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Bayfield county, Wisconsin —The potato bug has destroyed nearly all our 
crops. 
Appanoose county, Iowa.—The potato crop is almost ruined by the ravages 
of the potato bug, both the Colorado and the old striped bug, the latter literally 
covering the ground, and flying from place to place, and even swarming in the 
dwellings, gardens, &c. 
Des Movnes county, Iowa.—The potato bugs (the old kind) in immense num- 
bers have stripped our potatoes of their leaves. 
Lee county, lowa—The old-fashioned potato bug is very numerous, and is 
doing much damage. 
Sangamon county, Illinois —The Colorado potato beetle is not so bad as last 
year, but the dry weather and the old-fashioned potato beetle ( Lytta vittata) 
are injuring the crop not a little. 
Cumberland county, New Jersey—A few of our potato patches have been 
attacked by the potato bug and been completely stripped of their leaves. 
Morrow county, Ohio—Potatoes never promised better until two weeks ago, 
when the striped bug appeared and has been very destructive. 
Mahoning county, Ohio——The potato bugs are very bad through the county ; 
many fields have been eaten up. 
Marion county, Ohio—The potato bugs are doing great injury to the crop, 
but more potatoes have been planted this year, and many are doing well. 
Geauga county, Ohio.—The potato bug has made unusual ravages in some 
parts of this county. 
Tippecanoe county, Indiana.—Late potatoes nearly a failure, owing to the 
bugs and drought. 
THE SPANISH FEVER. 
Soporus, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, ILLINOIS, 
August 4, 1868. 
Your favor is received, saying you have Professor Gamgee investigating this 
desperate malady now killing our cattle. 
After a careful consideration of all the facts in the case, I offer for your con- 
sideration the following : 
SYMPTOMS WHILE LIVING. 
First. Fever, dead appearance of the hair, and a slight swelling between the 
inferior maxillary bones, accompanied, in most cases, with a dull look of the 
eyes. 
Bee sea) A hacking cough, drooping of the head and ears, dragging, reeling 
walk, breathing hurried, and in odor resembling the first stages of gangrene in 
man. 
In milch cows, a sudden failure of the milk; the animal shows distress, 
frequently lying down, and almost always rising immediately and walking about. 
In most cases the bowels are found constipated, but are normal; others scour ; 
in nearly all the urine is bloody. 
T'o a close observer it will now be seen that the animal is fast passing into 
the third stage. From the first, all will be struck with the sudden failure of 
flesh. 
Third, The breathing is more hurried, panting; rises with great difficulty ; 
breath very offensive; nose resting on the ground, a yellow mucus constantly 
running from the nose. If the animal can rise at all it gets up first with its 
hind parts, and showing evident signs of paralysis of the whole body, with 
almost constant jerking of the tendons and reaching of the head and neck. At 
this point death soon comes to the poor sufferer, some dying in spasms, some are 
delirious. 
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