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W. H. HARBAUGH. 
of Jersey. I would not hesitate to hiring cattle from any place on the face of the 
earth to my farm if healthy at the time of removal. I have often seen ticks on 
my cattle, but am not aware that they did any especial injury. 
My farm is fenced, but other people’s cattle often get in with mine (I don’t like 
to own it, but mine sometimes return their visits). 
My cattle are out in the pasture every day in the year, unless there is falling 
weather, or it is is extremely cold. I have been and am very careful that my cattle 
shall never have access to stagnant water. This is the only precaution I have ever 
deemed necessary. 
James River is practically an insurmountable barrier between the two counties; 
therefore I know very little about Chesterfield Co., but I have always understood that 
cattle in that county had but few restrictions placed upon them. It is unfortunate that 
so large a portion of the U. S. should be placed under a band, simply because a few 
places within that limit have been found unhealthy. 
Yours truly 
( Signed ) W. E. Grant. 
Mr. Grant is a well-known gentleman, a reliable and prac¬ 
tical breeder of Holstein and Jersey cattle, and implicit confidence 
may be placed in his statement. His farm Grantland, is about 
five miles west of Richmond, in Henrico County, and in the so- 
called permanently infected district. 
You must bear in mind that within the so-called infected 
area, a cow born and raised on an infected farm, although insus¬ 
ceptible to the disease, and apparently healthy in every respect, 
will infect a non-infected pasture by grazing in it. And that a 
cow born, and raised on a non-infected farm will contract the 
disease while grazing on an infected farm, and that an infected 
field may adjoin a non-infected field. 
These are curious facts, but facts that are as well known 
to the practitioner, as the unmistakable symptoms of the disease. 
Of course there may be isolated instances which might be quoted 
as exceptions. 
It is not my intention to occupy much of your time with the 
tick theory. I do not question any of the discoveries made by 
the Bureau Investigators, as far as they go, but you must remem¬ 
ber that those experiments were conducted outside the so-called 
infected area, and seemingly with the object of connecting the 
tick with the cause of the disease. 
