EEPORT OF THE BUEEAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 245 



' MASSACHUSETTS. 



DUKES. The hog cholera made its first appearance in our county during the year 

 1886. There were but few cases that year, all of which were in the town of Edgar- 

 town. It proved fatal to all that were affected. None lived over six hours after it 

 was perceived. The cause of the disease is unknown. It could not have been con- 

 tracted from other hogs, as the farmers raised and kept their own animals, and in 

 some instances where several were kept in one sty one or more would die and the 

 rest would remain perfectly healthy. This season I can not learn of a single case. 



HAMPDEN. Hog cholera has prevailed quite extensively in this county, and a 

 large number of animals have died and many have been killed by order of the cat- 

 tle commissioners; how many I have no means of ascertaining. The disease has 

 invariably been traced to the Western hogs in the distilleries where the swill is 

 fed for fattening purposes. A mild solution of carbolic acid fed in the swill has 

 been used with success in the treatment of the disease. I should estimate that 500 

 pigs and hogs have died from the disease, and over 200 more have been affected. 



NANTUCKET. Early in the season of 1887 a small drove of hogs were brought 

 here from Suffolk County, and some of them died soon after, giving rise to the 

 report that hog cholera had reached our county; but as the deaths were confined 

 wholly to that drove and no other deaths reported, the conclusion was that the dis- 

 ease had not made its appearance in Nantucket County. Very few horses, cattle, 

 or hogs are raised in this county. Previous to the importation of scab a good 

 many sheep were raised in the county. 



PLYMOUTH. Twenty-five or thirty years ago there were considerable losses from 

 cholera among hogs in this county, but now people appear to know how to avoid 

 it. There has been no visitation of the disease for some years. 



MICHIGAN. 



ALCONA. I have been residing here for sixteen years, and have never known any 

 dangerous disease among hogs. No hog cholera prevails in the county. Three fine 

 Jersey cows died recently, I think of some kind of lung fever. If the veterinarian 

 reports the disease a dangerous one I will inform you. 



BAY. I fail to find that there ever was a real case of hog cholera in this county. 

 Most of the farm animals that have died the past year have died from old age. 



BENZIE. In reply I will say that we have not at present, and I am not aware 

 that we ever had, any hog cholera in this county. Horses, cattle and hogs do well 

 here except at times. Cattle in the winter season seem to be troubled with loss of 

 appetite and run down in condition. 



BERRIEN. Our county was free from hog cholera for ten years, up to 1887. At 

 that time the loss was great, but not so great as this year. I am unable to say how 

 it was before that time. A great many were lost through carelessness, by not hav- 

 ing fresh water and clover pasture for them. No contagious disease has prevailed 

 among any other class of animals. 



CALHOUN. There have been farmers in this county who have lost hogs, or rather 

 pigs, of different ages, from a few weeks old to six months. The entire loss, so far 

 as my information extends, will not exceed 150 head. One farmer says: " My pigs 

 were first lame and swollen in their fore shoulders, refused food, and died after a few 

 days." Again, a farmer reports the loss of " three out of his pen, but fed the others 

 with sulphur, ashes, and salt, and had no further loss." 



CLARE. In regard to diseases among animals, I have heard of none, except from 

 one of my correspondents, who writes that in one lot of hogs about 30 had died, 

 but he did not say how many there were in the lot, nor what was the exact nature 

 of the disease. There have been some deaths among animals from various causes, 

 but the mortality has been light during the past year, perhaps ranging from 3 to 5 

 per cent. 



DELTA. Hog cholera has never appeared in this county. Glanders has prevailed 

 to some extent among horses. 



EATON. Hog cholera first made its appearance in this county in the summer of 

 1883. About 100 hogs died from the disease. Since that time I have been unable 

 to learn of a single case of cholera among swine in this county. 



GENESEE. No hog cholera has prevailed in this county this year. A few hogs 

 died last year of what was reported to be cholera. That is believed to have been 

 its first appearance. The mode of its introduction, or its cause, is not known. Pre- 

 viously, and indeed generally at that time, swine were healthy in this section. 



GLADWIN. As regards hog cholera, I have never seen or heard of a case of it in 



