198 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



SAN BENITO. While hog cholera exists to an alarming extent in some counties 

 of the State, I have been unable to learn of a single case in this county. It is such 

 a dreaded scourge that people have been extremely cautious about bringing hogs 

 into the county from outside districts, even for propagating purposes, and the result 

 Is as stated above. 



SANTA CRUZ. There are no well-defined cases of hog cholera in our county. All 

 stock in its usual good condition. 



SAN MATEO. Hog cholera is almost unknown in this county, and there is nothing 

 much to be said about it. 



SONOMA. No cholera has ever made its appearance and pur hogs are generally 

 healthy. No farm animals have died of contagious diseases in this county the past 

 year that I am aware of. 



STANISLAUS. Hog cholera prevailed last year. Fattening hogs, stock hogs 

 young and old died to the extent of 20 per cent. This year the disease has not 

 made its appearance. Nothing is done to prevent the spread of the disease, and no 

 remedy has been tried. The disease first appeared four years ago on old hog ranches 

 where the business had been followed for years, the hogs living on mast alone. Cat- 

 tle and sheep are in very poor condition on account of the scarcity of food. 



COLORADO. 



BOULDER. We know of no hog cholera in this county. Blackleg has prevailed 

 to some extent among cattle, entailing a loss of perhaps 1 per cent. 



CONE JOS. Hog cholera is an unknown disease^ in this county. Some flocks of 

 sheep are affected with scab. As a general thing all classes of farm animals are in 

 an exceedingly healthy condition. 



CUSTER. There is no cholera or any other disease affecting hogs in this county, 

 nor is there any disease among cattle or horses. W. W. Draper took 125 head of 

 hogs from this county to Pueblo County to feed at a slaughter-house there, and lost 

 them all, or nearly all, by cholera, but the disease is not known here ; my impression 

 is that the refuse of the slaughter-house was the cause of the disease. 



DELTA. There is no hog cholera here; hogs are all healthy. 



EL PASO. There has been no epidemic or serious disease among any class of farm 

 animals in this county during the current year. The losses from all causes have 

 been inconsiderable. But few hogs are raised in the county, and no cholera prevails 

 among them that I have heard of. 



FREMONT. Hog cholera is not known in this county. 



HUERFANO. It affords me pleasure to report that hog cholera is unknown in this 

 county. During a residence of seven years here I have not heard of a case of the 

 disease, and never heard of a hog dying of any diser.se in the county. Native cattle 

 are free from disease also. The only disease among sheep is scab, and this malady 

 is confined exclusively to Mexican flocks. 



MESA. There has never been a case of hog cholera in this county. 



OURAY. Have never had hog cholera in this county. Have but a small number 

 of hogs in the county. The farmers only raise a few for home consumption. This 

 county has been settled ten years and I have never heard of a hog dying with any 

 disease. 



PITKIN. Cholera attacked hogs in this county two years ago. They were fed 

 on swill and stale food from hotels. Previous to that time a number of hogs died 

 from apparently the same disease caused by the same kind of food. Hogs are gen- 

 erally healthy this season. Other animals are generally healthy and do well where 

 they are properly looked after. This is quite a stock county. Horses, cattle, and 

 sheep all do well. 



SUMNER. Reliable inforraation leads me to believe that we have no so-called hog 

 cholera in this county. Some " quacks" report it, but such report is contradicted 

 by the animal itself. For instance, a sow on the Call farm was taken sick and would 

 not eat. " She has the cholera." I gave her a teaspoonful of sulphur and one of 

 salts. She recovered in two days. 



CONNECTICUT. 



LITCHFIELD. Hog cholera first appeared in the State in 1881, in a few pens, and 

 became quite prevalent in 1884. Since that time a knowledge of its contagious 

 nature has nearly obliterated it from the State, yet there are still occasional out- 

 breaks, probably introduced by other means than hogs. We have no infected dis- 

 tricts at present known to our commissioners on diseases of domestic animals. We 

 have found ignorance the means of spreading hog cholera, and knowledge the best 



