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Attorney ordered the sheriff to continue the quarantine until the 
full amount of the bills was paid. In the meantime the daily 
increase of the bills was fast eating up the small bunch of cattle, 
and Messrs. Gillespie, to save anything out of their misfortunes, 
were obliged to pay the full amount of these exorbitant bills, 
which was something like six or seven hundred dollars. 
Now, all this trouble and expense was made over a mild out¬ 
break of Texas fever, when the mortality scarcely reached io 
per cent., and when the infection was confined to a comparatively 
small enclosed pasture. I only cite these cases to show the in¬ 
tense interest the people take in an outbreak of Texas fever, and 
how much feeling there is against the party bringing into 
the State the infection. But what will the same people do in 
an outbreak of hog cholera ? Let us see. In nearly the same 
locality of the State, I was called two years ago to make an in¬ 
vestigation in an outbreak of hog cholera ; I found the cholera 
was in an aggravated form in a small herd of perhaps fifty 
or sixty hogs and pigs. The mortality reached nearly 90 per 
cent. Upon inquiry I learned that one of his neighbors had a 
short time before shipped into the neighborhood a car-load 
of hogs from the Kansas City stock yards. Of course the man 
that shipped in the hogs soon had the cholera and in a few days 
spread all over the neighborhood. Now there is nothing re¬ 
markable in this case, it’s a daily occurrence in Kansas (at least 
has been); the point I wish to make is that not one of those 
farmers in that community had one word to say against the man 
that had brought in the infection ; all seemed to think the 
cholera was something that could not be avoided, and accepted 
the situation as best they could. 
A good many of the farmers are getting cunning of late ; 
upon the first symptom of cholera their hogs are loaded into a 
car and shipped to market, and nothing said about it. There 
seems to be so many ways by which the infection of hog cholera 
can be conveyed, that it would appear at first thought to be 
almost beyond control ; but once the people are educated up to 
a thorough understanding, as to the infection, the many ways by 
