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Louisa, Jones, Johnson, Hardin, Jones, Greene, Decatur, Marion, Jack- 

 son, and Harrison. Missouri reports a loss of nearly 50 per cent, in 

 Pike, and 30 per cent, in Caldwell, from cholera and associated diseases; 

 Bollinger, 15 per cent. ; Maries and Carroll, 10 per cent. ; Worth, Bates, 

 Nodaway, Ralls, Stoddard, 5 per cent. ; minor losses in Texas, Polk, 

 Holt, Benton, and Lincoln. Jefferson lost 40 per cent, in one district 

 from eating a copious black-oak mast; death supervened in forty-eight 

 hours; drenching with coal-oil was found beneficial. In Richardson, 

 Nebraska, the disease was destructive on the Missouri bottoms, some 

 farmers losing all ; Nemaha lost 12 per cent. 



Thumps. — This disease is frequently mentioned in connection with 

 cholera, and very propably has often been confounded with it. It is 

 reported in Laurens, Georgia, and in Madison, Suwannee, Columbia, 

 and Pilatka, Florida. In the last-named county, in connection with 

 the staggers, it carried off 25 per cent. It is also noticed in Wells, In- 

 diana ; Ralls, Missouri ; and in Polk, Oregon. 



Quinsy. — This disease was noted in Coahoma, Mississippi; Ran- 

 dolph, Arkansas; Putnam, Tennessee; Clinton and Pratt, Illinois; 

 Marion, Hardin, and Montgomery, Iowa; Christian, Missouri. 



Mange. — Mange is reported in James City, Virginia ; Smith and La- 

 fayette, Mississippi ; Wood, Texas ; Stone and Fulton, Arkansas ; De- 

 fiance, Ohio ; Cloud, Kansas. 



Miscellaneous. — In Montgomery and Berks, Pennsylvania, hogs 

 from the West exhibited a considerable mortality, while native hogs 

 did very well. An unknown disease was observed in Cameron. An- 

 other was developed among pigs in Washington ; the prominent symp- 

 toms were cough, heaving flanks, high fever; death supervened in 

 forty-eight hours. In Southampton, Virginia, an undesignated mal- 

 ady inflicted great loss; symptoms variable; sometimes the whole 

 body was covered with sores ; cough, loss of bristles, &c. In Burke, 

 North Carolina, " measles" carried off' 25 per cent. An unknown dis- 

 ease was destructive in Perquimans. In Catoosa, Georgia, some fat- 

 tening hogs died very strangely in a few hours, turning green after 

 death. The disease was too wide-spread to have been caused by 

 poisoning. Half the stock-hogs of Jefferson, Alabama, were destroyed 

 by some unknown malady; they were very poorly fed. In Bell, Texas, 

 many fine hogs, in good condition, refused to eat for several days, and 

 then died frothing at the mouth, in apparently great distress. Many 

 hogs were poisoned by cuckold burrs in Red River, Kaufl'man, and Col- 

 lin. These were not injurious if the hogs had other feed. In Harrison 

 some died of eating cotton-seed, and in Upshur from eating bitter mast. 

 Kidney- worms are noted in Upshur and Cherokee. In the last named a 

 new disease called staggers is noted; symptoms, blindness, giddiness, 

 jerking of the whole system ; death in a few hours. In Medina a loin 

 disease, incurable, destroyed 7 per cent. In Lucas, Ohio, kidney- worms 

 were successfully treated with soapsuds, arsenic, sulphur, &c. In San- 

 gamon, Illinois, a new disease appeared ; symptoms, blindness in the 

 right eye, deafness of the right ear, right leg and shoulder weak, head 

 carried right side down; death in three to ten days. In Clinton, trichi- 

 nae and catarrh were associated with cholera and quinsy. In Clinton, 

 Iowa, a serious lung disease is attributed to the practice of permitting 

 hogs to sleep in piles under straw stacks ; coming suddenly into the 

 cold air, they contract disease. A strange fatality has been developed 

 among hogs in Placer, California. Animals apparently in perfect health 

 at night are found dead in the morning; loss estimated at 7 per cent, 

 up to date of report. The losses from starvation and neglect are in 

 many localities almost frightful. 



