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been upon the road previous to this time. On or about January 
10th a milch cow which had never been upon the road was taken 
sick—found lame as the others had been, and is so now. She 
was kept in a lot where all the other cattle came to water. The 
first animal taken sick after this was on February 14th or 15th, 
the morning following a heavy sleet; then about seventeen head 
were taken lame, and since then there have been new cases daily. 
On March 14th there were sixty five affected. March 19th the 
cases here were as follows: 
Eighteen head with two hind feet off. 
Five head with one hind foot off. 
One animal with three feet off—both hind feet and one front 
foot. 
One with all the feet off. 
The rest of the sixty-five head were lame in the hind foot or 
feet. 
Dr. Trumbower visited some reported cases at Hall’s Summit, 
Coffey County. He found two cows belonging to George R. 
Smith, one with the outer half of the left front foot coming off 
at the joint within the hoof. Left hind leg coming off between 
the hoof and fetlock, and the right hind leg broken off at the 
same place, and carrying the bones of the metatarsal region with 
it. Mouth symptoms slightly marked. About January 1st this 
cow became tangled in a rope and was cast, but did not get lame 
until February 1st. She calved February 29th, mouth some sore 
and her appetite not of the best. March 17th the cow was as de¬ 
scribed ; calf well, but small. Hall’s Summit is twenty miles 
from Neosho Falls. 
Christian Pribbernow, living on Owl Creek, ten miles south¬ 
west of Neosho Falls, has 183 head of cattle, of which sixteen 
are affected. There are fifty-four yearlings, twenty-four two- 
year-olds, fifteen three-year-olds, and the balance were cows and 
calves. The disease broke out February 15th, mostly among the 
older cattle. The smaller ones had been put in a separate pen 
and fed on millet, oats and corn fodder. The others were fed 
largely on wild hay. Six of this herd have very bad feet. Two 
of them lose the whole of the digital bones. 
