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this disease than usual. The disease is always more fatal along the river than in the 

 back country. We have never yet discovered anything that would effect a cure. 



TUCKER. Hog cholera made its appearance in our county about eight years ago, 

 and was brought here from other sections by the importation of stock hogs. The 

 disease has never been so fatal here as in some other counties, and of late years it has 

 not been so destructive as formerly. Prior to the appearance of cholera the hogs of 

 this county were healthy. The drought has been so severe that stock, especially 

 cattle, are starting into winter in poor condition. 



WIRT. Hog cholera first made its appearance in this county in the years 1867-'G8. 

 Prior to that time hogs seemed very healthy. The origin of the disease I can not 

 give. There were some cases of hog cholera in the county last year. Five of the 

 hogs died. The others still linger with disease and are worthless. 



WOOD. It has been twenty-five years since we have had hog cholera to any extent. 

 At that time I think the loss was at least 33 per cent, of the hogs. How it was in- 

 troduced I can not say. Since that time hogs, as a rule, have been healthy. Cattlejin 

 our county are not looking well. The very dry summer cut the pastures short, 

 and cattle started into the winter in poor condition. Feed, I think, in the county 

 will be insufficient for the amount of stock to be wintered. 



WYOMING. Hog cholera first made its appearance in our county about the year 

 1866. Since that time our hogs have not been so healthy. A great many die each 

 year from this disease. Previous to the time it first made its appearance hogs were 

 very healthy. The mode or manner of its introduction in our county is not known. 

 There is no prevalent disease among horses, cattle, or sheep. 



WISCONSIN. 



BARRON. No hog cholera in this county. Several colts had distemper last spring, 

 and a few of them died by taking cold through carelessness of owners. Several 

 horses had what was pronounced glanders, and were exterminated. The disease 

 ceased after the destruction of the affected animals. 



BROWN. Hog cholera made its appearance here about ten years ago. I do not 

 know where it came from nor how it came. The first that I knew of it was among 

 our brewers, who kept hogs and fed them chiefly upon barley malt. They lost 

 about their entire droves. The hogs were well kept, mostly, in good, clean pens. 

 A couple of years later I had a drove of about 40 head of various sizes. They 

 were kept in pens and fed largely with weeds and refuse from my garden, I having 

 but a small amount of grain. About the first of September cholera made its ap- 

 pearance among them, and I lost the entire drove except 3 or 4. The above are 

 fair samples of its behavior in this coimty. Since that time it has disappeared and 

 I have heard nothing of it. I have heard of no other diseases among either horses, 

 cattle, or sheep. 



BUFFALO. No hog cholera has prevailed in the county during the current year. 

 In the year 1885 about one-tenth of the animals in the county died of the disease, 

 but since then nothing has been heard of it. 



CALUMET. About three years ago some losses occurred in this vicinity from what 

 was supposed to be hog cholera. These were the only cases. How it was intro- 

 duced is not known. Before and since *hogs have been quite healthy, so much so 

 that I doubt very much if there ever was a case of the genuine disease in this vicin- 

 ity. The few losses, and the entire absence of the disease since, leads me to this 

 conclusion. Hogs are in quite a healthy condition at the present time. 



CHIPPEWA. Few animals have suffered from anything like an epidemic during 

 the past year in this county. There has been very little disease among hogs. I 

 think it safe to say that no cholera has prevailed among this class of animals dur- 

 ing the current year. 



CLARK. There is no hog cholera in this county. Cattle and sheep are in a healthy 

 condition. Horses are troubled with epizootic distemper, with inflammation on 

 the lungs, caused by overwork and colds. 



COLUMBIA. Hog cholera first appeared in the autumn of 1884, and continued 

 through that winter. Hogs had been entirely healthy up to that time. The disease 

 would break out where no exposure could be traced. Every hog would die on some 

 farms, while others in the same neighborhood would entirely escape. Those that 

 escaped one year would attribute it to some preventive they had used and would 

 say: " No need to have the cholera." The next year their herds would be the first 

 attacked notwithstanding their preventives. Everything about the disease is mys- 

 terious. One farmer bought 40 hogs, 20 from one man and 20 from another. 

 Neither had the disease among their herds. The two lots were put together. All 

 of one lot died, while none of the others were affected by the disease. Farmers are 



