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Miami county, Ohio—Fifteen per cent. loss in wintering. 
Lorain county, Ohio.—Heavy losses have resulted from rot. Livers light- 
colored and quite rotten. 
Hardin county, Ohio—Old sheep have done well, but half the lambs were 
lost. 
Medina county, Ohio.—Sheep are in poor condition; one man lost one hun- 
dred, half his flock; another eighty, others sixty each. In this county 8,000 
perished in the cold storm of June last—535 in one township. 
Nicollet county, Minnesota.—Six per cent. loss from rot. 
Livingston county, Illinois —Losses of 200 to 300 head are reported. 
Lycoming county, Pennsylvania —<'Two and a half per cent. of our sheep 
died, attacked with a swelling under the jaw. ‘They moped around four or five 
days and died.” 
Madison county, Virginia —“ The rot has prevailed among the sheep. In 
some cases entire flocks have been destroyed. The loss has been excessive. 
No remedy.” 
Polk county, Tennessee-—Rot has destroyed three-tenths of the sheep. 
Attala county, Mississippi.— Sheep die from eating sneeze-weed. What is 
the remedy ?” 
Collin county, Texas.—Two-thirds of the sheep of this county have died with 
the scab, or from exposure. 
Houston county, Texas.—Three-fourths of the lambs have perished. 
Bell county, Texas——Sheep and lambs have died from exposure. 
Blanco county, Texas.—Some flocks have lost half from exposure. 
Conecuh county, Alabama.—One-tenth lost by the rot. 
Guthrie county, Iowa.—The sheep of this county are dying off rapidly. The 
first symptom noticed is a general weakness or giving way of the limbs, followed 
soon after by death, mostly among the rugged and robust sheep. After death 
the carcass is found full of small mattery pimples, white.) 
Niagara county, New York—Scab and foot rot prevail to some extent, and 
areontheincrease. Our principal correspondent thus writes of a disease affecting 
lambs: ‘First the ears begin to droop; then the eyes begin to run, first a thin 
watery discharge, which changes, as the disease progresses, to a thick white 
matter; often the lamb appears to be blind. The nose also discharges first a 
thin whitish mucus, which gets darker colored, and often tinged with blood ; 
the lamb becomes weak and falls over every little stick or cornstalk, and they 
will often live two or three weeks after they are unable to get up. I heard one 
man say he had one he thought dead, and threw it back on a pile, and after it 
had lain there ten days he had occasion to remove them, and he found the lamb 
still alive. This disease rarely attacks any but tegs, though occasionally a 
yearling is taken and dies. I have bisected the head after death, and found 
from five to fifteen grubs, about from five-eighths to nearly one inch long, yet 
that this is the cause of the death I cannot say positively. Lambs have been 
troubled in this way only once before, and that in the winter and spring of 1860. 
In this county, in the aggregate, the loss must be many thousands, as my assist- 
ants represent it as prevailing in their sections.” 
Wayne county, Indiana—* Sheep are a little below average, in condition, 
having been allowed out in frosted pastures later than usual. Keeping stock 
out late in the fall because freezing weather does not drive them in for shelter, 
with their pleading looks calling for food, is, in my opinion, cruelty and poor 
economy. If nature’s store of fuel (fat) for cold wintry days is early drawn on, 
it must sooner become exhausted, and the unthrifty, apologetic term, ‘spring 
poor,’ be loudly sung by shiftless husbandmen.” 
Winona county, Minnesota —* One farmer lost five hundred of his sheep, and 
was so badly discouraged that he sold the remainder of his flock for $1 50 per 
