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and in Coles County 15 per cent., mostly stock bogs, wcigbing from 50 

 to 100 pounds each. In Peoria County no cases of cholera are reported, 

 but bogs were dyiug of a peculiar disease, wliicb commenced with trem- 

 bling, like a violent cbilJ, after which loss of appetite and stupor super- 

 vened ; in a day or two the animal became unable to stand, and died in 

 three or four da^-s. One bog, removed from the pen to the sunlight and 

 rain, and dosed with copperas, recovered. His recovery is attributed 

 more to bis release from eonfmemeut than to the drug. In Alexander 

 County the loss was one-fifteenth. In Morgiiu County the losses were 

 severe, but the disease did not appear to be epidemic. In Macon, Mar- 

 shall, aiid Henderson Counties the loss was .10 per cent. In IMenard 

 County the loss of pigs and shoats Avas 40 per cent., and 20 per cent. 

 among the older hogs. In Wayne County the loss was 20 per cent. In 

 Warren County a third of the young stock bogs ilied. Quinsy is re- 

 ported in Bureau County. In the river-bottoms of Pope County thei 

 losses amounted to a third of the A^'bole. In Cass, Carroll, and White- 

 sides Counties the loss was but 5 per cent. Better care is taken of bogs 

 than formerly. In Scott County the losses amounted to 30 per cent., 

 and in Clinton County 25 per cent. In Massac one-twentieth of the bogs 

 died. Our correspondent in Ogle County states that a specific was 

 found in a mixture of eight bushels of lime to «. barrel of salt, to which 

 the hogs should have free access. 



In Chariton County, Missouri, there was a Iojss of 10 ])er cent. ; the 

 mortality was especially severe among pigs and shoats. In Holt, Stod- 

 dard, Cass, Pettis, and Livingston Counties, the losses were not over 5 

 per cent. ; in Platte, Butler, and Maries Counties, the loss was 10 per 

 cent. In Saint Louis County, some locabties lost from 40 to GO per 

 cent., but the loss of the whole county was not over 2 per cent. Au- 

 drain County lost 25 per cent. A few hundred bogs died in Polk, Mer- 

 cer, Lincoln, McDonald, Lancaster, Carroll, and Boone Counties. 



In one locality of Kent County, Michigan, 50 per cent, of the hogs 

 died. No other cases reported in Michigan, and none in Wisconsin, 

 Minnesota, Oregon, or California. A loss of 5 per cent, is reported in 

 Nemaha County, Nebi'aska. The disease prevailed to some extent in 

 Leavenworth, Linn, and Doniphan Counties, Kansas. 



Quinsy i>revailed in Greene County, lov/a. The losses amounted to 

 20 per cent, in Warren and Lucas Counties ; to 10 per cent, in Tama, 

 Brown, Jefferson, Marion, Dallas, Louisa, Madison, and Clarke Coun- 

 ties; to 5 per cent, in Dubuque and Jasper Counties. In Benton 

 County, 25 per cent, died of cholera, and 10 per cent, of (iutusy. In 

 Henry County the loss of pigs and shoats ranged from one-half to two- 

 thirds. Losses Avere very heavy in Mahaska and Mills Counties. 



The only loss from cholera reported from th^ Territories is one from 

 Iron County, Utah, amounting to 1 i)er cent. 



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THE SUGAR-BEET IN SWEDEN. 



The following communication to the State Department has been trans- 

 mitted to this Department by Hon. Hamilton Pish, Secretary of State. 

 As a statement of the progress of sugar manufacture in a very high 

 latitude, and an evidence of the gradual extension of the business into 

 new fields, it will bo read with interest in this country : 



LrfRGATION OF THE UiSTrEO StATKS, 



Stoclcholm, Decemicr 29, 1871. 

 Sill : Accompauying my No. 50, of May 19, 1870, I bad the honor to seud to the De- 

 iinrtiiient somo facts on tho Kumufactuwi of l)eet-suf;ar in Sweden. 



