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In Umatilla County, Oregon, half the flocks were affected by this dis- 
ease, losing largely of their fleece. It also existed in Lane and Yamhill. 
In the latter county a few scabby sheep were imported, but the disease 
did not spread. In Douglas some sheep showed symptoms of poison- 
ing, which yielded to heavy doses of Epsom salts. In California the seab 
prevails to a great or less extent in Contra Costa, San Diego, Stanislaus, 
Alameda. Mendocino, Butte, San Joaquin, Los Angeles, and Santa Bar- 
bara Counties. In Butte County the sheep is curried and sponged with 
a solution of blue vitriol. In some cases the animal, after shearing, is 
immersed in a strong decoction of tobacco, mixed with a little sulphur. 
The foot-rot is found in Contra Costa, and also a mild form of pneumo- 
nia, where proper feed and shelter are wanting. In Alameda the liver- 
rot and sore-mouth were brought in a flock imported from the east, and 
these maladies were communicated to flocks before healthy. 
In a large number of cases above cited the disease was the result of 
defective nutrition, bad quarters, and other ill treatment. Very 
earnest complaints come from various parts of the country, especially 
the South, in regard to the ravages of dogs, which are productive of far 
greater loss than all the maladies the sheep is heir to. 
DISEASES OF HOGS. 
The lack.of well-defined terms of description renders it difficult to 
classify the diseases of hogs in various parts of the country. The term 
“cholera” is especially indefinite, it being used in some localities as a 
general name for all kinds of hog-disorders. In Carroll County, New 
Hampshire, a few hogs confined in stables with sick horses exhibited 
symptoms decidedly analogous to epizooty. Bristol county, Massachu- 
setts, reports a loss of 1 per cent. by cholera. In Orleans and Franklin 
Counties, Vermont, pigs and shoats were affected by an unknown dis- 
ease, being taken with a weakness in their hinder parts, which they drag 
a few days and then die. An unknown disease caused a small loss in 
Suffolk County, New York. In Orange County a few cases of cholera 
are reported among hogs brought from the West. Traces of cholera 
appear also in Northampton and Beaver Counties, Pennsylvania, and 
in Baltimore and St. Mary’s Counties, Maryland. 
In Virginia the term “distemper” is occasionally interchanged with 
cholera, and is scarcely less indefinite. The losses were light in Camp- 
bell, Bedford, Sussex, Warren, Halifax, Northumberland, Stafford, 
Wythe, Gloucester, Augusta, Highland, and Southampton. In Floyd 
the deaths amounted to 5 per cent.; in Westmoreland, 5 per cent.; in 
Russell, 15 per cent. In Spottsylvania the disease was cured, in many 
cases, by mopping the throat with tar. In James City County the 
mange carried off 20 per cent. Sulphur was administered with good 
effect in some eases; but the most effectual method of arresting the 
disease was killing the infected animals. In North Carolina light loss 
from cholera was felt in Davie, Cumberland, Ashe, Mitchel, Stanley, 
Rutherford, Alexander, Rockingham, Union, Alamance, and Greene. 
In Burke the loss was 10 per cent. in Chowan, Currituck, and Ran- 
dolph, 5,per cent.; in Caldwell, 20 to 25 per cent. in Lincoln, 50 per 
cent. In Franklin the disease was very fatal and without remedy, dis- 
couraging greatly the business of hog-raising in the future. In Yancey 
quinsy and cholera prevailed to some extent, the loss being 2 per cent. 
The staggers was troublesome in Carteret and Randolph. Severe visita- 
