198 DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTHEE ANIMALS. 



easiness, but the low price of pork has caiised the " thinniDf:; out" to such an extent 

 that vrc now hear but little complaint. The losses this year will perhaps amount to 

 $9,000 or $10,000. 



Otscfjo. — Several hogs have been lost bj- the fanners in this county during the past 

 year from some disease thought to be contagious. All other classes of stock are 

 healthy. 



Frcsquc Isle. — Horses, hogs, and fowls in this locality are measurably healthy, but 

 calves seem to be afl'ectcd with a contagious disease. 



Saf/inaw. — About 1 per cent, of the cattle and hogs raised in this county annually 

 die of disease. As a rule all our stock is housed in the winter and comfortably cared 

 for. 



Saint Clair. — Several horses have died in this county during the present year of con- 

 tagious diseases. Cholera prevails among swine in one locality, but has not ap- 

 peared in a very malignant form. 



MINXESOTA. 



Beltrami CoidiI;/. — The only disease prevalent among any class of farm animals is 

 distemper among horses. This is an Indian agency, and there are but few animals in 

 the county. 



Faribault. — A few cattle die annually in this county of a disease known as black- 

 leg, and a few sheep with the scab. Other classes of farm stock are healthy. 



JBouston. — The only disease among our stock that wo have had to contend with the 

 past season has been the so-called cholera among hogs. 



Isanti. — Cattle in this county are frequently attacked with black murrain, and a dis- 

 ease that causes a rising and running sore on the head. There is no remedy known 

 for the latter disease, and when an animal is attacked by it, it is generally killed. 

 Hogs are subject to cholera and a disease called staggers, both of which are very fatal. 



Lac-qui-2)arle. — Black-leg is quite prevalent among cattle, but is principally con- 

 fined to young animals. All die that are attacked with the disease. The general 

 condition of farm animals is above the average. 



Martin. — A few hoi^es die annually in this county from epizootic, and perhaps 5 per 

 cent, of the cattle from black-leg. Stock generally is in good health and condition. 



Nicollet. — Glanders prevails among horses in this county, and is the only contagious 

 disease with which these animals are afflicted. Quite' a number of cattle died of 

 black-leg during the jiast spring, and about one hundred more from the effects of eat- 

 ing snnttted corn. 



Olmsted. — No diseases prevail among any classes of farm animals in this county that 

 I am aware of. In some localities cholera exists among chickens. 



Pojye. — Epizootic has prevailed among hoi'ses, of late, with some fatal cases. Cattle 

 have been suffering more or less with black-leg, which is fatal, with but few exceptions. 

 Hogs and shecxi have been healthy, so far as I can learn. 



Eice. — All classes of domesticated animals in this county are in good health. I have 

 not heard of the prevalence of any infectious or contagious diseases during the year. 



lioclc. — There has never been a marked case of any infections or contagious disease 

 among farm stock in this county. There yet lingers some traces of epizootic distemper 

 in horses, but few, if any, deaths have occurred from that cause this year. 



Saint Louis. — Our farm animals are remarkably free from all infectious or contagious 

 diseases. The diseases peculiar to fowls are roup, «fec., much of which is due to in- 

 breeding. 



Scott. — Recently there has appeared among horses here an epidemic or endemic 

 disease somewhat akin to the epizootic of some years ago. The first symptom is a 

 mucus discharge from the nose, culminating in ten or twelve days in an aliection of 

 the kidneys. After having reached this stage the disease generally proves fatal. If 

 taken in time the patient can be cured. 



S^vift. — The only disease of a serious character that has visited any of the farm 

 animals in this county, during the past year, is black-leg among cattle. 



Yellow Aledicine. — A few horses in this county have been afSicted with distemper, 

 but none have died. No other contagious disease is prevalent, and all classes of farm 

 Btock are healthy. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



Calhoun Connlij. — In this county, horses and cattle are rarely if ever afiectcd with 

 infectious and contagious diseases. Hogs are frcijuently afflicted with cholera, and 

 the estimate given (§7,500) is hardly high enough during a year of its general preva- 

 lence. Slice]) are hardly ever afflicted wit h any disease save rot. Fowls of every breed 

 occasionally have cholera, and when it attacks a dock it generally kills them all. 



Choctaw. — Cattle suiter with charbon, horn-ail, and murrain, and hogs frequently 

 die of cholera or swiuo-pox. Sometimes a farmer loses nearly all his hogs by these 

 maladies. 



