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tories may be placed in the same category. Several States report a little 

 disease of some kind in one or two counties, in the other States the 

 number of counties mentioning hog-diseases bears a small proportion to 

 the whole, and the maladies are generally of a mild type and limited 

 range. Some localities, especially in the South, were subjected to 

 •severe losses, but no general epizootic malady is indicated in any of 

 the States. The popular nomenclature is still very loose, frequently des- 

 ignating by a single name, cholera for instance, maladies of specifically 

 different type. Hence the following abstract of our reports can make 

 no pretensions to scientific accuracy. 



Cholera. — A few cases of what is called cholera are noted in 

 Dauphin and Westmoreland Counties, Pennsylvania, and in Washing- 

 ton, Baltimore, Wicomico, Saint Mary's, and Montgomery, Maryland. In 

 the last-named county the symptoms were those of a malignant fever, 

 producing constipation, general debility, and stiffness of the legs. In 

 one locality one-fourth of the hogs died, and the residue were left in a 

 feeble condition. In Virginia the disease assumed a more malignant 

 character. Scott County reports a loss of 50 per cent, from cholera and 

 quinsy ; Eappahannock, from one-third to one-half, some farmers 

 losing tbeir whole stock ; Page, 50 per cent., no effective remedy being 

 found; Floyd, 40 per cent, in some localities, in others none at all; 

 Enssell, one-eighth ; Montgomery, 8 per cent.; Patrick, 10 per cent.; 

 Clarke, 12 per cent., in the northeastern part ; Fairfax, 5 per cent. ; 

 Washington, 300 head ; Madison, Pulaski, Frederick, Gloucester, 

 Lunenburgh, Surry, Smyth, and Warren, some losses. In the last-named 

 county a pint of apple-brandy, administered in two doses, was found 

 effective. Our correspondent in Highland suggests that cholera gen- 

 erally follows a heavy mast year ; hogs, in the following year, being 

 scantily fed, are more liable to destructive diseases. 



la North Carolina heavy losses were fewer. Polk lost one-third; 

 Guilford and Stanly one-fourth ; Wake, one-fifth. Here the disease was, 

 by some, called typhus fever ; it yielded ^o no remedies. Gaston lost V2 

 I)er cent, from cholera and quinsy ; Rockingham, 10 per cent. ; Bun- 

 combe, 5 per cent. ; Greene, 150 head ; Yancey and Granville, 3 per 

 cent, in some localities ; smaller losses in Lincoln, Mecklenburgh, Mc- 

 Dowell, Madison, Franklin, Caswell, Henderson, Stokes, Davidson, 

 Randolph, Caldwell, Ashe, Martin, Harnett, and Warren. In Alamance 

 some hogs died from eating mushrooms, and their death was attributed 

 to cholera. A mixture of lard, castor-oil, and kerosene were found 

 effective in some cases. In Stanly, where the loss was estimated at 25 

 per cent, of the whole stock, the disease was characterized by a bloody 

 diarrhea; the causes assigned were exposure and lack of food. Small 

 losses were experienced in Clarendon and Williamsburgh, South Carolina. 

 In Georgia losses were not generally severe. Early lost one-third ; 

 Gilmer, 5 -pev cent. ; in Worth, in some districts, nearly all died ; 

 Upson, 2^ per cent.; McDuffie, Marion, Coweta, Lee, and Han- 

 cock, a smaller percentage. In Lee the disease attacked first pigs 

 and then older hogs, usually sweei>ing all on the plantation. In 

 advanced stages the animal broke out into eruptions all over the body. 

 In Florida it is mentioned only in Madison. In Alabama, Coffee lost 50 

 per cent. ; Perry, 25 per cent. ; Greene, 15 per cent. ; Lauderdale, 5 per 

 cent. ; Russell, 4 per cent.; smaller losses in Saint Clair, Crenshaw, Wil- 

 kinson, and Tuscaloosa. In Mississippi, Yalabusha lost one-third; in 

 some parts of La Fayette three-fourths died of cholera and red mange ; 

 Lauderdale lost 5 per cent. ; in some parts of Grenada whole herds 

 wcFC swept. Bossier is the only parish of Louisiana reporting cholera 



