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ever, ^vere mucli less active than the previous year, and were found 

 most prevalent in those regions where the least care was bestowed upon 

 farm-animals. In our " Extracts from Correspondence" will be found 

 an instance of short-sighted policy in the defeat of the law for tlio pro- 

 tection of sheep against dogs in a county in Missouri. As long as the 

 majority of farmers in a community can thus be arrayed against their 

 own interests it is idle to expect any remarkable agricultural progress 

 there. 



Diseases of horses. — Horses, like other classes of farm-animals, 

 were generally healthy during the last year, though the severe and pro- 

 tracted winter, with its long confinement and shortening supplies of 

 food, produced more or less abnormal symptoms in the northern sections 

 of the country. The most general type of disease was the catarrhal, 

 which w^as noticed in all quarters of the Union. This, with other affec- 

 tions of the breathing apparatus, constituted the great majority of the 

 cases of disease reported. The following is a brief classification of the 

 horse-maladies of 1874. 



Catarrhal. — The epizootic influenza, commonly called the epizoofcy, 

 so prevalent two years ago, left traces of its malign influence which 

 still exist in some sections of the country. These are found in close 

 association with the common distemper, which appears to have been 

 aggravated or modified by the results of the former " epizooty." There 

 is a tendency to confound the two types of disease as though it were 

 difflcult to distinguish them. Cases of this character occurred in Ox- 

 ford and Waldo, Maine, and in Addison, Vermont, but with trifling 

 loss. Catarrhal symptoms, sometimes resembling the " epizooty " and 

 sometimes the common distemper, are also noted in Onondaga, Wash- 

 ington, Genesee, Chenango, Ontario, Albany, Delaware, Monroe, and 

 Eranklin, New York; in Westmoreland, Bedford, Lancaster, Beaver, 

 Adams, Tioga, and Forest, Pennsylvania; in Frederick, Baltimore, and 

 Saint Mary's, Maryland ; in King William, Pittsylvania, Craig, Gooch- 

 land, and Wasliington, Virginia ; in Yancey, Gates, Mitchell, and Clay, 

 North Carolina; in Lexington, South Carolina; in Laurens, Towns, Lib- 

 erty, Catoosa, Wayne,Whitfield, Echols, Walker, Wilkinson, and Frank- 

 lin, Georgia ; in Santa Rosa, Florida ; in Mobile and Calhoun, Alabama ; 

 iUjEranklin, Mississippi; in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana ; in Blanco, 

 Texas; in Sharp, Arkansas ; in Johnson, Loudon, Cannon, Jeiierson, 

 Fentress, Cocke, and Monroe, Tennessee ; in Wirt, Tucker, and Gil- 

 mer, West Virginia; in Clarke, Bracken, Grayson, Rockcastle, Adair, 

 and Robertson, Kentucky; in Ashtabula, Noble, Montgomery, Union, 

 Williams, Perry, Adams, Ross, and Champaign, Ohio ; in Genesee, Ing- 

 ham, Kent, Ottawa, Saginaw, and Menomouee, Michigan, in Vander- 

 burgh, Indiana; in Morgan, Illinois ; in Washington, Dodge, and Sauk, 

 Wisconsin; in Faribault, Morton, Stearns, and Winona, Minnesota; in 

 Hancock, Iowa; in Jefferson, Miller, Macon, Marion, Pike, Platte, Bates, 

 Christian, Scott, Howard, Holt, Franklin, and Vernon, Missouri; in 

 Johnson, Jackson, and Brown, Kansas; and in San Luis Obispo, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Throat and hmg affections. — Lung-fever is reported in Franklin 

 lin, Lawrence, and Cambria, Pennsylvania ; in Manatee, Florida ; in 

 Harris, Texas ; in Adair, Kentucky; in. Benton, Iowa ; in Neosho, Kan- 

 sas. The glanders affected horses to some extent in Colorado and Mat- ' 

 agorda, Texas; in Howard, Arkansas; in Hancock, Tennessee; in Alex- 

 ander, Illinois ; in Buena Vista, Iowa. Farcy was noticed in Henry, 

 Alabama. In Cherokee, Iowa, some cases of swelled throat attracted 

 attention. 



