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were generally healthy, They had grounds to root in, impregnated with alkali 

 from the burning timbers when clearing the lands; corn that was not assorted and 

 the poor only given for feed. Cob was unknown to grinders of feed, and offal went 

 into manure heaps. Their hogs were healthy, the eaters of pork were healthy. 

 How to prevent this disease every grower of pork should know. Give brood sows 

 and pigs more room, healthy air, healthy feed, less slop and waste containing- too 

 strong acids, and once every week put in the troughs wood ashes with small chunks 

 of charcoal, mixing therewith a small quantity of flower of sulphur. The porkers 

 will eat, grow healthy, and the cholera will not appear. 



SALEM. Hog cholera has prevailed in some parts of tins county, and a large per- 

 centage of the animals have died. Very few cattle are raised in the county. Aside 

 from a few choice Jerseys and Holsteins, our cattle industry amounts to but little. 



SOMERSET. Only a few hogs have died the past year. The disease affecting 

 them.was not reported as cholera. 



NEW MEXICO. 



BERNALILLO, Hogs are not raised in this county, except where fed solely upon 

 swill from hotels, etc. They are not subject to disease. I do not know of any hog 

 cholera in the county. 



SAN MIGUEL. I haye never known of a case of hog cholera in this county. A 

 good many mares and colts die from eating the poisonous loco weed. 



NEW YORK, 



ALLEGANY, There is no hog cholera in our county. No contagious disease pre- 

 vails to any great extent among any class of farm animate. Some distemper or 

 strangles has prevailed among colts. A few cows have died of milk fever and a 

 limited number of sheep from foot-rot, 



BROOME, Hogs are only kept in our county in sufficient numbers ^to consume 

 the refuse of dairying. Hog cholera is unknown here. The past year has been a 

 marked one for the absence of diseases among all classes of farm animals. 



CATTARAUGUS. I have been unable to learn of a case of hog cholera in this 

 county the present year. All domestic animals in this section have been remark- 

 ably free from disease during the past year. 



CLINTON. I have the pleasure to report that, as far as I can learn, there is no 

 disease among horses, cattle, sheep, or hogs in this county. All generally healthy. 



CORTLAND. Neither cholera among hogs nor pleuro-pneumonia among cattle 

 has ever visited the above-named animals in this county, 



COLUMBIA. Hogs in this county hare not been affected with cholera. 



DELAWARE, We have not suffered from hog cholera in this county. Pleuro- 

 pneumonia broke out in the town of Walton during the summer and created much 

 alarm. Some 40 head were slaughtered and a vigorous quarantine maintaine4 for 

 quite a length of time. All danger is now passed and quarantine removed. The 

 action of the authorities in endeavoring to stamp out this disease was severely 

 criticized in some quarters; but all reflecting men were satisfied, I think, that vig- 

 orous measures were required, and certainly the results warrant the action taken, 



GE"NESEE. I have never known a case of hog cholera in this county only when 

 imported in Western hogs, and it has not extended. I am sure it has never existed 

 here only as above stated. From long observations and experience as a farmer I 

 would judge that we lose 5 per cent, by disease, but mostly isolated cases, and few 

 from contagious or infectious diseases. Domestic animals are generally well cared 

 for and kept in growing condition throughout the year. Our pastures were short 

 this fall, but stock is now nearly up to the average condition. 



GREENE. We have never had any hog cholera in our county or any contagious 

 diseases among our cattle. None among horses excepting epizooty, and scarcely 

 any losses from that. Our cattle, sheep, and hogs are all sheltered and well cared for 

 and in a prosperous growing condition, 



ERIE. There never has been any hog cholera in this county. Swine are in their 

 usual health, with no epidemic existing among them. 



HERKIMER, This county is remarkably free from any contagious diseases of 

 domestic animals. No hog cholera, known as such, has appeared. Very little is 

 now known of abortion in dairy cows; formerly it prevailed to a large extent. No 

 prevailing diseases among horses, except occasionally some kind of distemper, 

 limited in numbers and duration. Cases of disease are so rare that it is impossible 

 to give any reliable data as to number, values, etc. As to the number of animals 

 raised in our county, no satisfactory reply can be given; nothing short of a census 



