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a movement of manj; flocks from several counties to the Eio Grande, 

 where the sanitary conditions are said to be much better. Scab exists 

 in Bell, Navarro, Bee, Collin, San Saba, Williamson, Austin, DeWitt, 

 Uvalde, and Medina. In most of these counties the malady was of a 

 very mild type. Bathing infected animals in a strong decoction of to- 

 bacco is highly recommended as a remedy. Fountain, Indiana, and 

 Boone, Madison, Vermillion, Clinton, and Schuyler, Illinois, report a 

 slight degree of scab, but not in well-tended flocks. The tobacco de- 

 coction was, in several localities, used with success. One flock of 300 

 in Schuyler was entirely freed by this remedy. In Iowa, Decatur re- 

 ports one-fourth of the sheep scabl)ed ; Marion, 10 per cent. In Clin- 

 ton, Missouri, 50 per cent, were affected ; in Montgomery, 5 per cent. 

 The disease was also noted in Pike, Washington, Putnam, Vernon, Clay, 

 and Lincoln. Brown, Kansas, never had a case, although just across 

 the Missouri Eiver the disease is rife. In Lincoln, an overdriven and 

 abused flock from Missouri lost one-half. Woodson lost 8 per cent, of 

 her tine-wooled sheep ; coarse-wooled not being affected. It was quite 

 severe also in Sumner. In Plumas, California, it caused a large loss of 

 wool, and a loss of 5 per cent, of the sheep. It is noted in Del Norte, 

 San Diego, Stanislaus, Amador, Contra Costa, and Sonoma. In many 

 instances it was the direct result of insufficient feeding and neglect. It 

 also appeared in Wasco and Lane, Oregon. Several counties in the Ter- 

 ritories report the presence of scab, viz : Mora, New Mexico ; El Paso, Col- 

 orado ; Morgan, and Rich, Dakota ; Salt Lake and Davis, Utah ; King 

 and Walla Walla, Washington. In some of these counties the disease is 

 very limited, in others it embraces half the flocks. A mixture of quick- 

 silver, lard, and tar is recommended, as well as a preparation of tobac-co, 

 arsenic, and tar. Both these remedies were found effective in Davis, 

 Utah. 



Miscellaneous. — A few sheep, apparently in fine condition, in North- 

 umberland, Virginia, unaccountably refused to eat, and died of apparent 

 starvation. The blind-staggers is reported in King William and Nelson, 

 Virginia, in the former the loss amounted to 1 per cent., in the latter, 

 the disease was attributed to eating ivy. With proper attention, and 

 copious doses of thin gruel, they recovered entirely in ten or twelve days. 

 It is also noted in Sumner, Tennessee. Orange, Indiana, lost 1 per cent, 

 from pneumonia. Wayne, Illinois, chronicles a mortality of 10 per cent, 

 from a dry, hacking cough. In Bee, and DeWitt, Texas, many lambs 

 died of worms. The scours in La Ene, Kentucky, was caused by salt- 

 ing sheep with salt that had been used on meat. Grub in the head 

 was quite destructive in Washington, New York; one flock of two hun- 

 dred and fifty, losing sixty. Medina, Ohio, lost 8 per cent, from the same 

 disease, which was also reported in Huron, and in Coffee, Tennessee. Car- 

 roll, Ohio, lost lightly from paper-skin. Jefferson, Missouri, lost 12 per 

 cent, of her fine sheep from adisease called " runningat-the-nose." Mult- 

 nomah, Oregon, lost 3 per cent, from flukes in the liver. In Clatsop, this 

 disease was developed on new lowlands, while sandy coast soils were en- 

 tirely exempt. The loss in the whole county was between 5 and 6 per 

 cent. In some cases the open winter had caused a considerable falling 

 of wool from the sheep. 



DISEASES OF SWINE. 



Swine were remarkably healthy during 1873. New England, New 

 York, New Jersey, Delaware, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota wer« 

 entirely exempt from prevailing diseases. With the exception of con- 

 siderable loss from black-tooth in Bonhomme, Dakota, all the Tempi- 



