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North Carolina and South Carolina. While in some localities many herds were 
starving, in ‘Tompkins, New York, “a few died from over-feeding.” The 
‘Spanish fever has been less severe than for many years past; in Barton, Geor- 
gia, twenty cases are reported, a few in Newton and towns, in the same State, 
and some mortality in Missouri and Kansas. Pleuro-pneumonia is reported from 
Baltimore, Maryland, and Montgomery, York, and other counties in Pennsyl- 
vania. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia.—Our correspondent in Hudson, New Jersey, says : 
We had the pleuro-pneumonia in our county during the past year, and fortunately kept it 
in check by a strict quarantine. Thirteen cows died in the herd in which it broke out. Mr. 
John Boyd, jr., their owner, says he purchased a cow in New York city which introduced 
the disease into his herd. His cows were fed on grains brought from the breweries during 
the winter, which in our experience causes them to be more susceptible to the disease than 
cows fed on hay and roots. 
A Maryland correspondent writing from Baltimore county says: 
There is a disease prevailing among cattle in and around this county, proving fatal in 
nine cases out of ten. It is known to be very contagious, and heavy losses have occurred 
in many localities. The disease is pronounced by many experienced dairymen as ‘‘ dangerous,” 
and is as much dreaded as the rinderpest, that dreadful scourge of cattle in Europe. The 
disease has baffled all medical skill, and thus far remedies have proved unavailing; it is 
probably pleuro-pneumonia, or identical with it. TLleavy losses of valuable cows have taken 
place in a number of stables: a loss of 14 in one stable; in another 20; in another a loss 
of 35 is reported out of 38; in another a loss of 30 out of 70; in many other stables the 
losses are in proportion. This same disease prevailed one year ago in this locality, and was 
then called ‘‘lung disease,” but it is now universally conceded to be pleuro-pneumonia. 
The animal when attacked becomes exceédingly sluggish and low-spirited ; appears to be 
not in much pain; refuses food; the secretion of milk ceases from the day the animal is 
attacked ; death follows in from five to ten days—the mortality being almost universal. 
An animal which is discovered to be affected with the disease should be at once removed 
from the herd, as the disease spreads rapidly by contact. A bill will probably be presented 
to the legislature at an early day to prevent this much dreaded disease from spreading to 
other localities. 
Our correspondent from Union district, South Carolina, says: 
Last year cattle seemed to be generally affected throughout the county with a disease which 
attacked them, of all ages and conditions; perhaps nine-tenths of them were attacked, and 
about one-fifth recovered. The disease was styled distemper, or murrain. The cattle when 
attacked grew languid, feverish, lost appetite, became very weak, and generally died within 
ten days from the attack. Those which recovered required several months to regain their 
usual strength, flesh, and spirits. No remedy was successfully used. To prevent the 
disease, after two had been attacked, I used salt, slacked lime, and tar,freely, and had no 
other case. I believe the free use of the above twice a week will prevent nearly all the dis- 
eases among cattle. 
SPANISH FEVER. 
Our correspondent in Vernon county, Missouri, sends us the following : 
Previous to the year 1867 we had but little protection from our State laws, or, if we had any, 
these laws were not enforced, aud great losses in cattle resulted. This is a new and sparsely 
settled county, and, consequently, not as wealthy as many others, yet we have lost in one 
season (1858) in this county over $200,000 worth of cattle by the Spanish fever. This 
disease has been known in this county since 1853, and has been more or less fatal every 
year the Spanish cattle have been driven through. Perhaps I cannot better describe the 
facts concerning this disease than by copying a part of a report made to the Missouri State 
Board of Agriculture, which reads as follows: 
“This disease was first recognized as having been propagated by cattle driven from Texas 
some 12 or 13 years ago; the disease having been in the county some two seasons previous 
to its having been traced to the Texas cattle. 
_‘* From the first breaking out of this fever it was found to be confined to the large roads or 
highways running through the county from south to north, and, finally, was centred on 
the Texas cattle, I believe, in the year 1853, by its being confined to one highway through 
the county over which these cattle passed that year. On this road the disease was quite 
fatal, killing about 50 per cent. of all the cattle on the road, and persons living near the 
watercourses over which the road crossed lost as high as 90 per cent. Captain Freeman 
Barrows and Peter Colley, the one living at the ford of the Osage river, the other near by, 
lost 90 per cent. ; one of them owning about one hundred head, while the other had consider- 
