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DISEASES OF STOCK. 



Anne Arundel County, Md. — A singular disease resembling "blind 

 staggers" has attacked quite a number of horses during the past month. 

 Every case has proved fatal in from two to four hours. 



Cobb County, Ga. — The " blind staggers" has prevailed to some extent, 

 proving fatal iu every instance. The disease has been known in this 

 county since the first settlement, and is supposed to be caused by eating 

 corn not fully matured. No remedy known. 



TJpslmr County, Texas. — Horses have died with "blind staggers" dur. 

 ing the fall and winter. 



Williamson County, Texas. — At least twenty-five per cent, of the one 

 and two-year-old colts have died of distemper within the last two years. 



Monroe County, Tenn. — Quite a number of horses have died of " blind 

 staggers" during the past few months. 



Texas County, Mo. — At least twenty horses have died in this vicinity 

 lately, of " blind staggers," supposed to result from eating wormy corn, 

 of which there is a large quantity in the county, owiiig, I suppose, to the 

 very dry summer and wet fall. 



Augusta County, Va. — Some cattle have died from being kept in corn- 

 fields, the stalks eaten being too dry and indigestible. Also some loss 

 of calves from " black leg." 



Caldwell County, N. C. — A disease known as distemper prevails to 

 some extent. 



Worth County, Mo. — There have been many losses of cattle during the 

 wioter, ascribed to various causes. Some attribute the disease to smut 

 on the corn. Post-mortem examinations made in many cases have 

 shown the " manifold" to be perfectly dry, and the fodder eaten — mostly 

 in stalk fields — to be clogged and so hard as to be almost impenetrable 

 to a knife. Some farmers have lost fifteen to twenty head. 



Lagrange County, Ind. — The fatality among cows and other cattle, 

 caused by smut on corn-stalks, has been much greater than in any 

 former year. 



Osage County, Kansas. — A few young cattle have died, supposed to 

 have been caused by eating smut on corn fodder. ' 



Hoicard County, Md. — Hog cholera has been unusually prevalent, some 

 farmers losing sixty head during the past year. The entire loss in the 

 county has been about three thousand head. 



Montgomery County, Md. — Large numbers of hogs have been swept off 

 by cholera, and farmers are discouraged from purchasing stock hogs. 

 Various remedies have been tried without avail. 



Loudoun County, Va. — There has been a disease among the hogs in 

 this county for the last few months by which some farmers have lost 

 almost their entire stock. 



Alexander County, N. C. — Fully one-third of the hogs of this county 

 have died of a disease heretofore unknown in this section. Some die 

 in a few hours, without any swelling. Others dwindle for weeks without 

 eating, and become mere shadows. Some partially recover, but none 

 seem to thrive after having once been attacked. The disease has not 

 extended to many adjoining counties as yet. 



Caldicell County, N. C. — Hog cholera still prevails to some extent, no 

 effectual remedy having been discovered. 



Stanly County, N. C. — The ravages of the cholera are rapidly thinning 

 the stock of hogs. The disease is partially checked by administering 

 sulphur or spirits of turpentine, as suggested in the agricultural reports. 



Tallapoosa County, Ala. — There is slight complaint of hog cholera in 

 the northern part of the county, but to no great extent. 



