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Arkansas. la Bradley, Tennessee, and in Taney and Stone, Missouri, 

 it prevailed to some extent, associated with bots. 



Lung-fever. — A few cases were reported, all north of Mason and 

 Dixon's line — from Aroostook, Maine; Chautauqua, New York ; West- 

 moreland, Northampton, and Franklin, Pennsylvania; Kichland, Ohio; 

 and Benton, Iowa. 



Cerebro-spinal-meningitis. — A few cases were noted in Hartford, 

 Connecticut, and in Scott, Iowa. The street-railway horses in Brooklyn 

 were also affected with spinal disease to a serious extent. 



Pleuro-pneumonia. — Some fatal cases occurred among well-shel- 

 tered and well-fed horses in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. It was accom- 

 panied by sore mouth and throat in Saint Mary, Maryland. A few cases, 

 but no deaths, occurred in Otoe, "Nebraska. 



Inflammation of the kidneys. — In North am pton, Pennsylvania, 

 horses, in apparent good health, would suddenly fall helpless. Ulcers 

 would break out upon the hips and run for months, leaving the 

 animal very lame. It was a question whether such horses should not 

 be immediately i)ut out of their misery by shooting. 



Miscellaneous. — In Smyth, Virginia, what is called foot-ail is 

 noted. In Madison,'Nebraska, cracked-hoof and bound-hoof resulted 

 from lack of care. Brain-fever, with some fatality, is reported in Mc- 

 Duffie, Georgia; catarrhal fever in Marion, Indiana. Farcy was noted 

 in Antelope, Nebraska. In Vernon, Missouri, 100 horses died of yellow- 

 water. Several deaths resulted from dysentery in Bureau, Illinois. 

 The sweeny and big-shoulder are mentioiied in Marion, Mississippi. 

 Horses from the East do not thrive in the elevated atmosphere of Boone, 

 Nebraska. In Levy, Florida, horses and other stock swallow very con- 

 siderable quantities of sand. When the grass starts in the spring suffi- 

 ciently to constitute an aperient, horses and mules pass nothing but 

 white sand for two or three days at a time. What is called heart-dropsy 

 killed several good horses in Hancock, Iowa. The symptoms showed 

 great variety, except in the one point of a great and abnormal agita- 

 tion of the heart. In Lawrence, Missouri, horses M'^ere affected with 

 swellings in the legs, which caused great emaciation. In Woodson, 

 Kansas, a malady, supposed to result from epizootic influenza, causes 

 animals to gradually decline in flesh and strength till they die, with 

 little pain. In Labelte, Kansas, a similar disease affected only animals 

 from the East and North. 



DISEASE OF CATTLE. 



Only one county in New England reported any cattle-disease, and 

 that but a limited and local one affecting calves. The Middle States 

 present only a few casualties from abortion, and a few cases of pleuro- 

 pneumonia and distemper. In the South a class of diseases indicated 

 by the unmeaning term murrain are heard of in a few counties, with 

 numerous cases of black-tongue, distemper, &c. Of Western States, 

 Kentucky, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Oregon, present an entire exemption 

 from prevailing diseases. In the other States the greatest loss was ex- 

 perienced from the Spanish or Texas fever, resulting from the importa- 

 tion of Texas and Cherokee cattle. The following is a brief general- 

 ization of cattle-diseases affecting different parts of the country in 1873: 



Texas fever. — This fever was more or less destructive in the range 

 of States from Indiana to Kansas. In Fountain, Indiana, twenty deaths 

 followed the contact of natives with Texans. The southern part of San- 

 gamon, Illinois, was visited during the summer, and hundreds died, occa- 



