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1st of September. I ara safe in saying that one-third of the hogs in the 

 county have died -^-ith it, and more than one-lialf in particular districts. 

 I said it was improperly called cholera, because in no Htnge of the dis- 

 ease is there any excessive discharge from the bowels until just before 

 death, and not then except in chronic cases. The great majority die 

 upon the third or fourth day of the attack with all the symptoms of 

 pneumonia. This has been confirmed by post mortem examinations, 

 and when they do recover there has been obstinate constipation of the 

 bowels throughout the disease. I have now two hogs which have recov- 

 ered from it ; one had a great many tumors upon his legs and feet, which 

 did not suppurate, but remained for a long time ; blindness from opacity 

 of the cornea and total loss of tlie hair from the body were also symp- 

 toms in this case. This hog has recovered his eye-sight, but his eyes 

 have changed to an intense black from a chestnut-brown color. The 

 treatment found most successful, in the absence of apples, is calomel in 

 twenty-grain doses for the first two or three days. But there is no 

 longer any doubt in this community that an apple-orchard will both 

 prevent and aid in the cure of the disease. After losing one-half of my 

 hogs, the remainder (seventeen; were turned into an orchard, and not 

 one took the disease, and two that were sick recovered. This is also 

 the experience of others. It has been most confidently asserted that 

 hog-cholera will be cured by feeding parched corn. 



Montgomery County, loica. — Hog-cholera has made its appearance in 

 a few localities. 



Fort Randall, Todd County, Bali. — An outbreak of " splenic or i^eri- 

 odic fever," among beef-cattle, (about 200 head,) at this post commenced 

 in May, 1871, when ten deaths occurred ; in June, six ; in July, ten ; 

 in August, twenty-two, and in September, three. The ei>idemic reached 

 its acme about the middle of July. The total number of deaths in 200 

 head of cattle was 51. Mode of invasion, rapidity of course of disease, 

 and death occurring at an early period, together with the post mortem ap- 

 pearances, prove conclusively thatit waslhe " splenic fever," the affection 

 described by Professor John Gam gee in report of Agricultural Depart- 

 ment for the year 1869. It is highly probable that the cattle arriving 

 here in two different lots have had the disease communicated to them 

 by passing over or having been herded in sections of country previously 

 traveled over by droves of Texas cattle, en route to supply the various 

 Indian agencies along the Missouri Eiver. The disease has not, how- 

 ever, appeared at any other point where cattle are herded and kept for 

 issue as beef, as for instance at the Yankton agency, 15 miles from here ; 

 Whetstone agency, 30 miles from here, and other agencies stdl more 

 remote on the Missouri Eiver. 



Ellsworth County, Kans. — A large number of cattle have died within 

 the last six weeks in this county, with a disease supposed to be " Span- 

 ish fever." Some herds of fine' stock, numbering twenty to thirty head, 

 have lost as high as GO per cent. Texas cattle were not aftected with 

 the disease. Of those examined the gall was found to be five or six 

 times as large as it should be, the spleen^nlai'ged, and the manifold dry 

 and hard. 



Vernon County, ]\Io. — Calves are dying in the eastern part of the 

 county with the black leg, which is very fatal. 



Dallas County, Iowa. — Some deaths are reported among calves and 

 young cattU^, occurring very soon after the stock was turned into the 

 fields from which the corn had been gathered. There is little " smut" in 

 the corn — less than usual. 



Jaclcson County, Ga. — We have had an unusual disease among the 



