TEXAS FEVER. 
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Calves and other ruminants have proven to be exempt from it. A 
superficial glance at this picture of infirmity will reveal at once that the 
analogy with anthrax is untenable. But, still, Mr. Fleming in his excel¬ 
lent work on sanitary science and police, favors that idea. I also ex¬ 
press doubt as to paragraph 4, page 212, see vol. (Mr. Fleming’s) which 
reads as follows : “ Animals receiving the infection from Southern cat¬ 
tle do not communicate it to other natives, etc.” I have no positive 
proot of the reverse, but to caution interested individuals I deem it 
necessary to cite two instances which will not correspond with the asser¬ 
tion of Mr. Fleming, namely, two years ago (midsummer) a farmer, Mr. 
Anderson, near Hamilton, Ohio, made a contract with two drovers to 
supply him with neat cattle, home breed. They filled their engagement 
with two lots. The second transport arrived two weeks after the first. 
Two days after the second lot arrived, one of them took sick and 
died. Twenty-four hours after, one of the first supply had its turn and 
died in two days. From this time on, one or two stepped out every day 
without distinction of the two supplies, until the drovers took away the 
remaining ten of the last lot, the others apparently mending. A repetition 
of the same occurrence took place at a distillery in my neighborhood. 
All went well until the second division was installed, when sickness set 
in, but owing to the low temperature which came to their rescue only 
four per cent, were lost. In this last instance we see the malady break 
out in the stable. Animals fed on hay and corn swill (seldom heard of), 
and in both instances the native cattle have been apparently dissemi¬ 
nating the ailment amongst themselves. Not having any evidence as 
to whether one or all have been infected by the Texas stock, I leave it 
to others to make their own comment. 
