208 DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTHER ANIMALS. 



Cattle are moderately healthy, aud hogs entirely so. Sheep have scab occasionally, 

 but the disease is ciu-ed by dipping, lowls are subject to cholera, and I never knew 

 one to recover from an attack of this disease. 



Marlon. — We have had, and still have, hog and chicken cholera in several localities 

 in this county. It is very destructive during some seasons. 



Matagorda. — Cattle in this locality have been heiulthy this year with the exception 

 of an epidemic of opthalmia, which seemed to be atmospheric in its origin ; or, in 

 other words, it was caused by excessive heat and moisture. A good many horses have 

 died from the effects of bites and stings of insects, which were never so bad before. 

 Ticks, screw-worm, and the large horse or cow Hy have destroyed many animals. 

 Measles jirevail among young pigs and shoats, and a good many of those attacked die. 

 This disease is both contagious and infectious. 



Maverick. — There are no hogs raised in this county. Horses and eattle are healthy. 

 There is some scab among sheep, but much less than in former years. 



Menard. — The disease called scab prevails among sheep, yet I believe a greater 

 number die from careless management than from this or any other disease. Other 

 classes of stock are healthy and m good condition. 



Montague. — Cholera among hogs i>revails to some extent this season, but the disease 

 is not so general as in former years. The general condition of farm stock is good. 



Navarro. — The losses among hogs in this county from cholera and other diseases 

 will aggregate for the past year not less than $15,000 in value. Chickens also die of 

 cholera, and sheep from hver-rot and scab. Horses and cattle are healthy. 



Busk. — Hogs and chickens are suffering vrith a disease called cholera, which seems 

 to visit some portions of the county annually. Various preventives are used, but no 

 specific has as yet been found for it. 



San Patricio. — There are no diseases affecting any class of farm animals in this 

 county. I have resided here twenty-seven years, and this is the first year within that 

 time that any important disease has prevailed among fowls. About nine-tenths of 

 them have died in this town and surrounding localities of cholera, at least the disease 

 was so pronounced by those who know the sjanptoms. 



Somerville. — Stock of all kinds in this county have been unusually healthy this year. 



Titus. — Infectious and contagious diseases affecting horses are not so fatal as hereto- 

 fore, though glanders and distemper kill a great many. A large number, however, 

 are lost by staggers and bots. Cattle are affected with murrain and black tongue, 

 and nearly all die that are attacked by these diseases. Many also die from feeding on 

 acorns. A great many hogs are annually lost by cholera and red mange or measles, 

 thiunps, and staggers. Scab, rot, glanders, and black tongue produce fearful ravages 

 among sheep. We have no remedy for these diseases. 



Upshur. — A good many cattle and hogs have died in this county during the past 

 year of diseases peculiar to these classes of farm animals. 



Uvalde. — Horses die of blind staggers and a kind of lung fever, and cattle of lung 

 fever and spinal diseases. The principal disease among hogs is cholera. Sheep die 

 of scab and lung fever, and chickens ©f cholera. We have no successful remedies for 

 any of these maladies." 



Victoria. — This has been a very disastrous year for sheep, owing to the great amount 

 of wet weather. There is no disease among native cattle, but about one-third of those 

 imported die of Spanish fever. Horses, and especially colts, die of distemper. 



Williamson. — The principal disease among horses is distemper. The disease prevails 

 to a greater or less extent every fall, and principally among colts. The losses among 

 cattle are generally occasioned by the same disease. We occasionally have hog and 

 chicken cholera, but the losses are not very heavy from this disease. A few sheep are 

 annually lost by scab, but not so many as in former years. 



Young. — All kinds of stock and j)Oultry have been imexceptionably free from disease 

 during the past year. 



UTAH TERRITORY. 



San Pete County. — Contagious diseases have prevailed among cattle in this county 

 during the present year. A few cases of bloody murrain have also occurred. 



Wasatch. — There is no malignant disease prevailing among farm animals in tihia 

 county. Fowls are subject to croup, of which a good many die. 



VERMONT. 



Addison County. — Horses are afllicted with a distemper which is regai'ded as conta- 

 gions. Cattle have what is called muiTain or black-leg, a disease which seems to bo 

 epidemic aud contagious, but is conliucd mostly to calves. Mui-rain never attacks lean 

 cattle. Mauy deaths occur amoug cows in early summer from milk fever. Cattle gen- 

 erally are in line condition. 



Caledonia. — No inlc(;tious or contagious diseases of a serious nature have prevailed 

 among farm animals in this county during the past year. The season has been favor- 

 able, and stock generally is in good condition. 



