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trace its origin. Again, most swine have been confined to small lots and dry feed, 

 without grass, few pastures having been prepared for hogs as yet. There have been 

 a few cases of glanders among horses. 



UNION. Your correspondent has lived in this county continuously since 1869, has 

 kept from 50 to 150 head of hogs all the time, and has had hog cholera but once in 

 1884. Then lost over half of my young hogs, but no old ones. What appears to be a 

 peculiarity of the disease in late years grown hogs seldom get it. There is no 

 known cure for it when it has once taken hold, but preventives are freely used, and 

 with good effect sometimes. It appears to be on its travels all the time, in one 

 neighborhood this year and in another next, and is undoubtedly carried round 

 the same as any other contagious disease. About all the corn raised in this county 

 is fed to cattle and hogs 70 per cent, to hogs. The disease has not been very bad 

 in this county this year, but it still lurks around and breaks out, but not in a general 

 way; still enough to deter some from keeping as many hogs as they otherwise 

 would, 



VAN BUREN, Hog cholera made its appearance about twenty years ago, I have 

 no means of ascertaining how it was introduced. Up to that time hogs were gen- 

 erally healthy, There has been no cholera among hogs for the past five years. The 

 health of these animals for the last year has been very good. 



WOODBUEY. The same qualities " that produce pauperism produce hog cholera 

 every tune. Dirty yards, dirty water, dirty food, carelessness, want of room, une- 

 qual and irregular f eeding, dirty, wet bedding, and last, but not least, want of com- 

 mon sense. Hogs are grazing and rooting animals naturally, and whenever kept in 

 small, hot yards will suffer. My experience has been that a change of food in any 

 direction is a great help. If the herd looks sick open the gates and let them roam 

 at will. If they still look badly burn some old bones and mix with linseed meal 

 and water, which will set them all right. If this had ever failed I should not 

 dare to write it, but seven years' experience without a single death from disease, 

 though surrounded by dead and dying herds every year, have confirmed my above- 

 written experience. 



WORTH. Hog cholera was unknown In this county until three years ago. At 

 that time a gram and cattle dealer imported a car-load of shoats which turned out 

 to be infected with hog cholera. He traded them to farmers in the county for fat 

 hogs to ship, and so infected all stock and yards that they were sold to, and thus 

 spread the disease more or less through the county. It is here now, spasmodically, 

 more or less all the time. I estimate the loss in the county during the last three 

 months at 200 head, and the value at $800. They were mostly small pigs. The loss 

 is not so much in the number of hogs as it is upsetting our calculations, At pres- 

 ent I know of its being on five different farms, and it has generally swept the 

 vards clean. I do not Know that the farmers do anything to prevent the disease. 

 Horses, cattle, and sheep are healthy, 



KANSAS, 



ALLEN. The first hog cholera known in this county, as near as I can learn, was 

 about twelve years ago, and came by cattle feeders going to the stock-yards in 

 Kansas City, Mo. , and shipping in stock hogs. Since then there has been more or 

 less every year in different localities. One of my correspondents, living in the east- 

 ern part of this county for more than twenty years, says there has never been any 

 cholera in that section, I think I have never had a case of it on my farm in a res- 

 idence of thirty-one years. 



ANDERSON. So far as I can leam, cholera was Introduced here In 1883 by hogs 

 shipped in from Kansas City. Has been some cholera in northern and southwestern 

 part of county, but none the past year that I know of, 



BARTON. There has been no hog cholera in this county this year. It was brought 

 to this county a year ago from Missouri in a lot of stock hogs, Native hogs seem to 

 be free from the disease. Hogs are generally kept in small pens in summer, and 

 run at large in winter in the corn, wheat, and rye fields, and are fed when they 

 come up. 



BOURBON. The ravages of hog cholera have been comparatively light during 

 the year 1887, As to the time of introduction in this county, I can not arrive at 

 that date, as it breaks out periodically every few years, and rages with more or less 

 virulence. 



CHAUTATJQUA, There has not been any disease of any kind among any of the 

 animals of this county for the past year. The farmers have generally changed 

 from cattle industry to that of horses, owing to the low prices obtained for cattle. 



CHASE. This county does not seem to be troubled with the dread disease of hog 



