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Green Lake county, Wis——The potato bugs are numerous and threaten to 
destroy the entire crop, but the season is so far advanced that a portion may be 
spared. 
Cass county, Mich —TVhe ten-lined potato bug (beetle) is rapidly extending. 
First seen here last year. 
Mahoning county, Ohio—The cut worm has been very bad on many pieces 
of corn, otherwise corn would be good. 
Stark county, Ohio—Corn is backward and injured by worms. 
Linn county, Kansas —The chintz bugs have injured late wheat somewhat, 
spring wheat in particular. 
Rutherford county, Tenn—Insects are preying upon some crops. ‘The red 
ants, the louse, (apis,) and grasshoppers are injuring the late planting, and the 
boll worm has appeared in several localities. 
DISEASES OF HORSES AND CATTLE. 
Holmes county, Miss—That dreadful pest of stock and cattle (sharbone) 
has again made its appearance in its most terrible form. Males being so valua- 
ble, and tlre impoverished condition of the people, prevents experiments, but I 
am satisfied that the cauterization of the affected part with nitric acid, and the 
internal administration of muriated tincture of iron, would prove beneficial. One 
party has used nitric acid internally, 30 drops in a quart of water with a 
little sugar, used as a drench, and the success seems certain. I did not have 
nitric acid, but administered last night to. two mules 50 drops of the nitro-mu- 
riatic acid, with decided benefit: they are living this morning, and I shall 
repeat the dose. The poison oak root was tried, as recommended in the April 
number of the Agricultural Report, but with no success whatever. I know ot 
five mules cured one after another by the administration of nitric acid—30 
drops—with the external use of pine tar. Some attribute this disease to the 
sting of a fly. It attacks cows, horses, mules, &c. In my neighborhood 108 
mules have died within the last 18 days. 
Clay county, Ky—¥rom the 1st of May to the 14th of June there has been 
prevalent here a disease that has killed 50 to GO head of cattle. It seems to be 
a kind of fever. Some die in three days, and from that up to 20 days. When 
opened they are found mortified inside. I have found calomel a certain cure, 
giving to three-year olds 40 grains; under three years, 20 to 35 grains. 
HOG CHOLERA. 
Madison county, Miss —I have closely observed the various symptoms and 
stages of a disease among swine, known as cholera, and have tried nearly all 
the published remedies, both as preventives and cures, with but little success. 
About-seven years since I determined to adopt remedies used by my father near 
forty years ago for a similar disease. I have not lost a hog from cholera when 
I used the remedy as a preventive, and in every instance when, from, neglect, 
the disease made its appearance among my hogs, I have succeeded in curing it 
in afew days. Procure two or more large barrels and have them placed conven- 
ient to the kitchen; deposit all the pot-liquor, dish-water, and greasy water of 
any kind, refuse pieces of bacon, and a few buckets full of soap-suds. Let it 
stand a few days or until fermentation begins; then add to each barrel one 
bushel of pine charcoal, (I have never used any other kind,) a half bushel of 
corn-meal, one handful of salt, and one-half pound of copperas. Let it stand a 
short time so that the coal may become thoroughly saturated with the liquid, 
then pour into troughs made for the purpose. One barrel thus prepared, given 
