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ferson, Johnson, Robertson, Hardiman, and Hickman. In Morgan, 
West Virginia, half of the pigs and “one-fifth of the fattening hogs 
died last fall, and the disease is commencing its ravages this spring. 
Losses are also reported in Berkeley, Brooke, Cabell, Fayette, Jef- 
ferson, Tyler and Wayne. In Anderson, Kentucky, the loss is 
estimated at five hundred head; in Hardin, 33 per cent., and the 
disease still spreading; in Bourbon, $5,000; in Whitely, 50 per cent.; 
very heavy in Clarke; while in Christian the loss is placed at 25 per 
cent., 20 per cent. in Kenton and Laurel, about the same in Graves, and 
less in Shelby, Hopkins, Scott, and Warren. In Clarke, Missouri, the 
loss is estimated at 50 per cent., “‘ confined principally to pigs up to six 
months old;” “many deaths from insufficient shelter, but all attributed 
to cholera,” is written from Bates; loss one thousand head in Holt, 
three hundred and seventy-five in Bates, two hundred in Pettis, and 
small percentages of loss in Benton, Cass, Dent, Butler, De Kalb, Mont- 
gomery, Marion, Mercer, and Vernon. ‘Thirty-six counties in Illinois 
report losses from diseases of swine, though the damage is compara- 
tively slight, with few exceptions. In Washington disease has more 
generally prevailed, and has been attended with greater loss than for 
many years; losses have been quite heavy in portions of Sangamon; 
are estimated at three thousand in Cass; four hundred and fifty head 
in Clinton; 25 per cent. in Scott; 20 per cent. in White and MceDo- 
nough; 15 per cent. in Menard; 10 per cent. in Edwards, “ prevailing 
almost exclusively in rolling districts;” and is also reported in Adams, 
Crawford, Champaign, De Kalb, Franklin, Fulton, Grundy, Hancock, 
Henderson, Jersey, Knox, Lawrence, Logan, Mercer, Marion, Madison 
Morgan, Pope, Pike, Stephenson, Stark, Piatt, Pulaski, White, and 
Warren. The loss from hog cholera or other maladies in indiana is 
less than usual. in Union County “disease has entirely disappeared ” 
within the last twelve months; it has almost disappeared in Rush; is 
found “ only in the vicinity of flouring mills and distilleries” in Swit- 
zerland; ‘‘loss small compared with other years” in Harrison; Vanden- 
burgh ‘has not been so free for twelve years;” has not been so destrue- 
tive as formerly in Marion, “though one-fifth of all the young die;” since 
July there has been less complaint in Barthclomew than for several 
years; loss in Cass has been two hundred head; it amounts to one-third 
of the young in Posey; and losses have occurred in Floyd, Wabash, 
Howard, Jetierson, Martin, Newton, Pike, Washington, Carroll, Ripley, 
Delaware, Clintan, Greene, Parker, Miami, Scott, Spencer, Vermillion, 
Sullivan, Gibson, and Ohio. Ohio appears to have been nearly exempt 
from hog cholera; at a distillery in Lucas from three hundred to four 
hundred head died; about one-fifth of the swine brought into Greene 
from Indiana tor fattening have been attacked, aud a few cases are 
reported in Jefferson, Holmes, Warren, Fairfield and Franklin. The 
swine of Michigan are reported healthy, only one county, Cass, return- 
ing losses, which have amounted to one or two hundred in a locality. 
A disease of the throat is reported in Green County, Wisconsin, where 
it has prevailed to a limited extent. Of twenty, counties reporting in 
Minnesota, Meeker only presents evidences of disease, in which forty 
pigs were lost, ‘caused by filth and improper food, and not from any 
cause beyond the pen in which they were confined.” Small loss is 
reported in Iowa; in Louisa County, 25 per cent.; one hundred and 
fitty head in Lucas; one hundred head in Clarke; and in Black Hawk, 
Lee, Wayne, Frémont, Dallas, Jasper, Tatha, Appanoose, Madison, and 
Bremer, a few cases are mentioned. Only Nemaha and Cass, in Ne- 
braska, report losses, and Leavenworth, in Kansas. 
