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cattle, and 161,016 sheep; now it has 28,373 cattle, and only 51,757 

 sheep, showing- a decrease, in five years, of 109,859 sheep, and an in- 

 crease of 11,213 cattle, chiefly cows. The change has been too snddeu 

 and violent, and reaction is taking place. Medina is not an exceptional 

 county. A similar state of things prevails over the whole of Northern. 

 Ohio, the number of cows having increased, and that of sheep dimin- 

 ished, until now we average one cow to ever^^ man, woman, and child, 

 and have scarcely sheep enough to supply our own woolens. " 



HEAVY WOOL-CLIPS. 



Boone County, III. — My father has 22 ewes, grades, which in June 

 Bheared 130 pounds of clean wool, or an average of 5^^ pounds per head. 

 They had had good pasture and good care, and each has raised a thrifty 

 lamb. 



CATTLE IN SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN REGIONS. 



CheroJcee County, N. C. — At this season of the year fat beeves are 

 being driven from the mountains, which were poor when sent hither in 

 the spring. Every spring, Tennessee dealers drive into our mountains 

 hundreds of cattle, which they sell the ensuing fall for beef. 



DISEASE AMONG HORSES. 



Stanislaus County, Cal., August 1. — In my July report I mentioned the 

 appearance of a new disease among horses and mules in the east section 

 of this county. Since then it has spread and increased, and there is 

 probably now near two hundred head of old and young animals affected, 

 lifot more than six or seven have died; still, none are getting better. 

 All that I have seen are affected very similar to the account of the 

 "nervous phenomena," in the splenic fever, on page 90 of the "Report 

 on the Diseases of Cattle," recently forwarded me from the Department. 

 A neighbor, two and a half miles south of our farm, has forty or fifty 

 horses and mules affected. Other farms have from one to ten horses 

 or mules in different stages of the disease. We have twenty odd head, 

 none being affected, as we can see. We attribute our exemption to the 

 fact that our stock has free access to salt at all times. 



September 1. — The new disease among horses, in the east part of this 

 county, has not increased since my last report. About two hundred 

 have been affected, while only ten have died. The others are slowly 

 recovering, but none will be tit for work for some length of time. 



Marion County, Ky. — There is some distemper among the horses and 

 mules; also, there has been a greater amount of lockjaw among the 

 horses this summer than ever before known. A specific for lockjaw is 

 to immerse, if possible, the animal in cohUwater, excej^t the head ; and 

 if no pond or stream is near that is deep enough for immersion, pour the 

 water on as continuously as i^ossible. A horse in the very worst stage 

 of lockjaw, if immersed in a pond, creek, or river, will be relieved in 

 thirty minutes. 



A Queens County (New York) correspondent states that the disease 

 which threatened to become epidemic among horses in New York City, 

 has almost entirely disappeared among those takeii from the city to 

 pasture in that county. 



