228 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



of July. During' the month of September he lost 3. Last winter he 

 lost in Kingman County 42 head out of his herd of 300. The best cat- 

 tle in the herd appeared to be the most susceptible. His cattle were 

 fed on corn in the latter part of the winter. James Wilson, 8 miles 

 south of Medicine Lodge, stated that he gathered one bull at the county 

 round-up which died. 



Two other animals died subsequently, and he does not know where 

 these were exposed, except to the bull. Lost last winter 6 per cent. 

 Mr. Hamlin, neighbor to Wilson, lost out of 3 head gathered on the Boyd 

 range, one bull. Mr. B. D. Keyes, on Elm River, 18 miles northwest 

 of Medicine Lodge, reported a loss of 40 head out of 500 last winter. 

 He fed millet, hay, and corn. They were sick from two days to two 

 weeks. Some got lame, and would then lie down nearly all the time; 

 most of them ate well until they died. One cow ate two quarts of soaked 

 corn, then dropped over dead. He further stated that this trouble was 

 almost universal in that part of the county. After skinning the dead 

 cattle he found intiltrations of bloody water under the shoulder blade 

 and foreleg. Mr. B. T. Shields, a neighbor to Keyes, lost this summer 

 16 out of 225 head. 



On October 28th we left Medicine Lodge and drove west toward Lake 

 City ; the first place at which we stO|>ped was Henry Morehead's, 3 

 miles west of Medicine Lodge. He told me that he had 144 head of 

 cattle in a herd, under the care of P. B. Cole, on Antelope Flat, north- 

 west and north of the Illinois colony. Also, that his neighbor, Mr. 

 Updegraf, had 00 or 70 head in the same herd ; neither of them had 

 suffered any losses. The next place on our way to Lake City at which 

 we stopped was Mr. Sanderson's, who lives on the north side of the 

 Medicine River, 8 miles west of Medicine Lodge. He lost 3 head of 

 cattle out of 40 in this month. Cause of death, or manner of infection, 

 not known. He told me that Mr. Robert Ingram, on Cedar Creek, 7 

 miles west of Medicine Lodge, lost 6 out of 50 head during this month. 

 Manner of exposure not known. We then proceeded to Lake City, 

 which is 18 miles northwest of Medicine Lodge, and from there we 

 drove 2 miles north, to Mr. W. F. Gordon's ranch. Mr. Gordon holds 

 400 head of cattle on a 7,000-acre fenced range. This range is supplied 

 with water from several clear-water springs, all of which head within 

 the inclosed range. Mr. Gordon lost 35 head of cattle. The first one 

 died on or about the 25th of September, and the last one on the 25th 

 instant. Ten or 12 that were sick recovered. Mr. Gordon knows of no 

 way in which his cattle were exposed, only that once or twice the gate 

 at the north end of the field was left open by ])ers()ns passing through, 

 and a few of his cattle got out, but were always returned within a few 

 hours. One hundred and eighty-nine head of these cattle were bought 

 from Reuben Lake, of Lake City, on tlie 1st of July. They were Ar- 

 kansas cattle, wintered by Mr. Lake in a fenced field adjoining that ot 

 Mr; Gordon. The balance of Gordon's cattle, 212 head, were double 



•^ 



