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excessively warm, and was quite dry. It has not been general in the county, but 

 has appeared in isolated localities. The per cent, of loss is necessarily light, while 

 in a few localities quite large, possibly 25 per cent. 



HOWARD. Some few hogs have died of cholera the past year. The symptoms 

 are a swelling of the head and a droopy appearance. The disease is not so general 

 this year as usual. 



KEITH. There is no hog cholera in this county, so far as I have been able to as- 

 certain. No disease of a contagious character has prevailed among any class of 

 our farm animals during the past year. 



LANCASTER. The first appearance in this county of hog cholera as an epidemic 

 disease was in 1884. It came from the north and progressed south at the rate of 

 60 to 100 miles per year. The cholera was the first disease which ever caused serious 

 loss among swine in the county. The disease seemed to progress from one herd to 

 another in an unaccountable way, sometimes passing over two or three farms to one 

 beyond, and then attacking them later; but few herds escaped entirely. At present 

 there is little complaint of cholera, or any disease among hogs. Cattle and horses 

 have been exceptionally healthy during the past year, and owing to favorable 

 weather since feeding time their condition is above the average. 



LOUP. There are no diseases and never have been among either horses, cattle, or 

 hogs since the organization of the county, which has been about five years. I don't 

 think a hog has ever died with cholera in the county. Cattle appear to be very 

 healthy. There is once and a while a calf that dies with a disease called black leg. 



MERRICK. About six years since a disease came among hogs, and those who 

 had large herds lost heavily. Some named it hog cholera, others effects of worms; 

 some persons who had moved here from Illinois declared that it was nothing like 

 what people called cholera in that State. The disease has been more or less prev- 

 alent ever since. A great deal of money was spent in the way of remedies, but 

 without avail. I have noticed that persons who get hogs at a distance from home, 

 for instance at public sales, etc., and the hogs at both places are healthy when the 

 new comers are brought in, the disease breaks out, and these instances have not been 

 few. A year since the disease got among my hogs. I tried about everything; every 

 morning I found from 2 to 4 dead; and a man newly from Iowa told me to feed 

 lime. The same day I put some lime in their slop, and I know that I have not lost 

 a hog since. I had lost 50 in ,bout four weeks. The disease is still about, and a 

 great many name it cholera, but I can not tell what it is. I still feed lime. 



NANCE. Cholera destroyed two-thirds of our hogs last year, taking every animal 

 from some farmers. It commenced in August. I had 30 old hogs and 150 spring 

 pigs in a brush pasture. Cholera took 8 or 10 old ones, and I sold the rest; saved 

 about 40 pigs. Bred the sows in the same pasture this year, and had no trouble 

 with cholera. 



NEMAHA. I can not inform you the exact year when hog cholera first made its 

 appearance, nor how it was introduced here. Hogs were generally healthy previous 

 to that. I have been, during the past sixteen years, deeply concerned in raising 

 hogs, and have met with severe losses therein. My conclusions are that the disease 

 is unpreventable, and can be mitigated only by keeping the animals in better health. 

 An undue proportion of corn and bad sanitary regulations are the main causes of 

 excessive losses. There are no prevailing diseases among either cattle, horses, or 

 sheep this season. 



NUCKOLLS. Hog cholera was brought into this county in the year 1884, from 

 Iowa, by shipping in thoroughbred hogs, and has been here since, more or less, all 

 the time. 



PHELPS. A great many hogs have died in the county the past year. It seema 

 that people can not find any remedy for the disease. They have tried all remedies 

 without success. Horses, cattle, and sheep have been very healthy. 



PLATTE. Hog cholera first made its appearance here in 1883-'84. Its first ap- 

 pearance was near railroad stations, and was probably brought here in stock-cars 

 from diseased localities. Previous to the above date hogs were in a healthy condi- 

 tion, but since that time there have been thousands of hogs lost with the cholera and 

 plague. 



RED WILLOW. Comparatively no hog cholera in this county this year. Early in 

 the summer some shipments into the county of small lots brought hog cholera, but 

 it was soon stamped out, and at present there is no complaint. 



SEWARD, Hundreds of hogs have died in this county from the ravages of cholera 

 in the last four months, and about one-fourth of the living hogs in the county are 

 affected with it now. It is proving very fatal. 



SHERIDAN. Not any hog cholera in this county. No special disease has mani- 

 fested itself among any class of farm animals in this county. 



ST ANTON. Being a great cattle-feeding section of the country there are, of course, 



