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Virginia.—Powhatan : Some cattle have died from murrain, but the 
number is limited. 
North Carolina.—Rowan: The cholera is killing many hogs. 
Florida.—Suwannee: Hogs of improved stock have not suffered as 
much from disease as others, perhaps owing to the better care. 
Louisiana.—Cameron : Cattle and horses continue to die from charbon 
and murrain; also from what is here known as blind and sleepy stag- 
gers. It is estimated that 10 per cent. of the gentle horses and of the 
eattle have died of the above diseases during the season. 
Arkansas.—Izard: A small per cent. of the cattle have had the disease 
ealled black tongue, and a few have died. it has been more fatal among 
the wild deer. 
Kentucky.— Graves : Hog-cholera prevails in many localities. Pendle- 
ton: A few hogs are dying with cholera. 
Ohio.— Henry : A very fatal disease, not properly cholera, is prevailing 
among hogs and pigs. The symptoms indicate spinal meningetis, to- 
gether with glandular enlargement, especially about the throat. Chorea 
or Saint Vitus’s Dance and convulsions are prominent symptoms. All 
the small pigs die with it; some of the older ones survive. No remedy is 
known. A distiller has lost 450; one farmer, 23 out of 60; another, 42 
out of 60; another, 34, being all he had; and the losses are in like pro- 
portion through the neighborhood. A marked feature is that it causes 
abortion in all pregnant sows attacked with it. 
Indiana.—Steuben: Several cases of hog-cholera are reported. 
Missouri.—Johnson : The cholera is making sad havoc with the hog- 
erop ; from 25 to 32 per cent. of the hogs in the county have died within 
amonth. Moniteau: Hog-cholera still prevails alarmingly. Lincoln: 
There is a new disease among hogs. They are taken with a sleepy 
look, the eyes become inflamed, and they finally become blind; the 
skin becomes scabbed over, the scabs hard and dry. If killed in the 
last stage, the lungs are black. Some die in a few days and some live 
two weeks. One farmer boiled poke-root, mixed with bran, fed freely, 
and has had no new cases since trying it. 
Nouts.— Virginia.— Floyd : The crop of chestnuts and acorns is more 
abundant than ever before known. ‘There is more mast than hogs to 
eat it. Highland: We have much mast and the hogs are fattening in 
the woods. 
West Virginia.—Raleigh: The oak and chestnut mast is fine; hogs 
fatten on it. Boone: Oak mast is most abundant, equal to half a crop 
of corn for hogs. Greenbrier: We have a good mast; in many places 
if will be sufficient to fatten the hogs and to winter the stock-hogs. 
Kentucky.— Owsley: We have the finest oak mast for years; but 
hogs are very scarce. Lewis: The mast has not been so heavy for 
years. Laurel: There is a good mast. It wili be worth one-tenth as 
much as the corn crop. Clinton: The oak mast is very abundant, 
enough to keep all the stock-hogs in good condition nearly through the 
winter. Russell: We have a splendid oak mast. Hogs will fatten on 
it, and will keepin good condition all winter. Crittenden : The hickory 
and oak mast is abundant, more than sufficient to fatten all the hogs in 
the county. 
- Lllinois.—Jefferson ; The quantity of all kinds of mast is enormous. 
Missouri.—Camden : Mast is abundant and stock-hogs are ‘in clover.” 
Perry: The abundance of acorns will make up the deficiency of 25 per 
cent. in the corn crop. 
GRASSHOPPERS IN TEXAS.—Palo Pinto: The grasshoppers appeared 
