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Warreu county. These cattle were from four to six years old, 

 all apparently in good conditiou, nothing indicating- any disease 

 whatever. There were „ticks" on very many of them. This 

 herd is still at the present date in Warren county, Ind., all 

 doing well, and no disease whatever having made its appearance 

 among them ; not one has died, notwithstanding more than five 

 hundred native cattle have died all around them. This herd of 

 Texan cattle, on the 12tb day of June, 1868, passed over a cer- 

 tain piece of prairie pasture on the western boundary of this 

 county I, Warren). On the IQtli day of June, 1868, a lot of native 

 cattle, numbering ninety-five head, averaging over thirteen hun- 

 dred pounds each, were permitted to graze upon the same pasture, 

 and continued to feed upon the same until the 4th of August, 

 1868. One of the herd was noticed to be sick on the 28th of 

 July, 1868, and up to the 4th of August, 1868, eleven were sick 

 and three had died. On the 4th of August, 1868, eighty-four of 

 this lot of ninety-five were driven to the West Lebanon railroad 

 station, on the Toledo and Wabash railroad, and shipped for the 

 New York market. This is, I presume, the herd of sick cattle 

 referred to in Dr. Harris' letter. There were eleven head of 

 another lot that had not been on this pasture, or in any way 

 exposed to Texan cattle, shipped with the eighty -four 5 none of the 

 eleven head were taken sick on the road to New York, but the sick- 

 ness was confined to the eighty-four had exposed to the Texan cattle; 

 at least had herded upon pasture passed over by Texan cattle. 

 On the night of the 12th of June, 1868, this lot of Texan 

 cattle herded on another piece of prairie where a lot of one 

 hundred head of native cattle were feeding. On the morning of 

 the 13th of June, the Texan cattle were driven to the north of 

 the county. Fifty -fife of the one hundred head of native cattle 

 were three years old, the rest were one and two, all in good 

 growing condition. On the night of the 12th of June, 1868, there 

 were twenty-six head of native fat cattle in an adjoining enclo- 

 sure to the ground occupied by the Texan cattle. About four 

 weeks after the 12th of June, these twenty -six fat cattle broke 

 out of their enclosure, and grazed upon the prairie where the 

 Texan cattle had been on the night of June 12ht. On the 29th of 

 July, one of these twenty- six was discovered to be sick, and 

 died on the night of July 3 ist. 



