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Dresenting au unhealthy iuterual surface; in one of the animals one of the horns be- 

 came loose before death. 



Loss, 11 out of 18; value, $277; 3 recoveries. 



Joseph Sharp, living- in El Dorado, said tliat he hart 3 cows with their 

 calves, aurt 2 weanert calves iu Mr. liobesou's rtry herrt; they were put 

 iu on the 12th of May, and removed on the 25th of September. One of 

 them manifested signs of sickness on the evening when she was taken 

 home, and in a week thereafter she died. This cow seemed to suffer 

 more pain during the middle of the daj"^ than in the morning or evening. 

 At the lime the first one died, two others were found to be sick ; they 

 both died ; the last death took place on the 5th of October. Three of 

 the calves were sick, but recovered. Loss, 3 out of G; value, $125. 

 Postmortem examinations of 2 of the cows were made by Mr. Sharp 

 He found the bladder distended with a brownish-red urine, spleen twice 

 or three titnes the normal size and very dark colored on the surface. 

 In one of them, which had been purged by feeding corn and millet, the 

 contents of the third stomach were found soft, in the other, the contents 

 were hard and dry, " could be shaved down into chips," and the folds 

 black and rotten. The blood in all 3 of them that died was too thick. 

 Only 1 of these cattle passed blood with the feces. 



Mrs. Smith lost one heifer in the Eobeson herd on the 22d of Septem- 

 ber; another one, which she took home on the 25th, died on the 2<Sth. 

 She had only 2 head of cattle in the herd— value, $G0. On the 23d 

 of September Mr. Eobeson called upon S. P. Barnes, a butcher in El 

 Dorado, to make examination of 2 head of cattle that died in the 

 herd. Mr. Barnes gave the following statement : 



I found one cow had been purging, and iu this the contents of the third stomach 

 ■were natural; the second cow had been constipated, and in her I found the contents 

 of the tliird stomach harder and drier than natural. The livers and kidneys iu both 

 animals appeared pale and faded in color, as if the coloring matter luid been removed. 



In one I found the urine bladder was empty ; in the, other it was filled with I)loody- 

 colored urine; in the latter the iuside of the bladder seemed hard and tanned, and 

 almost black in color. The spleens were three times as large as uatural, but the liv- 

 ers were not enlarged. One of the animals — a three-year-old cow — was not quite dead 

 when I arrived at the place where she hiy. I cut her throat, but hardly any blood 

 escaped; the small amount which liowed was too thin and watery. The cow that I 

 found dead, also, was almost d^titute of blood. The tallow in both these cows was 

 much too yellow, and I found this same yellow condition of the tallow in 8 or 10 other 

 cattle which died afterward on the same range with the same disease. The meat of 

 these cattle was light colored, like veal, and a disagreeable odor was present iu all 

 of the animals, dead and living. I never before saw any cattle sick with or die of 

 Texas fever, but the moment I saw these I was satisfied that they died with that 

 disease. 



E. B. Cook, residing 7 miles northwest of El Dorado, stated that he 

 placed G head of cattle — all cows and heifers — in the dry herd of Mr. 

 Robeson on the Gth day of May, and took them away on the 23d of 

 September. One of them died on the 27th, another on the 30lh, and a 

 third one on the 4th day of October. Two of them passed bloody urine. 

 Two that were sick recovered. When he took them home he placed 

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