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aud Hancock, Iowa; CharitoD, Maries, Jefferson, Washingtou, Mont- 

 gomery, Benton, Christiau, Pettis, Cass, and Fraukliu, Missouri ; Marshall, 

 Howard, Miami, Johnson, and Cherokee, Kansas; Eichardson, Ne- 

 braska. On the Pacific coast some of the reports indicate the results 

 of the first visitation of the disease, which was not developed until 

 1873. Sonoma County, California, reports a loss of 5 per cent. ; stabled 

 horses, especially livery-horses, were the most severely affected. The 

 disease is also noted in Del Norte, Lake, Stanislaus, El Dorado, Men- 

 docino, and Contra Costa, California; in Polk, Lane, Yamhill, and 

 Grant, Oregon ; in Esmeralda, Nevada. In the Territories the presence 

 of the disease is noted only in Walla- Walla and King Counties, Wash- 

 ington ; Weber and San Pete, Utah ; and Maricopa, Arizona. 



Distemper. — The range and intensity of this malady were quite 

 limited. . It is mentioned in three counties in New England, viz, Somer- 

 set, Maine ; and in Franklin and Grand Isle, Vermont. It was noted 

 in Franklin, Northampton, and Adams, Pennsylvania; in Baltimore 

 and Frederick, Maryland ; in Madison, King George, Smyth, Eussell, 

 and Scott, Virginia ; in Yancey, McDowell, Alamance, Watauga, Green- 

 ville, Davidson, and Wanen, North Carolina ; in Fannin and Towns, 

 Georgia; in Williamson, Texas; in Woodruff, Arkansas; in Grundy, 

 Johnson, Maury, Meigs, and Eobertson, Tennessee ; in Jeflerson, Tucker, 

 Grant, and Harrison, West Virginia ; in Trimble, Lewis, Laurel, Eussell, 

 Livingston, and Metcalf, Kentucky ; in Huron, Perry, and Jackson, 

 Ohio ; in Orange, Indiana ; in Eichland, Wisconsin ; in Chariton, Osage, 

 and Lincoln, Missouri ; in Brown and Cloud, Kansas. The only visita- 

 tions at all severe were in Jefferson, West Virginia, where the cases 

 were of a malignant type; in Eussell, Kentucky, where the deaths 

 amounted to nearly two per cent., and in Metcalf, Kentucky, where half 

 of those not stabled and treated died. In some cases it is called colt 

 distemper, from the fact that only colts were affected with it. 



Blind staggees. — Several of our correspondents attribute this dis- 

 ease entirely to feeding damaged grain. The disease was found only in 

 the corn-growing regions of the South and Southwest, a few only being 

 found in Southern Kansas. Our correspondent in Kerr, Texas, says 

 that the corn in that region was infested, during its milky stage, by a 

 sort of caterpillar, leaving a very noxious dust or powder in the husk. 

 Grain being fed generally without winnowing, much of this poison was 

 absorbed by the horses feeding upon the damaged corn. In the disease 

 as here developed a sack of pus was formed within the head, just below 

 the line of the eyes. In many cases instant relief was given by passing 

 a sharp instrument or stick up the nostril and tapping the sac, which 

 instantly discharged its noxious contents. Another effective remedy 

 was to bathe the space between the ears with spirits of turpentine, and 

 rub freely with a hot smoothing-iron. This disease was quite destructive 

 in Williamsburgh, South Carolina. It was noted in Taylor, Florida, and 

 in Lauderdale and Smith, Alabama; in the last-named the deaths 

 amounted to three per cent, of the cases. It occuired in Newton and 

 Lauderdale, Mississippi ; in Palo Pinto, Blanco, Gillespie, Bandera, San 

 Saba, and Upshur, Texas ; in the last-named the loss amounted to one 

 per cent. It was also troublesome in Independence, Sharp, and Hemp- 

 field, Arkansas ; in Fayette and Johnson, Tennessee; in Greenwood, 

 Eice, and Barton, Kansas. 



Colic. — This disease is attributed to poor feed and exposure in 

 Lawrence and Dauphin, Pennsylvania. In Williamsburg, South Caro- 

 lina, it destroyed half the mules brought from the West in 1872 and 

 1873. It was noted in Lauderdale, Alabama, and was severe in Cross, 



