REPORTS OF CASES 
771 
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home of the noted Jersey cow Lilley Flagg, and we have as 
good Jerseys here as most anywhere one would strike. The 
first case I was called to see on the 5th of July, 1894, was a two- 
year-old heifer at the farm of Captain Milton Humes, who sent 
a messenger after me saying they had the murrain among the 
cattle out there and had lost three cows with it and another one 
down, and wanted me to go and see if I could do anything for 
ltm m 0n arrivin & at the farm and examing the animal, I found it 
lying in a comatose condition, with a temperature of 106°, and 
died in about two hours after my arrival. I held a post-mortem 
and pronounced it a case o'f anthrax, or Texas fever, as his cat¬ 
tle had been running out on the commons on the above-named 
territory, and was covered with ticks. I ordered him to separate 
the rest of the herd to an enclosed pasture he had, and wash 
with kerosene to rid them of the ticks, and he only lost one more, 
that was a two-year-old bull. I had him to burn the carcass and 
keep up the propylactic treatment of the rest of the herd, which 
consisted in giving Glauber salts in drinking-water and feeding 
on green corn ; but the majority of people having no pastures, 
continued to let their cattle run out on those low grounds after 
the cattle were dying with the disease. There being no State 
veterinary surgeon, or any law to control contagious diseases 
in the State of Alabama, all I could do was to order the car¬ 
casses burned and separated from this district, but there were 
very few who carried out my requests. 
History .—The summer here was very dry and hot until the 
1st of July, when it began to rain and overflowed the valley 
where cattle run, and I never witnessed a case of it till after the 
first rain that succeeded the long dry spell, and they continued 
to die one and two a day after that until frost, when they quit 
dying all at once. In a great many instances the animal would 
appear in perfect health in the morning and would be milked 
and turned out, and found dead before night. I saw several die 
as early as two hours after showing signs of the disease, and 
where death occurred, and that was in the majority of cases, 
none of them lived over the fifth day. 
