304 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



I'ike. — Domestic auiuials in tliis couuty have beea remaikably healthy this year. 

 No disease of au epidemic character has prevailed among either horses, mules, cattle, 

 or sheep. Cholera amoug hogs has prevailed to a considerable extent over an area of 

 eight or ten square miles, but the loss would not probably exceed two per cent, of the 

 hogs in the couuty. Cholera has also prevailed to a like extent among chickens. 



JiuaseU. — The onl3- serious loss occasioned among farm animals by disease in this 

 county the present year has been occasioned by cholera among hogs. Carbolic acid 

 when given according to directions recommended by your Department, has proved a 

 a very efficient preventative, and somewhat of a remedy. 



Sumter, — But little disease of any kind has prevailed among farm stock the past 

 year. More animals have died from poverty and bad treatment than from disease. 



Talladega. — Farm stock has been unusually healthy the past year. Although hogs 

 and poultry are never entirely free from cholera, the disease has not prevailed as an 

 epidemic this year. A disease more fatal than cholera has prevailed amoug poultry, 

 having killed on two farms near us all the turkeys and ducks and about all the chick- 

 ens. The symptoms are paralysis of the limbs and neck. None attacked recovered. 



Wilcox. — There has been no prevailing disease among horses this year. Cattle have 

 also remained healthy. Cholera among hogs and fowls has prevailed to a considera- 

 ble extent, and has proved quite fatal. 



ARKANSAS. 



Arkansas. — Horses and cattle have been afflicted to some extent with diseases inci- . 

 dent to them during the year. The value of horses lost will uot exceed $2,000. 

 Disease carried olf cattle to the value of perhaps $1,600, and hogs probably to the 

 value of $1,000. 



Baxter. — A disease generally kuown as blackleg has prevailed to some extent among 

 cattle. It is generally very fatal. Perhaps 100 head, valued at $1,000, have been 

 lost by the disease. About •'SO head of horses have died during the year from disease 

 and other causes. 



Calhoun, — An unknown disease, causing blindness, prevailed among our cattle. 

 Sometimes it affects but one eye, at others both, causing complete blindness. Those 

 that were affected last year are still blind and show no signs of improvement. Chick- 

 en cholera carries oft" about 30 per cent, of our fowls every year. 



Cratvford. — The only epidemic disease that has prevailed in this county has been 

 among hogs and fowls. In one locality a number of hogs have died with what is 

 supposed to be cholera. They included all ages. The value of the losses will reach 

 $1,000. Upon inquiry I have found two farms on which chickens have been lost by 

 cholera. One farmer tells me that his chickens commence dying as soon as his flock 

 increases to 200 or more. Cattle and horses are very healthy. 



Craighead. — I hear of no complaint of the prevalence of disease among farm ani- 

 mals except that of cholera among hogs. I think the loss will reach one-third of this 

 class of animals in the county. But for this disease we would have had pork to ex- 

 port. 



Dorset/. — Cattle, hogs, sheep, and fowls have been unusually healthy this year, no 

 destructive disease having appeared among them. A considerable number of horses 

 have been afl'ected with blind-staggers. All those attacked have died. 



Drew — There has been no disease of auy kind aff"ecting farm stock in this county 

 the past year. The number of hogs in the county has increased perhaps 50 per cent. 

 Cholera has prevailed among chickens to some extent. 



Franklin. — No contagious epidemic has occurred among either horses or cattle the 

 past year. A horse has occasionally died of hots, blind-staggers, and colic. Cholera 

 has prevailed among hogs, but not to any great extent. Cholera has also appeared 

 in a limited degree among fowls. 



Garland. — There has been no epidemic of any kind amoug our stock this year, hence 

 the losses have been light. 



