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very much whether there has ever been a case in this county. About three years 

 ago I lost about 100 hogs rather strangely, and at the time I thought it cholera, but 

 as none of my neighbors ever lost a hog in any similar way I concluded it must 

 have been caused by some local treatment. Never since or before have I heard of 

 any disease in hogs in this county, and to-day all swine are in a very healthy con- 

 dition. I can state positively that there have been no diseases of any kind prevail- 

 ing among either horses, cattle, sheep, or hogs in this county the past year. 



LE SUEUR. There is no hog cholera in our county, nor can I hear of any prevail- 

 ing disease among any class of farm animals. 



LINCOLN. There is no hog cholera in this part of the State. The disease has 

 never been known to prevail here. 



McLEOD. There are no cases of hog cholera in this county. 



MARSHALL. There is no hog cholera in this county, and I know of none in the 

 Red Eiver Valley. There is so little disease prevalent in the county among farm 

 stock that the losses are hardly worth giving. Most of the deaths occur from ex- 

 posure. 



MARTIN. There is no hog cholera in this county at present, nor has there been for 

 the past four years. It has never prevailed here to any great extent. 



MOWER. There is no hog cholera in this county and never has been. There was 

 some complaint in the spring about young pigs being born dead. There seemed to 

 be a lack of vigor on the part of some breeding sows that was unusual. The hogs 

 lived and flourished. Not as many hogs were raised in this county this year as 

 usual, on account of low prices last year, and of course the price of pork here is 

 booming. 



NOBLES. We have no hog cholera so far as I can ascertain. In fact, I have never 

 heard of a case in the county. It is to be attributed partly, I think, to the fact that 

 nobody raises hogs here in any large numbers. Not more than 2 miles south of us, 

 where considerably more hogs are raised, I hear of some few cases of supposed chol- 

 era. So far as my own observation goes I should say that this disease is caused by 

 keeping the animals in over-large droves, on the same grounds year after year, and 

 feeding corn exclusively. In this locality many farmers feed quite a little hay to 

 their hogs in winter, and they seem to eat it with quite a relish. 



NORMAN. Hog cholera is unknown in this county, and, as far as my information 

 extends, is not known in this section of the country. Four or five horses, said to be 

 affected with glanders, were destroyed during the year. 



PIPE STONE. There has never been a case of hog cholera known in the county to 

 my knowledge. Cattle, sheep, and hogs are healthy. There was one case of gland- 

 ers in the county this year. 



POLK. I have had no report of any appearance of hog cholera, or any other dis- 

 ease of an epidemic nature, for the last year in this county. There may be a small 

 percentage of loss from causes not generally regarded as of a serious character. 



SCOTT. The disease known as hog cholera has never been known in this county. 

 Stock of all kinds remarkably healthy, none having died except from accidental 

 causes, or natural death. 



STEARNS. Not a single case of hog cholera in the county this year. Last year 

 quite a number of hogs sickened and died from a peculiar disease, which seemed to 

 eminate from slaughter-houses and spread to several farms. It ceased and has not 

 appeared since last spring. There has been no prevailing diseases among horses, 

 cattle, or sheep. 



STEELE. I am glad to be able to say there is no disease reported among hogs of 

 this county. I have been a resident of the county thirty-two years, and never knew 

 of a case of hog cholera here. 



TODD. I have not been able to learn that there was ever a case of hog cholera in 

 this county. 



WABASHA. We have never had any hog cholera in our county. We have had 

 what has been called scarlet fever by some of our veterinarians, and by others diph- 

 theria, which has been very destructive. It has been confined mainly to young hogs 

 from four to six months old. It differs widely from cholera in one particular, in 

 that the animal will live from fifteen to eighteen days after the first symptoms of the 

 disease are manifested. 



WADENA ; We have no hog cholera here as yet. Swine raisers mostly breed from 

 too young sows. No epidemic has appeared among any class of farm animus ex- 

 cept epizooty among horses. This is the healthiest location for farm animals I have 

 ever known. 



WINONA. Hog cholera has never visited this county in an epidemic form. A few 

 animals have died in different townships of the county during the year, but with 

 the exception of young pigs probably not more than 10 per cent, of the whole num- 

 ber. Cattle are not as fat as usual, owing to short pasturage. Late fall feed, how- 

 ever, has been good. 



