204 EEPOUT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



CAMPBELL, -~-Hog cholera first prevailed in this county as an epidemic in the year 

 1881. It was confined principally to the northern portion of the county, and all 

 counties north of this suffered more or less, Since that time hogs have not been 

 permitted to run at large in our county, and the disease has ceased to exist, except 

 among hogs shipped from Tennessee, or those which have fed on the carcasses of 

 chickens or other fowls that died with cholera. It is well known that all animals 

 are made sick, and usually die, which feed upon these carcasses (man not excepted). 

 It has been found that it will not do to ship hogs from the North to this climate. 

 In future more stock of all kinds will be reared in this county, 



CHATTOOGA. There has been no cholera among hogs this year, or comparatively 

 none, The disease appeared here during the late war, say in 18G3, and is supposed 

 to have been brought in by the shipment of hogs for the support of the Army. 

 Previous to that time hogs were generally healthy, and were no trouble to raise. 

 There has been some distemper among horses and murrain among cattle. 



CLAYTON. As to when hog cholera first appeared in this county I am not able to 

 say. I will say, however, that the prevalence of the disease does not affect the rais- 

 ing of hogs here, as this is not a corn-growing county. 



CLINCH. Hogs in this county were very healthy until about the year 1875, when 

 cholera made its appearance on one side of our county (the north), and traveled 

 south very slowly until it reached the Florida line. It tnen appeared to move back 

 slowly until it passed over the county, but missing some places. For the last six or 

 eight years it appears in different localities, and spreads around, apparently, by the 

 sick going among the healthy, or, what is more likely, the males travel from one 

 neighborhood to another and contract and carry it to others. I know of cases where 

 they contracted it abroad and earned it home, when the other hogs at home con- 

 tracted it. It is very fatal, and the best means to arrest it is to kill and bury every 

 affected animal. We do not know where it first originated or how. 



COBB, Our hogs have been remarkably free from cholera this year. I am 

 unable to give the time of the introduction of the disease, or how introduced. So 

 far as I can learn, though, hogs were generally free from disease up to the time of 

 the appearance of cholera. 



COFFEE, Hog cholera was introduced into this county about the year 1858 by a 

 lot of hogs driven in from the northwestern part of Georgia. Before this swine were 

 generally healthy, A few horses are annually Jost by staggers, A great many cattle 

 die from starvation in the winter. Dogs and wild animals destroy a good many 

 sheep. Some years cholera is much more destructive to hogs than others. This 

 year the loss has not been very heavy. 



COLQUITT. Hogs have been dying from some cause in various portions of this 

 county, but I can not tell whether tho disease is genuine cholera or not. 



COWETA. Hog cholera made its appearance in this county before the war. Pre- 

 vious to that time hogs were healthy. Its ravages some seasons are more severe 

 than others. A considerable per cent, die each year, and the disease is a severe 

 drawback to raising hogs. 



DAWSON. As to the introduction of hog cholera into our county nothing is defi- 

 nitely known. The spread of the disease is generally checked by separating those 

 affected and allowing them to eat of common tar in the trough. The tea made from 

 green pine tops is said to be good, Horses have been but slightly affected with any 

 disease, and the losses of other animals is mostly owing to the severity of the past 

 winter and the little care taken of them by sheltering. But little attention is paid 

 to stock-raising in this county, and but small outlay is made for improved breeds of 

 the various kinds. There has been but slight loss the past season, as but few ani- 

 mals have been affected, except hogs, of which there have been some losses in al- 

 most every neighborhood. It has raged with variable violence over since the late 

 war, and as yet no reliable cure has been found for the disease. It generally at- 

 tacks the best animals, of which about half usually die, 



DECATUR, Your correspondent learns from the oldest citizens that hog cholera 

 was of rare occurrence in this section twenty-five years ago, if it ever appeared at 

 all. Since that tune new breeds have been brought from other sections and differ- 

 ent climates. These new breeds seem to contract diseases before they become ac- 

 climated, and to communicate such diseases to the other acclimated hogs.' Such 

 breeds are brought into this section less frequently now than they were fifteen or 

 twenty years ago, and hog cholera is becoming less prevalent than it was then. The 

 losses are about 10 per cent. Horses are occasionally affected with distemper, and 

 cattle with hollow horn. Sheep are healthy, but about 5 per cent, are annually lost 

 by dogs. 



DOOLY. Hog cholera first made its appearance here about the year 1860. The 

 means or mode of its introduction is unknown. Hogs prior to that time were very 

 healthy, occasionally losing a few from need of attention. No remedy has yet 



