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pin, Cass, Clinton, Ford, Franklin, Jasper, Menard, Monroe, Montgom ery, 
Pike, Putnam, Stark, Shelby, White, De Witt, Grundy, Hancock, McLean, 
and Randolph; smaller losses in De Kalb, Hardin, Jackson, Mercer, 
Woodford, Lee, Saline, Bureau, Marion, Piatt, Vermillion, Warren, Jef- 
ferson, Mason, Pope, and Richland. In Wisconsin small losses reported 
in Juneau, Jackson, Iowa, and Crawford. Minnesota reports 10 per 
cent. loss in Taylor and 20 per cent. in Carver, with lighter losses in Todd 
and Shelby. Iowa reports losses in Adair, Hamilton, Iowa, Lucas, 
Union, Story, Appanoose, Clinton, Jackson, Polk, Franklin, Johnson, 
Louisa, Allamakee, Calhoun, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones, Muscatine, Scott, 
Adams, Des Moines, Guthrie, Harrison, Lee, Linn, Marion, Mills, Mont- 
gomery, Sac, Wayne, Dallas, Henry, Monona, O’Brien, and Tama. In 
some cases these losses amounted to half the stock in the county; 
they were greatly aggravated by starvation and exposure. In some 
cases quinsy was also present. In Missouri hog-maladies, variously 
designated as cholera, quinsy, and thumps, are reported in Atchison, 
Buchanan, Gasconade, Nodaway, Platte, Worth, Caldwell, Chariton, 
Howell, Jefferson, Pike, Putnam, Cass, Franklin, Harrison, La Fayette, 
Macon, Phelps, Ripley, Saint Genevieve, Shelby, Bates, Knox, Missis- 
sippi, Moniteau, Montgomery, Saint Charles, Saint Francis, Stoddard, 
Bollinger, Cole, De Kalb, Holt, Howard, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Ralls, 
Schuyler, Cape Girardeau, Dade, Livingston, Butler, Carroll, and 
Iron. In some cases the losses were more than half the hogs in the 
county. In Kansas the visitation was slight, including mostly imported | 
hogs. Nebraska notes a small loss in Lancaster and Nemaha. Catarrhal 
affections are reported in Stanislaus, California, and blind-staggers in 
Clackamas, Oregon. . Some cases of death in the Southern States are 
attributed to excessive feeding with cotton-seed. In Hillsdale, Michi- 
gan, a herd of sick hogs were cured by washing the fore legs and breast 
with soap-suds, thus opening the pores and enabling the skin to dis- 
charge the virus of the disease. In Shelby, Kentucky, the following 
remedy is recommended: 15 pounds each of copperas, madder, sulphur, 
and black antimony, mixed with i5 ounces each of bluestone and 
worm-seed, all well pulverized, and administered at the rate of a table- 
spoonful once a week in moistened meal or bran. A variety of preserip- 
tions, more or less similar to those above given, are reported by corre- 
spondents, showing the prevailing ideas of medical treatment in differ- 
ent parts of the country. It seems, however, sufficiently evident that 
diseases are mostly the result of bad sanitary conditions. 
WOOL-CLIP OF 1875. 
On the 1st of April only one county in Maine, Lincoln, reports a bal- 
ance of the clip of 1875 in the farmer’s hands, estimated at 5 per cent. 
In Grafton and Hillsborough, New Hampshire, the remnant is estimated 
at 25 per cent.; in Cheshire 10 per cent.; in Sullivan 5 per cent.; in Ver- 
mont six counties range from 5 to 25 per cent.; in Connecticut, Litchfield 
holds 10 per cent. and New London 33 per cent. ; in New York, thirteen 
counties range from 1 per cent. to 125 per cent.; thirteen counties in 
Pennsylvania, from 3 to 30 per cent.; in Maryland, Wicomico had on 
hand 25 per cent. and Caroline 10 per cent.; in Virginia, ten counties re- 
ported from 1 to 25 per cent.; in North Carolina, thirteen counties varied 
from 1 to 50 per cent., the last named being Bertie; in South Carolina, 
