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sentiment is not yet sufficiently advanced to sustain a stringent and 
effective law against dogs. Yet the pressure of necessity must ulti- 
mately bring the public mind to recognize the necessity of such legisla- - 
tion. There is no doubt thatit would result in a very great advantage 
both to agricultural and public interests. 
DISEASES OF HORSES. 
The epizootic influenza, which prevailed in the fall and winter of 
1872-73, re-appeared in the autumn of 1875 in nearly all the States; the 
symptoms, however, were mild, and the disease readily yielded to ordi- 
nary treatment. The mortality was also much less formidable than 
during the former visitation. In parts of the country where farm-horses 
are worked hard all winter, as in the lumbering districts, the disease 
Jeft some permanent injuries in the form of heaves and other abnormal 
conditions. In some cases the symptoms were so like the common dis- 
temper as to be mistaken for it. Reports of this disease are so general 
and of such a stereotyped character, that it is not necessary to particu- 
larize. Of other diseases, New York reports in Suffolk County a paraly- 
sis of hind-quarters and inability to stand, followed by death in a few 
days. A similar affection is noted in Green, Wisconsin. In Wash- 
ington, New York, a few cases of pneumonia occurred: the same report 
comes from Lawrence, Pennsylvania. The blind-staggers destroyed 200 
horses in Cumberland, New Jersey, and 130 in Kent County, Delaware. 
It is reported also in Richland, South Carolina; in Santa Rosa, Florida; 
in Greene, Le Flore, and Choctaw, Mississippi; in Claiborne and 
Bossier, Louisiana; in Red River, Fannin, Wood, Cook, and Grayson, 
Texas ; in Columbia, Lafayette.and Dorsey, Arkansas; in Callaway, Ken- 
tucky ; in Cowley, Kansas. The farey was prevalent in some parts of 
Colleton, South Carolina; most of the cases were fatal. Louisiana 
reports a few cases of charbon in Concordia and Hast Feliciana. Baffalo 
gnats were troublesome at two or three points inthe Gulf States. Several 
counties report new diseases, but not of marked intensity or extent. In 
Lowndes, Mississippi, an affection of this character was somewhat 
serious. The symptoms were stupor, labored breathing, excessive 
urination, cough, fevered lungs, congestion of brain, and then death. 
In a few cases a dose of 60 grains of calomel, in a pint of linseed oil, 
was reported a successful cure, but no very reliable remedy was dis- 
covered. Our correspondent in Howard, Arkansas, distinguishes be- 
tween blind-staggers and sleepy-staggers. In the latter the animal was 
taken with a chill, generally while eating, became stupid, scared at 
everything around, and died in from thirty-six to forty-eight hours. In 
Menominee, Michigan, another strange malady destroyed 4 per cent.; 
the marked symptoms were drooping and scouring. In several counties 
in the South and West horses died of neglect and starvation, rather than 
the forms of disease whose names were commonly reported in order to 
cover gross cruelty on the part of farmers. In Kern, California, horses 
were poisoned by the “loco” or erazy weed. Local horse-diseases of 
mild type are also noted in several counties as slight exceptions to gen- 
eral health. 
DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
Cattle-diseases during 1875 were limited in their range and intensity. 
The meteorological conditions were more favorable to the health of this 
class of farm-animals than in some previous years, and they enjoyed a 
greater degree of care and attention in some sections in which they 
