192 DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTHER ANIMALS. 



grass, and again just before they are old enough or large enough to fatten. Some die 

 at all stages and every season of the year from the effects of this baneful and destruc- 

 tive disease. 



Fope. — The only disease of any moment prevalent among farm stock in this county 

 is cholera among hogs and chickens. The annual losses among both classes are very 

 heaA^y. 



Pulaski. — But few farm animals are raised in this county, and the losses from 

 disease haA^e been light during the past year. 



Randolph. — What is known here as hog-cholera has prevailed in several parts of the 

 county, but has generally been most destructive where large numbers were herded 

 together. Cases are reported of several droves, numbering one huntlred or more, where 

 but ten or fifteen head, in all, recovered. 



Sangamon. — Horses, cattle, and sheep have been healthy during the past year. There 

 has been the usual loss among hogs and fowls, but the aggregate cannot be given in 

 the absence of reliable data. 



Schuyler. — Hogs are the only farm animals that have been affected with infectious 

 or contarious diseases in this county during the past season. Great nimibers of turkeys 

 and chickens have also died of cholera, but I can give no idea as to numbers that have 

 been lost. 



Shelby. — During the past year hogs have died in great nrftnbors in this county of 

 cholera and lung diseases. The aggregate loss will amount to over $60,000. A few 

 horses have died of distemper, and a good many cattle of dry murrain. 



Stark. — The hog-cholera has been very severe on some farms this fall, a good many 

 farmers having lost nearly all their stock hogs and some of their fattening stock. 



Stephenson. — The losses of swine in this county have been fearful. The class now- 

 dying are mostly shoats — last spring's pigs — and they are dying so rapidly in some 

 localities that it is impossible for the farmers to hunt them up and bury or burn them, 

 consequently the air is tainted with their carcasses. 



Tazewell. — Immense numbers of hogs have died in this county during the past year 

 of the various diseases which afflict them. No cuxe has been discovered for these 

 maladies. 



Wabash. — Cholera among swine seems to be the only disease affecting any class of 

 our farm animals. About one-half of all the hogs in the county annually die of this 

 disease. 



Washinyton, — The usual diseases have prevailed among farm animals in this county 

 during the past year, and the losses among all classes will reach $8,000 or $10,000 in 

 value. 



Adams County. — The only class of farm animals affected by disease in our county is 

 the hog. The disease seems to be epidemic and contagious, and has occasioned heavy 

 losses among hog-raisers. 



Broivn. — The only disease of any consequence that has prevailed among farm ani- 

 mals in this county during the past year is cholera among swine. 



Carroll. — Cholera has been very destructive among swine during the present year. 

 The losses in this county will amount to $38,000 or $40,000. The symptoms are various 

 and seem to defy anything like successful treatment. 



Clay. — I doubt if this county at any time during the past eighteen years has been 

 clear of the hog-cholera. In most herds it has been very fatal. 



Clinton. — The losses in this county during the present year from diseases among 

 ewine will amount to over $20,000. 



Crawford. — The general condition of farm animals in this county at this time will 

 compare favorably with previous years, and is fully up to an average, if not above. 



Dearborn. — There has been but very little hog-cholera in this county during the 

 present year. 



Decatur. — All classes of farm animals in this county are healthy except that of hogs. 

 These animals are affected with the usual maladies, and the losses have been very 

 heavy diuing the last year. 



Greene. — With the exception of hogs and fowls all classes of farm stock have been 

 measurably healthy during the past season. Perhaps live thousand hogs have been 

 lost during the year by the usual diseases. 



Hancock. — The value of the hogs lost in this county during this past year from the 

 various diseases affecting them will amount to over $60,000. 



Hendricks. — Our horses, cattle, and sheep are comparatively exempt from disease, 

 but hogs and poultry are seriously affected. The losses among hogs particularly are 

 very heavy. 



Jay. — The only farm animals affected T\ath disease in this county are hogs, and they 

 die by the thousands. The disease affecting them is known as hog-cholera. About 

 one-half of those attacked die. I think the disease is contagious. 



Kosciusko. — Nearly 50 i)er cent» of the hogs in this county have died this seasotti. 



