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Yancey and Stokes, Korth Carolina ; in Lewis, Boone, and Boyle, Ken- 

 tucky ; in Franklin, Mississippi. 



Miscellaneous. — The goitre appeared among lambs in Ontario, New- 

 York. Montgomery, Maryland, lost one-fourth of her lambs from un- 

 described causes. In Vernon, Missouri, half the lambs dropped died 

 of starvation, tlieir ewes being too emaciated to afford tliem nourishment. 

 In Greenville, South Carolina, new-born lambs in many cases were aban- 

 doned by the ewes. 



The staggers appeared in Greenville, South Carolina, and in Mont- 

 gomery, Illinois. Echols, Georgia, lost about one-sixth of her flocks by 

 " sore-head." Something like " pneumonia" was seen in Mecklenburg!), 

 Virginia. The sconrs is reported in Wilkes, Georgia, and Smith, Mis- 

 sissippi. In Pope, Arkansas, one flock was afflicted with worms — a 

 lamb eight months old is said to have passed a tape-worm 61 feet long. 

 In Mineral, West Virginia, some sheep died from eating laurel. In 

 Belmont, Ohio, some sheep had parasites in the bronchial tubes. 

 Kenton, Kentucky, lost 200 sheep by the "stiffs." Licking, Ohio, lost 

 10 per cent, by the " white skin." Winnebago, Illinois, reports " con- 

 sumption." Flukes in the liver is noted in Douglas, Oregon. 



Numerous reports of an unnamed disease have been received. In 

 Schenectady, New York, the flocks were decimated by a disorder char- 

 acterized by irregularity of the bowels and voracious appetite, in spite 

 of which the animals became very thin. Post-mortem examinations 

 showed the lungs shrunken and full of matter, and the intestines full of 

 lumps and knots. Unknown diseases were more or less destructive in 

 Beaver and Lawrence, Pennsylvania ; in Wayne, Georgia ; in Coffee, 

 Alabama, where 20 per cent, of the flocks died ; in Avoyelles, Louisiana, 

 which lost 25 per cent. ; in Fulton, Indiana ; in Wright, Miimesota. 



Onr correspondent in Grant, West Virginia, claims that the Alleghany 

 district of that county is almost impervious to sheep maladies. It is 

 beyond doubt that a very large proportion of the foregoing cases of dis- 

 ease directly result from neglect. 



Diseases of swine. — The record of swine diseases, though still for- 

 midable, is not equal to that of last year. In the Eastern and Middle 

 States maladies bear, as usual, a smaller proportion to the number of 

 animals, but unpromising symptoms seem to be advancing from the 

 West, creating some alarm in a few localities. In the South the preva- 

 lence of epizootic types is still marked by heavy losses, but in the West 

 the scarcity of animals in manj- counties cut down the number of cas- 

 ualties below last year's. 



Cholera. — In the confusion of popular nomenclature this term is made 

 to designate a variety of diseases, a fact prominently noted by several 

 of our correspondents. In Lincoln County, Maine, a new malady de- 

 stroyed 5 per cent, of the hogs, causing great fears that it might turn 

 out to be the dreaded cholera of the West. In several localities in the 

 Middle States hogs brought from the West have shown abnormal symp- 

 toms, which were at once set down as those of cholera. Such indi- 

 cations are reported in Chautauqua, Wyoming, and Chenango, New 

 Yorkj Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Chester, and Cambria, Penn- 

 sylvania. Some counties lost 10 per cent, of the stock of animals, 

 while in others the mortality was nominal. In most cases it is speci- 

 fied that native hogs were free from this infliction. It was some- 

 what extensive in Maryland. Several farmers in Queen Anne lost 



