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tlie past year. A good mauy hogs have been lost, but the diseases among them have 

 net been so widospread as in former years. 



I'an Barcu. — The disease among hogs in this county is generally called cholera, 

 although it manifests A^aried symptoms. Chickens are also affected by a disease des- 

 ignated as cholera. 



JFcaldcjj. — With the exception of slight affections among hogs and chickens, all 

 classes of farm animals have been unusually healthy during the past year. 



Ausiiii Count I/. — The losses of horses by infectious and contagious diseases varies 

 greatly, but for the last two years they have been unusually large. The losses have 

 been heaviest among stock horses on the prairie, and the disease aflectiug them seems 

 to be a distcmi^er or kind of croup. A strange disease has been prevailiug among cat- 

 tle in the northern part of the county, and every animal attacked has tiled. The dis- 

 eases among hogs are cholera, lung affections, measles, inflammations of the throat, 

 &c. Most of the animals attacked die. Cholera prevails among chickens, and losses 

 have been very heavy. 



Bandera. — All classes of domesticated animals have been unusually free from dis- 

 ease during the past year. Fowls are afflicted with various diseases, some of which 

 are very fatal. 



Bexar. — A few diseases annually prevail among domesticated animals in this county, 

 and the annual losses among all classes will probably aggregate fi'om $8,000 to 

 §10,000. 



Canq). — Stock generally is in good condition in this county. I have heard of no dis- 

 eases prevailing among any class of farm animals. 



Comal. — The only disease among horses consists in a swelling of the glands of the 

 throat, frequently ending in ulceration. The disease i:)revails more extensively in 

 spring v.hen the weather is cold and wet. The majority of the animals that die are 

 colte. The affection seems to bo an epidemic, produced by scanty pasturage and 

 rough weather. There are no contagious diseases prevalent among cattle, hogs, or 

 sheep. 



Dc Witt. — Horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep are generally healthy and in good condi- 

 tion in this county. The losses are so small as to attract but little or no attention. 

 Fowls frequently die of a disease known as cholera. 



Eastland. — A good many horses die in this county of blind staggers and big head, 

 caused ijrincii^ally by feeding uusouud corn. Diseases among cattle are not so fatal 

 this season as they were last year. We have no special tliseases among hogs, but a 

 great many of them have died this year for lack of feed. Foot-rot and scab prevail 

 among sheep. Fowls die of various maladies. 



Harrison. — A fewer number of horses have died from disease in this county during 

 the past twelve months than for several years past. Our hogs die in considerable num- 

 bers from a wheezing disease caused, no doubt, by eating cotton-.sced, picking them up 

 from about our gin-houses, or where they have been dropped by cattle. Our chickens 

 and turkeys have died by the thousands with a disease we call the cholera. 



Hays. — Our farm animals are in remarkably good health and condition. Wo have 

 been free from all contagious diseases for thi'ee years past. 



Jlil!. — A disease heretofore unknown has been quite troublesome to horses in this 

 neighborhood. Our stockmen generally designate it as '•'loin distemper." Cholera 

 among hogs and fowls is frequently quite prevalent and fatal. 



Hopkins. — Horses in this locality are affected Avith glanders, and cattle with bloody 

 murrain. Hogs arc affected with cholera, and a disease which causes wheezing and 

 choking, as of a hard lump in the throat. These diseases generally follow an acorn 

 crop. Sheep die with scab, and a great many fowls are lost by cholera. 



Jasper. — Farm animals are in much better condition than for several years past. 

 No contagious disease prevails except among hogs, and the losses are qiuto small, as 

 we raise but few hogs in this county. 



Kerr. — I have never known an iufcctiotis or contagious disease to prevail among 

 horses and nmles in this county. Fifty-four cattle have died during the present year 

 of (h-y murrain. A large lumiber of goats and sheeii have died of foot-rot and st-ab. 

 A great mauy hogs have died of a disease termed sore eyes, and many fowls have died 

 of cholera. So destructive has been the latter disease that many farmers are entirely 

 without chickens. The condition of all farm animals, however, is a little better than 

 the average. 



Lavaca. — Ticks kill a good mauy colts in this coimty every spring. We have some 

 distemper among horses, but it has rarely been fatal. Until this year hogs have 

 always been healthy, but for several months past choleva has prevailed among them, 

 and iu some ueighboi'lioods all have died. The disease seems to be contagious, and I 

 think was introduced by the importation of lino breeds. 



Llano. — Owing to doi)redations by Indians, but few horses are raised in this county. 



