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to three years of age, oansing nnmerons deaths. Pendleton and Harrison 

 Counties also report this malady. One herd in Carroll, Illinois, mani- 

 fested tiie same symptoms which were also noted in Chippewa and Pope, 

 Minnesota, in Hardin, Iowa, in Hanis, Missouri, in pouglas and How- 

 ard, Kansas, and in Hall, Dixon, and Lincoln, Nebraska. 



Pleuro-imeumonia. — A few cases of this disease appeared in (Chester, 

 Pennsylvania. It has prevailed extensively in the vicinity of Baltimore 

 among the milk-dairies that supply that city for several years, and ap- 

 pears to be increasing, both in its range and severity. It generally 

 breaks out about midwinter and lasts until April. It is attributed to 

 tlie fact that cows are crowded into filthy, ill-ventilated stables. It is 

 reliably stated that cows aft'ected by this disease are sold to meat-ped- 

 dlers at suspiciously low rates. These reckless triflers with human life 

 do not hesitate to sell this poisoned material to the poorer classes of the 

 people, thus swelling the lists of mortality. In the April report of 1874 

 the same nelarious practice was noticed by our correspondent in Hud- 

 son, New Jersey. It doubtless prevails more or less openly in all our 

 great cities. 



Mad itch. — This cutaneous disorder shows itself mainly in the head 

 and neck. The animal endeavors to allay the irritation by rubbing the 

 affected parts against trees, fences, &c. ; the hair is rubbed olf and the skin 

 lacerated by repeated rubbings, but the pain increases until the animal 

 becouies raving, refuses food, and finally dies in great agony. In Tippe- 

 canoe County, Indiana, 140 animals died of this malady, which, however, 

 was limited to a few localities. It was also quite severe in Benton, 

 Missouri, and destroyed aiew cattle in one herd in JeffeTSon, Kansas. 



Distemper. — This disorder is reported in Surrey, Wilkes, and liandolph 

 Counties, North Carolina, to a small extent. In Yancey It occurred only 

 among cattle brought from the lowlands. A few cases are also noted 

 in Cherokee and Pickens, Georgia. 



Abortion. — A tendency to abortion, especially in dairy cows, is noticed 

 in different parts of the country. It is especially mentioned in Litch- 

 field, Connecticut, and in Orange, New York. In Cattaraugus a dairy 

 of 110 cows, fed upon their own skim milk, thickened with corn-meai, 

 had twenty-three cases of abortion, while none of the neighboring dai- 

 ries had a single case. A few abortions also occurred in Ashtabula, 

 Ohio. 



Milk fever. — In Eockingham a few cows in good condition were taken 

 with milk-fever, caused by neglect of providing food and shelter at calv- 

 ing time. The curative treatment employed aimed at the reduction of 

 inflamnuition by cooling and cathartic medicines, bathing udders in cold 

 water, «&c. The same disorder is also reported in Towns, Georgia. The 

 same disease is probably meant by the term udder disease in the report 

 from DeKalb, Illinois. 



Miscellaneous. — In Carteret, North Carolina, some cattle in good con- 

 dition died of an unknown disease. Some undefined influences in 

 Stanly caused the death of many milchcows in the last stages of preg- 

 nancy. Losses from new and undescribed maladies are also reported in 

 Wayne, Georgia ; Santa Eosa, Florida ; Perry and (Covington, Alabama ; 

 and Bpone, Kentucky. In La Fourche, Louisiana, a large number, in 

 good condition and with good appetites, died suddenly,. They be(?time 

 very weak in the loins, and their blood was found to be thin and watery. 



The black-tongue appeared in Dale, Alabama, and Jackson, Louisiana. 

 The " salt- sickness" found no adequate remedy in Orange, Florida, 

 and Garland, Arkansas. An occasional case was observed in Wilkinson, 



