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Bureau, three hundred hogs; in Edwards and Champaign more loss 

 was noted iu rolling- districts and in "timber" than in prairie; and 

 other counties, in which cholera or other diseases have prevailed, are as 

 follows: Piat, (three hundred in one township,) Monroe, Menard, Rock 

 Island, Macoupin, Logan, Jo Daviess, Fulton, De Witt, Stephenson, 

 Marion, Mercer, Kendall, Jackson, Henderson, Boone, Gallatin, Morgan, 

 Lee, Greene, Williamson, (twenty-tive per cent.,) Fayette, Pike, Massac, 

 Clinton, White, (fifty per cent.,) Stark, Scott, and Pulaski. The follow- 

 ing extract illustrates one aspect of the preventive question : 



So tliorouglily am I convinced of the use of preventives, that for the last three 

 or four years I have been iu the habit of feeding my hogs daily vs'ith a mixture 

 composed of various ingredients, the basis of which is kitchen slops, to which is 

 added a plentiful supply of salt, bran, Irish jjotatoes, cabbage, turnips, and other veg- 

 etables, all of which I endeavor to raise for that purpose in sufficient quantities. The 

 above are all boiled together and fed when cool, in large troughs, to which all the hogs 

 have access. A few years since I lost some hogs with cholera ; but, since I commenced 

 the above practice, I have not lost a single hog with cholera, and but very few with 

 any other disease ; although I keep a nuuiber, varjang from twenty to forty head. At 

 the same time my neighbors are continually complaining to me of their losses, and 

 although I explain to them my plan of treatment and that my hogs don't die of 

 cholera, very few of them seem to profit by my experience. Well, they reply, we don't 

 know how it is, we slop our hogs also sometimes, and still they die. Besides slop, I feed 

 my hogs dry corn daily. Whether or not it is the slop which keeps off the cholera, I 

 cannot positively say, but I certainly should be afraid to feed them entirely on com or 

 auy other dry food. 



Deaths of pigs are common in Minnesota. 



Iowa. — In three townships inlVIahaska the loss is $5,000 ; one thousand 

 head in Appanoose; losses also occurred in Louisa, (twenty per cent.,) 

 Clarke, Pottawattomie, Jackson, Warren, Cedar, Page, Butler, and 

 Mills. ■ 



Missouri. — The disease is reported in a few counties. The correspond- 

 ent of Howard says: "Cholera among hogs has prevailed to some 

 extent, but chiefly among the hogs of those who are careless in not 

 crossing with pure animals of good breeds. Those who are i)articular 

 in keeping up the stock by crossing Chester, Poland, and Berkshires, 

 have lost very few. With old stock bred in and in, the loss has, in 

 some instances, been very great." 



Nehrasl-a. — A few hogs fed upon slops of breweries and still-houses 

 in Douglas have sickened and died. In one case a lot of corn that the 

 government refused to accept was fed to hogs, and considerable mor- 

 tality resulted. 



No mention of the hog cholera is made in California, but the following 

 from Stanislaus County indicates a decrease in pork : 



The busiuess of swine raising is in the hands of a few and is followed as a distinct 

 one. Those in it keep from two hundred to fifteen hundred or more, herding them in 

 the foot-hills during the rainy season, where roots and mast abound. After grain is ciit 

 and threshed in July and August on the plains, the owners of hogs buy the fields for 

 the season and turn their hogs into them, Avhere they feed until fall, when the fat ones 

 are sold for pork iu the best market, usually San Francisco. From the scarcity of mast 

 and roots, the increase in herds was less the past year than formerly. The use of the 

 header in harvesting, iu j)lace of the reaper, leaves less grain in the field than former 

 years, consequently the hogs made less pork this fall than other years. The falling off" 

 in the increase of stock and iu the weight of i:)ork iu this county may be jdaced at two- 

 tenths. 



EAYAGES OF DOGS. 



A partial enumeration of the sheep killed the past year by dogs, as 

 returned from four hundred and seventeen counties, aggregating 00,387, 



