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6. Keep cattle away from unfenced railway tracks , public 
railway stock pens, and places where railway cars are cleansed, 
and where switching takes place, for we know not at what mo¬ 
ment the germs of the disease may be deposited in those places. 
7. Of course, under no consideration should native cattle and 
Southern cattle be allowed together, or on common grounds the 
former after the latter, for then it is running towards danger, 
unless it be after severe frost. 
8. Southern cattle should be considered dangerous for native 
stock for the whole summer period between severe frosts, until it 
is positively proved how long they can transmit the germs of 
Texas fever. Pastures remain infected till well frozen. 
9. So far as I can judge, medical treatments are of little or 
no use as curative or preventive. Nature is perhaps slightly as¬ 
sisted in supporting the disease, when the bowels are kept open 
with green food; for instance, green corn, assisted by raw lin¬ 
seed oil. 
Diagnosis. —A mistake can hardly be made in diagnosing 
this disease. Its lesions and symptoms may resemble, to a cer¬ 
tain extent, those of so-called essential charbon, or essential an¬ 
thrax, and it may be necessary sometimes to withhold an opinion 
for a while regarding the cause and origin, especially when no 
satisfactory conclusions can be immediately arrived at on the 
grounds, or from the history of the animal, and that for certain 
reasons a satisfactory investigation cannot be made immediately 
before leaving the spot. But the nature of the malady can al¬ 
ways be told if sufficient symptoms and lesions can be seen by an 
expert. 
Symgotoms. —I do not intend to describe’here all the numerous 
symptoms of Texas fever, but I desire to draw the attention of 
the people to a few striking and characteristic sights and lesions 
which even the unexperienced may recognize to advantage, and 
thereby avoid perhaps great losses. 
The animal’s head is carried low, nose near the ground; milk 
suddenly disappears; appetite rapidly disappears ; rapid loss of 
flesh and rapidly increased gauntness, or hollowness of flanks ; a 
slight cough sometimes occurs, and occasionally also a little 
