190 DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTHER ANIMALS. 



Lincoln. — Farm animals tliis year have generally been exempt from infections and 

 contagious diseases. In a few localities chicken cholera prevails with more or less 

 fatality. 



Marian. — A few horses have died diu'ing the past year of epizootic and Inng fever. 

 Cattle and sheep are healthy. Cholera is quite prevalent and very fatal among both 

 hogs and chickens. 



Murnnj. — About 5 per cent, of the hogs and sheep of this county are aimnally lost 

 by disease. Pei-haps 2 per cent, of the cattle are lost by mui'raiu. 



Pulmki. — We have no contagious diseases among horses except distemper, and that 

 rarely kills. Cattle are healthy, but hogs are more or less subject to cholera every 

 year. The only disease aftecting sheep is rot. Fowls have more or less cholera every 

 year, which is generally very fatal. 



Randolph. — The most fatal disease among horses which has prevailed here during 

 the i»ast year is staggers. Cattle are subject to a good many maladies, some of which 

 are quite fatal. Cholera and big-shoulder sweep off a great many hogs annually. In 

 gome localities almost all the fowls have been destroyed by cholera. 



lioclcdale. — No diseases of a very destructive character have visited our farm stock 

 during the past year. 



Schley. — Tliero are no diseases of any character prevailing among farm stock in this 

 county. This section is most prosperous to the farmer, as there is a full crop of all 

 products and good health throughout to both man and beast. 



Screven.—The most j>revalent disease here, and the most distressing one to the farm- 

 ers, is colic in mules. It is very fatal, and generally kills within from live to ten 

 hours. At least live out of every seven of those attacked die. It seems to he caused 

 by an accumulation of wind in the body, and not in the intestines. The body swells 

 to the greatest dimensions, and the most excrutiating pains follow and continue until 

 death. 



Spalding. — The losses among farm stock in this county from the various diseases in- 

 cident to the same will probably reach as high as $16,000 for the current year. 



Tattnall. — Staggers is the most fatal disease among horses in this county, and black- 

 tongue among cattle, although more of each class die of poverty than from, the effects 

 of disease. Cholera is very fatal among hogs and fowls. 



Towne. — There are no diseases iirevailing among farm animals in this county except 

 bots and distemper among horses and milk-sick among cattle ; also, cholera among 

 hogs. 



Union. — We have no contagious disease among any class of farm stock, but a good 

 many animals are lost every year from common and well-known diseases. 



Washington. — Murrain among cattle and cholera among hogs and chickens are dis- 

 eases that are j)roving very fatal here. Nearly all the animals and fowls attacked by 

 these diseases die, as we have no remedies. Yoimg animals and those being fattened 

 seem the most Liable to attack. Farm animals in this county are now in a better con- 

 dition than ever before at this season of the year. One reason for this is that a large 

 number of i^lanters do their cotton-ginning by steam and water-power instead of with. 

 animals. 



Wilcox. — A greater or smaller number of hogs die every year of a disease called chol- 

 era. All other classes of farm stock are measurably healthy. 



Wilkes. — Hogs die annually in some localities iu this covmty of a disease called chol- 

 era. Some years this disease is much more destructive than in others. 



IDAHO TERRITORY. 



Bear Lake Couniy. — Horses are occasionally subject to a distemper which is regarded 

 as contagious. The symptoms are heaA^y discharges from the nostrils. 



Idaho. — This climate is very favorable to farm stock. All classes subsist on the 

 abundant bunch-grass of the range during the winter, and disease is rarely known 

 among them. 



iiimois. 



Adams County. — A good many horses have died during the past year of distemper. 

 As usual, the so-called hog-cholera has i)rovailed extensively, and has carried off' stock 

 to the value of $25,000 or ,|30,000. 



Carroll. — All farm aulnuxls have been remarkably free from contagious diseases 

 except hogs. Never before has there been so great a mortality among swine in this 

 county. With pigs and shoats the disease has been most fatal. No remedies seem to 

 be of any benclit, and no sanitai'y comlition is a safeguard against attack. They are 

 affected in a great variety of ways and ai)parently by dill'crent diseases. 



Clark. — A mild form of epizootic distemper prevails among horses iu the southeastexn 

 ))art of the county, and there have been some deaths. Hog-cholera prevails iu a very 

 fatal form iu the eastern part of the county, and uKiny hogs are dying. Chicken- 

 cholera is also very prevalent and fatal. 



