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Hollow Horn. — Several of our correspondents consider tbis term as 

 the synonym of hollow stomach. In all cases it resulted from poor feeding 

 and neglect. Stafford and Surry, Virginia; Madison, North Carolina; 

 and Dallas, Arkansas, report a few cases. 



Mad itch. — This disease was mentioned in the reports from Mercer, 

 Illinois, and Nemaha, Nebraska. 



Sore tongue. — A few died of this malady in Georgetown, South Car- 

 olina, and in Eichland, Illinois ; probably death was caused by starva- 

 tion from inability to eat. In Sullivan, Tennessee, all affected recov- 

 ered in six or eight days. The hlack tongue is reported in North 

 Georgia. 



Diarrhea. — In Eussell, Kentucky, some cattle were affected with 

 copious discharges, watery, tar-black, and exceedingly offensive; they 

 fed greedily but fell oft" rapidly, becoming so weak as to be unable to 

 stand; they died of exhaustion and apparently without pain. A few 

 cases of diarrhea are reported in Wilkinson, Mississippi. 



Miscellaneous. — In Wilkinson, Mississippi, a few calves died of a 

 swelling of the sub-maxillary and parotid glands. In Assumption, 

 Louisiana, cattle became weak and emaciated, lumps about the size of 

 an eg,g forming along the back. These, on being opened, were found to 

 be filled with worms precisely of the form and size of bot- worms in 

 horses. In Putnam, Illinois, stock were affected with eye-diseases ; no 

 fatalities. In Washington, Kansas, cattle died so suddenly as to give 

 suspicion of poisoning. A post-mortem examination showed inflamma- 

 tion and gangrene in the stomach and worms filling the intestinal canal. 

 Some attributed this result to drinking stagnant water in the holes of 

 the dry prairie. A case of gross abuse and cruelty is reported in Ealls, 

 Missouri. A large herd, principally the refuse of the Saint Louis 

 market, were grazed on the prairie and herded at night in small inclos- 

 ures. At midsummer, when water was scarce and the animals had 

 no supply except from filthy pools, a disease broke out and one 

 hundred died. In Miami, Kansas, small feeders met with considerable 

 losses through neglect, exposure, and poor feeding. In Del Norte, Cali- 

 fornia, some calves died, it is supposed, of leeches in the liver. 



Several new diseases, as yet unnamed, were reported in different parts 

 of the country. In Caledonia, Vermont, calves about four months old 

 became stupid, refusing to eat and died in convulsions in from twelve 

 to sixteen hours. Many farmers lost half their calves. In Washington, 

 Kansas, an affection of the lungs, accompanied by weak eyes discharg- 

 ing matter, was somewhat troublesome. In Redwood, Minnesota, many 

 young cattle died of an unknown disease ; they were usually taken with 

 stiffness, loss of appetite ; would lie down, never to rise again ; the 

 hind parts became paralyzed ; death supervened in from twenty-four 

 to forty-eight hours, sometimes accompanied with severe pains and 

 sometimes not ; the blood then congested in dark blotches ; the animals 

 affected were mostly in good condition. Older cattle, in Osage, Kansas, 

 exhibited a strange malady. They would stand stupidly, refusing* to 

 eat and then lie down and die. It was mostly the best cattle that 

 were thus affected. In Nemaha, Kansas, in herds kept during the sum- 

 mer in close range and fed on prairie-hay, many cattle apparently in 

 good condition previously were found dead without any apparent 

 disease. In Butler, Kansas, many Texas cows, heavy with calf, died 

 suddenly of an unknown disease. In Eiley County, Kansas, close herd- 

 ing, cruelty, and starvation have brought in new types of disease for 

 which, as yet, no popular name has been found. In Wasco, Oregon, 

 during twenty years, there was a foot-disease resulting in the entire 



