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ing, even to ^'eater extent than during the past two years. There have 

 been several cases in my immediate neighborhood within a few days. 



Hall County, Ga. — One-tenth of all the cows in this county have died 

 this month with a disease heretofore unknown in this section, and we 

 have no name for it. 



DISEASE AMONGr HORSES AND MULES. 



Kane County, Utah. — A disease has appeared among our horses. The 

 head swells as snake-bitten heads do. The animal appears stupid, and 

 after a few hours the brooks in the eye, or membranes between the upper 

 lid and ball, swell, so as to burst and bleed. If fatal, they die in about 

 twelve hours. Xo remedy discovered as yet. Mules seem to be more 

 subject to the disease than horses, and mares more so than geldings and 

 studs. 



CHICKEN CHOLERA AND HOG CHOLERA. 



Austin County, Texas. — Chicken cholera is prevailing ; loss generally 

 eighty to ninety per cent. ; in some instances all have died. Alum, hav- 

 ing been recommended, was tried without success ; while green shallots 

 and garlic, chopped fineand mixed with the food, seem to be beneficial. 



Coahoma County, Miss. — Hog cholera prevails in the county ; not fully 

 developed ; loss cannot as yet be estimated. 



Eiclanan County, Tenn. — Hog cholera has been very fatal in some por- 

 tions of this count}'. 



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PROTECTION OP BIRDS. 



Alleghany County, Md. — The past month of April has been unusually 

 rainy. The law passed at the last session of /)ur State legislature for 

 the protection of insectivorous birds is generally respected, and we look 

 for A^ery desirable results to our farming interests therefrom. 



THE FISHERIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



PasquotanJc County, N. C. — The fisheries in this section have done well. 

 The catch has been fair and the prices good. Perhaps the fisheries on 

 Albemarle Sound and is tributaries have brought into the counties bor- 

 dering upon them over $1,000,000 this season. This business is large 

 and i)rofitable. 



GRASSHOPPERS. 



Salt Lalce City, Utah. — We are surrounded, encompassed about, and 

 overwhelmed with grasshoppers. These insects have hatched out the 

 past spring by myriads, on the benches around the city, and in most of 

 the unfrequented streets, so that now in the outside lots they are doing 

 a great amount of damage. In my lot, which is on the east part of the 

 town, they have destroyed all my young green vegetables, also my pie- 

 plant, gooseberries, strawberry plants, potato vines, grape vines, old and 

 young, and stripped nine-tenths of my trees of foliage, and now are cut- 

 ting off the pea vines. As an instance of their voracity, on the 24th of 

 April my place looked lovely in the morning, at noon the small insects 

 commenced to travel in a body, and before sundown the place was as 

 bare as if nothing had been planted, and they, staying around, kept it 



