1.   It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops, poisoning the air with its fetid breath.

2.   Anthrax spores can survive for decades and they are commonly found on ranches where it has killed cattle.

3.   As a result, hide prices play only a small role in the decision to kill cattle.

4.   Federal agents killed both cattle and deer in remote mountain regions, sometimes opposed by armed local hunters.

5.   He killed a few cattle to feed them all, and the rancher called out soldiers.

6.   His cattle were killed, his car and tractor destroyed, he said.

7.   It backed away from suggestions over the weekend that it might kill some cattle, saying that a panel of scientists advised no further measures were needed.

8.   No cases of BSE, a disease that kills cattle, have been reported in the United States.

9.   Severe storms over the winter also killed many cattle and weakened the survivors, meaning fewer cows are likely to become pregnant this spring, Nix said.

10.   She had no estimate of how many cattle were killed in the area.