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ampton, Mecklenburgh, Campbell, Elizateth City, Franklin, Frederick, 
Pulaski, Accomac, Fauquier, Prince George, Grayson, Henry, North- 
ampton, Scott, and York. In most of these counties the disease was 
but little more than nominal. Our correspondent in Chesterfield recom- 
mends the following remedy: Boil the tops of small pines in water, 
and mix the decoction with swine-food, or use spirits of turpentine in 
the same way. Hogs affected should be kept in a dry place, and with- 
eut access to water. In Washington the disease was believed to result 
from the presence of lice, which were driven off by applications of tur- 
pentine. Disease was generally found to originate from lack of care or 
cleanliness. In North Carolina, Gates lost ‘one-half; Moore and Cum- 
berland, one-third ; Lenoir and Harnett, one-fourth ; Warren, Clay, and - 
Watauga, one-fifth, and Gaston, Randolph, Greene, Lincoln, Tyrrell, Bun- 
combe, Haywood, Polk, and Wilkes, from 10 to 15 per cent.; smaller 
losses in Chatham, Iredell, Yancey, Bertie, Orange, Davidson, Hertford, 
Mitchel], Yadkin, Duplin, Nash, Person, Pitt, Rowan, Surry, Burke, 
Pamlico, Madison, Wilson, Alexander, Montgomery, Outlaw, Stokes, 
and Camden. Our correspondentin Pitt says that the symptoms were of 
a febrile nature—great thirst, surface-heat, distress, loss of appetite, &e. ; 
sometimes diarrhea sets in, seeming to be nature’s effort to throw off the 
disease. If thecomplaint does not yield at this stage, it generally assumesa 
typhoid character, accompanied by pneumonia. Noremedy has been found 
effective; disease contagious. In several counties deaths from starvation 
were in some cases assigned to cholera. Defective nutrition, with lack 
of care and attention, were the causes of disease in many neighbor- 
hoods. In South Carolina, Georgetown reports very heavy loss, 
ranging from 25 per cent. to 75 per cent., which depleted the stock of 
domesticated hogs; those ranging the swamps suffered far less. Horry 
lost 45 per cent.; the characteristic symptoms here were stupor, loss of 
appetite, discharge from the bowels of watery yellow offensive matter, 
hair shedding and replaced by a gray or roan-colored hair. Orange- 
burgh lost nearly all; Clarendon, 10 per cent.; Edgefield, 75 per cent. of 
young pigs; smaller losses in Greenville, Barnwell, Lexington, Rich- 
land, Spartanburgb, and Chesterfield. In Georgia, losses of a fifth to 
a half of the stock in the county occurred in Dooly, Lumpkin, Thomas, 
Montgomery, Terrell, Worth, Early, Macon, Wilcox, Dodge, Screven, 
Hall, Towns, and Newton; smaller losses in Coffee, Liberty, Schley, 
Taliaferro, Troup, Union, Baker, Bartow, Carroll, Columbia, Gwinnett, 
Mitchell, Randolph, Calhoun, Floyd, Gordon, Hancock, Pierce, Clayton, 
Hart, Oglethorpe, Upson, Warren, Marion, Brooks, Decatur, Franklin, 
Jefferson, Chattooga, Forsyth, Pike, Sumter, and Wilkes. In Decatur, 
the prevailing symptoms were lack of appetite, drooping, emaciation, 
hollow flanks, vomiting, constipation, staggering gait, &c. Some attri- 
buted the disease to eating cotton-seed. In Florida, Leon lost 50 per 
cent.; the disease was also noted in Jackson. In Alabama, losses from 
20 to 60 per cent. are reported in Crenshaw, Shelby, De Soto, Cleburne, 
Lawrence, and Bullock ; smaller losses occurred in Lowndes, Jackson, 
Etowah, Calhoun, Colbert, Monroe, Perry, Butler, Greene, and Russel ; 
Walker lost nearly all. In Mississippi, losses from 10 to 50 per cent. 
are noted in Greene, Marion, Rankin, Perry, Covington, Choctaw, and 
Claiborne; smaller losses in Pike, Chickasaw, Clark, Lowndes, and Lau- 
derdale ; Kemper, nearly all. In Lowndes, the symptoms were stupor, 
loss of appetite, hair rough and dead, cough, vomit of matter that looks | 
like the contents of the bowels. Dry food for a change was found ben- 
eficial, and the following remedy was successful in some cases: Dissolve: 
in water sufficient to soak a bushel of corn four ounces sulphate of 
