276 BEPOET OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTEY. 



LANE. I have lived in this county over thirty years, and have never heard of any 

 hogs being affected with cholera, or, in fact, with any disease whatever. They are 

 and ever have been perfectly healthy. I have raised and fattened many hundreds 

 myself, and always found them in good health. Within the last four years horses 

 have been troubled much in different parts of the county with two very bad con- 

 tagious diseases nasal gleet and glanders. They are both fatal. The animals re- 

 fuse to eat and pine away and die in a short time. 



MARION. Hog cholera unknown in this county never has been any. Care of 

 stock generally better in the last year than formerly. No fatal diseases among stock 

 to be noted. 



MORROW. We have no fatal disease of any sort among the domestic animals in 

 this county. Stock of all kind are exceedingly healthy in this locality. The only 

 loss sustained is during the winter season, but farmers and stockmen are annually 

 making improved preparations for caring for stock animals during the winter sea- 

 son. The heaviest loss is reported from stock running on the range, which have no 

 protection and but little feed during the stormy weather. 



MULTNOMAH. There seems to be no disease prevailing among the domestic ani- 

 mals of this county. 



POLK. Hog cholera is unknown here. Horses are affected sometimes with stag- 

 gers, caused by bad treatment. Cattle are very healthy. Sometimes they die for 

 lack of food. 



WASHINGTON. There has never been a case of hog cholera in this county. There 

 has been absolutely no disease among the domestic animals of this county during 

 the past year, and no loss save that incident to old age and lack of proper care and 

 attention. 



YAMHILL. There has not been a case of hog cholera in this State that I have ever 

 heard of. Hogs are very healthy, and there is no disease among them. The prin- 

 cipal disease among sheep, is scab. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



ADAMS. Hog cholera has appeared in this county as elsewhere, and in the same 

 arbitrary fashion. We are as far as ever from ascertaining either its cause or cure. 

 Often, in a circle of 1 or 2 square miles, it will appear and sweep away almost all 

 the hogs, and outside of that there is exemption from it. The notion that it is 

 caused by constant corn feeding and consequent enervation of animal's constitu- 

 tion is not always supported by the facts. Can not tell when it first appeared in 

 the county. 



ALLEGHENY.' We have no hog cholera in our county. Other classes of animals 

 are quite healthy. One of my assistants in the northwestern part of our county 

 speaks of pink-eye among horses, but it does not cause many deaths. We had some 

 hog cholera about ten or twelve years ago. It was brought here from the stock- 

 yards at Pittsburgh. The hogs were taken to a distillery in the adjoining county. 

 All healthy stock that came in contact with the diseased at that time was certain to 

 have cholera. There are not many cattle or sheep fed in this county, as the indus- 

 try is not profitable. We can not compete with Western feeders with their cheap 

 corn. 



ARMSTRONG. No well-authenticated instance of the occurrence of a case of hog 

 cholera in this county has come to my knowledge. Some twenty years ago a num- 

 ber of hogs fed on still-slop, at Freeport, Pa., died suddenly, and the disease was 

 thought by some persons to be cholera, but most persons believed it to have been the 

 result of injurious substances in the slop. Hogs, I think, have increased one-third 

 in numbers. Fed on waste apples they are the only kind of stock that can be raised 

 without loss. 



CAMERON. The disease known as hog cholera has never developed in this county. 



CENTER. Hog cholera has been known to exist in our county for the last thirty 

 years, but to no great extent until within the last five years. Since then it has been 

 prevailing and on the increase, and fully 50 per cent, of the hogs have been attacked 

 and all of 40 per cent, have died. One reporter states that hogs that ran to clover 

 pasture were most subject to it. We have tried many remedies, but no cure has yet 

 been found. 



CLINTON. The first known of the disease called hog cholera in this county was 

 about ten years ago. Since then it has twice visited us in a virulent manner, but I 

 am of the opinion that it is lurking around at all times but in a mild form. The 

 disease this autumn has been in a more malignant form than heretofore. Some die 

 ere you know they are sick, others linger a considerable time and continue to fall 

 away (although partaking of food) until reduced to a skeleton, when death closes the 



