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In Geor^a it is stated that '' the dog is tbe worst disease afflicting 

 flocks," and that "few farmers raise sheep on account of dogs." 



In Monroe, Tennessee, " the loss by dogs is 300." 



Dogs in Missouri have killed more than all diseases combined. 



"About 300 head of sheep have been destroyed by dogs the past 

 year" in Sullivan, Indiana. 



Our correspondent in Kipley, Indiana, after referring to dogs as the 

 gTeat terror of the wool-growers, says truly : " Our legislators are very 

 cowardly upon the subject of making laws to protect sheep husbandry." 

 Similar statements are made from Wisconsin and Michigan. 



DISEASES OF SWINE. 



The diseases among swine, however various, are popularly referred to 

 "hog cholera," as a rule. Whenever symptoms are detailed in the 

 returns, they are given as aids in determining the character of the 

 malady. The losses reported are less this spring than usual, indicating 

 far greater soundness of health than in some former years. There is 

 still more of disease and death among swine than in any other class of 

 farm animals, and probably less is accurately known of the character of 

 the maladies afflicting the species. 



Having superior care and better feed in the Middle and Eastern States, 

 there is comparatively little loss reported in those sections. In York 

 County, Maine, some cases of disease have been reported among improved 

 breeds. The preventive practice of feeding a tablespoonful of spirits of 

 turpentine in milk to a hog over six months old obtains in Chautauqua, 

 JS'ew York. Some loss is mentioned in Columbia County. Stock hogs 

 from Indiana have sickened in York, Pennsylvania, and 30 per cent, of 

 that class have died. Abortion has prevailed in Dauphin, attributed to 

 over-feeding with unground corn. Two hundred and fifty pigs under six 

 months old have died in Washington, the remedies applied being salt 

 and alkaline substances ; and some fatality is reported in Cumberland. 

 Perry, Indiana, Beaver, Union, Fulton, and Berks; in the latter county 

 the symptoms reported are " loss of appetite, weakness in back and hind 

 legs, with a nervous twitching of the head, which gradually extends to 

 the whole body." 



In Montgomery, Maryland, one-half to three-fourths of the hogs of cer- 

 tain neighborhoods have died. The loss in Howard is estimated at 3,000, 

 and slight losses have occurred in Baltimore and Kent. 



More attention has been paid to swine in some parts of Virginia than 

 usual. In portions of Gloucester disease has nearly swept away the race 

 of swine ; in some instances in Alexandria every individual has been 

 lost; in a portion of Clarke 70 to 80 per cent, have died ; loss 25 per cent, 

 in Fairfax; some unknown disease has carried off numbers in Princess 

 Anne, and losses have occurred in Albemarle, Roanoke, Pulaski, North- 

 ampton, Cumberland, Nelson, Lee, Prince William, Highland, Lancas- 

 ter, Surry, Smythe, and Patrick. 



A considerable amount of mortality is reported from North Carolina; 

 a loss of 50 per cent, is declared in Wautauga County; from 50 to 75 per 

 cent, in certain stocks in Cunituck; 40 per cent, in portions of Chowan ; 

 large numbers from a new disease, "of a lung fever type," in Gaston; 

 20 per cent, of the fattening swine in Haywood; 33 per cent, in Eowan ; 

 2-5 per cent, in Davie; 20 per cent, in Lincoln; 30 per cent, in Greene; 

 nine out of every ten attacked in Yadkin ; 20 per cent., mostly near fruit 

 distilleries, in Stanley; 33 per cent, in Alexandria; and smaller losses in 

 Sampson, Union, Surry, Terrell, Duplin, Rockingham, Jackson, Macon, 



