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In one locality in Tennessee erysipelas is named as an additional cause of 
loss, and “ black tooth’ in Wisconsin, and measles in North Carolina. 
. An idea of the alarming aggregate of loss may be gained by a reference to a 
few of the items showing the proportion, value, or number of the stock lost in 
separate counties. These, it is true, are selected from the worst cases, as follows: 
Cambria county, Pennsylvania.—Sixteen per cent. died. 
Lycoming county, Pennsylvania—1,000 died. 
Page county, Virginia.—Fifty per cent. 
Floyd county, Virginia —Three-fourths of the hogs died. 
Roanoke county, Virginia.—Loss one-fourth of the stock. 
Scott county, Virginia—One-half lost. 
Washington county, Virginia.—One-third lost. 
Montgomery county, Virginia.—Two-thirds of the entire stock died. “TI fed 
my hogs on a pile of wood ashes every day, salted regularly, and occasionally 
gave copperas and sulphur, and had no cholera among my hogs.” 
Craig county, Virginic.—Nearly all died in some parts of the county. 
Cherokee county, North Carolina.—One-third died. 
Caldwell county, North Carolina.—Loss twenty per cent. 
Davie county, North Carolina.——Twenty per cent. 
Barnwell district, South Carglina.—Loss on some farms eighty per cent. 
Marion district, South Gok Boon ox thors twenty-five per cent. 
Warren county, Georgia.—T wenty-five per cent. 
Taylor county, Georgia.—Loss twenty per cent. In some former years fifty 
per cent. Farmers have almost abandoned hog raising. If one recovers, it 
costs more to fatten him than he is worth. 
Lumpkin county, Georgia.—Loss twenty-five per cent. 
Clay county, Alabama—One man, with a herd of 174, lost all but eighteen. 
Marshall county, Alabama.—Loss between 2,000 and 3,000. 
De Kalb county, Alabama —Loss 500. 
East Feliciana parish, Louisiana.—Loss twenty-five per cent. 
Avoyelles parish, Louisiana.—Loss thirty-three per cent. 
Williamson county, Tennessee—Loss twenty-five per cent. 
Robertson county, Tennessee.—Some farmers lost nearly all. Worst on water 
courses. : 
Union county, Tennessee—Seven hundred died, valued at $5,600. 
Polk county, Tennessee.—Loss twenty per cent. 
Montgomery county, Tennessee—It has been difficult in some neighborhoods 
to raise enough for family pork. 
Knox county, Tennessee.—Loss sixty per cent. of all the stock. 
Jefferson county, Iowa.—Loss fifteen per cent. 
Jersey county, Illinois—Loss 2,000 head. 
Lake county, Illinois —Loss twelve head. 
Puinam county, Illinois —Most of the young pigs have died this spring. 
Alexander county, Illinois —Loss fifty per cent. 
Crawford county, Ilinois—Loss forty per cent. 
Clark county, Missouri.—Loss fifty per cent. 
Kenton county, Kentucky.—Loss 4,000 to 5,000. 
[t is unnecessary to continue the enumeration. In Kentucky the estimates 
of loss in different counties range from three to forty-five per cent. In Rock 
Castle county the damage is placed at $10,000. The disease has been very 
severe in many portions of Indiana and Illinois. A few extracts from letters 
will show some peculiarities of the disease or its treatment. 
Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana—Our correspondent (Fielding Beeler) 
believes that twenty per cent. of all the pigs produced in the last five years 
have perished from disease before reaching the pork barrel. He doubts the ex- 
istence of any certain remedy, but thinks some of the agents employed may act 
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