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in his herd has a remedy, and apparently can give the cause of the disease. But 

 my opinion is that the man that claims he can cure it is a quack. 



HIGHLAND. No hog cholera seems to exist in the county, nor has the disease pre- 

 vailed to any great extent at any time. The greatest loss has occurred among 

 horses. 



Ross. There has been a great deal of complaint of hog cholera, but in many in- 

 stances it has been swine fever Or pneumonia. Lung worms have been found in 

 many cases. There is a great deal of ignorance about the disease in hogs. 



SENECA. I am glad to report no hog cholera in this county during the past year, 

 while Hancock, Crawford, and Sandusky, on our borders, are all reported as suffer- 

 ing from this contagion or epidemic. 



SHELBY. The number of hogs raised in this county this year was 20,900. Of this 

 number 1,760 died, entailing a loss of $6,785. There were 165 horses lost, valued at 

 $13,545. Two hundred and seventy head of cattle, valued at $5,685, were also lost 

 by disease during the year. 



WASHINGTON. There have been no losses from hog cholera in this county. No 

 general disease has prevailed this year among this class of farm animals. Farm 

 stock of all kinds is in good condition, and starting into winter quarters free from 

 disease. 



WARREN. Hog cholera has been in our county since 1854. The health of hogs is 

 good except where attacked by this disease. It generally is quite fatal with young 

 hogs. As yet nothing has been found to cure the disease. The finer the stock the 

 more fatal it is. It will attack a herd on one farm while the hogs on the next one 

 will remain perfectly healthy. Cattle, horses, and sheep are in good condition. 



WAYNE. Hog cholera does not prevail in this county. No epidemic or contagious 

 disease has prevailed to any extent during the year among our farm animals. Many 

 Western horses have been brought in during the year. They are mostly improved 

 draught horses, and are subject to distemper, influenza, #nd sore throats, of which 

 some few have died. The general condition of live-stock is good. 



WOOD. Hog cholera has been in this county, off and on, for nearly twenty years 

 past. It has been very bad in some neighborhoods during some seasons. There is 

 some in the eastern part of the county, and also near the west side, this season. 

 Some farmers have lost as high as 60 head. The disease prevails over a very small 

 territory compared to the entire county. 



UNION. I can not learn when hog cholera first appeared in the county, but it has 

 appeared in localities repeatedly in the last twenty years to my knowledge. The 

 latter part of last year and the first of this it proved very fatal in some neighbor- 

 hoods, though it did not spread very much. Hogs affected were generally secluded. 

 When this was neglected it seemed to be communicated by contagion, A large 

 number of heavy draught horses died during the year. 



OREGON. 



COLUMBIA. I have lived here eight years, and have never heard of a case of hog 

 cholera occurring in the county. 



DOUGLAS. I have been a permanent resident of Oregon over forty years, and of 

 this county nearly thirty-eight years, and I have never heard of a case of hog cholera 

 in the State. I am a tolerably close observer in all matters relating to domestic an- 

 imals, and I think the above is conclusive that an exclusive corn diet is not so good 

 for hogs as a mixed diet. Hogs in this State get verv little besides grass until they 

 are shut up to fatten, and then the majority are fed on wheat, or wheat and oats 

 mixed sometimes ground, but more in its whole form. I do not say there never 

 was any hog cholera in the State, but if there has been I never heard of it, and I 

 am a regular reader of the agricultural papers. 



GILLIAM. The hogs of this county are quite healthy; I hear of no disease of any 

 kind. Scab has prevailed to some extent among sheep, but our stringent laws pre- 

 vent much loss from this cause. 



GRANT. TUere is no hog cholera in this county, and never has been. I came here 

 twenty-five years since, and have never seen or heard of a case of this or any other 

 contagious disease among hogs. No disease prevails among horses, and cattle are 

 healthy. Sheep are occasionally affected with scab. 



KLAMATH. As nearly all the animals enumerated are raised and grazed upon the 

 public lands, many of them being remote from settlements and not generally looked 

 after, except during the annual round-up, or during the period in which it is neces- 

 sary to feed them, it is utterly impossible to ascertain the losses. So far as I can 

 learn there has been no prevailing diseases among domestic animals, and the losses, 

 either from wild animals, poisonous herbs, or disease will not exceed 1 per cent, of 

 either class. 



