DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTHER ANIMALS. 211 



condition. Hogs aro in good health, -w-lLich we attribute to their consumption of bitu- 

 minous coal. 



Lor/an. — Horses here are much given to distemper. Sometimes the disease proves 

 fatal ; but the greatest loss occura from colic and bots. Cattle sometimes have a dis- 

 temper much like that of horses, but this seldom occurs. Diseases are prevalent among 

 hogs, and tbey often die quite suddenly. Sheep and fowls are in pretty good condi- 

 tion. Sometimes the former are afflicted with rot. 



Morgan. — The number of hogs and chickerus that have died in this county during 

 the past year of cholera has been very large. Other classes of farm stock hiive been 

 healthy. 



WISCONSIN. 



Door Count)/. — No infectious or contagious diseases prevail among any class of farm 

 animals in this county. 



Dunn. — Last winter horses in this county were seriously affected with distemper; 

 but it disappeared in April and has not since laado its appearance. Several animals 

 were lost. Cattle and hogs are healthy, and are in very good condition. 



Green. — The so-called cholera has prevailed among the hogs in this county for the 

 first time during the present year. A great many have died. Cholera prevails exten- 

 sively among fowls also, and many thousands have died. 



Iowa. — Diseases among swine have been- very prevalent during the past year, and 

 the losses to the farmers of this county have, consequently, been A-ery heavy, as the 

 maladies have been of a fatal character. Othtu- classes of stock have been healthy. 



Jackson. — There are no diseases whatever of a destructive nature prevalent among 

 farm animals in this county. 



Juneau. — Distemper and inflammation of the lungs, or lung fever, aro the only dis- 

 eases of a serious character prevailing among horses. Other classes of stock are 

 healthy. 



Kewaunee. — Aside from a few horses afflicted, with glanders, aU classes of farm ani- 

 mals are in good health. 



Monroe. — All classes of farm animals aro in good condition and measurably healthy. 



Ozaukee. — With the exception of a few cases of hog-cholera, I have heard of no other 

 disease among farm animals in this county. 



Portage. — Domestic animals in this county are exempt from contagious diseases to a 

 remarkable degree. Indeed, I hear of but few farm animals dying of any disease, 

 except sheep and hogs— sheep from grub, and hogs from black vomit, or something 

 like it. 



WYOMING TEKRITORY. 



Laramie County. — There are no diseases whatever among farm animals in this county. 

 The losses among cattle, caused by eating the poisonous loco weed, Avill perhaps not 

 exceed 1 per cent. About 300,000 head of cattle come into the Territory annually from 

 Texas, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Nevada. 



coeeesponde:s^ce eelating to the moee commo:n^ dis- 

 eases OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



ALAHMIA. 

 Mr. Eobert Wardlaud, Tuscumbia, Colbert county, Alabama, says: 



Not having had much experience with farm animals, I will confine my remarks to 

 fowls and the ailments to which they are subject. I grow them for my own table, and 

 not for market or fancy purposes. Long years ago I devoted considerable aUcution 

 to fowls, and soon became satislied that the majority of the diseases incident to Them 

 were induced by carelessness and inattention to their sanitary condition. I have found 

 that prevention is much better than cure, and now, if I desir<» a sick chicken to expe- 

 riment, I am compelled to go to some of my neighbors Ibr the subject. In cases of 

 what is known as cholera, the liver of the chicken is found very pale, nnieh enlarged, 

 and literally rotten. The whole internal viscera is more or less deranged. Witli such 

 cases it is the veriest quackery to attempt a cure. A careful examiniition of the dis- 

 ease known as gapes has convinced me that it has its origin in ]»arasites. Those, and 

 that other great pest, lice, produce many of the diseases which result so fatally to 

 fowls. 



My treatment of fowls, which has proved verj' successful, is very simple. I give 

 them a well ventilated yet cheap house, provided with plenty of roosts, nests, <fec. 



