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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 5 
Live Stock and Dairy 
NORTHERN CATTLE AND TEXAS 
FEVER. 
We have had several articles on ticks 
and Texas fever. As is now quite well 
known the veterinarians advise cattle 
men to inoculate their cattle with blood 
from an animal that has had the disease, 
or even with blood from a tick—which in¬ 
sect conveys the disease from one animal 
to another. We have been asked whether 
this method of treatment is really prac¬ 
tical. The following notes are from south¬ 
ern cattle men: 
I have been shipping purebred bulls 
and heifers into southwest Texas from 
Kansas, Missouri and other Northwest¬ 
ern States and Territories for the past 
10 years. I have had quite heavy losses 
in former years through the so-called 
Texas fever, but since I have commenced 
inoculating the cattle my losses have 
been very light I do not think that 
inoculation is a sure preventive of 
Texas fever, but the losses are so small 
that in my opinion it is practically a 
safe preventive against the disease. It 
is my firm belief from long experience 
-that northern cattle, after they are in¬ 
oculated, can be shipped South and be 
practically safe from Texas fever. An 
ordinary man can perform the operation 
of inoculation after he has once seen it 
done. I obtain the serum from a healthy 
young heifer or steer running at large in 
any of my pastures. 
Kerrville, Tex. ciias. schreiner. 
The following are the essential points 
regarding inoculation of northern cattle: 
Buy calves from nine to 14 months old. 
Bring them down in the Winter. Have 
them come through without overloading. 
Have a man come with them to see that 
they are fed and watered in the car. Put 
them in some place where there are no 
ticks, say a horse stable. After a day or 
so of rest, inject each one with about 
one to two cubic centimeters of the 
blood of a Texas cow; this will produce 
an infection and cause a case of Texas 
fever. The fever will appear about eight 
or 10 days after the inoculation. It 
usually runs from 104 to 106 degrees, 
and continues three, four or five days. 
Then it falls, and one would suppose the 
thing is over. A second fever appears 
about the thirtieth day after the inocu¬ 
lation and runs a course similar to the 
first one. (It is periodical, like malaria.) 
After 60 days turn the calves out into 
the pasture. [Dr.] m. francis. 
My actual experience of inoculating 
my own cattle has not been extensive, 
but I have watched it since it has been 
in use. The average loss is about eight 
per cent or less. My actual loss has been 
10 per cent, rou ask whether I find it a 
sure preventive against Texas fever. The 
inoculation causes fever in from 10 to 30 
days, and generally fever the second and 
sometimes the third time. After they 
have recovered from these attacks we 
feel they are reasonably safe from the 
ticks. Some die during the fever period 
and sometimes they die after being 
turned out to pasture. Some lots have 
had 50 per cent loss, but the general 
average is about as I give it. You ask 
whether I think northern cattle could 
be inoculated so that when they are sent 
south they would be safe from the dis¬ 
ease. As to absolute safety no one can 
answer; the animals must come in con¬ 
tact with the ticks for the final test My 
preference would be to inoculate them 
after they come South. As to the opera¬ 
tion of inoculation of cattle it is not 
difficult, but very simple. Some experi¬ 
ence as to quantity used is necessary for 
different ages. All cattle should be 
about one year old and younger, but can 
be done older; but I think they should 
be under two years old. I have always 
had Dr. M. Francis, of the Agricultural 
College of Texas, io the work for me. 
We use the fresh blood drawn from the 
veins of a native-born cow or steer, 
nothing else; we look after the patients 
for about 60 days, and when sick with 
the fever give them the necessary atten¬ 
tion. After they pass through this 
period, we then want them to come in 
contact with the ticks; after that we 
consider them safe. b. c. rhome. 
Fort Worth. Tex. 
Inoculation as a preventive of tick 
fever (not Texas fever) has been proven 
to be a success, and on a large scale the 
loss is from 2 y 2 to three per cent in the 
process, when conditions are favorable, 
and due care is taken during and after 
the inoculation. At the end of 1900 over 
600,000 head of cattle had been inocu¬ 
lated in Queensland, Australia, with a 
loss of not more than three per cent. 
In September, 1899, I went to California 
to inspect a ranch, on which ticks had 
been brought with southern Pacific coast 
cattle, and on my suggestion, or advice, 
Dr. Connaway, of the Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station, Columbia, Mo., went 
to that ranch in the Spring of 1900, and 
under his supervision 1,000 head of 
young cattle were inoculated, and the 
manager of it told me that the loss was 
26 animals, and the herd had been ren¬ 
dered immune. For the past three years 
we have been buying a good many 
northern young bulls, and either inocu¬ 
lating them in the North, or after bring¬ 
ing them south to Texas; this is being 
done all over Texas below the quaran¬ 
tine line. There is loss, but we consider 
we are repaid by the introduction of 
fresh blood. Of course if a southern 
stock farmer buys a fine bull in the 
North he may lose him in inoculation, 
if he buys three he may lose one of them. 
The age to inoculate is nine to 12 
months. It is not a difficult operation; 
an intelligent man can do it if he has 
been shown how. 
Serum is not used. The blood is taken 
from an immune southern animal and 
used, and great care must be exercised 
in seeing that this blood is tested and 
proved. All may be of no avail unless 
care be taken during the fever attending 
inoculation, and the animal well nursed 
and given nutritious, easily-digested 
food. The next thing is care afterwards 
when the animal is turned out on the 
pasture and tick infestation begins. Care 
should be taken that this infestation 
should be gradual, the animal during 
that time should have shade, and have 
nutritious food, green food if it is to be 
had, otherwise high fever and death 
may result. Should high fever ensue 
medicines, stimulants, etc., are of little 
avail, and only a very competent vet¬ 
erinarian, knowing the causes, could by 
watching and caring for the animal, al¬ 
most hourly administer them with effect. 
Dr. Salmon, of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, brought this whole question to 
an issue. It was taken up and worked 
out successfully by Drs. Connaway, of 
the Missouri Agricultural Experiment 
Station, and Francis, of the Texas Agri¬ 
cultural College, and also on a very large 
scale by C. J. Pound, Bacteriologist to 
the Queensland government. 
Corpus Christi, Tex. John tod. 
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same price, yet we see carload after car¬ 
load of corn unloaded, but only occa¬ 
sionally a car of cotton-seed meal. There 
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to burn our money in buying it. Why 
buy cornmeal when a ton of early-cut 
hay or rowen or good clover will pro¬ 
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