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County. Stock hogs from Indiana have sickened in York, Pennsyl. 
vania, and 30 per cent. of that class have died. Abortion has prevailed 
in Dauphin, attributed to over feeding with unground corn. Two 
hundred and fifty pigs under six months old have died in Washington, 
the remedies applied being salt and alkaline substances; and some 
fatality is reported in Cumberland, Perry, Indiana, Beaver, Union, 
Fulton, and Berks. In Montgomery, Maryland, one-half to three-fourths 
of the hogs in certain neighborhoods have died. The loss in Howard 
is estimated at three thousand, and slight losses have occurred in 
Baltimore and Kent. In portions of Gloucester, Virginia, disease 
has nearly swept away the race of swine; in a portion of Clark 70 to 80 
per cent. have died ; loss 25 per cent. in Fairfax ; some unknown disease 
has carried off numbers in Princess Anne, and losses have occurred in 
Albemarle, Roanoke, Pulaski, Northampton, Cumberland, Nelson, Lee, 
Prince William, Highland, Lancaster, Surry, Smyth, and Patrick. A 
considerable amount of mortality is reported from North Carolina; a 
loss of 50 per cent. is declared in Wautauga County; from 50 to 75 per 
cent. in certain stocks in Currituck; 40 per cent. in portions of 
Chowan; large numbers from a new disease, ‘of a lung-fever type,” in 
Gaston; 20 per cent. of the fattening swine in Haywood ; 33 per cent. 
in Rowan; 25 per cent. in Davie ; 20 per cent.in Lincoln; 50 per cent. in 
Greene; nine out of every ten attacked in Yadkin ; 20 per cent., mostly 
near fruit distilleries, in Stanley ; 33 per cent. in Alexandria; and smaller 
losses in Sampson, Union, Surry, Tyrrell, Duplin, Rockingham, Jackson, 
Macon, Caldwell, Rutherford, Wiikes, Hertford, Burke, and Orange. 
Great fatality, involving three-fourths of the entire stock of Newberry, 
South Carolina, is reported, and small losses are mentioned in Spartan- 
burgh and Lexington, in the same State. Georgiahas suffered little loss ; 
50 per cent. is reported in Clinch, 30 in Morgan, and small losses in Bartow, 
McDuffie, Lumpkin, Jackson, Harris, Catoosa, Floyd, Butts, Forsyth, 
Towns, Pike, Walker, Clay, Milton, Clayton, Putnam, Newton, Pulaski, 
White, I’ranklin, and Heard. Our correspondent in Dallas, Alabama, 
lost forty-four out of fifty-six old hogs; pigs were not so generally at- 
tacked. In Lawrence a loss of 25 per cent. is returned, but the mor- 
tality was reported slight in Tallapoosa, Marshall, DeKalb, Calhoun, 
Clarke, Jefferson, and Etowah. Very little disease among swine is 
reported in Mississippi; afew cases have occurred in the following 
counties: Attala, Kemper, Neshoba, Pike, Amite, Tippah, Yalabusha, 
Yazoo, La Fayette, Winston, and Carroll. In Gonzales, Texas, a 
disease, assumed to be “an affection of the lungs,” carried off most 
of the pigs and a few hogs. The fattest were first to fall; of a 
litter of pigs, fat and apparently healthy at night, half would sometimes 
be found dead in the morning. In Upshur, a loss of one-tenth of the 
pigs is attributed to carelessness in permitting them to eat ad libitum 
freshly-ground cotton-seed. A few losses appear in Austin, Collins, 
Harris, and De Witt. There is scarcely a live pig in Benton County, 
Arkansas, the result of a cough and wasting away. A loss of 20 per 
cent. is returned from Newton County. Large lossesoccurred in Clarke, 
attributed.to “too much cotton, and want of corn.” One-third of the 
stock in Jackson County died, generally in full flesh. Losses are also 
reported in Johnson, Montgomery, Pulaski, Sebastian, and Washington. 
Less mortality than usual has occurred in Tennessee, very few counties 
reporting heavy losses, among which are Humphreys, 60 per cent.; Smith, 
50 per cent. of all hogs since November; and Greene, 40 per cent. ; 
smaller losses appear in Sumner, Sevier, Meigs, Williams, Giles, Weak- 
ley, Campbell, Coffee, Sullivan, Montgomery, Monroe, Henry, Jet- 
