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lost 2,000. Montgomery and Fayette lost 10 per cent. Hamilton, 

 Hume, Marion, Sandusky,Van Wert, Butler, and Scioto met with smaller 

 losses. Michigan and Wisconsin rei)ort no cases. In Indiana, Pike lost 

 33 i)er cent. Brown, Daviess, and Hamilton, 10 per cent. Smaller losses 

 in Jennings, Marion, Martin, Orange, Eipley, Clay, and Franklin. In 

 Cass, 140 hogs from Missouri died, but native hogs escaped infection. 

 In Dearborn, only hogs near the towns were affected. In Illinois about 

 a third of the hogs died in White and Wayne, and about a fourth in 

 Scott, Wabash, De Witt, Logan, and Sangamon. Losses are also noted 

 iu Alexander, Pike, Fayette, Johnson, De Kalb, Lee, Saint Clair, Jasper, 

 Crawford, Douglass, Franklin, Jersey, Kankakee, Macou})in, Macon, 

 Mason, Montgomery, Lawrence, Peoria, Piatt, Putnam, Richland, Ver- 

 million, Williamson, Whiteside, Warren, Clark, Edwards, Effingham, 

 Morgan, Scott, and Washington. In several cases it is stated that the 

 disease was first developed in hogs brought from Missouri. In Edwards 

 our correspondent, after several years of success with tartar-emetic as a 

 remedy, finds it no longer effective. Many farmers thought they avoided 

 some of the force of the disease by feeding hogs corn upon the ashes of 

 freshly-burned cobs. The mixture generally used as a preventive and 

 cure in Shelby was one bushel of powdered charcoal, three bushels of 

 wood-ashes, lialf a bushel of slaked lime, one peck of salt, five pounds of 

 sulphur, and one pound of copperas, kept accessible in an open trough 

 and moistened with swill. No cases are reported in Wisconsin or Min- 

 nesota. In Iowa, Cass lost 3,000, and Lucas several thousand ; Pot- 

 tawattamie, $5,000 worth ; Tauia, 33 per cent. Smaller losses in Adair, 

 Poweshiek, Story, Appanoose, Greene, Marion, Montgomery, Polk, 

 Louisa, Dallas, Decatur, Delaware, Guthrie, Hancock, Hardin, Harri- 

 son, Mills, Madison, and Linn. In Missouri the loss averages from 50 to 

 75 per cent, in Saint Genevieve, and 40. per cent, in Bates, with smaller 

 losses in Jefferson, Macon, Marion, Pike, Christian, Clinton, Nodaway, 

 Boone, Chariton, Iron, Lincoln, Perry, Bollinger, Pemiscot, Moniteau, 

 Holt, Vernon, and E.ipley. A trace of cholera was found in Johnson, 

 Kansas. In Spencer, Kentucky, this disease is called by some erysip- 

 elas or St. Anthony's fire. 



Quinsy. — This malady is reported in Duplin, North Carolina, and 

 Coahoma, Mississippi. In the latter the loss amounted to 20 per cent. 

 The most effective remedy was feeding corn soaked in a solution of 

 c()i)i)eras. Some losses were felt also in Marion, Kentucky ; Bureau, Illi- 

 nois; Poweshiek and Story, Iowa; and Washiugton, Missouri. 



Hed mange. — This disease is reported in Gloucester and Elizabeth 

 City, Virginia ; De Kalb, Alabama ; Holmes and Tishemingo, Missis- 

 sippi ; Wood, Texas ; and Benton, Arkansas. The remedy most popular 

 here was doses twice per week of a teaspoonful of sulphur, alum, and 

 saltpeter. It was also noted in Kanawha, West Virginia. 



Mucellaneous. — Franklin, Vermont, lost 10 i)er cent, of its store-pigs 

 by a new disease characterized by paralysis of the back and hind legs ; 

 few recovered. Young pigs also died of imdescribed symptoms in. 

 Ontario, New York, and Northumberland, Pennsylvania. The thumps 

 were bad in Volusia, Florida, and in Cannon and Union, Tennessee. A 

 few cases of crooked neck terminated fatally in Rapj>ahannock, Vir- 

 ginia. Lice were extirpated in Campbell, Tennessee, by anointing 

 with kerosene. In Caroline, Virginia, a dropsical affection yielded to 

 no remedies. The measles are reported in Cherokee and Chowan. 

 Cotton-seed poisoned some in Jackson, Georgia, and Milam, Texas. 

 Some of our Southern correspondents suspect that to this cause should 

 be referred many cases reported under the head of cholera. In Mont- 



