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to sheep kept ou low, marshy ground. In {Saugcimon, Du Page, aud 

 Whitesule Connties, Illinois, foot-rot was slight. A few died in Scott 

 County. A few flocks in Jackson County, Iowa, were affected. 



Scab. — The scab has been exterminated from Berkshire County, 

 Massachusetts, by removing affected animals and by greater care of the 

 others. In Chautauqua County, ]New York, it prevailed among a few 

 flocks, as also in Suffolk and Columbia, but not to so great an extent as 

 formerly. It is also mentioned in Sussex County, New Jersey. In 

 Texas the scab is reported as slight in Blanco, Matagorda, Burleson, 

 Austin, Medina, Bandera, and Hunt Counties. It was more serious in 

 Fayette, Nueces, and Uvalde, aiid in Kendall it affected full half the 

 sheep in the county. In Bandera it was easily cured by an application 

 of carbolic soap or a strong decoction of tobacco. In ]\Iissouri the scab 

 was extensive in Henry County and very severe in Benton, causing the 

 shedding of wool. The loss here is about 10 per cent. In Lawrence 20 

 per cent, of the flocks are affected ; in CaUhvell, 25 per cent.j in Clinton, 

 5 per cent. A few cases were rc[)orted in Jefferson, while in Barton 

 scarce five hundred sheep were left, although large flocks of eight hun- 

 dred to one thousand had been lately imported. In Be Kalb no flock 

 was free from tlie scourge. In Coles County, Illinois, scab had pre- 

 vailed, but was disappearing. It alsp appeared in Houstoii County, 

 Minnesota. 



EoT. — The rot is prevalent to some extent in Patrick County, Vir- 

 ginia, and is very severe in Scott County, where the loss is fully 10 per 

 cent, of the flocks. In Currituck County, North Carolina, the loss has 

 been 10 per cent. In Buncombe and Wilkes Counties it especially at- 

 tacks sheep kept too long in small inclosures or on low, uuirshy lands. 

 Some losses arc reported in Ashe County, and symptoms of the disease 

 in Madison County — copious discharge of mucus and blood from the 

 nostrils, &c. Eot is also reported in Kershaw County, South Carolina. 

 In Georgia it prevailed to- a small extent in Chattooga County, and was 

 very severe in Franklin, being aggravated by exposure during an 

 unusually severe winter, in Bibb County, Alabama, 25 per cent, of 

 the flocks died. In Amite County, Mississippi, the loss was 10 per cent.; 

 it also did some damage in Pike County. In Polk, Decatur, Sullivan, 

 and Humphreys Counties, Tennessee, rot prevailed to a limited extent, 

 but mostly among sheep poorly sheltered and fed on corn. In Clackamas 

 County, Oregon, a disease, formerly very destructive, has reappeared in 

 great virulence, threatening to sweep the flocks of that State. Its local 

 designation is " leech in the liver." Its first indications are found in a 

 swelling under the chin, which enlarges till it fills the whole space between 

 the bones of the lovrer jaw. TRe animal does not, at first, manifest any 

 special uneasiness, but soon it begins to dwindle and finally lies 

 down and dies. A i)ost-mortem examination shows the liver to be in- 

 fested with leeches and the svrollen parts under the jaw to be filled with 

 water. 



Grub in the head, — A few cases of grub in the head are reported 

 from Aroostook County, Maine ; Le Grand Isle County, Vermont- Supe- 

 rior care has amost extirpated this with other diseases of sheep formerly 

 prevalent. Slight indications of the disease were observed in Albany 

 and Suffolk Counties, New York, and in Kent County, IMaryland. A 

 few sheep died in Kosciusko and Cravt-ford Counties, Indiana. An effec- 

 tive remedy was here found in the injection of tobacco tea up the nose. 



DISEASES FEOJI EXPOSUEE. — In Accomack County, Virginia, ,seven- 

 tenths of the lambs were lost by exposure to the severe weather. One- 

 half the lambs dropped in Sampson County also died. In Morgan 



