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provement in the treatment of sheep in parts of the country where they 
have hitherto been left to shift for themselves. In the older parts of 
the country this is becoming better understood, and more careful treat- 
ment is producing its normal results. 
Foor-rot.—This disease has affected 75 per cent. of the sheep in 
Rutland, Vermont, within the last ten years, causing during the last 
year a loss of 10 per cent. It was noted, also, in Ontario, New York, 
(where it is fast disappearing) Washington and Onondaga, in Salem 
and Burlington, New Jersey, where it was less severe than usual on 
account of the dry season, and also,in Delaware, Westmoreland, Wash- 
ington, and Lawrence, Pennsylvania. Delaware and Maryland are 
entirely exempt from this and all other sheep-diseases, having a small 
number of sheep. Foot-rot is also reported in Buckingham, Virginia, 
in Mitchell, North Carolina, in Lawrence, Alabama, in Summit, Harri- 
son, Wayne, Erie, Jackson, Champagne, Crawford, Delaware, Mahon- 
ing, Richland, and Wyandot, Ohio. Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin 
present a clean bill of health, showing neither this nor any other form 
of disease. Illinois reports foot-rot in Cook and De Witt; Lowa, in 
Marion; California, in San Luis Obispo. 
Ror.—This disease is reported in Scott, Virginia; in Buncombe and 
Madison, North Carolina; in Taliaferro, Barlow, Towns, Oglethorpe, 
and Whitfield, Georgia; in Bossier, Louisiana; in Monroe, Tennessee ; 
in Ritchie, West Virginia; in Jackson, Kentucky; in McDonald and 
Ozark, Missouri; Contra Costa, California. Our correspondent in 
Oglethorpe, Georgia, attributes the virulence of the disease in that re- 
gion in part to the habit of keeping the flocks too long in the same 
field. 
ScaB.—This malady was troublesome in Caledonia, Vermont; in 
Suffolk and Onondaga, New York ; in Coffee and Lawrence, Alabama ; 
in Perry, Mississippi; in Kendall, Burleson, Williamson, Bandera, Palo 
Pinto, De Witt, Gillespie, Collin, Karnes, Medina, and Austin, Texas; 
in Marion, Vermillion, and De Witt, Illinois; in McLeod and Isanti, 
Minnesota; in Marion, Iowa; in Atchison, Nodaway, Cass, Grundy, 
and Butler, Missouri; in Neosho, Allen, and Butler, Kansas; in Cum- 
ing, Platte, and Furnas, Nebraska; Colusa, Lake, Alameda, Napa, San 
Joaquin, Contra Costa, Kern, Mendocino, Merced, San Bernardino, 
Santa Barbara, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne, California; Umatilla, Wasco, 
Curry, Douglas, and Grant, Oregon. 
GRUB IN THE HEAD.—Reported in Washington, New York ; in Fair- 
fax, Virginia; Marion, Mississippi; Williamson, Tennessee; Harrison, 
Kentucky; Coshocton, Ohio; Washington, Kansas; San Joaquin, Cali- 
fornia. 
Rca SkiIn.—Reported in Baxter, Arkansas; Carroll and Harrison, 
hio. 
MISCELLANEOUS.—Randolph, West Virginia, is the only county re- 
porting fluke in the liver. The ‘pale disease” is noted in Beaver, 
Pennsylvania; blind-staggers in King William, Virginia, and in lowa, 
Wisconsin. Some cutaneous and Jung affections of mild type attracted 
passing notice in several counties, but are not of sufficient importance to 
classify. 
The scab has been exterminated in a large number of counties by the 
dipping process. A Georgia correspondent attributes the health ot 
sheep in his county to the smallness of the flocks and their free range. 
In Texas there is a law for the protection of native sheep from imported 
diseases, which sheepmen are very prompt to expose. In Bandera 
County an imported scabby flock, through the operation of this law, was 
