CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



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Dat^- of I 

 reception. 



Owners. 



M-^y 



July 

 Aug. 



23 



Mr. Pascal 



Mr. Car])enter 



Mo.ssmau Bros 



E. B. Cook 



M. Kobesou 



Mr. Jones 



Mr. McAnaly 



Mr. Stilcr ..■. 



Josexth Sharp 



Mr. Mclutyre 



Mr. Glaze ~. 



Mr. Sappington 



Beartlsly & McAnaly. 



Number 

 received. 



June 9 I Lsaac Kins 



9 

 July 20 

 May 6 



6 

 July 25 

 Sept. 21 



Beardsly & McAnaly. 



Davis & Connelly 



Mr. Tuttle '. 



Mr.s. Smith 



Mossiuan Bros 



do 



Milk herd 



1 

 5 



18 

 6 

 3 

 3 

 2 

 1 

 6 

 1 

 3 

 1 

 100 



3 



75 



3 



2 



23 



17 



124 



Number | Number 

 died. ' recovered. 



Value. 



, When re- 

 moved. 



$40 



ioo 



Total 



n 



(*) 



(*) 



40 



115 

 60 



315 

 60 



325 



Sept. 23 

 . . . do . . . 



July 25. 



Sept. 23. 



...do ... 

 ...do ... 

 ...do ... 

 ....do ... 



Sept. 25. 



Sept. 23. 

 . . . . do . . . 

 ...do ... 



Aug. 27. 



Aug. and 



Nov. 10. 



Sept. 24. 

 (*) 



Sept. 23. 



do ... 



....do ... 



2,237 



* Were removed in small lots, September 28. 



The milk herd coiitained exclusively milch cows from town, but were 

 herded on the same range with the dry herd, although the two herds 

 were kept separated for convenience. Mr. N. Rittenhouse herded 300 

 head of cattle north of the Robeson range, but he came no nearer than 

 1 mile to the range of the latter ; neither have the cattle in the care of 

 Mr. Rittenhouse crossed any of the trails of the Robeson cattle or been 

 exposed to them or any other cattle in any manner whatsoever. They 

 have been supplied with water from Walnut Creek, and have grazed 

 over the same character of soil and grasses as have the cattle of Robe- 

 son's. Rittenhouse has not lost a single animal out of his herd during 

 the whole grazing season. 



In view of all the facts and the circumstances, as they appear to me, 

 I am compelled to attribute the appearance of Southern cattle fever at 

 El Dorado to the importation of Southern cattle by Mr. Connelly. 



APPEARANCE OF DISEASE THREE DAYS AFTER EXPOSURE. 



On my way to Harper, in October, I met Mr. E. F. Osborn, of Mul- 

 vane, Sedgwick County, Kansas, who related to me his experience 

 with southern cattle fever, viz : 



Oil or about the 1st of October, 18G9, \my partner and I started from Saliiia with 

 240 head of high grade native cattle, bred by ourselves. We drove south 80 miles to 

 Sedgwick City; then we cro.ssed the through cattle trail, driving our cattle as fast 

 as X'ossible. We then drove 20 miles farther south and ^topped for winter feeding. 

 On the third day after crossing we found one high-grade cow sick ; on the 5th she 

 died, and a hundred more were sick; in ten days after the disease first appeared 200 o f 

 the 240 were dead. We then drove the remaining 40 head into the Arkansas River, 

 and left them standing there in the wat^r. Some of them were so sick that when 

 they first went into the river they could hardly keep on their feet. Many of them re- 

 mained there from seven to ten or twelve days ; could not be driven away from the 

 water ; but they all recovered. These 40 head were the poorest in the whole herd of 

 240 when we started with them. Before we left Salina we had a hard frost, and dur- 



