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County, Tennessee, exposure brought on n new diseaso ninon/.',' lanib:-;, 

 the prominent symptom of wlrieh ^Yas a s\vcilin<.>' of tlie liead nii<i throat. 

 It Avas generally fiital. In Bai'ton Coanty, J.Iissonvi, scarce live liuiulred 

 sheep a.re left, though large flocks of eiglit hundred or one thousand 

 have been lately imi)orted. In Alameda Oounty, California, excessive 

 r(»cent storms and scanty pasture have caused an increase of 10 per cent, 

 in the losses of sheep. 



Miscellaneous diseases. — A case of consum.ptiou is reported from 

 A^roostook County, Maine, a large fat ewe dying in four days from the 

 first development of the sjrmptoms. In Washington County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, a few imported Leicesters v.ere attacked vvith a chronic cough, 

 vrhich, in some cases, proved tiital. Abruiit change of climate was sug- 

 gested as the cause of this disease. In New Kent County, Virgini'^,,tlie 

 losses from distemper amountx^d to 10 })er cent. In Iiandolph County, 

 North Carolina, a few sheep died from eating too many acorns. In 

 Clay County a third of the sheep under a year old died of somo unknown 

 disease. In Worth County, Georgia, 25 per cent, died of an unknown 

 disease, indicated by the following symptoms : The animal stands with 

 its head near the ground and occasionally coughs, Vvhile a thick, yellow 

 matter exudes from the nostrils, causing constant sneezing. In Fannin 

 County considerable losses resulted from eating bitter mast. In Su- 

 wannee County, Florida, an unknown disease destroyed 10 i^er cent. 

 The sore-head is reported in Pike County, Mississippi. In La Fourche 

 Parish, Louisiana, there was considerable " swelled throat." In Cross 

 County, Arkansas, an unknown disease, similar to murrain in cattle, 

 destroyed 25 per cent. A few^ died from the siime disease in Hum- 

 phreys County, Tennessee. In Ohio County, Ivcutucky, the '• bliiid 

 staggers" prevailed to a limited extent. Iji Allaumkee County, Iowa, 

 there were some losses from brain fever. The deaths were very sud- 

 den, and no remedy was devised. Our correspondent in Uouston Coun- 

 ty, Minnesota, reports a disease prevailing in his ov/n llodc for eight 

 years. It commences with a few pimples under the fore leg where the 

 wool does not grow. It extends gradually, the skin becoming raw over 

 all the uncovered parts of the body. The ulcers eoiit a very bad odor. 

 Eight or ten, thus affected, -were killed. 



DISEASES OF SWINE. 



" Hog cholera " is the term indiscriminately a|)])lied to diseases of 

 swine generally. A fevv cases are reported in Westmoreland County, 

 Pennsylvania, among still-fed hogs and hogs contiued in filthy pens. 

 The i)opular remedy here is removal to clean quarters, Avith free access 

 to rotten wood and bituminous coal. Tn Baltimore County, Maiyland, 

 fifteen hundred died, some farmers losing as many as forty. Much of 

 this loss is attributed to want of proper care. In Iiockiugham and 

 llockbridge Counties, Virginia, entire stocks ha\'e died in a few locali- 

 ties, but the aggregate loss of the countieiii is not at all s.e\ere. In Scott 

 County the loss is about 33 per cent., embracing some entire stocks. 

 The only known pre\'entivo is a mixture of tar and sulphur, fed for 

 some months during the cholera season. In Fauquier County, where the 

 disease was very serious, a. mouth-wash of tar, turpentine, and chlorate 

 of potassa were ejiecti\'(?. Where hogs had access to coal ashes, salt, 

 sulphur, sulphate of antimony, soap-suds, charcoal, or rosin, ]io disease 

 appeared. In Buchanan and Surry (Jounties the loss wa.s 5 per cent 

 No ellicient remedy discovered. It was thought to have been caused 

 by eating jioison mushrooms and unrijxj berries. Cooked food and tar 

 were relied on as preventives. 



