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four or fivo years, but stock of all kinds has imxiroved in quality. No infectious or 

 contagious diseases are prevailing. 



Tuscarawas. ^1^0 epidemic disease has recently prevailed among farm animals rathis 

 county, but a good many domesticated animals have been lost during the year by the 

 various maladies incident to this class of property. 



Wood. — Horses and cattle have been free from infectious and contagious diseases dur- 

 ing the past year. Hogs and chickens have sulfered severelj' from a disease commonly 

 known as hogaud chicken cholera. The losses among hogs have heavy been very, as 

 some farmers have lost entire herds. Sheep have healthy. 



Wyandot. — Cholera has j^revailed among hogs to a limited extent in this county the 

 past season. Cholera has seriously affected the fowls, in some cases sweeping off 

 whole flocks. 



OREGON. 



Claclcamas Counii/. — No disease among horses. A good many cattle die annually for 

 want of proper attention. A few hogs dio every year from liver-disease. 



Linn. — Horses here are suffering to a limited extent with contagious distemper; cat- 

 tle are healthy, but sheep are subject to scab and other diseases. 



Polk. — Cattle, hogs, sheep, and fowls are aftiicted with the usual diseases, though 

 the losses are never very heavy. 



Tillamook. — There are no diseases of a contagious nature jircvailing among the farm 

 animals in this county. 



PENKSYLVAXIA. 



Armstrong Count)/. — Cholera prevails to some extent among hogs in the eastern part 

 of the county. One man recently lost twenty head by this disease. Chickea-cholera 

 also prevails, and is fatal in most cases. A good many sheep annually dio of foot-rot 

 and grub iu the head. 



Blair. — Distemper and lung-fever prevail among horses, and cholera among hogs 

 and chickens. Foot-rot also seriously affects sheep where not properly treated and 

 cared for. 



jErie. — No special diseases have prevailed among farm animals in this locality for 

 some years, and hence the losses have been comparatively light. 



Lycoming. — There have been no infectious or contagious diseases among farm ani- 

 mals in this county the past year. 



McKean. — The condition of farm animals is good compared with previous years. 

 Horses are overworked iu the oil regions, and many die from abuse and lack of iiroper 

 attention. 



Northampton. — There has been no contagious diseases among farm animals in this 

 ?ouuty so far as I have been able to ascertain. 



Perry. — Losses among horses and cattle fiom various diseases Avill perhaps reach 

 $3,000 annually in this county. Losses among hogs, when no epidemic disease pre- 

 vails, will probably amount to -f 300 or §1,000 per annum. Some years cholera is very 

 destructive among chickens, so much so as to kill about all in some localities. 



Wayne. — But few horses are lost hero by contagious diseases. A good many young 

 pig.s and chickens die of cholera. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Barnwell County. — The only disease known among horses in this county is staggers 

 or blind staggers. We know nothing about the pathology of the disease and have no 

 remedy. Ninety-nine animals out of a huudi-ed that are afflicted with the disease die. 

 Occasionally our hogs are afflicted with cholera. Sometimes one farmer will lose two- 

 thirds of his entire stock of hogs while his next-door neighbor will lose none. Fowls 

 dio by the huudi-eds when closely contined iu coops that have remained on the same 

 ground for a number ©f years. 



Colleton. — Many hogs are annually lost in this county by a disease generally known 

 as hog-cholera. Great numbers of fowls also dio of a disease called cholera. 



Lexington. — Hogs have sutfercd less this than last year from cholera. The losses last 

 year were frightful. Fowls have this year suffered beyond all precedent from so-called 

 cholera. I liad a hue -lot of 100 Bramahs, fi'om which I had 150 dozen eggs during the 

 early spring. As warm Aveathcr came on they wer(^ attacked and nearly all died — 

 only one of those attacked survived. Unless something can be done to prevent the 

 annual recurrence of this fatal epidemic, we will have to stop trying to raise fowls. 



Oconee. — Wo havo no infectious or contagious diseases among either horses, cattle, 

 or sheep. In ix few localities of the county hogs havo suffered from cholera. There 

 are a few localities along the Blue Ridge range of mountains where the cattle greatly 

 suffer from milk sickness. An appropriation by Congress for the discovery of thecause 

 of this disease would be eminently proper. 



