THE OUTBREAK IN KANSAS. 
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On the farm of Mr. Henry McCrary, living twenty-live miles 
north of Russell, in Osborn County, Kansas, we found twenty- 
five cattle that were showing the disease, with identical symp¬ 
toms. The first case appeared February 11th, but there is great 
doubt regarding the symptoms of this case. The rest there can 
be no doubt upon. 
These are the herds (with the exception of the one at Hill’s 
Summit) that we visited. The disease had been reported to be 
contagious aptha, or foot and mouth disease. The symptoms of 
foot and mouth disease may be briefly tabulated as follows: 
First—Rise in temperature to 103° to 107°. 
Second—Loss of appetite; hair standing wrong. 
Third—Hot, clammy mouth; saliva hanging in ropy strings 
from the mouth, and eyes running. 
Fourth—Blisters upon the tongue, and on the lips and be¬ 
tween the toes. 
Fifth—Blisters rupture, leaving bad, ulcerated sores, which 
readily head in the majority of cases. Some authors say that in 
badly neglected cases the hoofs may separate from the foot and 
drop off. Ulcers may break out upon the bag and in rectum or 
vagina, and the disease is reported by all authorities to be not 
only highly contagious among cattle, but hogs, dogs, chickens 
and even men will take the disease. And the disease is stated by 
all authorities to have a period of incubation of from one to 
eight days at the longest. 
Now the condition of things we find is not the same as that 
given for contagious aptha. Here we have diseased cattle run¬ 
ning with other cattle for weeks and months, and not communi¬ 
cating the disease. We have some mouth sores, but none that 
are of any more importance or any more severe than those we 
found in healthy steers among healthy cattle. Calves upon the 
Hindman place have been turned, as fast as taken sick, in with 
the herd of twenty finely fed calves, and none of them have be¬ 
come infected. Figs in all the places have had free access to the 
cattle pens, and in some cases that were killed drank the blood 
and ate portions of the carcasses. Dogs completely devoured the 
carcasses of the cows that died in Osborn County, and none of 
