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of the giandular structure ; the external surface preseuted uumerous 

 ecchvmosert si)0is, and a purple and gray-mottled appearance. The 

 liver weighed 15 pounds, and possessed a spongy feel to the touch ; 

 was darker in color than normal, and manifested fatty degeneration. 

 The gall bladder contained 30 ounces of thick, granular appearing bile, 

 of a greenish-brown color. The third stomach presented nothing abnor- 

 mal, but the fourth presented the characteristic redness and erosions, 

 exposing the vascular membrane, indicative of southern cattle fever. 

 Surrounding the kidneys was discovered a yellowish gelatinous infiltra- 

 tion. The kidneys were darker than normal, and contained bloody- 

 colored urine in the ducts and tubuli. The uterns contained a six- 

 weeks' old fetus ; this organ presented no marked lesions. The urine 

 bladder was disteiuled with 2 gallons of a dark, almost brown, colored 

 urine; specific gravity 1.012. The blood in the blood vessels was not 

 so thin as is usual in such cases, but was deficient in quantity. Mr. 

 Hard wick bought these two cows, together with 48 other cattle, on or 

 about the l''th instant, from Mr. Bailey, who lives 2 or 3 miles north- 

 west of town. The 48 head were taken down into the Indian Territory 

 on the 16th — the same day the two cows were placed into the Forrey 

 field. All of these cattle crossed several cattle trails before they reached 

 the Forrey pasture. This day I saw Mr. L. C. Bidwell, of Anthony. 

 He owns 2,000 head of cattle, which are pastured in an inclosed field 

 containing 12,000 acres, located in the Indian Territory, along the 

 south line of Harper County. 



He stated that cattle had been dying all around his pasture, but that 

 he did not lose a single one. Mr. J. W. Walcott, of Harper, kept 11 

 cows from which he supplied milk to the citizens of Harper. He herded 

 them north of the railroad track. The first loss occurred on the 4th 

 day of July, after six days' sickness 5 10 head died before the 1st of 

 August. The remaining one was sick three or four days, then began 

 to improve, and in a week was again apparently well. Mr. R. J. Jones 

 picketed his cow north of the railroad track for the space of a week in 

 the early part of July ; no sickness followed. He has owned the cow 

 for four years. John Elrod, of Harper, owned 8 head of work oxen, all 

 of them wintered cattle. One of them was a Texan, eight or ten years 

 old, and had been owned in the county several years. These cattle 

 were pastured north of the railroad at Harper for a month before any 

 disease appeared among any of the cattle in or around Harper. In the 

 month of October 4 out of the 8 oxen died, the old Texan being the last 

 one to succumb to the disease. 



On Xovember 1 we drove to Anthony, 9 miles south of Har[)er, prin- 

 cipally for the purpose of seeing Mr. Anient, who sutfered such a heavy 

 loss on the Hulitt range ; but we failed to find him at home. Here I 

 made inquiries relating to disease among cattle, and was told no cattle 

 in that immediate locality died this year. ]\Ir. Northup, a prominent 

 cattle man of Anthony, told me that nearly all the domestic cows along 



