242 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



them into a field with 14 head of other cattle. None died but those ex- 

 posed on the Robeson range. Loss, 3 out of 6 ; value, $100 ; ti recov- 

 eries, 



Mossman Bros, reside 8 miles northwest of El Dorado. History by 

 Henry Mossman : On the 6th day of May 18 head of cows and calves 

 were taken into the Eobeson herd, and remained until the 25th of July. 

 They were then sold to Bearsley & McAnaly. Twenty three head of 

 steers were placed into tliissame herd on the 25th of July, and 17 cows 

 on the 2 1st of September. On the 23d of September the steers and 

 cows were taken home. One of the steers was sick on the day he was 

 removed from the herd, and died on the day following ; 6 more died 

 in the course of three weeks, and 4 that were sick recovered. Of the 

 17 cows which remained in the herd only 2 days, 4 sickened, and 2 of 

 them died — the first one on the 10th of October, the other one a few 

 days later. The medication resorted to consisted in giving one gallon 

 of melted lard at a single dose. In three cases this dose was repeated,^ 

 and in a fourth one an addition of ten dro^is of croton oil was given. 

 Outi of the 4 so treated 1 died. None that recovered had been seen to 

 pass bloody urine, but in a few the manure was covered with coatings of 

 mucus and blood clots. Mossman Brothers made two post mortem ex- 

 aminations, which revealed tbe following pathological conditions : Blood 

 was contained in the bladder; in one blood extravasations were found 

 in the region of the kidneys; also on the surface of the body, extending 

 along the spine for a space of 18 inches. This one died twenty-four 

 hours after the first evidence of sickness was discovered. The spleens 

 were greatly enlarged ; livers appeared about natural. The contents of 

 the third stomach were normal in one case ; in the other they were dry. 

 Loss, 7 out of 23 steers, valued at $315, and 2 cows out of 17, valued at 

 $G0 ; 6 recoveries. 



1 tested the temperature of 4 of the animals that had been sick, which 

 registered as follows: 103.2^, 103°, 102.6°, 102°; of one which had not 

 been sick, 102,2° F. These cattle are all looking well, and are fatten- 

 ing rapidly, Tliey are confined in a straw yard, and get all the corn 

 they can eat. Tbe hogs at Mossman's ate one of the dead cattle: ten 

 days thereafter 4 of them were noticed to be sick; 3 recovered in about 

 ten days; 1 died in five or six days. The owe that died had a fit of 

 apoplexy two months previous, and had never entirely recovered from 

 the effects of it; was subject to involuntary discharge of feces and 

 urine, and had an imperfect control over its movements, Matthew 

 Kobeson, a herder of cattle residing in El Dorado, made the following 

 statement to me: That he has held a range for fonr snccessive years, 

 extending from the corporate limits of the city of El Dorado 5 miles 

 northwest, by 2 or 3 miles wide; that he has been herding cattle be- 

 longing to himself and to other parties on this range this season, be- 

 ginning to take them in on the 17th day of April. The first death 

 among his herd occurred on the 10th day of September — a cow owned 



