THE RECENT CATTLE DISEASE IN KANSAS. 
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9th. Ia dairy cows the teats usually 
suffer, and though exceptionally spared 
are never so thoughout an entire dis¬ 
eased dairy herd. 
10th. The eruption on the mouth and 
teats is always distinctly vesicular (blis¬ 
ters) ; the same in the interdigital space 
if seen early enough. 
11 th. Is easily carried from herd to 
herd in the clothing of people visiting, 
as in the recent extensions from the 
foreign animals’ wharves in England. 
12th. Is easily carried from herd to 
herd by dogs and wild animals. 
13th. Inoculations of previously un¬ 
affected cattle, sheep, and swine with 
the saliva of the sick always produce the 
disease. Exceptions are so rare that 
they need not be taken into account. 
14tli. The maintenance of an unre¬ 
stricted trade from the localities in 
which this disease is widely prevalent 
almost inevitably carries this disease 
into the markets and railways cars and 
the different States supplied through 
these. 
15th. Horses rarely suffer, but if 
they do the disease passes through all 
its stages and ends in recovery within 
three weeks. 
9th. Only one case of eruption on 
the teats has been noticed (Keith’s cow). 
10th. While blisters have appeared 
on the diseased parts, they have been so 
inconstant that few have seen them. 
More commonly there are simple eros¬ 
ions or extravasations, followed by 
sloughing. 
11th. Many stockmen have visited 
and even handled the diseased herds 
but no extention of disease has been 
caused thereby. 
12th. Rabbits and other wild ani¬ 
mals ran about the yards and fields, but 
neither they nor dogs led to outbreak in 
the herds adjacent. 
13th. Inoculation of one heifer and 
two sheep with matter from the mouth 
lesion of a heifer attacked nine days be¬ 
fore produced no result. Inoculation of 
one calf, one sheep, and two pigs, with 
matter from the mouth lesion of Prebi¬ 
now’s calf (five days old) produced no 
result. 
14tli. For four months cattle, sheep, 
and pigs have been shipped freely from 
the viciuity of the diseased herds in the 
different States, yet no infection has 
been found in the markets nor elsewhere, 
though looked for in Saint Louis, Chi¬ 
cago, and New York. 
15th. Horses attacked with this dis- 
eare maintained a continuous slobbering 
for six weeks, or until the feed was 
changed. 
AGE AS A SUPPOSED CAUSE OF THE DISEASE. 
Having found that contagiou was problematical, it may be 
well to notice a few other conditions that might be supposed to 
influence the development of the disease. That age was inopera¬ 
tive as a cause is shown by the following : At Keith’s the year¬ 
lings were first attacked ; at Hindman’s the two-year-olds suffered, 
while the yearlings almost entirely escaped ; at Beard’s the suf- 
