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especially the pyloric portion. The liver was enlarged and fatty. 

 The kidneys were somewhat fatty, and the pelvis was filled with a 

 yellow serum, the cortical portion of the right kidney being studded 

 with numerous petecchise. The right side of the thoracic cavity was 

 full of straw-colored fluid, the right lung being adherent to the walls 

 of the thorax. The surface of the lungs was marked with numerous 

 red and black patches of consolidation, which extended beyond the 

 surface of the lung, and almost corresponded to the size of a lobulus. 

 There was more or less broncho-pneumonia throughout both lungs. 

 In some parts it had undergone a caseous degeneration, in others it 

 was somewhat gelatinous. The bronchial lymphatic glands were 

 also enlarged. From the above lesions, which I found exactly cor- 

 responding to swine plague in the East, I consider the animals were 

 affected with that disease, and recommended Mr. Sellwyn to destroy 

 them all and burn the pens. I forwarded culture tubes which I in- 

 oculated from the spleen and lung of the subject, as well as portions 

 of the spleen and lung, in alcohol. 



Mr. Sellwyn further remarked that big-jaw, or actinomycosis, was 

 occasionally seen in this country. Black leg or symptomatic anthrax 

 was very prevalent a few years ago, but of late years has been on 

 the decline. Scab in sheep is, however, very prevalent. 



The next gentleman I interviewed was Mr. Hardy, wholesale 

 butcher of San Diego. He informed me that he shipped cattle 

 in April and May, 1888, to San Diego, and pastured them in the El 

 Cajon Valley. They appeared healthy until the month of August, 

 1888, when about 2 per cent. died. He stated that Mr. Shutton's 

 cattle, also in the El Cajon, began to die, when he sold the remainder 

 to him (Mr. Hardy), who found on slaughtering them that 2 were 

 diseased, the spleens being three times their natural size, and on sec- 

 tion of a dark black color. The livers were spotted and covered with 

 yellow streaks, like straws laid across. The kidneys were also dis- 

 eased. The flesh when dressed was of a light yellowish-red color. 

 Mr. Hardy further stated that 50 per cent, of the cattle within from 

 10 to 30 miles from the coast in San Diego County take this sickness, 

 and about 20 per cent, of the sick animals die, and it appears to be 

 worse between the 1st of July and the 1st of December. 



Concerning hog diseases Mr. Hardy said that he lost between 500 

 and 600 head of hogs eighteen months ago, which he valued at $2,500, 

 from what he Called hog cholera. 



The next gentleman was a Mr. Cassidy, who stated that during 

 the preceding ten years the average mortality among hogs was about 

 20 per cent., the money value of which was about $1,000 a year. He 

 also informed me that one year his cattle died, but those of his neigh- 

 bors did not, although they were only separated by a wire fence, and 

 that next year his neighbors' died and his did not. He had observed 

 that cattle brought from the north to this county do not thrive, but 

 that yearlings and calves thrived and did well ; also that mountain 

 cattle brought to the coast die, but that coast cattle taken to the 

 mountains did well. 



The next gentleman was Thomas Alvarado, of Eancho Monserrate. 

 He first noticed disease on his ranch about ten years ago, and it was 

 in his opinion brought in by cattle from Lower California and Mexico. 

 Last year he lost about 60 head, and his neighbor, H. H. Gunn, lost 

 over 100 head. The cause was, in his opinion, Southern fever. He 

 first noticed this disease in the county about eighteen years ago, 

 directly after Judge Weatherby brought in 200 cows from Arizona. 



