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Teeth, Diseased. — Diseases of the teeth in cattle are 

 hot so common as in horses. However, I have seen cases 

 of a diseased tooth in cows, causing a bony enlargement on 

 the lower jaw, and subsequently a fistulous opening, with 

 discharo-es running: from it. AVhen disease of the roots of 

 the upper teeth takes place, it is accompanied with a bad 

 smellino- discharire from the nostril on the side on which 

 the diseased tooth is. 



Texan Pever. — This is a disease accompanied wuth 

 sympathetic fever, and is not confined to Texas alone; 

 for we see it more or less every year in the Eastern and 

 Middle States, showing itself at the close of the summer 

 months, and to the end of autumn. Texan fever is nothing 

 more than the Fardle Bound of the European writers — 

 impaction of the manyplus with withered and dried grass 

 and herbasre containins; no moisture whatever : the stomach 

 refusing to digest it. Heat, dryness and fever of the sys- 

 tem is thus set up, with all their attendant consequences. 



Much has been said and written about the nature and 

 cause of Texan Fever by nearly all persons who have had 

 an idea upon the subject. The questionable theories pro- 

 mulgated throughout the country in regard to the disease 

 by the Hon. Horace Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture 

 at AVashington, compel us to reiterate the fact that the 

 affection is an impaction of the manyplus. Further than 

 tliis, the bulletins that were issued from, or by authority 

 of, the Agricultural Department, in 1867, concerning the 

 disease, were not only unscientific and unsound, but in 

 themselves contradictory, having no good effect upon those 

 interested In the consumption of beef, and a positive injury 

 to the cause of veterinary science in this country. Instead 

 of a sensible view being taken as to the cause of the disease, 



