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Pennsylvania.—Dauphin, Erie, Armstrong, Susquehanna and Huntingdon. 
Maryland.—Anne Arundel. 
Virginia.—Lee, Gloucester, Madison, Tazewell, Scott, Patrick. 
North Carolina.—Harnett, Bertie, Mecklenburg, Guilford, Perquimans, Greene, 
Hertford, Richland. 
South Carolina —Columbia. 
Georgia.—Chattooga, Merriwether, Johnson, Catoosa, Morgan. 
Florida.—Levy. 
Mississippi.—Yazoo, Amite, Marion, Madison. 
Louisiana.—Avoyelles, Plaquemine. 
Texas.—Harris, Hays, Navarro, Dallas, Blanco. 
Tennessee.—Meigs, Sevier, Shelby, Fayette, Davidson. 
Kentucky.—Owsley, Carroll, Boone, Rockcastle, Anderson, Franklin, Henry. 
West Virginia —Jefferson, Wood, Putnam and Lewis. 
Ohio.—Holmes, Seneca, Miami, Jefferson, Erie, Butler, Clinton, Geauga, Har- 
rison, Washington, Madison, Highland, Tuscarawas, Coshocton, Athens, Mon- 
roe, Hancock, Wayne, Ross, Perry, Shelby, Muskingum, Carroll and Fairfield. 
Indiana.—Brown, Jefferson, Pike, Porter, Perry.- 
Ilinois —Crawford, Cumberland, Iroquois, Lee, Grundy, Pope. 
Missouri.—Osage, Carter, Phelps, Clark. 
Jowa.—W arren, Kossuth, Montgomery. 
Wisconsin.— Columbia. 
The following extract illustrates the scarcity in those portions of the west 
that suffered most from the drought : 
Ottawa county, Ohio.—Cattle and sheep have fared alike during the winter, viz: on short 
rations. The severe drought set in in June last year, which of course affected the hay crop,. 
and continued all through the summer and fall and cut short the pasture and corncrop. The 
farmers were compelled to feed their horses and cattle at least two months earlier than usual, 
which was so much taken from a scanty winter store. The winter too has been noted for 
being continuously cold, and all kinds of stock have needed more feed than usual, but did 
not get it because their masters did not have it to give; consequently, cattle and sheep will 
come out of their winter quarters looking worse than usual. 
DISEASES OF HORSES. 
Less than the usual amount of diseases in horses is reported. The contagious. 
diseases so prevalent during the war-have disappeared in a great measure. In 
Alabama and Tennessee horses and mules have died from “ eating bad corn,’” 
brought down the river. Glanders is reported in Alleghany and Washington, 
Maryland; in Nelson and Smythe, Virginia; in Rockcastle, Kentucky; in 
Oktibbeha, Mississippi; in Avoyelles parish, Louisiana, and in other counties, 
designated in the following notes. In Gates, North Carolina, a loss of twenty 
per centum from blind staggers is chronicled, and in Emanuel, Georgia, the same 
disease has prevailed to an alarming extent. Lung fever has occasioned some 
los: in Jefferson, Pennsylvania. Inflammation of lungs and bowels have been 
fatal in Livingston, Michigan. 
In Westchester county, New York— 
A great number of horses were taken very suddenly with loss of appetite, shivering, swel- 
ling in the throat, which generally proved fatal in two or three days. The horse doctors 
could do nothing for it; some of them considered it a sort of diphtheria. Whatever it was,, 
not one taken with it survived. 
In Bucks county, Pennsylvania, there is some complaint of lung fever among 
horses ; in York, glanders, colds, and distemper have caused some fatality. 
A few cases of distemper are mentioned in Cecil, Maryland. 
In Virginia the legacy of the war, in glanders and other diseases so prev- 
alent in 1865 and 1866, has mainly disappeared, few counties reporting any 
form of disease. Glanders to some extent is found in Nelson and Smythe; in 
a small neighborhood in Montgomery several horses have died from jaundice ; 
