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Schley: General stoppage of business by the horse-disease. Wilkinson: Horse-disease 
prevalent; no deaths among well-kept stock. Carroll: Sheep husbandry unprofitable 
on account of hungry dogs, whose owners do not feed them. Pike: Heavy inroads 
upon sheep by dogs and butchers. Murray: Stock has annually increased since 1865. 
FLORIDA. 
Levy: A few cases of horse-disease. Taylor: Great decrease of stock cattle. Gads- 
den: Epizooty mild. Liberty: About five per cent. of horses and mules died of 
epizooty; many died of eating grass with the grass-worm onit, bringing on 
staggers. 
ALABAMA. 
Franklin: Horse-disease mild. Coffee: Epizooty prevailing; no deaths. JLauder- 
dale: Dogs destructive to sheep. Clay: Dogs killed 334 per cent. of the sheep. 
MISSISSIPPI. 
Hancock: Stock decreased by exportation. Tishemingo: Few sheep; many dogs. 
Wayne: Numerous deaths of live-stock last spring. Clark: Epizooty common but 
not fatal. Lee: Searce a horse escaped disease, but it was generally of a mild type. 
LOUISIANA. 
St. Mary: Yorse-disease general but mild. Tensas: Epizooty mild. Bell: Large 
numbers of horses and mules exported. Terrebonne: Great increase of cattle ranging 
over abandoned plantations. Caddo: General decrease of live-stock. Mranklin : Three- 
fourths of the pigs die of starvation or by depredations of wild animals. 
TEXAS. 
Cherokee: Horses decreasing ; mules increasing. Fannin: Epizooty not more severe. 
than a common distemper. Johnson: Horses depreciating through lack of attention 
in breeding. Sell: So many cattle exported that the home stock is almost exhausted. 
Dallas: At the present rate of depletion the herds of Texas cattle will soon be ex- 
hausted, leaving room for the profitable raising of finer breeds. Good opening for 
sheep. : 
4 ARKANSAS. 
Monigomery : Wolves, wild-cats, and eagles destructive to sheep. Craighead : Horse- 
disease has just appeared. 
TENNESSEE. 
Williamson: Stock is improving in quality and diminishing in numbers. Camp- 
bell: Very few horses have died from the epizooty ; where well stabled and cared 
for they have, in almost every instance, begun to recover in ten or fifteen days. 
Less hog cholera than usual; hogs generally healthy and looking well. Madison: Not 
enough stock raised to supply home demand; horses are brought here in large droves 
from Ohio and Kentucky, in February and March, and generally meet with ready sales. 
Cows very inferior milkers—giving two to three quarts when fresh; godry three months. 
Bedford: Sheep and hogs are increasing in numbers, as farmers are taking more in- 
terest than formerly in raising them. Carter: The horse-disease raging, but not fatal. 
Some hogs are dying of cholera. Bradley: The horse-disease made its appearance 
December 10th ; so far not a single fatal case. Cannon: The condition of stock very 
good, although the winter has been unusually cold. nox: Horses and mules nearly 
all affected with the epizooty ; very few have died. A warm stable, a dry bed, mild 
food, very gentle exercise, and avoiding exposure to wind and rain constitute the rem- 
edy here; very little medicine is given. No other disease affecting any stock. Sheep- 
raisers are now changing from the old, almost worthless, to the new and improved 
breeds. Monroe: So tar, but few cases of epizooty have proved fatal. Oxen and other 
eatiile have steadily increased in numbers, and with several importations of blooded 
stock, it is hoped they will improve in quality also. Native sheep have decreased, but 
some improved sheep have been purchased—a move in the right direction. Sumner : 
Not one animal in a hundred has escaped the epizooty; the fatality has been small, 
except among jacks and jennets; of these there has been a loss of at least one-third 
in the county. The disease has left many horses and mules in bad condition 
for the winter. As a rule, those animals that were given a generous and 
varied diet, without dosing, did much the best, even though they had no shelter. 
Fayette : Have heard of only one death from the epizooty. It is much more severe 
in jacks and jeunies than either horses or mules. Gibson: Fourteen per cent. loss in 
