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Caldwell, Eutberford, Wilkes, Hertford, Burke, and Orange. Great 

 fatality, involving three-fourths of the entire stock of oS'ewberry, South. 

 Carolina, is reported, and small losses are mentioned in Spartanburg 

 and Lexington, in the same State. 



Georgia'has suffered little loss ; 50 per cent, is reported in Clinch, 30 

 in Morgan, and small losses in Bartow, McDufifie, Lumpkin, Jackson, 

 Harris, Catoosa, Floyd, Butts, Forsyth, Towns, Pike, Walker, Clay, 

 Miltou, Clayton, Putnam, Newton, Pulaski, White, Franklin, and Heard. 



Our correspondent in Dallas, Alabama, lost ii out of 50 old hogs ; pigs 

 were not so generally attacked. In Lawrence a loss of 25 per cent, is 

 returned, but the mortality was reported slight in Tallapoosa, Marshall, 

 De Kalb, Calhoun, Clarke, Jefterson, Etowah. 



Very little disease among swine is reported in Mississippi; a few 

 cases have occurred in the following counties: Attala, Kemper, 

 Keshoba, Pike, Amite, Tippah, Yalabusha, Yazoo, Lafayette, Winston, 

 and Carroll. In Gonzales, Texas, a disease, assumed to be " an affec- 

 tion of the lungs," carried off most of the pigs and a few hogs. The 

 fattest were first to fall ; of a litter of pigs, fat and apparently healthy 

 at night, half would sometimes be found dead in the morning. In Up- 

 shur, a loss of one-tenth of the pigs is credited to carelessness in per- 

 mitting them to eat ad libitum Ireshly ground cottou-seed. A few losses 

 appear in Austin, Collins, Harris, and DeWitt. 



There is scarcely a live pigiu Benton County, Arkansas; the result of 

 a cough and wasting away. A loss of 20 per cent, is returned from 

 Newton County. Large losses occurred in Clarke, attributed to " too 

 much cotton, and want of corn." One third of the stock in Jackson 

 County died, generally in full tlesh. Losses are also reported in John- 

 son, Montgomery, Pulaski, Sebastian, and Washington. 



Less mortality than usual has occurred in Tennessee ; very few coun- 

 ties reporting heavy losses, among which are Humphreys, (60 per cent.,) 

 Smith, (50 per cent, of all hogs since November,) and Greene, (40 per 

 cent.) Smaller losses appear in Sumner, Sevier, Meigs, Williams, 

 Giles, Weakley, Campbell, Coffee, Sullivan, Montgomery, Monroe, 

 Henry, Jefferson, Johnson, Robertson, Hardiman, and Hickman. , 



In Morgan, West Virginia, half of the pigs and one-fifth of the fatten- 

 ing hogs died last fall, and the disease is commencing its ravage! this 

 spring. Losses are also reported in Berkeley, Brooke, Cabell, Fayette, 

 Jefterson, Tyler, and Wayne. 



Our correspondent in Fayette, Kentucky, where " hog cholera " has 

 prevailed to a great extent, with heavy losses, sends the following report : 



Our club was induced last spring to appoint a committee of scientific members to 

 investigate this disease, which thej- did by makiug very thorough post mortem exami- 

 nations of the hogs that died of the disease. They have not yet made a formal report 

 of their proceedings, nor will tjiey until they make many more examinations, which 

 they will do as opportunity presents. They have observed that there is no constancy 

 in the appearance of organs invaded by the disease. In one the change of structure 

 Avill be observed in the lung, in another the stomach, another the small intestines, 

 another the large bowels. The microscope, however, revealed a constant change in the 

 blood, the globules being creuated or shrivelled, and a large increase of the colorless 

 globules. The impression was made upou the committee that the seat of the disease 

 was the blood, the constitution of which was changed by some jioison acting upon it, 

 of the nature of which they are not yet satisfied. Acting upon this view, they have 

 recommended a treatment and preventive which has beea largely used and has gener- 

 ally been vei'y successful, in some cases, however, proving to be apparently insufficient. 

 In the latter cases it is believed that the prescription was used in too suiall doses. 

 For a preventive they recommend the carbolic acid in strong solutions, (dissolved in 

 glycerine and as strong as possible,) to be given in doses of twenty drops three times 

 per day to each hog or shoat of four months old ; younger ones smaller doses. Milk or 

 slop of any kind which the hog will eat, is a good vehicle in which to administer it; 

 nay for ten hogs take three teaspoonfuls of tlie solution, put in two or three gallons 



