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have hitherto been neglected. In the New England States, with the ex- 
ception of a few imported cases of Texas fever in Berkshire, Massa- 
chusetts, all the counties reporting show an entire exemption from pre- 
vailing maladies. ‘A few counties in the Middle States indicate local 
types of disease, but nothing like a general malady. In the South and 
West these local types crop out somewhat more numerously, but the 
Pacific coast reports but few diseases, and those of a mild type. The 
catalogue of maladies is, therefore, less extensive than usual. 
TEXAS FEVER.—In Berkshire, Massachusetts, as above noted, in June, 
cattle imported into two or three towns from the West showed the 
presence of Texas fever, but confined to half a dozen herds. Sanitary 
measures, promptly taken, arrested the spread of the disease, while em- . 
bargo and quarantine regulations stopped further importations. In 
Livingston, New York, 30 or 40 western cattle, all of one herd, died of 
this disease, but native stock were entirely unaffected. Some western 
cattle died in Washington, Pennsylvania. A disease resembling Texas 
fever in some points is noted in Burke, North Carolina, where, like other 
diseases, it is designated by the unmeaning term murrain. This disease 
annually makes its appearance from the East, traveling westward ; it 
has prevailed in this region for fifteen years, but its severity is less marked 
than formerly. The disease is also noted in a few cases in Lorain, 
Ohio, and Scott, Illinois; in the last-named instance the animals were 
all imported. 
ABORTION.—Our correspondent in Montgomery, New York, desires.a 
scientific investigation into the growing tendency to abortion, especially 
among dairy-cows in that county. Investigations of other diseases are 
also called for. by correspondents in different parts of the country. 
These gentlemen should understand that Congress has given the De- 
partment no facilities for such investigations. With our limited means 
we can only gather up the general facts, leaving it for scientific author- 
ities to deduce from these facts the pathology and treatment of 
epizootic diseases. Abortion, to a greater or less extent, is reported 
in Wyoming, Rensselaer, Oaondaga, and Orange, and in Burlington, New 
Jersey. A strong tendency to this disaster is noted in Lehigh, 
Pennsylvania. A few cases occurred in Assumption, Louisiana, in 
Cook, Illinois, and in Stanislaus, California; in the last named about 3 
per cent. of the pregnant cows slipped their calves. It is noticeable that 
this tendency is found almost entirely in localities near great markets ; 
very few cases are observed in the rural districts, and most of cases re- 
porting were in herds of dairy-cows. These general facts seem to indi- 
cate something in the management of this class of animals as the cause 
of this abnormal tendency. In Assumption, Louisiana, this malady 
was uniformly noted among cows affected with the jaundice, which is 
so common in that locality as to excite but little remark. The skin be- 
comes very yellow, and the animal loses appetite and spirit. Blood- 
letting and a seton on the breast have been found of service in relieving 
the symptoms. This affection is probably the resultof poor feeding and 
neglect ; it is aggravated by a late and severe winter. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.—This disease was developed in several herds in 
Burlington, New Jersey. In Baltimore County, Maryland, it has pre- 
vailed for ten years, and was troublesome the last year, although it had 
been partially checked by sanitary measures. Our correspondent here 
has given close attention to this disease for several years, and has clearly 
indicated the abuses which have greatly aggravated, if they did not 
originally cause, this malady. Milk-dairymen still crowd their cows 
into filthy and ill-ventilated stables, and deprive them of the conditions 
