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County, Texas. In Hot Spring County, Arkansas, the symptoms were 
especially well marked. In Daviess County, Kentucky, a few cattle died 
of this malady. It appeared also in Logan County, Ohio, in St. Clair 
County, Illinois, and in Martin County, Minnesota. In many eases it 
was difficult to say how far such cases should be attributed to gross 
neglect and starvation. J 
A type of disease known in the South as the “ Carolina distemper,” or 
‘‘murrain,” prevailed in several counties of Virginia. In Lunenburgh it 
was regarded as an inflammation of the stomach, caused by lack of water 
and by eating sedge grass, which could be obviated by raising more 
clover and by a plentiful supply of salt and pure water. In Henry 
County it attacked the fattest and finest animals. In Matthews it 
Was especially fatal among cattle imported from the North. It was 
violent in Halifax County, where one-third of the cattle were affected by 
it, and destroyed life in from one to three days. It there prevails mostly 
in summer and fall, and is most destructive in dry, hot seasons. In Ran- 
dolph County, North Carolina, it is known as “ murrain or tick disease,” 
and is very sudden and fatal, attacking the finest animals, often cows in 
full milk. Diseases popularly known as murrain or distemper prevailed, 
to a greater or less extent, in Randolph, Stokes, Alexander,and Yadkin 
counties, North Carolina; in Dooly and Catoosa Counties, Georgia; in 
Limestone County, Alabama; in Jones County, Mississippi; in Lincoln, 
Wayne, Bedford, Hamilton, and Polk Counties, Tennessee ; in Boone 
County, West Virginia; in De Kalb County, Lllinois; in Caldwell Coun- 
ty, Missouri; in Woodson County, Kansas; and in Sonoma and Del 
Norte Counties, California. The very diverse conditions of the animals 
affected, from the finest and healthiest to the poorest and most neg- 
lected, renders it very unlikely that the types of disease thus designated 
should-be identical, or even similar. . 
The black leg prevailed in Grayson County, Virginia. In Pocahontas 
County, West Virginia, it attacked young cattle upon either an improve- 
ment or a decline in condition, resulting from deficient or abundant 
pasture. In Cass County, Indiana, 100 calves died of black leg, and a 
few cases are supposed to have occurred in Dodge County, Wisconsin. 
It was prevalent to some extent in Union and Monona Counties, lowa, 
and quite fatal in Vernon County, Missouri, destroying 20 per cent. of 
the ealves. In Nemaha County, Kansas, it swept 2 per cent. of the 
calves and 1 per cent. of the yearlings; a few fatal cases are also re- 
ported in Johnson. It was also known in Pawnee County, Nebraska, 
and in Douglas and El Paso Counties, Colorado. 
Pleuro-pneumonia was somewhat serious around Baltimore, where the 
pread of the disease was far more effectually arrested by removing dis- 
eased animals than by medicines. Lung diseases of ordinary types 
affected dairy-cows in Kings County, New York, but farm-cattle were 
exempt. The hollow-horn, which one of our correspondents styles a 
synonym for low feeding and abuse, is reported among the old cows of 
Baltimore County. It also prevailed to some extent in Highland County, 
Virginia; in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; in Coahoma County, Missis- 
sippi; and in Boone County, West Virginia. In Laurens County, South 
Carolina, ill-treatment resulted in the scours, quite fatal in some places. 
In Taylor County, Florida, many cattle died after eating of the plenti- 
ful live-oak mast. One farmer lost 300 head of a herd of 500. In Mar- 
shall County, Alabama, a large number were poisoned by eating ivy. 
An unknown disease was fatal in Chesterfield County, Virginia. In 
Russell County, Kentucky, a singular malady, without fatal results, 
caused the legs and feet to swell and remain swoilen for several days. 
