Things to know when life gets going again

ted samsel tbsamsel@infi.net
Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:39:49 -0400


Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 
> When I was growing up in Central Texas farm, there were discussions about
> "black leg" which, I believe, referred to bovine anthrax.  The diagnostic
> technique described was to run you hand down the animal's leg and if it felt
> like "old parchment" then that animal was destroyed.  And burned.   Anybody
> recall something like this from the Forties or Fifties?
> 
> Wayne

I do. Anyone remember _THE COW KILLERS_? The book about the
veterinarians
in Mexico & Texas who stopped a number of bovine diseases by killing off
whole herds of ganadaria? And the scene in _HUD_?


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