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DISEASES OF SWIXE AND OTHER ANIMALS. 187 



Lauderdale. — We have bad no infectious or contagious diseases amongliorses or cattle 

 in ttis county. Tbcy sufter terribly, however, during the wiuter for lack of food and 

 proper attention. At least five hundred horses and mules, and a greater number of 

 cafct^c, are aunually lost fi'om this cause. Hog-cholera i^revails here every year, and 

 the loeacs are sometimes enormous. I estimate that between 7,000 and 8,000 head 

 have been lost during the past year. The condition of farm stock generally is low — 

 worse than at any time since the war. 



Madison. — ^Xo infectious or contagious diseases prevail among farm animals in this 

 county. Hogs frequently die of so-called cholera. Fowls are aliiicted with the same 

 malady. The general condition of farm animals as corai^ared with previous years is 

 good. 



Monroe. — A few hogs only have been lost by disease in this county this year. 



Saint Clair. — Stock in this county is in very good health and condition. I hear of 

 no infectious or contagious diseases. 



Walker. — ^Horses are seriously affected and frequently die of epizootic distemper. A 

 good many cattle ai-e lost by murrain and black tongue, and many hogs die of cholera. 

 Fowls die of cholera and a disease which affects their throats. There are but few 

 6he«p raised in this county; but this industry is on the increase. 



ARKAJfSAS. 



Baxter Count}!. — ^Tho graded calves of this county have this year suffered scverly by a 

 disease called black-leg. The first symptom is a lameness, and they usually die Avithin 

 from twenty-four to thirty-six hours. No remedy has been found. About one-fifth of 

 the calves have been attacked, and nine-tenths of those attacked have died. 



Boone. — The only diseases of any moment that have prevailed among farm animals 

 the past year are those incident to swine. The losses have not been very heavy. 



Bradley. — Horses, cattle, and sheep are free from disease. About 10 per cent, of aU 

 the hogs in the county have died dming the past year from eating cotton-seeds and 

 lying in the dust. Cotton is the only product that is raised here for the market. 



Fulton, — Hogs in a few localities of this county have been fatally affected with 

 cholera. 



Grant. — Chicken-cholera is prevailing here to an alarming extent. The hog-cholera 

 has somewhat aliated. There are no diseases existing among horses, sheep, or cattle, 

 of a serious nature. 



Marion. — Horses and sheep are very healthy, and cattle moderately so. Many of 

 the latter have died this season of black-leg. Many fowls are annually lost by a dis- 

 ease commonly known as cholera. A great many hogs have been lost this season in 

 this county by an unknown disease. It is not cholera, but more resembles yellow fever 

 in man. 



Monroe. — Cholera among hogs and fowls prevails here every year, and usually 

 proves very fatal. All other kinds of farm stock are healthy this year. 



Montgomery. — Horses, cattle, and sheep are proverbially healthy, at least the excep- 

 tion is so small that it is not worthy of note. Until this summer hogs have been 

 healthy, but cholera is prevailing extensively among them at this time. 



Perry. — The health and condition of farm animals is generally good. Diseases 

 among ho^s continue to jircvail at irregular intervals. 



Pojie. — Occasionaly a horse dies here from bots and blind staggers, and sometimes 

 from bad treatment. Fine cattle brought here from other States frequently die of 

 murrain. Hogs sutler tciTibly from what is called cholera. In some localities it kills 

 almost every animal. Fowls also suffer from cholera. Sheep die of rot and bad man- 

 agement. 



Seiier.-^A]\ classes of farm stock are healthy save that of swine, and a good many of 

 these animals are dying in the northern part of the county of cholera. 



Saint Francis. — A ncv,- disease has appeared in this neighborhood among cattle; it 

 first api^carcd among sucking calves, but has lately carried off several grown cattle. 

 The symptoms are a trembling appearance and gradual prostration, which ends in 

 death in from three to seven days. 



Stone. — All classes of iVnm animals have been unusually healthy during the past 

 year in this county. 



White. — At least one-third of the hogs in this county have been afflicted with disease 

 during the past year, and of this number eighty-five per cent, have died. 



CAIJFORNOA.. 



Cahtveras County. — We have never had any infectious or contagious diseases among 

 any class of farm .animals. Every year we lose a greater or less number of ;inimals by 

 starvation. Last winter probably ten per cent, of all the cattle and sheep in this 

 county died from this cause alone. In 16G2 fully three-fourths of all the cattlo died for 

 the want of feed. 



