The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-15
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power to educate bis children is guilty oi&
great wrong lie is not worthy Of having
children, and it wouldn be US groata wrong
to take them from him and elucoto them ut
the public expense, as to allow them to grow
up in ignorance, and perhaps one
remove above dumb brute. II
they grow up as cattle they
will be competent TO perform uo other ser
vice tfan that of brute force. In these days
of chcap books, periodicals, papers and free
schools there is absolutely no excuse for an
iIliterate person unless he is q bora idiot. II
his father is too parslmomous ana mean u
Give his sons and daughters MI education,
thew should override him and get II anyho."
and at anv cost. Chat is tho one thing IN
this world worth moro to anyonothan all the
gold ever dug ont Of the ground or ever VIII
be. lis Indispensable. If you expect your
bovund girl to move in good aocl5'y without
il YOU will BIO wulUlly mistaken.
ms, ,g.--os Cattle Fewer BEFORE thC
American gGeUtth Association.
We have carefully road paper laid be-
f5ro the American Health association in fo3-
sion AZ New Orleans, by Joseph Il, Smith,
NJ d. surgeon of the United States army,
nnon the ioxas cattle fever. He had inycati-
Gated the matter by conversation with
breeders and correspondence with Them ana
Texas physicians, requesting them to make
post norton examinations o. the doad ana
apply such tests IS we're applicable
TO the sick The responses were
many, free aud thorough. Says tie
report "To tho question, however, whether
any eI idemic prevails among the le&a
cattle, there IS but one answer-no. W milo
the figures given are insufficient to furnish
anN.n- to the question as TO the annual NOR
tanLy the answers are sufficiently definite to
show that tho mortality Is small, anc tASt
ordinarily dealh only ensues from injury, OK
pusurc 10 ncement weather, starvation or
old sge. This is true. however, only Of
Teyas.bred cattle. The improved stock of
northern cattle imported into tho state hnyo
met with sad fate, by FAR the greater NUM-
Der dying within a few months OF their
arrival. 10 illustrate, | will quote from sn
exceedingly interesting letter writ by Nj
b. +. GGoch, "a stock raiser living near
Mason, Texas: In 1874, / pur-
chased in Kentucky and Kansas, So head
of short-horn Durhams-lS females
and 50 understanding from six months to
six years old, all thoroughbred, pedigreed
animals but three, aud arrived at Mason,
Texas, with them the thirteenth day Of De.
Cember. When within two ard a hsli miles
Of This place ono of my yoariing bulls died
with the Spanish or Texas foyer, and from
that time on for thirty-llvo days they con
tinued 10 die until | md but sixteen Of the
ifly-threo living. | tried about all tho
remedies recorded in 'Clnler's Cattle Doctor
American Cattle by Allen, besides many
other remedies TINT al the 'iicks, Toms and
Hurryy who came along knew, all 20 no
avail. In fact, it looked as though oyory ono
| doclored NJ all died but ono yosrlipg bull,
to which gave copperu5 in corn mo0 Cruel
Imagine it did him good and one hciier
was made to swallow freely, st different
times, raw eggs, and she got well and IS living
to-day. Blu. iust here, le. mo say 20 the
credit Of DIR. C.atar, referred 10 above, that
JUS. what be says in his work, pages .j2-3,
about dgesching cattle was experienced IN
Gesrly every Instance with my patients. The
poor cattle were suilocnted by the mAdielaes
being poured down their wind-ppe5 ond en-
tering their lungs instead Of thsir stgmachs,
When | had read hin on the subject OF
drenchirg, / opened the lungs OF one that
died, ind found a considerable portion Of the
medicine in the lungs, and | confidently he,
lieye q number OF nay cattle that died would
have lived if nothing bad been Done for
them, u
The size. t,,5 that lived all had tho fever
and with the exception Of the two alluded
to, got we'll without any treatment. OFT OF
the eighteen trmGles brought here IL 1874,
saved three yearliug hcitors, from which !
have seventeen increase, fourteen ot which
are living"
"Similar are the mortality reports from
every other cattle dealer wuom ! have qucs'
toned Captain Richard King, OF Santa Ger.
trude's ranch, the largest ranch in Texas,
who numbers his acres by hundreds of thou
sands and his cattle by tens of thousands. in
forms me that among the fine cattle, Dur
hams imported by him, the mortality within
the first year WAS fearful; while among those
bred by him on his ranch, death from disease
that is, from any cause other than those
above named-was of the rarest occurrence
1t is not certain whether the cause of this
mortality is climatic or dietectic. SomC
maintain that the Spanish or Texas fever il
nothing but process of Ncclimaton; that i
is due to new conditions Of sunshine, moist
ure and temperature, and that it affects al
animals, human beings as well as the four.
footed.
On the other hand some maintain that tn
sickness is caused by the change of food--no
only the diilsreut grasses and grains, but III,
pastures in these ATTITUDES are full of lsrva
and insects OF various knds, noX:ous wheI
taken into the stomach.
81 am told that one or two varieties Of dis
toma have been recognized, and me embry,
of taeni saginSts, il ia well known, is founl
in the flesh of the cattle, whence occurs tn,
prevalence OF this vari ty Of tapoworm i
more prevalent in this state than anywher
else that have been stationed. These arr
simply popular beliefs rs to the cause of tn,
prevalence of mortal disease. among i'm.
ported stock in this state"
In another paragraph Dr. Smith says: AT
regard TO cattle driven from this s!atN t,
the northern markets the assertions of al
drivers with whom | have communicate,
are perfectly positive, viz: Except from
starvation or ovtr-!atigue or exposure, they
lose no cattle on The read. l have this day
December /, conversed with northern
dealer VINO buys thousands in Texas every
year and 0rlyes them to his northern ranch
where they are either bred from or fattonec
Tor the market. He s,ys be has now ahou,
0,O0O Icx's cows on his ranch aud no di,esg,
">lsts anOLc them o. "a, ever followed thoi,
arrival 81 their new home from tho roadp
For years past ithss paallcd Texas caiil.
men to, know why euch = noise WINS made
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