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therefore, began late, tbe season was wet, and the Texas fever gave no 

 concern. 



This year, however, hirge herds were collected early in the sjning in 

 Texas, and the lirst car load of cattle left Abilene on the lOth of June. 



The people of the new town and its neighborhood had accuuiulated 

 more live stock than they had last year, and, withont taking the precau- 

 tion Avhieh could readily have been adopted, permitted their cattle to go 

 over the ground traversed by Texans, and black water appeared among 

 them. 



It is evident that, as the property of a very large and important town 

 may be founded on this very traffic, precautionary measures should be 

 adopted for the isolation of the local stock. There can be no difficulty 

 in this ; and, with the exi)erience of 18G7 before us, the system of 

 driving late for the fall markets is calculated to preserve the most 

 promising of all outlets for southern farmers and drovers. There are 

 objections, perhaps, to this plan ; but, since it is impossible for the 

 trade to go on in a reckless and ill-regulated manner, it is for the 

 interest of all that the least objectionable plan, and yet the one most 

 certain to prevent the ravages by disease, should be adopted. 



We are not in a position to recommend any system of quarantine ; 

 but all who intend to further the interests of this trade should remember 

 that during the summer season they cannot, without damaging their 

 business, intermingle southern with northwestern stock. 



The line of demarcation must be distinct; and whereas in some 

 places the local stock nuist be fenced in, in others the Texan steers will 

 have to submit to some crowding, aud conditions which are not the most 

 favorable for so large a trade. 



APPENDIX. 



POST-MORTEM APPEARANCES. 



Observation I, Jnly 30, ISOS.— lied cow ; the property of IMr. A. J. 

 Moore, of Tolono, killed by bleeding. Blood flowed freely, and was of 

 a bright arterial hue. The skin was removed and the respirat(ny organs 

 first examined, and found in a normal state. The peri(!ardium was 

 opened, and its retlected portion was sound. The heart of normal size 

 and consistency, but studded with punctiform extravasations of blood 

 around the apex, on the left auricular ai)pendix. The right cavities 

 were found empty and normal. The left were also em])ty, but there was 

 extensivi^ discoloration of the endocardium over the Heshy i)ill:iis and 

 the sei»tnm. It was of an alternate pur[)le and blood-red tint, and o,i 

 cutting througli the endocardium it was fouyd infiltrated with blood. 

 This infiltration extended in some parts to a sixteenth of an inch in 

 depth beneath the serous membrane. 



