Epidemic Among Cattle

BOIES

Posted By: Constance
Date: 1/10/2015 at 11:27:10

The Oelwein Register
Oelwein, Fayette Co., Iowa
Thursday, 02 Oct 1890
Page 2, column one

- The governor (Horace Boies) has been asked to send a veterinary surgeon to Muscatine county to investigate an epidemic among cattle. They grow stiff in the joints and refuse to eat and drink, and cows give only about one-third their amount of milk.