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nessee, 4 per cent.; West Virginia, 5 per cent.; Kentucky, 4 per cent. ; 
Ohio, 5 per cent. ; ; Michigan, 2 per cent. ; Indiana, 2 per cent. ; ; Illinois, 
5 per cent. ; ; Wisconsin, 1 per cent. ; . Minnesota, 23 per cent. : Towa, 3: 
per cent. ; ; Missouri, 1 per cent. ; ; Kansas, 1 per cent. ; ; Nebraska, 1 per 
cent. The higher maxima, however, generally indicate isolated cases. 
In West Virginia, for instance, most of the counties reported 1 per cent. 
or less, while in several there were no deaths. One county in Florida 
(Volusia) reports no cases. 
The mortality of asses and mules was especially remarkable in por- 
tions of the South and West. In Navarro and Collin Counties, Texas, . 
50 per cent. of the jacks and jennets in the county died; in Cherokee, 
20 per cent.; in Limestone the disease was very fatal. In Madison 
County, Arkansas, nine-tenths of asses and mules died. Tennessee 
reports a heavy mortality ; Hamilton County, eight-fourteenths ; Maury, 
20 per cent.; Lincoln, 25 per cent.; Robertson, 50 per cent.; Monroe, 
25 per cent.; Davidson, 67 per cent.; Sumner, 33 per cent.; Giles, 67 
per cent. ; Knox and Granger, all, <A similar mortality of the asinine 
tribe is reported i in Christian, Owsley, Taylor, and Lane Counties, Ken- 
tucky. One correspondent thinks that the majority of the jacks in Ken- 
tucky and Tennessee died. Hardly a jack or jennet was left in Mont- 
gomery County, Ohio. A heavy loss of this class of animals was also 
felt in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. In several counties in each of 
these States the losses included half the cases of disease, and in some 
eases half the number of animals in the county. In Shawnee County, 
Kansas, the only victims of the malady were jacks. 
The mortality in horses was to a large extent caused by their being 
worked before they had entirely recovered from disease. In several coun- 
ties it is expressly stated that no animals died except from overwork. ' 
Quite a number of counties report no deaths among their animals; of 
this class of counties there is in Massachusetts, 1; New York, 2; New 
Jersey, 2; pcabie glk apta ; Maryland, 1; Apes 13; North Carolina, 
17; South Carolina, 2 ; Georgia, 15; ; Florida, 2 ; Alabama, 5; Mississippi,. 
8; Louisiana, 4; ; Texas, "3 “Arkansas, 35 ; Tennessee, 10; West Virginia, 
6; Kentucky, 7; on, 8; ; Michigan, 25 ; Indiana, 12 ; Illinois, 5; Wiscon- 
sin, 6; Minnesota, 5 . Towa, 55 : Missouri, EO Kansas, 63 Nebraska, 4, 
The condition of animals after recovery, or at least after the removal 
of active symptoms of the disease, was quite various. In some counties 
it is reported that the general health and spirit of the affected animals 
were greatly improved, a result attributed to rest, good food, and extra 
care expended upon them. In other cases they were found to be fully 
up to their former status of flesh and strength. In others, however, a 
deterioration was observed, which it was feared would, in some animals, 
prove permanent. In many counties this deterioration is ascribed to 
neglect, hard usage, and premature working, but in others it cannot 
thus be accounted for. 
DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
Cattle appear to have been unusually healthy during 1872. Inno 
county in New England, so far as reported, was there any disease prev- 
alent to a noticeable extent. Abortion in ‘dairy cows was prevalent in 
a few counties in the Middle States ; the loss of calves in Montgomery 
County, New York, amounting to 10} per cent. In Dauphin County, Penn- _ 
Sylvania, cows with calf were subject to a type of influenza analogous. 
to the epizooty among horses. This disease also appeared in Claren- 
don County, South Carolina, Glascock County, Georgia, and McLennan 
