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the coast. These shipments were made the last of May, 1894. So far 

 as known, no harm resulted from the first two shipments, although Mr. 

 Bell informed me that his ranch near Los Oligos was infested with some 

 kind of ticks that got onto cattle, horses, deer, and rabbits. It is sup- 

 posed that from the other shipment (Santa Anita ranch) Texas fever 

 developed near Bazaar, Kansas, which resulted in considerable loss. A 

 portion of the cattle in this shipment came from the Foxon or Bell to the 

 Santa Anita or Hollister ranch, about February 1, 1894. The remainder 

 came from Tucson, Arizona, to the Santa Anita ranch in March, 1894. 

 Up to the time of the shipment of this trainload to Kansas about one 

 hundred head of cattle thus introduced had died, but none of the origins 1 

 herd on this ranch had been sick. From the symptoms of those that 

 were sick, and post mortem examinations of those that died, as explained 

 by Mr. Hollister, no doubt remains in my mind that the disease was 

 Texas fever, and that those that were shipped to Kansas infected the 

 country in and around Bazaar. 



"The ticks sent you, inclosed in a redwood box, came from the Santa 

 Anita or Hollister ranch, where the cattle in the last Hooker shipment 

 came from. I regret exceedingly that, owing to the lateness of the season 

 and the cold, rainy weather, I was unable, after leaving Santa Barbara 

 on my trip up the coast to Niles, then across to Stockton and up the San 

 Joaquin to Bakersfield and Los Angeles, California, to obtain or see any 

 cattle-ticks. Had I been two months earlier I could have known to a 

 certainty if cattle-ticks existed in the several localities visited, and would 

 not have been dependent upon the testimony of others. Seeing is believ- 

 ing, and far more convincing than being otherwise informed, but I was 

 assured by many persons (whom I have no reason to doubt) at the dif- 

 ferent places which I visited, and by parties met on the train, that the 

 whole coast as far north as San Francisco was infested with ticks during 

 the warm weather of summer. Two of these persons told me that the 

 coast far above San Francisco was infested with ticks; one of them, J. H. 

 Flickinger, of San Jose, California, declared that to his personal knowl- 

 edge they could be found at least as far north as the northern limit of 

 California, likewise along the foothills of the mountains on both side< 

 of the San Joaquin Valley, and in many of its alfalfa pastures. At 

 Hanford, California, Dr. William Carmichle, Y.S., informed me that in 

 the summer of 1894 a herd of cattle was brought from Cholame, on the 

 west side of the San Rafael Mountains, near the head of the Salinas 

 Valley, to the Barber pasture, near Hanford. They remained there two 

 or three weeks, after which they were slaughtered. Within three or four 

 weeks thereafter a dairy herd of thirty cows was put in the same pasture, 

 and seventeen of them died in about three weeks. Dr. Carmichle was 

 called to see these cattle. The symptoms of the disease, as he described 

 them, were glassy, staring eyes; drooping head with ears lopped; the 

 urine a dark, bloody color. Two of the sick animals were slaughtered. 

 A post mortem of these and also of those (hat died from sickness showed 

 enlarged spleen, liver somewhat enlarged and of a mahogany color, gall- 

 bladder full of dark bile, and the contents of the third stomach, or ma in- 

 folds, were impacted and very dry. The doctor having recent I y emigrated 

 from Canada, and having had hut little experience with diseases among 

 cattle in this country, was Unable to designate the disease. He did imt 

 recollect having seen any ticks on the cattle, and never having heard of 

 the cattle-tick, he did not make an examination in search of them. There 



