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has been found.” A loss of eighty-seven horses from “ big-head ” is reported in 
the same county. 
In Miami county, Ohio, a fatal disease prevailed last year, but horses are now 
nealthy. 
In Van Buren county, Michigan, deaths have resulted from a disease attended 
with swelling of the legs, head, and jaws, and with running sores. 
Colic has proved fatal in St. Charles county, Missouri. 
In Knox county, Kentucky, a fatal disease has prevailed “ without any per- 
ceivable cause.” 
Lock-jaw and “lung disease,” fatal in a few cases, are reported in Kent 
county, Delaware. 
In Henderson county, Llinois, many horses have died—thirty in Oquaka— 
from a disease which appeared to be contagious. It was supposed to have 
originated in a pasture of new bottom land. 
In Racine county, Wisconsin, a disease, somewhat resembling diphtheria, at- 
tended with a swelling and inflammation of the glands, and great prostration, 
has been prevalent. It generally yielded readily to remedial measures. 
In Burton county, Georgia, several horses and one hundred mules died from 
blind staggers. There was a considerable loss of horses, “ mostly for want of 
corn,” while in Taylor county, Georgia, and Yalabusha county, Mississippi, 
many horses and mules died in consequence of feeding on “shipped” or “ up 
country ” corn, which had been damaged. 
DISEASES OF SHEEP. 
Sheep have suffered more from disease the past year than usual—more than 
eattle or horses, but less, probably, than hogs. The rot, formerly almost un- 
known in this country, is becoming quite too common for the comfort of wool- 
growers; yet few reports of this disease have been received, except from the 
south. New England presents a clean bill of health, except in some sections of 
Vermont and Massachusetts, where foot-rot and grub in the head are reported. 
In New York, either grub, foot-rot, ‘hoof-ail,” black tongue, scab, or other 
diseases, are found in nearly one-third of the counties represented. In the west, 
seab is more prevalent, and very common in the south, particularly in Texas. 
Nearly half of the counties of Iowa report some form of disease, of which scab is 
the most common, with occasional mention of “ yellows,” “ dropsy,” and grub. 
Poverty and exposure have done their work in many sections of the south, 
and, to some extent, in the west. In the most northern States, the sheep have 
wintered best; in the most southern, as Texas, the loss from exposure has been 
greatest. There is no doubt that the cost of adequate shelter for all the unshel- 
tered sheep of the country could be easily defrayed by the value of sheep and 
lambs killed by exposure during the past winter. The severity of the season 
has been an expensive lesson to wool-growers in low latitudes, which will be 
worth its cost if it shall result in ampler protection, and more liberal supplies, 
for the rougher periods of a fickle climate. 
The following epitome of correspondence will illustrate the various tenor of 
the information received: 
Berkshire county, Massachusetts ——One in every twenty have the foot-rot. 
Forest county, Pennsylvania—A very destructive disease prevailed among 
sheep, whereby one-third died. Disease not known; but it appears to be some- 
thing like consumption. | 
Niagara county, New York.—Grub in the head prevails; one flock lost one 
hundred, others ten to sixty. 
Kent county, Delaware—Rot exists in this county, and there has been a loss 
of young lambs from exposure. 
Clinton county, lowa.—Half the lambs lost from cold storms. 
