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Bros., owners of the Orleans Market, were in the habit of driving their 

 cattle in order to reach their slaughter-house, ten miles from the city. 

 In this way, Dr. Whittlesey considered that Mr. Cate's cattle were 

 infected. 



" Leaving Los Angeles, I went to Hanford, at the request of the State 

 Board of Health. On arrival I met J. A. Davidson, M.D., who informed 

 me that at the request of the Board of Supervisors he went out and 

 examined some three hundred and sixteen head of cattle brought from 

 the Salinas Valley, and pastured on alfalfa. After being there three 

 weeks, they commenced to die. He quarantined them. Mr. Motheral 

 informed me that the cattle, in coming to Hanford, passed through the 

 Poly-Heilbron ranch, where cattle have been dying in great numbers. 

 The mortality ceased soon after their arrival. Mr. Motheral, who used 

 to farm in Mississippi and Florida, said he had had experience with 

 Southern fever, considered the symptoms and post mortem lesions of 

 these cattle those of Southern fever, and laid particular emphasis on the 

 fact that after the frost came they ceased dying. 



" Mr. J. E. Tilton, who lives four and one half miles from Hanford, 

 informed me that he had lost nineteen head this year, and sixteen head 

 last year. He usually carried about forty head of cattle. This year they 

 began to die about the 1st of September. In August some cattle came 

 in from the Coast Range of mountains. He cut some of the dead cattle 

 open, and found the omasum hard and dry. The spleen was three 

 times its normal size, and was black. Some of the animals before death 

 voided bloody urine. Some died quickly, while others lingered for 

 days. The fattest died first. I went to Mr. Sanford's ranch, four miles 

 from Hanford, who informed me that he sold his hay to Poly, Heilbron 

 & Co., to feed to cattle on their ranch. They brought in about one 

 thousand four hundred head of cattle, and two or three days after 

 arrival they commenced to die. About four hundred and fifty died on the 

 Poly-Heilbron ranch before they left. I made two post mortems here. 

 The first was a cow that got down and was killed the same day I arrived. 

 I found the following lesions: Spleen slightly enlarged, but the pulp 

 was normal. The liver was enlarged, and of brick-red color, and the 

 gall-bladder immensely distended, and full of dark-green, inspissated 

 bile. The kidneys I found congested. The stomach and intestines 

 were in a normal condition, as were also the heart, great vessels, and 

 the blood. The lungs were both affected with broncho-pneumonia, 

 being variegated, brown and red lobuli, alternately. I split open the 

 bronchial tubes, and found them full of the Strongylus micrurus, causing 

 parasitic bronchitis. Microscopical examination failed to reveal any- 

 thing. Numerous other animals were coughing, so I recommended for 

 each affected animal the following: 



"Spirits of turpentine, 1\ ounces; linseed oil, 1 pint. Mix and make 

 one drench; give immediately. 



" I considered this the safest thing to give them, as it would be impos- 

 sible to give inhalations, and I had no inter-tracheal syringe with me. 



" The next autopsy was a calf that died two days before I arrived. 

 The weather was cold, and there was not much decomposition. The 

 spleen was enormously enlarged, being at least three times its natural 

 size, and on section was black, but not entirely disintegrated. The liver 

 was enlarged, fatty, and of a brick-red color; the gall-bladder was dis- 

 tended to a great size, and full of gall. I did not examine the other 



