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prevented from spreading the infection. In Muskingum, Ohio, sheep 
kept on dry feed did well, while those turned out to early grass suffered 
from disease. In Winona, Minnesota, a flock of 1,300 was wintered with 
the loss of only three venerable animals. In this case there was ample 
provision for food, shelter, and comfort of the flock. 
DISEASES OF SWINE. 
Statistical inquiry’ is, if possible, more embarrassed in classifying 
swine-diseases than those of cattle. Some of our correspondents feeling 
this difficulty have taken the trouble to particularize the symptoms of 
different forms of epizootic disease. If this were done more generally 
it would be much easier for the Department to present a coherent and 
intelligible view of these maladies, and of their influence upon the pro- 
ductive interests of agriculture. The record of 1875 shows a very 
formidable and general visitation of disease in different parts of the 
country. The most disastrous inflictions are found to be mostly west 
of the Allegheny Mountains, amounting in some cases to half or three- 
fourths of the entire stock of hogs ina county. In the New England 
States and New York the few losses by epizootic diseases included only 
imported animals, native stock being entirely excepted. In this region, 
however, as in several sections of the South and West, complaints 
of small litters of young pigs and of their premature death were so 
numerous as to cause apprehensions of a short crop of pork the coming 
year. It is well known that the western pork-packing enterprise of 
1875, though operating with high prices and unusually stimulating the 
markets, fell short of the previous year’s packing 686,091 hogs, with a 
decrease in the aggregate net weight of 105,183,436 pounds, and in the 
yield of lard of 17,564,027 pounds. Yet this diminished product trenched 
more closely than ever before known in many localities upon the stock- 
hogs of the country. The lack of a scientific or even an intelligible 
popular nomenclature renders it necessary to use the terms by which 
Swine-diseases are generally known, though it is a matter of chronic 
complaint that these terms are notoriously inexact and that they include 
the most diverse types of disease. 
A dubious mention of slight loss from some disease, called cholera, 
quinsy, thumps, &c., comes from Monroe County, New York. In New 
Jersey, Camden reports a loss of 2 per cent.; Burlington complains of 
large losses, and Warren of 100 deaths, or two-thirds of the cases. Cum- 
berland, Pennsylvania, lost50 per cent. of her hogs; Dauphin, 10 per cent. ; 
Snyder, Lebigh, and Lycoming, 5 per cent. each; Cambria, Clinton, 
Adams, Perry, Beaver, Bedford, Northumberland, Westmoreland, and 
Washington report minor losses; in some cases the disease was com- 
plicated by the presence of kidney-worms. Delaware is exempt from 
all kinds of swine disease. In Maryland, Queen Anne reports an alarm- 
ing prevalence of destructive symptoms; Baltimore lost 30 per cent., 
sweeping some entire herds, and yielding to no remedy ; Worcester lost 
10 per cent., and smaller losses were reported in Frederick, Talbot, 
Prince George’s, Washington, Wicomico, and Cecil. <A post mortem ex- 
amination in Prince George’s shows lesions of the windpipe, with a 
yellow frothy liquid in the stomach. In several localities in the State 
the disease was produced or its symptoms were greatly aggravated by 
the filthy pens in which the animals were confined. In Virginia, Mid- 
dlesex and New Kent lost 20 per cent.; Washington and Chesterfield, 
10 per cent. each; the disease was more or less destructive in Pittsyl- 
vania, Floyd, Halifax, Russell, Sussex, Patrick, Prince William, South- 
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