phice were grad- 

 ually recovering. Mr. McGuire, in the colony, lost out of GO head of 

 cattle. Mr. McGuire bought two yoke of the Arkansas cattle from Mr. 

 Boyd in the spring. 



From Moore's we drove to K. F, Kemp's })lace, 4 miles sonth, and 

 west of the Cedar Hill. He made rlie following statement: Out of 108 

 head of cattle, 05 got away in August and ranged over the same ground 

 that Boyd's cattle had been grazing on ; they remained from the even- 

 ing until next morning; twenty days after this exi)osure they began 

 to die ; 10 were found sick in one day ; they died in from six hours to 

 ten days after they were taken sick ; 15 died and 15 recovered. He 

 knows of 4 that died which had been on the infected ground. One calf 

 died, and 1 calf that was sick recovered. He brought his cattle from 

 10 miles east of Harper, on the 27th day of March ; close-herded them 

 all summer. Some of the Boyd cattle came over on his range in June 

 and July. Every one found dead was lying Hat on the side. When they 

 got sick they quit eating. 



From Kemp's we returned to Boyd's and remained overnight. Next 

 morning, October 18, I took the temperature of the quarantined cat- 

 tle as recorded in the early part of this report. We then went south to 

 the ranch of Mr. W. E. Mattox. We were there told that he lost 7 out 

 of 125 head of cattle. He brought his cattle on tije range in thesY)ring, 

 and they were frequently among the Boyd herd in the early part of the 

 sununer. AH of the deaths took place during the month of July. 



From this place we turned and went north of Mr. Boyd's, 2 miles, to 

 see Mr. James Roberts. He lost 1 cow on the 6th, after a sickness of 

 five days ; no others were taken sick. His cattle have been on the Boyd 

 range several times during the summer. Mr. Keeder, who lives .'3 miles 

 east of Boyd's, held 27 head of cattle ; 3 of them died during the 

 month of July. Next we stopped at Mr. Crawford's, 2 miles west of 

 Inyo post-oftice. They close-herded 80 head of cattle near home ; lost 

 none. They are on a road leading west toward the colony and north to 

 Dr. Wisner's. Crawford, jr., reports having seen a herd of cattle pass- 

 ing between their house and that of Mr. Dougherty, half mile north, 

 early in the season. Tliey were going west. 



We then drove to Dr. Henry Wisner's residence, 5 miles northwest 

 of Inyo post-oftice, in Barbour County. Dr. Wisner was not at home, 

 so I applied to Mrs. Wisner for inforuiation. I found Mrs. Wisner to 

 be a regular M. D. ; more than that, she took as much interest in the 

 welfare of their stock as her husband did. She superintended a post- 

 mortem examination of a bull that died about a week previous, and 

 described the pathological lesions as follows: She found considerable 

 enlargement and engorgement of the radicles and blood-vessels of the 

 liver; the gall-bladder was distended, with a greenish-black bile; spleen 

 very hypericmic; ec(;hymosis fouml throughout the peritoneal sac; 

 urine bladder filled with a highly bloody-colored urine — a deep wine 



