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hitching at public hitching posts, where all the horses of the county are tied. The' 

 wonder is that there are not more afflicted with the disease. 



ELLSWORTH. The first appearance of hog cholera occurred hi 1883. It has never 

 been as destructive according to the number of hogs in this county as in many 

 other counties. As to its introduction, all we know is it came. Hogs previously 

 were usually healthy, and have been since. I hear no complaint from feeders in 

 relation to any form of disease among hogs or cattle. Cold weather of a severe 

 character has caused the loss of some cattle and hogs, otherwise we would have 

 gone through to this writing safely. 



FORD. Hog cholera has been very bad in this county in former years. We think 

 it was shipped in here from Missouri. We know of no cure. I hare known 90 per 

 cent, of a herd to die of the disease. Horses and cattle are healthy. 



FRANKLIN. There was some so-called hog cholera in this county as long ago as 

 twelve years, but where it came from, or how it originated, we are unable to state. 

 The county has not suffered very much from that disease. There has been little or 

 none of the malady for the last year. 



GOVE. There is no hog cholera in this county. I have lived here nine years and 

 have not heard of a single case. I have raised a few hogs every year, and there has 

 never been any disease among them. Cattle and horses are very healthy, indeed 

 this county is a very healthy one for all kinds of stock. 



HARVEY. There is some little hog cholera in our county yet, but not very much. 

 Hog cholera was brought to this part of Kansas about four years ago by shipping 

 hogs in here from Missouri to feed, and for a time it did considerable damage, but 

 it has been getting less in our county for the past two years, and will (we think) soon 

 be a thing of the past. The total number of hogs I give you were in our county 

 the 1st day of last March, and the number of dead ones also. These are the onlv 

 statistics I have to work from, and you will see the losses are very heavy. This esti- 

 mate being made at the close of winter, these losses cover all the winter losses of 

 winter pigs from exposure, poor treatment, cholera, and everything that could be 

 enumerated to destroy them; but a very small portion of them died from disease. 

 There is no prevailing disease whatever among horses, and the mortality among 

 them was principally old, worn-out ponies and some old domestic horses, with an 

 occasional weak colt that could not stand the hardships of the winter. The greater 

 part of the losses among cattle were caused (last winter) by turning cattle into stalk 

 fields, and the greater part of the lost were calves and yearlings, mostly calves. No 

 prevailing disease. Some sheep died of scab, some old ones died because of weak- 

 ness and poor care, and a good many winter lambs died by not being properly cared 

 for. 



JACKSON. I have been in this county eighteen years, and have had no cholera 

 among my hogs, nor have my near neighbors been troubled with it. Two years 

 ago a cattle feeder four miles from here bought some hogs of a hog dealer in St. 

 Mary's, Pottawatomie County, Kans. , and let them run with his cattle. A great 

 many of the hogs died with.cholera, The hogs on the farms adjoining this feed lot 

 took the disease and many of them died. The carcasses were either burned or bur- 

 ied. The disease did not spread very extensively. This is the only time that I have 

 ever known of any cholera in the southwestern part of Jackson County. It has 

 been very extensive and fatal in some other parts of the county. I am not informed 

 as to the year of its first appearance hi the county. 



JEFFERSON. Hog cholera first made its appearance in this county six years ago 

 in different localities. It is supposed to have been brought in by hogs shipped from 

 Missouri. For a tune it seemed to be confined to farms along tne streams or creeks, 

 but it has since spread all over the prairies and uplands. Some sections of the county 

 escaped for years, but during last summer and fall it was very fatal in those sec- 

 tions. About one-third of the full-grown hogs attacked with it died, and from 60 

 to 75 per cent, of young hogs attacked died. Various remedies were tried, with but 

 little effect. Before the introduction of cholera hogs were healthy in this county. 



KINGMAN. Hog cholera made its appearance in this county in 1884. I think it 

 was brought to the county by importing a finer breed of hogs; because before that 

 date hog cholera was unknown here. I have been in this county ever since it was 

 first settled in 1876. We formerly made more money out of hogs than anything 

 else. Now we lose more money than we make by trying to raise them. We try 

 everything as preventives and remedies, but without success. Horses are healthy. 

 We have lost some cattle by dry murrain. 



LABETTE, I first heard of hog cholera in this county in 1877, when a number of 

 animals died. Since then it occasionally makes its appearance in parts of the county. 

 I have not heard of the prevalence of the disease during the past year. We know 

 of no certain remedy for it. A few cases of Texas fever occurred among cattle the 

 past summer, 



