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fodder were about the only food given. Better care iu every way is now taken with 

 the animals, and they are furnished with comfortable sheds for inclement weather. 

 Pumps iu the inclosure with clean troughs and pure water instead of that which for- 

 merly stood in the muddy, stagnant water-hole, and good clover fields for pasture in- 

 stead of the turned-out and exhausted lands or wood-range. Our cows often go to 

 the pail at eighteen months of age instead of three years, as formerly. 



Alachua. — No destructive disease has prevailed among any class of farm animals in 

 this county iu the past year, though a great many fowls has been lost by cholera. 



Bradford. — Horses have been afflicted with staggers, cattle with black-tongue, hogs 

 with cholera, sbeep with scab, aud fowls with cholera. These are the most fatal dis- 

 eases, and have destroyed horses to the value of $15,000; cattle, !$2,5G0, and hogs per- 

 haps to the value of $1,000. The health of farm animals and fowls has been good 

 considering the care given them. 



Brevard and Orange. — Horses, cattle, ami hogs have been afflicted with the usual 

 diseases the past year. I estimate the value of the losses about as follows: Horses, 

 $3,000; cattle, $5,400 ; and hogs, $300. Sheep aud fowls have remained healthy. 



Clay. — A great many cattle have died of hollow-horn, hogs of cholera, aud fowls of 

 swell-head. Hogs to the value of $20,000 have been lost. Perhaps the value of fowls 

 lost would reach $3,000. 



Columbia.— A good many horses have died of staggers, brought on no doubt by sum- 

 mer pasturing in shadeless ranges. Cattle have been lost by flux, hogs from cholera 

 and thumps, sheep from what is known here as rot, aud fowls from cholera aud sore- 

 head. I think the value of our losses have been about as follows: Horses, $2,000 ; 

 cattle, $S40 ; hogs, $3,750 ; and fowls, $200. 



Dade. — Neither farm animals nor fowls have been attacked by any epidemic or con- 

 tagious disease during the past year. We have but little farm stock in this county. 



Hernando. — Some epizootic diseases have prevailed among horses recently brought 

 to this county from Kentucky aud Tennessee. The malady is the result of a change 

 of climate. 



Hillshorough. — I have not heard of I he prevaleuce of diseaf-es among any class of farm 

 animals the past year, except distemper, which afiected a drove of horses brought in 

 from Kentucky. But one animal died. 



Jackson. — It is only at certain seasons of the year, and iu certain localities of the 

 county, that farm animals suffer with disease. Our losses have been light the past 

 year. 



Madison. — The principal disease among horses and mules are colic and staggers. 

 These diseases cause quite a heavy annual loss. Hogs valued at $2,500 have died 

 duriug the year of cholera and thumps. Burned corn is a preventive of cholera, it 

 is said. 



Marion. — Horses, cattle, and hogs are subject to such diseases as colic, blind stag- 

 gers, and cholera, the latter being confined to hogs. Cattle iu some localities are 

 troubled with a disease known as salt-lick. It is manifested by a slow debility, and 

 is sometimes accompanied by diarrhea. No remedy has been found tor the disease. 



Santa. Rosa. — A few horses died duriug the year in this county. A largo number of 

 cattle died in the spring of 1882, mostly from starvation. Very few hogs have been 

 lost by disease this year, but more sheep than usual have died. C^holera has been 

 very destructive to fowls. 



Suwannee. — Horses and mules die of blind staggers, sand, aud colic. No glanders or 

 farcy, but almost every horse that sickens of either staggers or sand disease dies. A 

 great many cattle have been lost, aud a great many hogs have died, I suppose of 

 cholera. The same can be said of fowls. I estimate the value of our losses as fol- 

 lows: Horses, $1.5,000; cattle, $12,000; hogs, $2,300 8hee4>, $200; fowls $600. 



