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"The only exception to the universal healthfulness of Florida is reported from 
Manatee, where they sometimes “become sanded by feeding where the grass is 
short, but are easily relieved by physic, if seasonably given.” 
No unusual diseases of horses are returned from Alabama. The same may 
be said of Mississippi, except Madison county, where many losses have resulted 
from sudden attacks resembling colic; the animal swelling rapidly, and stand- 
ing until he falls dead in a few hours from the attack. 
A Texas correspondent says: 
About three months ago a disease made its appearance among the cavalry horses at San 
Antonio and Austin, Texas, which spread among our stocks of horses on the prairies, from 
which the losses in this and adjacent counties must have been ten per centum, mostly among 
one and two year olds; it was supposed to be black tongue. The treatment was generally 
washing their mouths with strong copperas water; some used a weak solution of nitrate of 
silver. 
The correspondent for Craighead county, Arkansas, says: 
No unusual disease has prevailed among horses with the exception of buffalo gnats, which 
have been very troublesome for some three weeks during early spring, frequently causing 
death by the animal inhaling large quantities. In Drew county an unusual disease prevails. 
The following statement comes from Desha: 
A disease, vulgarly called ‘‘ sharbone,” prevailed during the summer months of last year, 
and proved fatal to a large number of horses and mules. The disease is said to have origi- 
nated in France, some 20 years ago, and was then very fatal; it spread over Europe, with 
the exception of Ireland. From the best information I can get I am led to believe that at 
least 250 mules and horses died in this county alone during the past summer from this disease. 
The animal was attacked in the neck, and the first evidence of it was the appearance of a 
swelling on each side of the throat, something like wind-galls; the swelling gradually 
extended back to the shoulders, andthen appeared to concentrate in the heart, killing the 
animal very suddenly. Although many remedies were resorted to, I know of but one case 
where a cure was effected after the disease had fully developed itself, and the remedy then 
used was the juice of the roots of the common poison oak vine, extracted by boiling the 
roots, and continuously applied for two days, externally, as hot as the animal could bear 
the bath. 
From Tennessee the distemper is reported in Montgomery, and a fatal disease 
has made its appearance there under the name of “twelve-months’ glanders,” of 
which the correspondent says: “It is very slow, but very sure.” 
In Hickman, the “yellow glanders” has prevailed to some extent among 
horses and mules bought at government sales. 
No disease is mentioned by our corps in Louisiana save a few cases of gland- 
ers in Carroll parish. ‘Is there any remedy?” asks the correspondent at that 
point. None; none whatever. 
In Texas, glanders also prevails to some extent in Lamar; distemper, in 
Nueces; Spanish fever, in Burnet; farcy, in Red River; also a disease, not 
named, in Bell county. 
DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
Exemption from epizodtics and all uncommon maladies of cattle is distinetly 
announced in a large portion of the counties reported; in the northern States 
exceptions to this rule are comparatively rare. The diseases most fatal are 
pleuro-pneumonia, Spanish fever, murrain, distemper, abortion, black leg, &c. 
Starvation in some cases has resulted from the pernicious practice of burning 
the range, which destroys much of the value of southern vegetation. In Duval 
county, Florida, a disease vulgarly named “salt sick,” supposed to result from 
eating plants growing near salt water, has been fatal. In Baker, Florida, an 
unknown disease has destroyed 2,000 cattle during the past year. A disease, 
the symptons of which are not given, caused the loss of fifteen per centum of the 
cattle of Charlton county, Georgia. A disease of the gall, affecting milch cows, 
occasioned some loss in Washington, Tennessee. Murrains and distempers, 
without defined characterics, are reported from various quarters, particularly in 
