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fatal; good care, plenty of feed, and moderate exercise being all the medicine required. 
Our crop of hogs is being diminished, from the fact that in the market pigs are worth 
more per pound than heavy hogs. The county is overstocked with milch cows, there 
being no demand for them. , Delaware: Though sheep are not gaining much in numbers, 
they have gained in quality and health at least 10 per cent. over the last few years; “foot- 
rot” seems to have worn out. Hogs are also of better quality ; although fewer in number, 
it is thought there will be considerably more pork made this season than last. Drie: Our 
horses are coming out of the epizooty all right; no deaths in the rural districts; a few 
only in the city. Medina: Stock, especially neat cattle, unusually low in price. The 
very cold weather gives our animals a ravenous appetite, and the farmers apprehend a 
scarcity of fodder. This is one cause of low prices; another is scarcity of money. 
Morrow: Owing to the scarcity and high price of rough food, cattle are not as high as 
last year; milch cows have depreciated at least one-third in price. The fever for sheep 
not as great as a year ago; considerable of the last clipon hand. Hogs in good demand, 
owing to the abundant corn crop. Stock generally look well. Perry: The shortness 
of rough feed has materially lowered the price of cattle, especially of young cattle. 
Last year the assessors’ returns showed 237 sheep killed by dogs; not quite so many in 
the year just closed. 
MICHIGAN. 
Calhoun: After inquiry, I find that five or six horses in the county have 
fallen victims to the epizooty. Within three weeks after its first appearance it 
spread rapidly over the county, and for about two weeks horses were scarce on our 
streets. As a general rule horses have been kept from labor or exposure. This, with 
good care in a great majority of cases, has proved all the treatment necessary for a 
speedy cure. The only species of stock which maintains its standard of value, as com- 
pared with the past year, is sheep ; oxen arestationary. All else has depreciated in value. 
Wayne: Excepting sheep, stock of all kinds is lower than last year at this season. 
Washtenaw: The price of beef $5 to $6, and of pork, about $4.50 per hundred pounds. 
Tuscola: Sheep are high and in demand. Hogs are low in price. Pork-raising has not 
been a paying business for the past year. Cass: Feeding-time commenced earlier than 
for several years, and our winter has been so far very cold, with heavy snow. Cattle 
are doing well where properly cared for, as it has been dry. Clinton: In one instance 
all the sheep a man had—twenty long-wool animals, which he had taken great pains 
to procure—were killed by dogs. Otiawa: The horse-disease is yet very prevalent, 
but of a mild type; but few have died, and those of an inferior class. 
INDIANA. 
Gibson: The epizooty in nearly every stable. Cattle and other stock are 
generally healthy. Grant: There is some trouble among cattle, a kind of stiff 
rheumatism, which lasts about ten days. No deaths from it so far as I know. 
Versailles: The epizooty as yet has beeninamildform. It has proved fatal in but few 
' cases, and those were old and broken down horses. A disease among hogs, known as hog- 
cholera, is prevailing in some parts of the county, but there have not been many deaths 
from it. I think that the death of hogs from other causes is frequently charged to hog- 
cholera. Flocks of sheep have been largely diminished this last fall by the butchers, ” 
but what are left are in fine condition; no disease among them, and none among the 
cattle. Hamilton: Horses are very cheap; cattle and hog-markets extremely dull. 
Fountain: Hogs are very fat and weigh heavy; all other stock is in fine condition ex- 
cept horses; they have suffered much from the prevailing distemper but are 
now, with but little fatality, rapidly recovering. Sake: In this county there is 
a considerable percentage over any previous year of all kinds of stock, with per- 
haps the exception of sheep. The extremely dry weather is very seriously affect- 
ing the farmers in procuring water for.stock. Wells, never before known to 
fail, are giving out all over the county. Za Porte: This county is well sup- 
plied with horses, mostly medium sized; the market for such is always dull at this 
season of the year, but in two months from now will be more active and prices 10 or 
15 per cent. higher. The price of sheep has considerably increased during the year. 
Hogs are much lower than they were last year. Martin: The horses of all ages, as 
well as mules, in the county, have been subject to the epizooty, which has prevailed 
for the last two months, with very rarely a fatal ease. Nearly all are now either 
wellor improving. Something of a similar nature has prevailed during the same 
time among the people. Franklin: The only danger to horses and mules from 
the epizooty, from a relapse caused by working the animal too soon. Hogs are 
much below the cost of production. Price of product regulated by “rings ;” ruling 
rates $3.25 to $3.50 per 100 pounds gross. Remedy: lessen the supply. Scott: About 
half of the horses in the county have, or have had,. the epizooty; no case 
fatal. Brown: Scarcely a horse, mule, or ass in the county, but -has been 
attacked with the epizooty; thus far but few deaths have occurred. This disease in 
