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large losses resulted from a disease called " yellow-sweat." Its preva- 

 lence is attributed to alack of green food, since hogs which run in fields 

 of winter rye and oats are not subject to it. 



The prevalence of " thumps " is noted in Columbia and Santa Eosn, 

 Florida; Cumberland, Kentucky; Lucas, Ohio; Martin, Indiana; Boone, 

 Missouri; Brown, Kansas; and Pawnee, Nebraska. 



Pneumonia, in Boyle, Butler, Scott, Bracken, Meade, Spencer, and 

 Livingston, Kentucky; Greene, Ohio; Brown, Indiana; Perry, Schuy- 

 ler, Warren, and Grundy, Illinois; Wayne, and Saint Francois, Mis- 

 souri; and Chautauqua and Allen, Kansas. 



Eed mange, in Bienville, Louisiana; Titus, Hamilton, and Wood, 

 Texas; and Bradley, Newton, Sevier, and Ouachita, Arkansas. 



Quinsy, in Decatur and Grant, Indiana ; Benton, Grundy, Hamilton, 

 Jones, Marion, Mills, Sac, and Webster, Iowa; Livingston and Laclede, 

 Missouri.; Smith and Eepublic, Kansas ; and Webster and Cass, Nebraska. 



Diseases resulting from worms, in Bureau, Jackson, Grundy, Sanga- 

 mon, Hancock, and Fulton, Illinois; Sherburne, Wisconsin ; Livings- 

 ton, Pike, Wayne, Johnson, Lincoln, and Stone, Missouri ; Johnson and 

 Lyon, Kansas ; and Corning and York, Nebraska. 



Lung-fever or lung-disease, in Tazewell, Macon, Montgomery, Carroll, 

 Clark, and Ogle, Illinois ; and Benton, Chariton, Pettis, and Clinton, 

 Missouri. 



In Ohio, the prevalence of blind-staggers among hogs is reported in 

 Morrow, and of black-tooth and scurvy in Lorain. 



In October and November a strange and fatal disease prevailed in two 

 localities widely separated in Sauk, Wisconsin. In every case of attacfk 

 death followed within twenty-four hours. The symptoms were, loss of 

 appetite, stupor, and purging. In Walworth there had been greater 

 fatality than for years, the cause of which could " not even be guessed 

 at." Young pigs died in large numbers j also sows about the time of 

 farrowing. In Wisconsin there was some fatality among fat hogs from 

 an unknown disease, which deprives them of the use of their legs. 



In Sherburne, Minnesota, some hogs lost the use of their hind legs, 

 and pined away until worthless. These effects are attributed to kidney- 

 worms. 



In Woodson, Kansas, a disease resembling piles destroyed 25 percent, 

 of the pigs dropped in cold weather. " The rectum \)rotrude3 and 

 appears much inflamed ; the pigs become poor and lank, and though 

 they continue to suck and eat with a good appetite, the disease pro- 

 gresses until it terminates in death." Donii^han reported large losses 

 by a new disease. Post-mortem examinations showed diseased lungs, 

 liver, and brain, and, in some cases, "ugly-looking worms in the neck." 



In Merced, California, a new disease, mostly limited to hogs in good 

 order, had appeared. The attacked lose the use of their fore legs, drop 

 on the breast, and die within twenty-four hours. 



Freventives and remedies. — Our correspondents in different localities 

 report various antidotes and curatives for " cholera," as they have for 

 years, but certainly no specific has been found. It is possible that some 

 gleams of light may come from a publication of their views. 



In Beaufort, North Carolina, the reporter, reporting that 10 per cent, 

 of the hogs over, and 20 per cent, of those under, one year old have died 

 of cholera, so called, adds : 



I keep a trough^ to •whicli my Logs have access, well supplied with ashes, salt, and 

 sulphur. The disease has been very fatal amoug the hogs of my neighbors, and of tlio 

 tenants and laborers on my farm ; but though I keep a largo number, none havo bcon 

 affected except seven sucking pigs, all of which died. 



