The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-08-29
: OTTAWA FREE TRADER: SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 1868

pecting the Texas cattle had been spilling urine
around this stream, drank thereof and in time
died thereof. You see the water must have been
poisoned by the ''urine and -excrement' of the
Texas cattle. Bully for science !o-s s4H
Let the general reader fail not to read this
post norton examination of poor old cow that
died in Urbana, partly for want Of water and
wholly for want of p,tre air and pure aea.er:
Stomach filled with dry. solid, half digested
food; want of secretion Of the stomach; small
intestines filed with bloody serum; the large
intestines filled with dry solid, and half-digest
ed mass. The capillaries Of the mucus MEM
brane infected, and small ecchymoid patches
were found in the intestines; the annular veins
of the muscular coat of the intestines engorged
and enlarged; the spleen increased in length to
twice its natural size and its peritoneal covering
smooth and stretched tightly over it." Now the
reader has no trouble at all in Tearing from all
this, which he will find in any medical work,
that this old really drank of the little stream
of water some fifty rods from where the Texas
cattle spilled their urine once upon time. Pro-
fessor Gamgee must hum, although he probably
does not know a steer from hefer
Now the truth and science of this whole mat
tersis, that Texas cattle and native cattle die in
the same counties, and die together, from partak-
ing of diseased air and water, where they
are herdod No denies that disease Is en-
rendered perpetually by crowdng too many cat
tie in hot weather into the same pasture or yard :;
as men, women and children die more frequently
IN the crowded cities than in the sountry. Now
1t is well known there certain counties in our
own state, where in certain seasons il is next to
to impossible for man or animal to live. Joseph
Nolen, ESQ, OF this place, has returned from
Ford county, where he has been breaking prairie
with some fifty horses. Some of these horses he
was obliged TO ship by car, they were unable
to foot it home TO Earlville from Ford county.
His horses went away looking finely, but return.
ed looking like the "last run of suckers" This
dry season about every COW in Paxton has died.
and the citizens have been paying from 81 to So
per barrel for lphur water, dead or rotten in
fact shipped 10 them from miles away. The
cows have often died for want OF water and.
oftener still, from drinking dead and putrid
water
Let me advise farmers and stock grove rs in
southern and central Illinois, and elsewhere, to
keep their cattle in small herds, away from dead
and dying water and give them pure water
drawn frcm the bowels 81 The earth by the excel
lent wind pump in use, and they viii find no
trouble with the Spanish Fever contracted
from the urine Of Texas cattle. Keep these
scientific Gamgees, who really cannot tell from
experience observation Texas cattle from
native cattle. out 81 your fields and away nom
the cattle which may die. and exercise your own
common sense in the premises. and it will be
better for you and, also, ior your cattle
II has been the hottest seasoa ever known, and
cattle died here in Earlville from actual heat
Several deaths here occurred from heat. Let
man DO looking for needle in hay-Inow and
every stem resembles A needle. But Jet him be
looking for a crowhlr and there is seen no straws
resembling needle. GaIa4ee was looking for
Spanish Fever and, OF course, he found it in
Texas cattle Heis great hunbus. That's
whats the matter"
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