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ent deprecating the theories assigned as its cause, designed, as he be- 

 lieves, " for the express purpose of conceaJing the truth," while the real 

 causes ought to be known — but he fails to enlighten the public as to the 

 nature of those causes. Tlie only cases reported in the West are in 

 Warren County, Illinois. 



Pleuropneumonia has been the cause of much loss and anxiety in 

 Chester County, Pennsylvania, near Chadd's Ford, on the Octoraro ; in 

 Beaver County, Pennsylvania; and in Baltimore, Maryland. Some dis- 

 ease, assumed to be pleuro-pheumonia, exists in Larimer, Colorado. In 

 Washington County, Iowa, a large number of milch cows have been 

 diseased, and ten deaths are reported from •' a fever resembling pneu 

 raonia." 



The correspondent in Bremer County, Iowa, says : " Occasionally 

 there is a case of what is called hlackley among young cattle, mostly 

 yearlings, usually in the spring. Pretty thorough lileeding in the 

 neck, on the opposite side to that affected, if not too long delayed, gen- 

 erally effects a cure." 



Blacldeg is one of the most general ot the diseases affecting our cat- 

 tle. A few cases occur in many localities where its existence is not indi- 

 cated by our returns. It attacks calves and young cattle mainly, after 

 leaving winter feed for pasturage. Keports of its ravages come from 

 liiley County, Kansas; from Jackson and Pochahontas, Iowa; Meeker 

 and Mille Lac, Minnesota ; Larimer, Colorado ; and from Perry, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Charbon, so severe for several years past in the South, has abated ; 

 isolated cases are reported in Tangapaho, Louisiana. 



Milk fever has caused some loss m Livingston, Michigan, and in Lo- 

 rain, Ohio. 



Diseases known locally as " murrain," " dry murrain," '' bloody mur- 

 rain," and " staggers," have prevailed to some extent in different parts 

 of the South ; but the symptoms are not given with sufficient clearness 

 to enable one to tell the proper name of the disease. 



Starvation is the most common as well as most serious malady. 

 Throughout the West and South much fatality should be attributed to 

 exposure and lack of nutrition. In Iroquois, Illinois, one-third of a lot 

 of Texas cattle died. 



In Amite County, Mississippi, a disease among cattle has been fatal, 

 commencing with a swelling of the throat. 



The correspondent of Greene, New York, says : " There has, to a lim- 

 ited extent, been a few cases, in the northern towns of this county, of 

 what some call ' cow pox ;' it consists in the swelling of the limbs, 

 terminates in sores, and often extends to the udder and body. Yielding 

 readily to a few doses of sulphur, with tlie application of dilute carbolic 

 acid, but cases fatal. Some attribute the cause to the wet season and 

 tiies." 



SPLENIC (OR SPANISH) FEVER. 



The passage of laws to prevent the summer driving of southern cat- 

 tle, and their strict enforcement, have limited the losses fi'om this dis- 

 ease in a marked degree. A few cases are reported. One in Chester 

 County, Pennsylvania, furnishes another illustration of the invariable 

 and peculiar features of this disease. Last summer a lot of cattle from 

 North Carolina stopi)ed at Avondale. Soon after they left, other cattle 

 turned into the meadow they had occupied became sick. Some twenty 

 were attacked, and about three-fourths of them died. No other cattle 

 were turned into the same inclosure, and the disease did not spread fiu-- 



