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and Montgomery; in Gloucester, New Jersey, with more than usual 
fatality ; in Kent, Maryland, of a mild type; in Princess Anne, Virgi- 
nia; Vass, Missouri, a few cases; Geauga and Medina, Ohio; Cass and 
Tuscola, Michigan; and Stearns, Minnesota. In Fulton County, New 
York, a catarrhal affection, accompanied by croup, resulted in death in 
a few cases. Glanders is less known than formerly; a few cases are 
reported in Nelson, Montgomery, Patrick, and Fauquier, Virginia; in. 
Meriwether, Georgia; in Hardin, Texas, it has been worse than ever 
before ; and in Noble, Ohio, a few cases are returned. In several coun- 
ties in Texas something like scours, in an epidemic form, has been fatal. 
It is stated that opium and camphor, administered early, is a very efi- 
cient remedy. ‘Three per cent. of the horses in Prairie County, Arkan- 
sas, have yielded to the insect pest—the buffalo gnat. In Pike County, 
Iilinois, an unknown disease, which has been fatal in some cases, has 
for its symptoms stiffness of limbs, sore mouth, and swollen tongue. 
Many horses in Williamson County, illinois, are afflicted with blindness. 
“ Distemper” is reported in many p!aces, and isolated cases of tetanus 
or lock-jaw, yellow water, colic, and other forms of disease are reported. 
The following extracts further illustrate this subject: 
Hampden, Mass.—A number of horses have died in one stable in Chicopee. Symp- 
toms: first, loss of appetite, which returns in a few days; bunches as large as walnuts 
come out on different parts of the body, and break and discharge putrid matter; legs 
swell; in three or four days there is a discharge at the nose similar to that from the 
sores. Fatal in five to seven days. Nocasesof recovery. The disease was introduced 
by a horse from Canada. 
Washington, Penn.—Distemper exists to some extent; also a malady ealled the “ throat 
disease,” or the “‘ head disease ;” six deaths occurred from it. Horses when attacked 
refuse food or drink until half starved; when the throat was much swollen, eyes dull 
and heavy, head drooping; if forced to move, holding it in one position with nose up 
and forward, as if it pained them to move the head; they would then eat nothing but 
choice feod, swallowing with difficulty. Various horse liniments were used; many 
cures were effected. 
Doddridge, West Va.—Some unknown disease. Symptoms: swelling of the jaws and 
head, which terminates in running sores; the animal refuses to eat, loses flesh rapidly, 
and soon dies; no known remedy. ; . 
Wilkinson, Miss.—A disease called “distemper,” very contagious, malignant, and 
fatal, has prevailed for three months in a part of this and Amite County, and adja- 
cent parts of Louisiana. A difficulty in drinking, swelling over the nasal canal, and 
discharges from the nostrils are among its symptoms. A remedy is found in bathing 
the tumors with kerosene till they open, with good care and feed. 
Bee, Teras—A kind of farcy has proved quite fatal. It commences under the jaw 
and spreads over the entire body, accompanied with slow fever. The loin distemper 
is quite prevalent among horses on the prairies. It is contagious between the sexes. 
Victoria, Teras.—Several cases of a disease which commenced with a swelling of 
the head, particularly about the lips; considerable secretion"of water from the eyes ; 
wasting of the flesh ; no eruptions of the skin. Of six cases, three proved fatal, after 
lingering six to eight months, losing the hair from their manes and tails several months 
before death. 
Williamson, Tecas.—For the past three or four years, in this and adjoining counties, 
at least one-half of the colts have died before two years old. I know of no name or 
remedy for the disease. It runs through the young stock in the fall, and what it 
does not then kill generally die in the winter. They become stiff in the legs, and 
walk with difficulty. Many of them swell about the head and breast, until the swell- 
ing breaks and discharges bloody water. At such times flies are apt to blow the sores, 
and if not attended to in season the serew-worm will kill the animal. Calomel is the 
best remedy I have used to destroy these worms ; one or two applications to the wound 
will generally suffice. Horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, and, in fact, all animals, are liable 
to be destroyed by this pest in the fall season. When wounded, from any cause, the 
flies soon find the fresh blood, and deposit germs of myriads of worms, which, in a 
few days, are full grown and about half an inch long. This is a critical time with the 
stock-raiser, for if not attended to early the evil is much more difficult tocure. 
Dunn, Wis.—Last fall the influenza took off a great many colts in some localities. 
In one neighborhood about thirty died. They were pastured on the common, where 
_ there is plenty of unimproved land, and it was supposed by some that the disease 
originated from the drinking of stagnant water in a lake in the vicinity. 
