K Dixon 1951 Journal 30. Mch 26. 2 mi. E Skidmore, Bee Co., Texas troubles on the muddy road and arrived an hour later. I talked to "Buck" Lurbello, the foreman's son and an experienced cowman, for a few minutes in the afternoon. He told me that they were carrying about 500 cows and 80 bulls, horses, etc: thus about 580 head of "stock" on 7000 acres of land. I packed up and left the ranch about 3:00, driving over muddy roads with the aid of chains, leaving Skidmore on paving (U.S. 59) at 3:30. I called on the County Agric Extension Agent, Mr. J.P. Forgason, and his secretary, Mrs. Cherry, then went out to buy groceries. I discovered the loss of my travelers cheques and returned to the ranch to hunt for them at places where I had crawled under fences and also around the bunk house. I started back toward town about 7:50 pm - raining 1 mi E Skidmore, Bee Co., Texas - shortly after leav- the bunkhouse on the Diocoll Ranch I noticed something shining beside the road, gleaming in headlight beams. The next such object was waving and I stopped and collected it, a toad, #500. The second (#504) also was hopping along, having been sitting in the water in a rut left by an automobile tire. I took 3 more toads within a few minutes all under the same conditions. One, (#501), had a patterned back - some of the skin appeared to be sticking to my hands as I tied the label to it after killing the toads with carbontete- chloride fumes. Toads were all along the road as I drove into Beeville (I arrived at 9:00 & put up in a hotel)