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in a herd of 160 cattle, 8 calves suffered severely, though kept in 
a high, dry, warm, well littered shed, excluding the idea of freez¬ 
ing. Twelve goats running with the sick cattle entirely escaped. 
7. Price, near Faunce’s, had his single family cow attacked. 
8. Kibler, 4 miles east of Mason’s, had 10 cattle attacked in 
a herd of 50 head. 
9. Alexander Wilson lost three steers out of a herd of 100 
head. 
10. Gibson had 6 head attacked out of a herd of 50. 
11. Seling had 2 attacked in a herd of 20. 
12. Truman, 3 miles southwest of Newton, had his cattle 
kept in a barn, yet several lost feet and legs. 
13. Washington Holmes lost several from sloughing of the 
limbs. 
14. George Lewis, Effingham County, had 10 attacked in a 
herd pf 40 or 50 in the course of the last five or six weeks. 
15. John Donaldson had 5 or 6 attacked out of 50 or 60. 
16. List, of Wheeler, Jasper County, had 2 or 3 lame. 
17. Schumacher, at Diederich’s, near county line (Effingham 
and Jasper Counties), had 2 or 3 sick. 
18. A. M. Bayles, near Stewart (Wabash road), lost two or 
three head. 
Here we have an affection scattered over an extensive district, 
without any reference to contagion ; a disease of which there is 
no evidence of extension from one herd to adjacent ones by con¬ 
tact ; a disease which in different instances attacked a percentage 
ouly of the cattle exposed, while the large majority at such times 
escaped, in spite of the freest exposure; a disease which in every 
instance failed to attack sheep, swine, and goats, though these 
mingled freely with the sick; a disease which has persisted in a 
single herd confiued to the limits of a small yard, for four months 
in succession, and has in this time relapsed in the same animal 
with renewed enegy twice in succsssion, and ended in sloughing 
of limbs; a disease which in the one case in which it has been 
shown to attack solipeds has maintained sore mouth and salivation 
for six weeks, and we are told that this must be the contagious 
foot and mouth disease of Europe. In answer, it is safe to assert 
