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to his place, and found her manifesting the following train of symptons: 

 Found her lying on the sternum, head well poised; horns warm; nose 

 dry ; a dull and drowsy appearance of tlie eyes ; sensible to the flies ; 

 pulse depressed ; respiration 22 ; temperature 104° F. ; passage of ma- 

 nure slightly covered with mucus, and of a firmer (;onsisteucy than it 

 should be. I learned that this cow had been turned out to graze with 

 the other cattle on the 20th, and as she had been kei)t up on drj^ feed 

 for the past three mouths I concluded that she had overcharged herself 

 with food to which she was not accustomed, and that this was the cause | 

 of her disability. On the 30th she would neither eat nor drink, but was 

 disposed to lie down all the time. When I saw her on the morning of 

 the 31st, she drank half a pail of water, and ate a few ears of corn; 

 therefore I concluded that she must be improving ; that she was better 

 the day I saw her than on the day previous. On the 3d of November 

 I again saw Hilliard, in Harper ; he reported that the cow had recovered 

 her health. f 



From Hilliard's we went to Matt. Miller's, 5 miles northwest of Har- * 

 per. He stated that in the month of July Hugh McClung brought from 

 north of Little Rock, Ark., 65 head of cattle ; that he bought 35 head of 

 these cattle from McClung, and placed them with 40 head of his domes- 

 tic cattle on the same range ; he lost head, while McClung, who held 

 the remaining 30 head on a range of Mr. Matthews, lost none. His cat- 

 tle died during the first and second week of September, after a sickness 

 of from two to five days. Miller sold 30 head of his cattle on the 10th 

 of September. 



Messrs. Got and Weaver, of Springfield, Mo., brought into Harper on ^ 

 the 24th of June, 200 head of cattle from Missouri. They drove them 

 out 3 miles northwest, and had them herded on the Matthews range. 

 About the 20th of July deaths among this herd began to occur, and they 

 lost 24 head of their cattle in rapid succession. 



October 26, we left Harper for Medicine Lodge, Barbour County, a 

 distance of 35 miles. We arrived toward evening. I saw several cat- 

 tle-men in town ; made the usual inquiries, and was told that many cat- 

 tle died during this season all over the county ; but, when I endeavored 

 to obtain a more definite account as to who the suffering parties were, 

 and the extent of their losses, I could get but little reliable information. 

 I concluded to remain in town over Saturday the 27th, and endeavor 

 to get a more definite history of the outbreak in this part of the county. 

 In the evening I was introduced to Mr. Ebersole, who lives 7 miles 

 west of Medicine Lodge. He told me that on a range next to him 10 

 had died out of 700 head during the month of September, but that he, 

 himself, had not lost an.y out of the 50 head which he owned. I also 

 met Mr. Springer, who lives 5 miles southeast of Mediciuc Lodge. He 

 lost 4 out of 420 head this summer, and 125 out of a herd of 500 last 

 winter. Mr. Springer ulso stated that his neighbor, Mr. Bulliugton, lost 

 12 out of 100 head this season. 



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