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through the loose tissues. When no such opening was made, sooner or later a pro- 

 fuse purulent discharge took place from the nostrils, usually beginning with one, and 

 after two to tifteen days the other. The loose cellular tissue was readily infiltrated 

 with pus, and the glands enlarged all along down the neck to the trunk. The blood 

 infected induced a typhoid or rather pyajiuic condition. 



Properly managed, no internal treatment is needed, and in most cases is very injurious 

 if attempted. Tlie animal should be kept dry and comfortably warm, but iu good 

 "weather permitted to run out during the day. Although he may not be able to swallow 

 any liquid, he can readily eat, and should have roots and fruits, and well-moistened hay, 

 fodder, meal, shipstulf, &.c. As soou as any tumor a|)pear8, bathe well night and morn- 

 ing, till the tumor opens, with kerosene. One, two, or three applications have, iu every 

 instance that has come to my knowledge, effected the opening iu twenty-four hours 

 from the first bathing, whatever the stage of the malady. If it should not open the 

 tumor, or the symptoms are too lu-gent to allow delay, open freely with a sharp knife; 

 and every auimal so treated w ill get well promptly, however hopeless the case may 

 seem. Of course, the horse must not be used till convalescent. 



Bee, Texas. — A kind of farcy has proved quite fatal. It commences under the jaw 

 and spreads over the entire body, accompanied with slow fever. The loin distemper is 

 quite prevalent among horses on the prairies. It is contagious between the sexes. 



Victoria, Texas. — Several cases of a disease which commenced with a swelliug of the 

 head, particularly about the lips; considerable secretion of water from the eyes; 

 ■wasting of the flesh ; no eruptions of the skiu. Of six cases, three proved fatal, after 

 lingering six to eight mouths, losing the hair from their manes and tails several months 

 before death. 



JFilUamson, Texas. — Forthe past three or four years, in this and adjoining counties, at 

 least one-half of the colts have died before two years old. I know of no name or rem- 

 edy for the disease. It ruus through the young stock in the fall, and what it does not 

 then kill generally die in the winter. They become stiff in the legs, and walk with diffi- 

 culty. Many of them swell about the head and breast, until the swelliug breaks and 

 discharges bloody water. At such times, flies are apt to blow the sores, and if not 

 attended to in season the screw worm will kill the animal. Calomel is the best rem- 

 edy I haA'e used to destroy these worms ; one or two applications to the wound will gen- 

 erally suffice. 



Horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, and, in fact, all animals, are liable to be destroyed by this 

 pest in the fall season. When wounded, from auj' cause, the flies soon find the fresh 

 blood, and deposit germs of myriads of worms, which, in a few days, are full grown, 

 and about half an inch long. This is a critical time with the stock-raiser, for if not 

 attended to early the evil is much more difficult to cure. 



Dunn, Wisconsin. — Last fall the influenza took off a great many colts in some locali- 

 ties. In one neighborhood about thirty died. They were pastui-ed on the common, 

 where there is plenty of uuiuiproved laud, and it was supposed bj' some that the dis- 

 ease originated from the drinking of stagnant water in a lake in the vicinity. 



Waushara, Wisconsin. — There has been a disease among horses from which quite a 

 number have died. The horse's throat seems to swell and close up the passage. It is 

 a new thing for this county, and no one knows how to treat it successfully. 



Napa, California. — Dr. Lockwood reports a disease as follows : " A disease, familiarly 

 called the ' crazy disorder,' has prevailed to some extent among common stock horses, 

 coming from the southern counties of this State, where it has existed for some years. 

 It is characterized by a low state of the system, induced by poor feed. Head symp- 

 toms are predominant ; animals attacked often die, and probably none ever recover 

 their normal condition. One so diseased is worthless ; will not repaj" further care. Mr. 

 N. Coombs has lost fifty head this winter, exclusively among his inferior stock." The 

 horses referred to are what we here call Spanish horses, and are usually left in large 

 hands, without special feed or care, like the wild horse of Mexico. 



DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



Diseases of sheep are less general than for two or three years past, 

 mortality and the slaughtering house (in former years) having reduced 

 the numbers of the weak and diseased victims of neglect. 



Foot-rot is still the most prolific source of loss, most abundant in 

 Ohio, severe in portions of Michigan, and found to some extent in other 

 Western and in the Middle States, with very few cases in New England 

 and the South, and none in the Territories and Pacific States. Scab is 

 most general in Texas, is reported iu several counties iu Missouri, and 

 is occasionally found iu all sections east of the Mississippi, though few 

 cases are reported iu the Atlantic States east and south of New York. 



