202 DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTHER ANIMALS. 



Nye Couniij. — All kinds of stock range our r.ionntams aiul j)lains, and are ouly 

 gathered in once a year to corral. No diseases of an infectious or contagious charac- 

 ter prevail among them at present.- All losses occur from stars'ation and exposure in 

 winter. 



NEW JERSEY. 



BurVmriion County. — The prevailing disease among cattle in this county is pleuro- 

 pneumonia. It is very fatal, and the losses in this class of animals have been very 

 heavy. Hog-cholera is prevailing extensively and in a very fatal form. The same 

 might be said of diseases among fowls. The losses among all classes of farm animals 

 vpill annually amount to over §100,000. 



Camden. — There are no diseases prevalent among horses, except those peculiar to 

 colts and young horses. These are generally of a mild character. Hog-cholera pre- 

 vails to some extent ; so does cholera among fowls. 



Cape May. — During the past year horses have suftered severely from a disease called 

 blind staggers. A good many animals have been lost. Hog-cholera prevails to a 

 limited extent. 



Middlesex. — A contagious lung fever prevails among cattle in this county, but it has 

 nob as yet appeared in a very malignant form. 



NEW MEXICO TERRITORY. 



Colfax County. — Scarcely any disease is prevalent among domesticated animals in 

 this county save scab among sheep. The losses among this class of stock perhaps 

 amount to 1 per cent, of the whole number raised. There is scarcely any infectious 

 or contagious disease among our larger farm animals. 



Dona Ana. — A few flocks of sheep, of improved variety, have scab in a mild form. 

 Hogs and fowls are free from cholera. Occasionally a cow is lost by hoven, brought 

 on by eating green alfalfa ; and I lost two merino rams the past summer from the same 

 cause. I also lost two Angora bucks from an unknown disease. 



San Miguel. — There are about 100,000 sheep annually raised in this comity, and about 

 1 per cent, of them die of an affection of the milt. 



Taos. — Horses are generally aftected with epizootic distemper and cattle with Texas 

 fever. A great many die in the si)rLag of the year from the eftects of eating poison- 

 weed. Hogs, sheep, and fowls are generally healthy. 



NEW YORK. 



Allegany County. — Our horses are frequently attacked with strangles or distemper, 

 a disease which is believed to be contagious. A few cows are annually lost from milk 

 fever, and a limited number of calves die of murrain. Sheep are aftected with foot-rot, 

 and many fowls die of cholera. 



Clmiango. — I have heard of a few calves dying of worm in the lungs, which seems to 

 be a new disease in this county. A farmer who lost three examined the. lungs and 

 found large quantities of worms about an inch long and the size of an ordinary thread. 

 I lost a few calves by the disease known as black-leg, and on opening the lungs found 

 a few worms. 



Fulton. — Owing to abundant feed, stock of all kinds is in fine condition this fall. 



Genesee. — The value of farm stock lost by various diseases during the past year in 

 this county will amount to fr-om $20,000 to $25,000. The heaviest losses have occtuTed 

 among horses and swine. 



Montgomery. — A great many cows suff"er annually from abortion; and the loss by 

 accident and the various inflammatory and congestive diseases will average one cow 

 for every dairy of thirty-five cows. No contagious disease prevails in any of our flocks 

 or herds. 



Niagara. — Light diseases, with but few fatal results, have prevailed among swine 

 during the past season. Other classes of stock have remained healthy. 



Seneca. — All classes of farm animals in this county have been unusually healthy dur- 

 ing the past year. 



NOP.TII CAROLINA. 



Alleghany County. — We have no diseases among either horses, cattle, or hogs. Sheep 

 occasionally die from distemper and a disease called rot. Young chicks frcqueutlv dio 

 of gapes. 



JJrunswiclc. — On consultation with the best informed persons in the county I do not 

 find that auy diseases have prevailed among farm animals diuing the past year. 



