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two-year-old heifers with calf. 15 three-year-old steers, and 77 cows and 

 heifers. The yearlings had been put in a separate pen and fed on oats 

 and corn-fodder — none of these were affected. Three apparently well 

 animals were lassoed and examined ; their mouths Contained small 

 erosions and discolorations of the mucous membranes. The tempera- 

 ture of one, thought to be slightly lame, was 101 degrees; that of another, 

 apparently in perfect health, was 103 degrees. Six of the affected ones 

 have either lost their feet or have them in such condition that they will 

 surely separate from the legs, and 2 others have lost digital bones. 

 None of these animals have shown salivation or loss of appetite; but 

 the mouths contained erosions and discolorations similar to those seen 

 in other herds. 



At Hall's Summit, a distance of 20 or 25 miles north from Neosho 

 Falls, George R. Smith owned 2 cows. About February 1 one became 

 lame; there was noticeable slavering and loss of appetite for several 

 days. This cow calved February 29, and Dr. Trumbower saw her March 

 17, when the calf appeared well but small. The cow was reduced to a 

 skeleton. Her right hind leg had broken off half way between the fet- 

 lock and hock joints, carrying with it the lcwer half of the metatarsal 

 bone. The left hind leg was separating at about the same point. One 

 toe of the left fore foot was coming off at the first joint. 



Near Hartford, some 20 miles northwest of Neosho Falls and 15 miles 

 west of HalFs Summit, was the farm of Mr. O'Toole, where another out- 

 break of disease occurred, showing precisely the same symptoms. The 

 animals at this place were reported to have been killed before my visit, 

 and consequently I did not see the herd. Dr. TVilhite, as I was in- 

 formed, thought the first cases appeared about January 10. The first 

 animals attacked were yearlings. Soon after all the calves became af- 

 fected in the same way. Then the large steers in the feeding pen were 

 attacked. 



About the middle of March the governor of Kansas sent a veteri- 

 narian to investigate a disease which was reported to exist in Osborne 

 County. According to verbal information which I received from the 

 State officers while at Topeka, this disease was substantially the same 

 as that which existed at Neosho Falls. The distance between these two 

 points must be at least 175 miles in a direct line. 



After investigating the disease in the neighborhood of Neosho Falls, 

 1 proceeded as directed to Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, to visit 

 herds at that place reported to be affected with foot-and-mouth disease. 

 On March 27 1 was at the farm of William Bragg, who lived 5 miles 

 south of Kirksville. The disease in this section was first noticed here, 

 but later G other herds, within a radius of 4 miles, have had affected 

 animals. The only new animal introduced on the Bragg farm was a 

 steer bought in the neighborhood about December 20. This was one 

 of the first to sicken, but there was no disease on the farm from which 

 it -came. A cow that had been purchased a month earlier sickened 

 about the same time. This was in the latter part of January. The 

 weather had been extremely cold early in January, and reached 10° or 

 12° below zero at other times during the month. 



At the time of my first visit there were 4 animals lying in the stable. 

 One cow had lost a hind leg from about half way between the hock and 

 fetlock joints; the bones had separated at the latter joint and the meta- 

 tarsal bone protruded half its length beyond the flesh. The other hind 

 leg was dividing at the fetlock joint. Six inches at the end of the tail 

 was gangrenous, and was being separated from the remainder of the 

 organ. There were a number of abrasions and small discolored spots in 



