The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-31

A Texan Answered.
COMMUNICATED
Mr.. "a Texan.n / will call you this
for want OF better name. as you ale
not willing to let the many readers of
the DAILY REPUBLICAN know who you
are, but still only too glad to endeavUr
to bring my name before the public as
one not knowing what he is talbinR
about. / eau see by your writing that
you are laboring with a subject that
you know nothing about In the least.
or II you do. have kept your knowl-
edge on the subject concealed. am
led to believe by the tone OF your let
ter that you do not recognize the dis
ease Texas fever. q disease that has
been known for years.
4 do not care Tor this newspaper con-
troversy. In fact l do not approve of
1t to such an extent as you have car
rled 1t, Trying to make all the read
ers OF the DAILY REPUBLICAN believe
that In what few remarks l happened
to make abandon to reporter. l was
forcing them to believe some fictitious
theory with no facts to prove them.
i do not remember the words / used,
but do mean, to say that there Ia such
a disease as Texas fever existing at
present in this country. and do also
SAY that 1t Is transmitted, transferred.
or carried. II you please, to our native
COWS by Southern COWS, Texas COWS"
mot excepted, by any means. and this
transmission is believed as proven by
Veterinarians, TO be the act OF the
little Texas tick" at which you are
lpoking 30 much fun. ..-.
Now Mr.. "A Texan" these are facts,
truths. the results of practical demon
lafratinn n arf.iaI nnt Inv man TINT had
nothing else to do during the time al
lotted them but TO attend to this mat
ter, and all farmers and stock raisers
of the North should thank Uncle sam
for the good work done by these men.
Work that Is worth thousands of dol
lars to stock ralsers and farmers. For
had not this disease been worked out
we would have hundreds OF cattle dy-
ing every summer in the north. and
due to what trouble? l Will answer
Texas Fever-the result of shipment
of southern cattle including the harm
lees Texans of which you have told
uB.
| Now, you Will say we receive thou
ands of southern cattle. So we do.
But remember we are protected by
placing competent inspectors at every
inlet. But In spite of this ut times the
disease leaks into the north and
ticks" come also. They are always
on hand il disease follows shipment.
And always leave their mark provided
their host, the COWS or steers, contain
blood contaminated with the disease.
1 Now, you may ask why do not the
southern cattle die after being ship
ped? / will answer. simply because
they are not sick. But yet thoy carry
the micro organism, which Is the d.
rect cause of the disease.
II Here is where say they enjoy an i'm
munity from the disease. The word
Immunity here meaning freedom
! from the symptoms and effects of the
disease. But remember still the di.
rect cause fingers in the system and
the blood of these cattle from infect
ed districts will cause the disease In
northern cattle il said cause enters
the circulatory system.
You certainly are aware of tho fac
that iDnoculation will prevent disease
attacking the animal innoculated af
Vaccination prevents smallpox.
Take virus from diseased animal
land alternate it properly. Innoculatf
the subject desired for experiment and
efforts to produce the disease will fail
These southern cattle are raised in an
infected district. the disease is SO plen
tiful that from the time they are calves
they are exposed and probably have
the disease In repeated light forms
sufficiently to become immuned.
Now Mr.. "a Texan" the above state
ments are facts,
II you don't believe 1t, buy drove
lof Northern cattle and then go up into
Chester Co. and purchase steers own.
ed by gentleman In the vicinity OF Doe
Run, which / presume he will gladly
part with, and wishes he had never
seen them. He will throw the ticks in
or probably would make you pres
Ient of the whole business, US they
have caused him to lose Is or more
head of cattle. Turn the same in a
pasture field with your new purchase
and see what the result will be. don't
lplck of the ticks) and see whether or
not you would be glad to take con-
|siderably loss than you paid for them,
the cattle to ROMAN in the pasture
with the southerners and the tempera-
ture as 1t has been the past summer.
Or turn them out to pasture on a GER
tain farm near Newark, Del, and see
whether your luck would surpaeB bic,
the farmers. he lost three out Of
-four COWS, all that he had in the field.
THE same lot OF cattle caused his trou.
lble. He pastured them for one week
and they were all apparently enjoying
good health. But they left some ticks
farmer all his trouble. What was the
result2 Texas fever, dead cows and
Ia financial loss. Inquire into this
trouble, l don't ask you to believe me
because l know you do not.
The cattle that caused all this trou
bile were shipped from Norfolk ovel
the Delaware division to Newark, Del.
and from there finally reached points
in Chester County. Pc; They car
easily be traced. Their place OF nativ
ity do not know, but l do know that
1t lie below the line OF immunity which
touches the lower portion OF Delaware
land Maryland. through Virginia
What is this line OF immunity? 1t Is
an imaginary line, just as tho Equator
Us an imaginary line. south of which
Jail cattle or nearly all possess an i'm
immunity from the disease.
II northern cattle are shipped below
. this line they are subject TO the diseas,
! and In turn all cattle below this lin,
are not safe to lie shipped north. Fo
, Example the shipment | have stated
you mentioned in your letter OF 1t wa
J headed ''NeteI marian on ticksn o
> something to this effect was enclosed
= "What undesirable animals Texas iuus
n have and what poisonous insects" nov
that is overlooking with truth am
v these animals are closely watched-al
L so the ticks. You also mentioned tn
p cherry tree-bee" story. You are sew
eral years behind time as Texas la
been notified long ago and truthful,