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DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
Exemption from disease has been quite general in the eastern and northwest- 
ern States, and few losses from maladies of whatever character are reported; 
nor has there been any widely prevailing epizootic among the cattle of the west 
and south. The diseases reported are pleuro-pneumonia, the so-called Spanish 
fever, abortion, horn-ail, bloody murrain, “ blackleg,”’ “distemper,” “swelled 
brisket,” and maladies with no name or well-defined symptoms. 
Pleuro-pneumonia.—This disease is reported in Newport county, Rhode 
Island; in Kings county, New York; in Hudson county, New Jersey; and in 
Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Our correspondent in Newport, Rhode Island, 
says: “ The cattle disease called pleuro-pneumonia has prevailed in this county 
to a limited extent for the last three or four years, but it has been considered 
exterminated several times since its first appearance here. From the best in- 
formation I can get, I think about ten head of eattle have died of the disease in 
this county the past year, and probably some thirty more have been sick with 
it, and have recovered so far as to be fatted for beef. I have heard of no new 
eases for the last four months, and I hope we are now rid of it in this county. 
To prevent the spread of the disease, we have kept isolated all cattle known to 
have been exposed to it until danger of contagion was past, by which means it 
has been kept within narrow limits.” 
In Baltimore county, Maryland, a prevailing disease is reported, which is 
called “lung fever.” It originated in the vicinity of Baltimore, and has spread 
considerably. In several dairies, numbering from twenty to eighty cows, heavy 
losses have occurred; in one, thirty cows; in another, twenty; in others, ten to 
fifteen cows. Various opinions relative to the disease and its treatment are en- 
tertained, with little agreement, except as to its contagiousness and the neces- 
sity of isolation. Frew symptoms are reported by which to decide how this 
differs from pleuro-pneumonia, or whether it may be identical with it. The 
animal refuses food when taken sick, and the milk secretion ceases; the lungs 
are found to be much decayed. 
Abortion —This disease has prevailed to some extent in the dairy districts of 
New York, and in Washington county, Vermont; one or two cases in a herd of 
twenty cows are common, and, in a few instances, half the herd have aborted. 
Dr. 8. J. Parker, of Tompkins county, New York, writes as follows: “Cows 
which are dried off in October or November, and have their calves knocked in 
the head before they suck, or are ‘deaconed,’ as it is called, and cows that are 
fed on their own whey, or have other disgusting or filthy processes to increase 
their milk, are very apt to abort; and the reason is apparent. The cow nurses 
her young till near the next birth; she never eats voluntarily her own semi- 
putrid milk or whey; oris ‘doctored’ or drugged to make more milk or cheese. 
Rosin, sulphur, nitre, and Spanish fly, and other articles, can hardly be got out 
of the head of certain farmers. Horses, cows, pigs, and all must have ‘a little 
dose of something’ all the time, they think.’ 
Hollow horn—Several places report the existence of “hollow horn.” In 
Fayette county, Indiana, as a correspondent reports, ‘it is very common at this 
season of the year, especially with milch cows, of which one-fifth of the number 
are affected.” The remedy in that quarter, which is vouched for as effectual, (as 
‘it certainly is very simple,) “is to make a slit in the end of the tail, insert some 
black pepper and salt, mixed, then wrap and tie up. It is usual to bore a small 
hole in the side of the horn; also, to rub turpentine on the head back of the 
horns.” 
In Lawrence county, Alabama, the same disease is reported; in Troup and 
Houston counties, Georgia; in Lorain county, Ohio; and in Whitley county 
Kentucky. 
