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Mississippi. Foot-diseases are reported in Telfair, Georp^ia. In Laraar, 

 Texas, sore eyes affected some animals, occasionally destroying siftlit. 



Diseases of sheep. — Sheep have been comparatively free from disease. 

 But few complaints are heard from New England, and those of rather 

 trivial character. In passing westward the dog nuisance begins to 

 claim attention in New York and Pennsylvania, while from every quarter 

 of the South there comes a wail of despair over the prospective annihila- 

 tion of sheep-husbandry through the ravages of worthless curs. One face- 

 tious correspondent calls this nuisance the '' dog-cholera." In the West 

 such complaints are not so numerous or bitter as formerly. A corre- 

 spondent in Missouri says that the State census shows in his county 

 only 16,000 sheep for 9,000 dogs, a very inadequate provision for the 

 canines. With the exception of lack of food and the long severe win- 

 ter, which have produced frightful destruction of sheep in some locali- 

 ties, no general disease has been reported. The few local types re- 

 ported owe their existence largely to lack of food and shelter, and to 

 general neglect. The following is a brief abstract of the cases presented : 



Foot-rot. — An occasional case of this disease is reported in Rocking- 

 ham and Sullivan Counties, New Hainpshire. In Berkshire, Massachu- 

 setts, it has become chronic, in a mild form, in fine- wooled sheep of high 

 grade. It has been Irequently cured, but tends to re-appear. This has 

 caused the farmers to restock their flocks largely with hardier coarse- 

 wooled animals. It is also noted in Onondaga, New York, Salem, New 

 Jersey, and Frederick, Maryland, but is by no means virulent. It 

 appears in Bandera, Texas; in Hardin, Tennessee; in Boyle, Kentucky; 

 and in Champaign, HaiTison, Logan, Mahoning, and Warren, Ohio. It 

 appears here to be on the decline, and is mostly confined to finewooled 

 sheep, causing an increased use of combing-wool animals. It is reported 

 also in Ottawa, Michigan, Whiteside, Illinois, and in Marion, Iowa. 



Rot. — This malady was very destructive in Gloucester, Virginia, and 

 troublesome in Scott, and also in Madison, Wilkes, and Haywood, 

 North Carolina, in Georgetown and Richland, South Carolina, in Ca- 

 toosa, Whitfield, Bartow, and Murray, Georgia, and in the lowlands of 

 Wilkinson, Mississippi. It also appeared in Harris, Texas, where it 

 destroyed 25 per cent, of the flocks; in Franklin, Arkansas, in Came- 

 ron, Meigs, Blount, Monroe, and Jackson, Tennessee ; in Grant and 

 Barbour, West Virginia; in Montgomery, Illinois. Our correspondent, 

 in Grant, West Virginia, has found an effective remedy in Scotch snuff". 



Scab. — A few flocks in Rockingham and Sullivan, New Hampshire, 

 were troubled with this malady. It was noted also in Suffolk, New 

 York ; in Palo Pinto, Red River, Williamson, Collin, Milam, Mason, 

 Galveston, Victoria, Matagorda, and De Witt, Texas ; in Benton, Arkan- 

 sas; in Grant, West Virginia; in Whiteside, Montgomery, Crawford, 

 and Jasper, Illinois; in McLeod, Minnesota; in Marion and Madison, 

 Iowa. In Clinton and Jasper, Missouri, the disease was quite severe, 

 the loss in the former amounting to 25 per cent. It is also reported in 

 Allen, Montgomery, and Riley, Kansas ; in Webster, Nebraska ; in 

 Kern, San Diego, Del Norte, Amador, Mendocino, Stanislaus, Lake, 

 Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo, California; in Douglas, Oregon. 



Grtib in the head. — This disorder is reported in Carroll, New Hamp- 

 shire ; in New London, Connecticut; in Washington, New York, where 

 40 died in a single flock of 300; in De Witt, Texas; in Lenawee and 

 Montcalm, Michigan. 



Catarrhal diseases. — Distemper, influenza, and other catarrhal affec- 

 tions are reported in Spottsylvania and Prince George, Virginia, in 



