188 DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTHER ANIMALS. 



Confra Cosfa. — Hojja hero are subject to cholera and pneTimonia. These diseasea are 

 brought on liy lack of proper care and attention. 



Lassen. — There are no infectious or contagious diseases prevalent among domesti- 

 cated animals in this county. 



San Bernardino. — This portion of California has always been remarkably healthy for 

 all classes of farm animals. No contagious disease has ever prevailed here except 

 scab among sheep, and this disease never destroys the animals. 



San Diego. — The only disease existing among cattle is murrain ; this disease is very 

 fatal, especially in dry seasons. Hog-cholera is not known here, A good many sheep 

 are killed by eating poison-weed after our spring grasses are dried up. We lose a good 

 many fowls from a tUsease known as swelled head. 



Shasta. — Horses in this divstrict are annually afdicted with an epizootic distemper; if 

 properly cared for but few of them die. Cattle and hogs are healthy. Sheep are 

 affected with scab, but when washed and properly treated but few are lost. Our State 

 is turning some attention to the Angora goat. I think the raising of these animals 

 will eventually make the best business of the State, California contains a vast extent 

 of country adapted to the roving of this animal which is lit for nothing else. It sub- 

 sists entirely on brush, and seldom, if ever, grazes. 



Tuolumne. — Farm animals of all kinds are in a healthy condition. The weather is 

 mild, and feed is starting. 



Tuia. — A kind of epizootic disease is seriously affecting horses in this county. Dis- 

 eases among cattle are generally caused by want of proper care in winter. Cholera 

 prevails among hogs and fowls. Sheep become diseased for want of proper care, and 

 keeping too many together, 



COLORADO, 



Bent County. — Neither horses nor cattle are affected with infectious or contagious 

 diseases here. Cattle-raisers estimate their annual losses at about 5 per cent. A few 

 Bheep are lost by a disease known as scab. Stock is in extraordinary good condition 

 at this writing. 



Gnnnison. — This is a new county, and there are not over one thousand horses in it. 

 About half of these have suffered this year with epizootic distemper, but none have 

 died. There are no hogs or sheep in this county. There are a few fowls, but they are 

 entirely free from disease, 



San Juan. — There are no domestic animals raised in this coiinty, and none are win- 

 tered here. During the early summer there are quite a number of animals poisoned 

 by eating a weed which the Mexicans call " Loco." The botanic name of this weed 

 is unknown to the writer. 



DAKOTA TERRITORY. 



Brule County. — There is bi;t little stock in this county. No disease of a seriotis 

 character prevails. 



Lake. — A few horses have died of distemper this 5'ear, and a few calves and cattle 

 have been lost by the disease known as black-leg. Fowls are affected with rough, 

 scabby legs, and perhaps 10 per cent, of them die from this disease very suddenly and 

 while in good condition, 



Pembina. — This is a very new county, and contains but a few farmers and little stock. 

 What little we have is healthy, and free from all infectious or contagious diseases, 



Traill. — A contagious but not very fatal distemper exists among horses in this county. 

 The symptoms are a discharge from the nostrils, and swelling of the throat to such 

 an extent as to prevent even the swallowing of water for three or four days at a time. 

 Pants when driven severely, and his tongue hangs out of hia mouth. 



DELAWARE, 



New Castle County. — Chicken cholera prevails this se.ison. The best preventive is a 

 tea made of smartweed, and placed easy of access to the fowls. Condition of farm 

 animals, "good and improving," Wo believe the best stock and the best care will 

 insure most satisfactory and profitable results, 



FLORIDA, 



Calhoun County. — Cattle are generally affected with black tongue, hollow horn, and 

 murrain. Horses sullcr to a considerable extent with staggers and scurvy ; and many 

 hogs are annually lost by cholera and staggers, 



Columbia. — ^Native horses are generally much more healthy than those brought iji 

 from Northern States. Cattle have been generally healthy, except in a fow localities, 

 and in these the losses liavo been quite heavy. About one-third of the hogs in the 

 county have died from cholera, and the thumps; the greatest fatality ever known has 

 occuxred among fowls this year. 



