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carry devastation to the herds of the other States. It need not be 
claimed that a septic or other infection cannot be conveyed from 
the first victim, the limbs of which are slouching off; the decision 
of this can be determined by further experiment. It is enough 
for the purposes of interstate and international commerce that all 
inoculations, from other lesions than those of the gangrenous 
extremities, have failed to transmit any disease whatever. 
OUTBREAKS IN ILLINOIS. 
On leaving Kansas I went, in company with Dr. Salmon, of 
the Agricultural Department, to visit the diseased herds in Cen¬ 
tral Illinois, which had also been pronounced indisputable cases 
of foot and mouth disease. We visited the following : 
1. The herd of Lemuel Faunce, near Montrose, Cumberland 
County, 10 miles north by east of Effingham. Here the cattle 
were kept in a sloping yard adjoining a large wood lot and boun¬ 
ded by it on two sides. This yard contained two ponds supplied 
by springs, but also receiving considerable surface drainage from 
the manure-covered yard. To water the cattle during frost, holes 
had been broken in these ponds every morning. The stock had 
been fed hay and corn, the former largely composed of red top 
(Aorostis vulgaris) badly affected by ergot, and much worse than 
that of the previous year, 1882, some of which was still preserved 
and available for comparison. Twenty-one head had been attack¬ 
ed (fifteen grown cattle and six two-year-olds), of which two had 
been killed, five were still lame, and the others had recovered. 
One cow had lost both hind limbs up to the hock. There was only 
one pig kept, but it had entirely escaped. We, however, found 
four pigs belonging to a neighbor, rooting in Faunce’s yard, but 
no harm came to themselves nor to their owner’s other stock through 
such visits. Two old horses, kept all winter in the yard with the 
cattle, had had sores in the mouths and still showed circumscribed 
indurated white nodules on the mucous membrane covering the 
upper lip. Two two-year-old horses wintered with the cattle slob¬ 
bered from March 1 to April 9. Both horses and cattle are said 
to have made a smacking noise with their mouths while they were 
sore. The first animal to be attacked was a dun steer, bred on 
