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Hog cholera i)revaiLs iu Jackson County, Kortli Carolina, where no 

 remedy i.s necommended except compulsory extermination of diseased 

 animals. In llandolpli County one-fourth of the entire stock were lost. 

 A gill of tar administered in the early stages of the disease was consid- 

 ered a specilic. The loss iu Buncombe County was G per cent., largely 

 brought on by lack of care. In Ash (bounty the loss w;is 10 per cent. 

 jSTo eflectivc remedy discovered. In Clay County the disease prevailed 

 among hogs less than a year old. Something like " hog cholera" 

 has destroyed 25 per cent, of the hogs of Caldwell County, some stocks 

 losing 50 and 75 per cent. Sporadic cases are reported in Hertford 

 County. 



In Clarendon County, South Carolina, on the Santee Swamp, man;y 

 young hogs have died. In Williamsburgh County some farms have lost 

 their entire stock, but the aggregate loss has not been over 5 per cent. 



In Laurens County, Georgia, the loss from cholera was 1 ]>er cent., 

 and a still greater mortality Irom the " yellovr-sweat. "' Symptoms, a' 

 yellow, waxy secretion I'roin the skin; discoloring the bristles, followed 

 by loss of spirits, appetite, and flesh. (Ireat losses are reported in the 

 southern part of Worth County. The animals affected discharged blood 

 freely and vomited dark mucous matter. No speeiflc is relied upon ; but 

 common polk-root, fried in grease, is i'cd to sick hogs. The disease vras 

 fatal on some farms in j\racou County. Another disease, also called 

 cholera, was d(\structive. The animals have mnnge and liee; they grow 

 dull and their bristles turn the wrong way. 



In Columbia. County, Florida, 25 per cent, died v, ith <holera, and as 

 many more Avith the " thumps." 



In Lauderdnle County, Alabama, less cholera than usual is reported. 

 The Berkshire and Essex breeds, lately introduced, are supposed to bo of 

 superior hardiness iu resisting disease. The cholera prevailed to some 

 extent in Greene and Walker Counties, 



Iu yala]>usha. (bounty, Missisy^ippi, 5 per cent, were lost, but by many 

 the loss is nttributed to "ticks." In Jasper County there v.^ere many 

 deaths from neglect and starvation. Cholera was ^'ery fatal in many 

 parts of Lee County. The best preventive is spirits of turpentine 

 mixed with vegetable food. In Clarke County the heaviest loss was 

 from lice. 



In Austin County, Texas, the loss was 25 per cent, from different dis- 

 eases. A swelling and inflammation of the throat was very destructive, 

 causing death from sufibeatiou. Our correspondent successfully treated 

 this disease by burning the skin with a liot iron, producing a counter 

 irritation. He lost half his pigs and shoats by an uiikuown disease; 

 symptoms, high fever, short breath without cough, death ensuing the 

 second day. in Cherokee County a few cases of cholera occured. In Eusk 

 County many hogs were lost by starvation. In Fort Bend County kidney- 

 worms and mange destroyed 10 per cent. In Upshur County the total 

 loss was a third, mostly from mange. 



In Phillips County, Arkansas, a disease arises from eating cockle 

 burrs. In Crittenden County cholera destroyt^d 5 per cent., and lice a 

 still larger mimber. 



in O))ion County, Tennessee, there was a loss of 20 per ci'iil.; cliolera 

 always prevails in yearr, of a heavy beeeli-mast. In su(;h cases a, worm 

 is fo-vud in the intestines 10 or 12 "inches long, which sometimes eats its 

 way through the bowels. It is remarkal>le for its keen, black- Iiead, The 

 remedies used are salting, slopping, copperas, alum, and sulphur. In 

 Hickman County the loss was 10 per cent.; when sulphur, copperas, or 

 leached ashes were freely used there was little disease. In Davidson 



