288 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



CALHOUN. There is no disease among stock in this county. Hogs are merely 

 raised for home use. No range for hogs in this locality. 



CAMERON. Hog cholera is unknown in this county. There are but few hogs 

 raised here. 



CHAMBERS. No hog cholera ever existed hi this county within my knowledge. 

 A disease attended with symptoms of measles has been in the county about eight 

 years, which kills about 10 per cent, of the hogs annually. Farm animals, with very 

 few exceptions, have no feed or shelter. Horses and cattle have been generally 

 healthy duriag the year, with the exception of charbon. 



COMAL. No contagious disease prevails among our cattle, horses, sheep, or swine. 

 The disease known as hog cholera is not known here. We raise hogs only for do- 

 mestic use. 



COLEMAN. Genuine hog cholera, so far as our knowledge extends, has as yet never 

 visited our county. A great many hogs have been lost by our farmers in past years 

 during winters, but it has been through poverty, when there was not a sufficient 

 amount of mast for them to subsist upon. Outside of this our hogs have always been 

 very healthy. I would remark that lately there have been hogs of fine breeds im- 

 ported into our county. As they are kept up and not allowed to run loose on the 

 range it is possible that it will not be long before hog cholera will visit our section, 

 as it has in other counties of our State, All kinds of stock are generally on the de- 

 crease in our county. One cause is that farmers are paying more attention to farm- 

 ing; another cause is that the county is being fenced up by those able to fence, and 

 our poor farmers have either had to dispose of their stock or drive to sections where 

 there is still loose lands. Horses, cattle, and hogs., so far as known, are in good health 

 and condition. Sheep are badly affected with scab. It is feared that a great many 

 will be lost if we should have severe weather. Some of the flock-masters are now 

 dipping their sheep, doing it much earlier than ever before. 



COLORADO. I have been living in this county ten years, and I do not now recall 

 a single case of what is known as hog cholera. 



DUVAL. There are but few hogs raised in this county, and no disease has been 

 known among them up to the present time. Sheep are subject to lombriz, and 

 often the losses are quite heavy. 



FALLS. Horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs have all been remarkably healthy the 

 present year. Some few head of cattle, and also some horses, have died, yet not 

 many more than usual; such deaths are attributable to age and scarcity of grass on 

 our prairies, \vhich was cut short by our long drought. Our law is such that all 

 hogs have to be inclosed in pastures or lots, and many farmers have concluded it 

 to be cheaper to buy Northern pork and bacon than to raise hogs. Nothing like 

 cholera in what few hogs we have has made its appearance the present year. 



FREESTONE. The disease among hogs has never, so far as I can learn, been thor- 

 oughly investigated. Some hogs that die" seem to be affected with the cholera, 

 while others often are destroyed from other causes, such as the eating of cotton 

 seed, etc. I do not think the disease proper has been made out, although whenever 

 a hog dies it is generally attributed to cholera. 



FRIO. No such disease as hog cholera prevails in this county. 



FISHER. All animals are universally healthy have not heard of any disease 

 among horses, cattle, sheep, or swine, except the disease called scab, which is very 

 common among sheep. It was brought in from south and southwest Texas and 

 Mexico. Tliis is gotten rid of in a year or two by dipping and frequent change of 

 range. There never has been any hog cholera here. 



GRIMES. Have heard of no epidemic disease "among domestic animals except 

 among hogs. Please bear in mind that perhaps 90 per cent, of all the hogs raised 

 in this county are raised upon the range, as it is called, except, perhaps, when a 

 farmer " puts up " and feeds only for the use of his own family. This may be said 

 to be the universal practice. As to the time of the introduction of hog cholera into 

 the county, I have not been able to get any reliable data. It is an assured fact, 

 however, that prior to the coming in of that disease hogs were healthy. It seems 

 that hogs on the range are equally liable to the attack of the disease with those that 

 may have been raised inside on inclosures. No remedy, so far as I have learned, 

 either curative or preventive, has as yet been successful. 



HARDEMAN. Have heard of no cases of hog cholera this year; in fact we have 

 had nothing of the kind since our county was first settled. Cattle have been healthy 

 with the exception of a few that were driven into the county during the summer. 

 Scab is the only disease that has prevailed among sheep. 



HASKELL. There is no hog cholera in this county. We have but a small num- 

 ber of hogs here, and they are healthy. 



HAYS. There are but few hogs raised in this county, and I have never known of 

 any loss from hog cholera. 



