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Gcon/ia. — Loss tweuty-iive per cent, in Pike; twenty per cent, in 

 Warren and Clirtttanooga; ten per cent, in Clayton and Gihner; less in 

 Bntts, Stewart, Taylor, and Walton. 



Alabama. — Loss lifty per cent, in Lawrence; twenty-five in St. Clair ; 

 ten in Jetterson; and slif^Lt loss in Etowali and Tallapoosa. 



Mi.<i.sissip2)i. — Loss lifty per cent, in De Soto; twenty in Coahoma ; and 

 less in other counties. 



Arl-ansas. — Great mortality from measles in Desha. The correspond- 

 ent for Arkansas County says : "Loss from hog cholera, as near as 1 

 can judge, about twenty-five per cent. Since the winter fifty per 

 cent, have died for the want of feed ; the mast failed and the farmers 

 had no corn to feed on, as most of their ground was planted with cotton ; 

 take all together, I think seventy-five to eighty per cent, have died, 

 where the disease prevailed." Loss in Missississi])pi, forty per cent. ; in 

 Montgomery, thirty-three per cent.; in Independence and Madison, 

 twenty per cent. ; in Jackson, seventeen per cent. 



Texas. — In Travis, Fayette, and other counties, great mortality of young 

 pigs is attributed to their eating young cockle burrs. Large losses are 

 reported from Anderson, Coryell, Eusk, and Kaufman. 



Tennessee. — Loss fifty per cent, in Anderson ; thirty in Dyer ; twenty- 

 five in Smith and Lauderdale; 81,000 worth in Union; and considerable 

 in Weakley, Sullivan, Obion, Hawkins, Coffee, Jeft'erson, Greene, Giles, 

 and Campbell. 



Ohio. — Loss less than usual — a little cholera in Butler, Fairfield, 

 Greene, Montgomery, and Wayne. 



Kentucly. — Heavy loss is noted in this State. In Shelby three 

 thousand out of twelve thousand fattening ; iu Oldham, one thousand 

 head; in Henry to an alarming extent ; heavy loss in liockcastle; fifty 

 per cent, in Christian and Laurel; twenty-five per cent, in Nelson; con- 

 siderable in Jefferson, Gallatin, Calloway, Clark, Warren, Lincoln, 

 Kenton, Johnson, and others. 



In Michigan, hog cholera is only reported in Ottawa; and in Wiscon- 

 sin, only in Waushara. 



Indiana. — Hog cholera has been far less prevalent than usual, but the 

 losses range from twenty per cent, downvrards in Warren, Martin, 

 Dubois, Greene, Benton, Pike, Johnson, Carroll, Bartbolomew, Scott, 

 Jefferson, Harrison, Miami and Elkhart. In parts of Tippecanoe the 

 loss is fifty per cent.; fifty per cent, is given in Posey; and in Fayette 

 four-tenths of last year's pigs were lost. The correspondent in Bar- 

 tholomew says: "Hog cholera has prevailed in some localities, while 

 others have escaped entirely. It may be remarked that the disease 

 known as hog cholera has somewhat spent its force, and is not as fatal 

 as when it first made its appearance among us. Whether this abatement 

 of its force and fatality will continue and lead to its gradual and final 

 extinction by natural or unknown causes, I cannot say. It is a matter 

 worthy of note, that hogs in large lots aiul of small range are much 

 more liable to contract the disease than when differently situated." 



Johnson County. — " The hog cholera prevails more or less every year. 

 I suppose the loss will average at least one-tenth for each season. But the 

 actual loss by deaths caused by the disease is not so much the cause of 

 the decrease of the pork product as the prevalence of cholera amoug 

 hogs. Farmers are too cautious of their money and labor to put them 

 in animals liable to such a tatal disease. Pork cannot be plenty or cheap 

 until the disappearance of the cholera from among hogs." 



IUi)tois. — In De Kalb the loss of two thousand old hogs and one 

 thousand pigs is reported; in Crawford it amounts to $20,000; in 



