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SCHOOLCRAFT. We have but very few hogs in our county. It is so far north 

 that it does not pay to raise them, as we would have to import corn to fatten them. 



TUSCOLA. No hog cholera prevails in this county. No disease of an infectious 

 or contagious character prevails among any class of farm animals. 



WEXFORD. There has not been, to the best information I can obtain, a case of 

 hog cholera in this county. I have lived in the county fifteen years, and have 

 never heard of any disease among hogs. It has generally been very healthy for all 

 kinds of stock. There has been no epidemic of any kind that I have ever heard of, 

 except a few cases of glanders among horses. 



MINNESOTA. 



BIG STONE. No disease of any kind has prevailed among the farm animals of 

 this county the past year. 



BROWN. Hog cholera has never been known in this county. 



CARLTON. There is no such disease as hog cholera known in this county, or any 

 other disease that affects hogs. 



CHIPPEWA. There was no hog cholera in this county in 1887, or in any previous 

 year. 



Cms AGO. I am happy to state that we have no hog cholera in this county. 



CROW WING. But few hogs are raised in this county, not enough for home con- 

 sumption. Many farmers do not raise any. Those we have are healthy. Cattle 

 and horses are in good condition for wintering. No disease prevails among these 

 animals. 



DODGE. It is safe to say that the disease known as hog cholera has never got a 

 foothold in this county. The cry has gone forth once or twice in the past ten years 

 that it had, but it has always ended m the death of a few hogs in one place and 

 that was the end of it. Hogs are very healthy. There is usually a great loss in 

 early spring pigs for lack of proper care and protection. There never has been any 

 epidemic among horses, cattle, sheep, or hogs since the first settlement of the county 

 in 1855, to my personal knowledge. Horses died of old age, bad usage, inflamma- 

 tory diseases, and wire fences. Cattle died from neglect and exposure, and some- 

 times from too much clover on a wet morning. Dogs kill the sheep and the hogs 

 get smothered in the straw in cold weather. 



FILLMORE. There is no hog cholera in this county, and never has been so far as 

 I can obtain any information. In fact, no disease similar to it has ever prevailed 

 here. Very few farm animals of any class have died of disease in this county the 

 past year. 



GOODHUE. Hog cholera is yet unknown in this county. No true case has yet 

 been reported. Hog production, as an interest, is certainly growing in importance, 

 and great attention is being given to breeds. In general, it may be said that no 

 prevailing or unusual disease has existed in this county among any class of domes- 

 tic animals during the past year. There is an increasing interest in the various 

 branches of stock-raising, and improvement in care and breeding, is quite observ- 

 able. 



GRANT. There is not a case of hog cholera in this county. All kinds of farm 

 animals are healthy and doing well. 



HOUSTON. Hog cholera first appeared in tliis county in 1875, and a little of it has 

 been heard of about every alternate year since. It did not create any great alarm until 

 1881, when it was believed to have been introduced by importing a boar from south- 

 ern Iowa. Theories as regards its spreading are conflicting. Many believe that 

 it has been spread by dogs feeding upon animals that died with it, thus carry- 

 ing the disease to their owners' pens. At first the farmers were careless and left 

 the carcasses unburied. It has now virtually disappeared. The only instance of 

 its appearance within the year was where a drove of hogs were kept with a lot of 

 fattening cattle to eat the grain out of the excrements. Clean pens and a liberal 

 range in clover pastures are considered the best preventives. While it prevailed it 

 affected lean and fat hogs alike. 



ISANTI. Our county has not been visited by the dreaded disease of hog cholera 

 and we hope it will not be. I think this fact is owing to sparseness of settlement as 

 mud^as to care. The hog crop is always small in this county. 



JACKSON. We have never had any hog cholera in this county. 



KANABEC. No hog cholera has prevailed in this county during the year. All 

 classes of farm animals seem to have been measurably free from disease. 



KANDIYOHI. I can not learn that there has been a case of hog cholera in the 

 county the past year. 



KITTSON. In reply to questions relating to hog cholera, I would say that I doubt 



