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all their hogs. It was more or less prevalent also in Frederick, Bal- 

 timore, and Washingtou. Virginia reports it in Shenandoah, King 

 "William, Caroline, Pnlaski, Pittsylvania, Spottsylvania, Mecklen- 

 burgh, Goochland, Chestertield, Washingtou, Rockbridge, Northampton, 

 Floyd, and Bedford. In these counties the scourge was comparatively 

 light, the aggregate loss, in no case, amounting to over 15 i^er cent, of 

 the animals in a county. In Gloucester the loss ranged from 25 per 

 cent, to 75 per cent, in some sections, though flie average of the county 

 was probably not much over 10 per cent. In Eappahannock andNanse- 

 moud half the hogs died ; in Southampton, 33 per cent.; in James City 

 and Montgomery, 25 per cent. Heavy losses are also reported in some 

 counties of North Carolina. Harnett, Polk, and Perquimans lost 50 

 per cent. The last county reports this loss under the head of an un- 

 known disease, but it is probable tliat it was as much entitled to the 

 name of cholera as manj^ cases to wbich it was applied. Mitchell lost 

 40 per cent.; Madison and Columbia, 33 per cent.; Cliowan and Greene, 

 25 per cent.; Duplin and Wilkes, 20 per cent.; smaller losses were 

 felt in Lincoln, Gastoja, Surrey, Edgecombe, Franklin, Davie, Ashe, 

 Yancey, Yadkin, Wilson, Stanly, Caswell, Hertford, Cumberland, 

 Currituck, Rutherford, Macon, Henderson, Haywood, and Alexander. 

 In South Carolina, Union, Richland, and Williamsburgh lost 10 per 

 cent, or less. In Georgia, Telfair lost 90 per cent.; Lee and Wilkinson, 

 50 per cent.; Dawson, Milton, Wayne, and Rabun, 33 percent.; Dooly, 

 Henry, Bullock, Towns, Terrell, Worth, and Montgomery, 25 per cent.; 

 Laurens, De Kalb, Johnson, Effingham, Forsyth, Gwinnett, McDuffie, 

 Catoosa, Pickens, Gilmer, Floyd, Lincoln, Butts, Baker, and Charlton, 

 lost 20 per cent, or less. In Wayne an effective remedy was found in 

 doses of turpentine and laudanum. In Florida, Santa Rosa lost 15 to 

 20 i3er cent., and Madison 5 per cent. In Alabama, Lawrence lost 75 

 per cent.; Dale, 07 per cent.; Crenshaw and Mobile, 50 per cent.; Cal- 

 houn, 33 per cent.; Covington, 30 per cent.; Coffee, 25 per cent.; Bibb, 

 Saint Clair, Clarke, Lowndes, IMadison, Pike, De Kalb, Bullock, Henry, 

 and Autauga, 10 per cent, or less. In Mississippi, Le Flore and Grenada 

 lost 50 per cent.; Pike, Attala, and Smith report a considerable mor- 

 tality. .In Louisiana, this malady was confounded with the charbon in 

 Washington, where the loss was 50 percent.; it also raged in East Felici- 

 ana, Morehouse, and Bossier. In Texas, Titus lost 60 per cent., and found 

 no effective remedy; Red River and Fannin, 50 per cent.; smaller losses in 

 Smith, Lamar, Kaufman, Harris, Dallas, Blanco, Austin, and Victoria. 

 The range of mortality grows somewhat smaller in the inland Southern 

 States. In Arkansas, Garland and Pulaski lost 50 per cent. ; Stone, 20 

 percent.; Dallas, Pope, and Sebastian, Howard and Franklin, smaller 

 percentages. In Tennessee, Cocke, Lauderdale, and Sequatchie lost 

 about one-third ; Dyer, Marion, Bledsoe, and Hawkins about one-fourth. 

 Smaller losses in Anderson, Lincoln, Campbell, Madison, Sevier, Trous- 

 dale, Houston, Loudon, Cannon, Fayette, Meigs, Jefferson, De Kalb, 

 Fentress, Blount, Hardin, Sullivan, Polk, Hancock, Perry, Dickson, 

 Jackson, Macon, Weakley, Robertson, and Montgomery. In West Vir- 

 ginia losses not averaging above 10 per cent, in any case were noted in 

 Wirt, Cabell, Boone, Kanawha, and Mason. In Kentucky the losses 

 were heavier, amounting to 50 per cent, in Mercer and Edmonson ; 33 

 per cent, in Franklin and Pulaski. Smaller mortalities in Jefferson, 

 Cumberland, McLean, Shelby, Boone, Boyle, Carroll, Daviess, Fayette, 

 Graves, Hopkins. Jessamine, Livingston, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, 

 Meade, Simpson, Woodford, Clinton, Johnson, Rockcastle, Monroe, and 

 Adair. North of the Ohio River the losses decrease. Highland, Ohio, 



