, 1884-08-01
FACTS ABOUT FEVER.
Howf Was introduced Amonq Me-
braska Cattle.
What There Is to Fear About the
Complaint.
General News Notes on the Live
Stock Industry.


f N"N sNN iCAuS lever WAS lnITO-
duced Mt Maxwell, Neb., last May by a
bunch of cattle belonging to Rankin &
Go. These cattle had been shipped from
Texas, aud were herded in the neighbor-
hood Of Maxwell, but were afterward
driven to the range of Rankin & Co, on
the Middle Loup. The land on which
these cattle had been herded was after
ward fenced in by the owner, who turned
his own herd loose there. The result is
that his cattle have become thoroughly
i~mpregnAted with fever and most if not
all of them will die. a man named Searls
owned a bunch of about sixty-fve. OF
this number forty are already dead and
DIR. Hopkins informs me that all of them
will die.
How is Wyoming situated in regard
to the ~tever?" was asked.
so far as we know, but two punches
of cattle have arrived in the Territory by
rail from Texas. The first bunch Of four
car loads arrived Sunday. They belonged
to Mr.. Christman, of Virginia Dale, and
were gotten over the Colorado border be-
fore the Inspector reachedthem The other
bunch, belonging to Mr.. Andrew Haas,
was bound for Bitter Creek and are now
held in quarantine.
How about the fever at Rawlins?"
About four weeks since a bunch of
Iowa bulls, numbering about ffty-ive,
with probably seven Texas cattle, were re-
ceived at Ogalalla by Jevon x Pickles. of
Rawlins. They were held at Ogalalla for
three weeks and received at Rawlins about
four days since, They got about twelve
miles out of Rawlins on the way to the
range when the bulls began to die. l
have just received a telegram stating that
twenty bulls have already died and eight
more are dying. They will probably
all die, and the Texas cattle will be
slaughtered"
rs there no danger of the c~ontagion
spreading?"
THE disease is not communicable from
native cattle. The germs of the disease
remain latent in the systems of extreme
Southern Texas cattle, like malaria in the
systems Of acclimated Mississippi valley
men. A stranger goes to that region and
is Immediately seriously affected with
malaria, while the resident TO whom the
disease may have been transmitted goes
along apparently unaffected. Tn IA sense
this is true of Texas fever. The Texas
cattle are apparently in a good state of
health, but the germ of the disease Is in
them, and native cattle following the
same trail, and more especially camping
on or near the bedding ground occupied
by the affected Texas stock, are liable to
contract the disease. When they do SO
they usually die, but native cattle thus
affected cannot communicate the disease to
other stock"
What precautions, then, are necessary
to those who are shipping cattle from this
Territory
''Stockmen in trailing cattle to a ship
ping point should be especially careful to
avoid the trails taken by Texas cattle and
particularly avoid the old camping ground
Of this stock. Some Texas cattle have
been trailed over Sidney bridge and l
have instructed my men to avoid it. |
also do not intend to ship from Ogalalla,
but from some small point this side of it.
After the first frost there is nothing for
the stockmen to fear.
The railroad company have taken
every %precaution to disinfeot?"
Yes. The official says hat anything
we can suggest to be done will be done,
The company's men received instructions
from DR.. Hopkins as TO what to do. All
the top soil Of the %corrals are to be re-
moved and burned and the whole thor
"ughly soaked with water, iInpreguated
with carbalic acid and chloratr Of lime.
Every car in which stock was shipped is
To be- similarly treated. The Missouri
Pacific have been ordered TO cancel all
contracts for carrying through Texas cat
tie by rail until frost set in"
The shipping points that stockmen
should especially look out for, said Mr..
Sturgis in conclusion, ARE. Maxwell,
Brady's Island, North Platte and Ogal-
ALA"
Matters Ouiciing Down at OsgIalla.