, 1884-03-21
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

1870 "a -AlAA mum ltAtS.
The annual meeting of the Wyoming
Stock Growers association will be held at
Cheyenne, April I, and don't you forget it.
Shepherd & Scherrer, whose ranch is
on the South Fork of the Republican
river, have $500 Texas cattle in the drive
which will come up to Colorado next
month.
Some cattle experts claim that the
mouths of animals are made sore by lick
ing their diseased feet, and that u little
attention promptly paid will remedy the
whole evil.
Alderman Watkins, of Denver, says he
has sent to England for full particulars of
tho foot and mouth disease, the cause,
symptoms and cure. He expects to re-
ceive full information on the subject in a
short time.
The Dillon Enterprise, Colorado, says
that Thomas Watson has lost about 900
head of sheep by the severe winter on the
Grand river, though principally from poor
care and negligence on the part of those
who had the sheep in charge.
S. H. Standard, president of the execu-
tive committee of the Colorado ~associa-
ton, is strongly in favor of the proposed
national convention of cattle men. The
principal need of the cattle men of the
country now is thorough organization, he
thinks.
Mayor Routt, of Denver, say he has
just looked through the American ency-
clopedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica
for a description of the foot and mouth
disease in cattle, but has been unable to
find any such disease, or anything re-
sembling the description thereof. He also
examined the works of many writers. on
stock and their diseases, with similar re-
suits. The mayor is therefore convinced
that but few people know anything about
the trouble.
A very important bill has just passed
both houses of the New Mexico %legisla-
ture and received the Governor approval.
1t prohibits the introduction of cattle from
infected districts, or which have passed
through infected districts, into New Mex
leo, under a penalty of IS, 900 for each
%offense, and the offending companies or
persons shall also be held liable for all
damage resulting therefrom. A large
number of inspectors will be immediate
ly appointed by the government and sta
toned along the line between Texas and
New Mexico, with the duty of inspect
ing all cattle about to be brought into the
territory. The fees for inspection range
from one dollar down to twenty cents per
head, according to quality and numbers.
The fees are to be paid by the owners of
the stock.
w. r. Asker, one of the Cap Rock
Cattle company, in Weld county, who is
now in Denver, gives it as his opinion that
the cattle disease which now exists in
Kansas, is not.the foot and mouth disease.
MIR. Asker is an Englishman, and vent
through a siege of this cattle affection in
Worcestershire before he removed to this
country. He states that the cattle there,
when attacked by the illness, frothed at
the mouth, verymuch as a dog does, when
hydrophobic, and a continual dribbling of
this fell from the animal, while the feet
exuded a thick matter constantly, but did
not dry up or cake. Judging from the
accounts of the symptoms of the cattle
affected in Kansas, he discredited the ex-
istence of the foot and mouth disease
there, none of them exhibiting the indi-
cations he had noticed when the disease
had before come under his observation.
But he continued, even if my idea
is correct, there is no reason that Colorado
stockmen should relax their caution en-
tirely. This Kansas disease, though it
may not be the European foot and mouth
disease, may be something equally fatal.
We must find out exactly what it is before
we can feel easy"