"28.0 EEPOBT OF THE BTJBEATJ OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



cholera. It is generally believed that good, well-drained quarters, and good, clean 

 water to drink prevent it and pay the farmer well to : provide them. Horses have 

 extra good care. Oats, which are conceded to<be beneficial to- the- horse's health, are. 

 fed largely. The-feedof cows is mixed with roots, and rook salt. Sheep are not 

 handled to any great extent. 



CHEYENNE. Ours is a- new county, and up to: this date our 'hogs have -not been 

 affected to any, great extent with cholera. In fact, I doubt if we.have had the dis- 

 ease at all . Hogs do very well here , and if there is any cholera : prevalent among 

 them when they start for this county it disappears before they reach here. Perhaps 

 the losses from- all causes will reach ;$2,500 for the current year. 



OiiAY. -Hog cholera appeared here in 1880, and was brought 1 into the county by 

 the importation of diseased swine. It has-been raging here more or less since that 

 time. There is less of it this year than I have known since its introduction. It is 

 not a uniform disease, and deserves another name. It -attacks hogs in various 

 ways some in the bowels and some in the flesh. Of course it is a contagious dis- 

 ease of some kind, 



CLARK. 'Stock of all kinds is absolutely free from disease, so far as I know, in 

 this county. Occasionally some animals die from accidents, but there are no epi- 

 demic diseases, so far as I can learn. Stock of all kinds is in good health and con- 

 dition. There ; has not been a single case of hog cholera in this county that I ever 

 heard of. It has not reached us yet. In regard to the history of hog cholera,- 1 can 

 say but little. ';! feel quite certain it is caused by parasites, and these have the power 

 of rapid multiplication. Some think the virus is carried from one to another 

 through the air. I think it is more probable it is deposited by one and taken up by 

 another, and when the disease makes its appearance the best remedy is to remove 

 the well ones from: the diseased to remote and clean quarters, and thoroughly disin- 

 fect the< pens of diseased animals before again using them. 



GLOTJD. As far as I have been able to learn, hog cholera lias been in this county 

 since its first settlement. I think the principal cause of the disease is a want of at- 

 tention in regard to sanitary conditions. I have raised hogs for twenty years almost 

 continuously, and have not suffered any loss to speak of, and I have handled thou- 

 sands. I have been on my farm here in Kansas for eighteen years, and I don't think 

 I have had the cholera on my place. My neighbors have lost almost all their hogs 

 quite a number of times. I have a receipt, if used when the cholera gets into my 

 neighborhood, that keeps it off to some extent, I think. Perhaps we have lost more 

 cattle from feeding on stalks than we did last year. 



CRAWFORD. I do not know when hog cholera first made its appearance in this 

 county. I have not heard of any prevailing disease among farm animals. 



COFFEY. Hog cholera first made its appearance in this county in 1875, It was 

 imported from the St. Louis stock-yards in that year, and again in 1885 from the 

 Kansas City stock-yards. Hogs are always healthy here unless the cholera is im- 

 ported. Burned corn always stops cholera, and hard freezing weather in winter 

 always prevents its return in the spring. 



DAVIS. I can get no official report of number of hogs lost by cholera. Farmers 

 having the disease among then- hogs say as little as possible about the matter, for 

 fear it will affect their sales. But I am satisfied' there is less of the disease here 

 than last year, and our -State law is so stringent that it tends to keep the disease from 

 scattering, by obliging owners to burn or bury within twenty^ our hours after their 

 death. Cholera vras first introduced into this county in the winter of 1881-'82, by 

 shipping stock 1 hogs here from Missouri. No losses' by 9ontagious or infectious dis- 

 ease-ever occurred previous to that time. 



DECATUR. A very few hogs died of a disease called by some cholera- last summer. 

 They wer6 the only cases since 1885, when some hogs from eastern Nebraska brought 

 it here, arid a 'few* died. 



DOUGLAS. Hog cholera was at its worst .in this county in 1884. The first dis- 

 eased dead' hog .known floated down the river and lodged on a sand bar, and from 

 this the disease spread over the county, and has not entirely 'disappeared since. It 

 is worse this year than it was last. A large number of horses throughout the county 

 have recently been afflicted with a disease which the veterinarians call aphthous 

 fever, a breaking out in the mouth, which continues to grow if not attended to, 

 rendering mastication very difficult. The doctors pronounce it contagious. Several 

 horse? have recently died "with the complaint. 



ELLIS. A very few young cattle have died of black-leg. No hog cholera in the 

 county. Sheep are healthy. The sheep industry is on the decline, as farmers can 

 not Afford to raise sheep at the present price of wool. Glanders and farcy are quite 

 prevalent in some parts of the county. iThere have been six or eight deaths the past 

 year from those diseases. There is a great deal of criminal carelessness with the 

 owners of horses so afflicted, in using them with others, driving them to town and 



