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In the stock yards of Lake County, Ohio, into which southern and 

 western cattle are brought, deaths have occurred, but it is not certain 

 that they were caused by splenic fever. 



In Fauquier, Virginia, the disease followed the introduction of Texas 

 cattle, and large numbers of native cattle died. 



The same result followed a like course in Knox County, Tennessee ; 

 and the fever is reported also in Surry and Burke, Xorth Carolina, and 

 in a few counties in IsTorthern Georgia. 



Foot and mouth disease. — Epizootic aptha, brought from Massachu- 

 setts, exists in three herds, in a town of Eockingham County. Great 

 care has been exercised, by the use of dry lime on the stall floors, and 

 an application of carbolic acid, to ju'event its spread. No fatal casoe 

 have occurred. The disease was carried to various points in INIassachu- 

 setts, from Brighton Market. Prompt and thorough measures were 

 employed in stamping it out, with general success. oSTo fatal cases are 

 reported. 



in Ehode Island it has been of a very mild type, yielding readily to 

 remedies. It has been verj^ i^revalent, but has now disappeared. 



Animals from Albany or Brighton, infected with the virus of epizo- 

 otic aptha, were brought into Litchfield, Middlesex, Hartford, Fairfield, 

 and other counties in Connecticut, but the^^ were usually isolated very 

 l)romptly, and effectually treated. There has been no mention of deaths 

 from this disease. • 



In Westchester County, I^ew York, several cases are reported among 

 cows and oxen, but no deaths. It has been quite prevalent in Dutch- 

 ess, 1,500 cases being reported, though there were none at the date of 

 the report. None were fatal, yet the milk of course was unfit for use, 

 during the eight or ten days of its continuance. ^ 



Abortion is reported in "Windsor County ,Vermont ; in Essex and Wor- 

 cester, Massachusetts ; in Otsego and Chenango, (in some herds 10 to 

 15 cases,) in New York ; in Burlington, New Jersey ; in Berks and Bea- 

 ver, Pennsylvania. It is little known in the West and South. The re- 

 ports of the present year indicate a decrease of losses from this cause 

 in prominent dairy districts. 



Disease from smut in corn. — A considerable loss has been attributed 

 to smut in corn in several of the Western States. In some instances the 

 exciting cause is assumed to be the eating of large quantities of corn- 

 stalks, without a sufficient supply of Avater. A herd of 102 steers, all 

 in apparent health, were taken from a poor pasture and put in a fresh 

 stalk field, in Marshall County, Illinois, and fourteen were found dead 

 the next morning, and five more on the following morning. ]n Dane 

 County, AVisconsin, a number of deaths occurred after the cattle were 

 turned into the stalk fields. In Kansas, losses were heavy from this 

 cause ; 200 died in Coffey County, and some in Shawnee and Osage. 

 The report from Jackson, Iowa, attributes losses to the corn-stalks, 

 " causing engorgement of the paunch, and laceration, inflammation, and 

 death ;" and similar loss appears in Black Hawk, Bremer, Harrison, Lee, 

 Chickasaw, and Delaware; in the latter, ^'•post mortem examination dis- 

 closes in the folds of the stomach a dark substance, similar to smut, 

 which it is believed to be." In Hillsdale and Barry, Michigan, in 

 Holt, ]Missouri, and in Houston, Minnesota, similar effects of eating 

 stalks are reported. In lloanoke, Virginia, one-eighth of the young 

 cattle have died, " supposed to be caused by grazing in wheat fields. " 



Fleuro-pneumonia, which has been so fatal in the vicinity of Balti- 

 more and the District of Columbia, and to some extent in the neighbor- 

 hood of Philadelphia, has been less prevalent during the past season. 



