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Eock Island. — Quite a large number of bogs have been lost by the usual diseases the 

 past year. The losses among other classes of animals are hardly worth recording. 



Saline. — The loss of domestic animals by disease has not been very great in this 

 county the past year. I give the value of the losses among the various classes, as 

 follows : Horses, $1,095 ; cattle, |693 ; hogs, $2,407.50 ; sheep, $480. Fowls are healthy. 



/S'(7(Hi//ej-.— Seven horses affected with glanders have been condemned and destroyed 

 by order of the State veterinarian, and five 6thers are supposed to have the disease. 

 These will be finally examined by the veterinarian on his return to the county. Other 

 classes of farm animals are healthy. 



Shelby. — Farm animals in this county have been unusually healthy the past year. 

 No epidemic of any kind has prevailed. The value of the hogs lost is estimated at 

 but §2,054. 



Slark. — Only the ordinary diseases have prevailed among our horses and cattle the 

 past year. Sheep have also been healthy, and hog cholera has been less destructive 

 than for many years past. 



Stephenson. — Notwithstanding there has been no special epidemic among horses, I 

 estimate the value of those lost in the county the past year by ordinary maladies at 

 $35,000. The value of the other classes of animals that have died of disease or by ac- 

 cident I give as follows: Cattle, $3,600; hogs, $1,.500; sheen, $1,000. 



Saint Clair. — But few farm animals are kept in this county, and what we have are 

 kept in the best possible condition, hence they are scarcely ever visited by epidemics. 



Tazeivell. — No severe e[)idemic has prevailed among any class of farm animals in 

 this county the past year. Even swine plague has prevailed to a less extent than 

 formerly. 



Vermillion. — The health of all classes of domestic animals has been unusually good 

 the past year. AVhat losses have occurred have been small and were the result of 

 natural causes. A few hogs died iu one township of the cholera ; the loss was insig- 

 nificant. 



Wayne. — Farm animals valued as follows have been lost by the farmers of this 

 county the past year, viz: Horses, $1,800; cattle, $975; hogs, $1,680; sheep, $280 

 and fowls, $2,2.50. 



JValash. — Pink-eye prevailed among horses not long since in one locality in our 

 county, but I heard of but one death from the disease. Cattle and sheep have been 

 healthy. A few hogs were reported as having died late in the fall. 



ll'arren. — One hundred and twelve horses are reported as having died in this county 

 the past year. They were valued at $6,720. One hundred cattle, valued at $20 per 

 head, were also lost. 



Will. — The value of the losses among farm animals in this county for the current 

 year are given as follows: Horses, $1,360 ; cattle, $8,000; hogs, $2,400; sheep, $312.50. 



Hilliamson. — Cars that had been used for transporting cattle to Saint Louis were 

 brought to this county to be loaded with coal. The manure was thrown out along- 

 side the railroad track, and all the cows that visited the locality were infected with 

 Texas fever and died. 



Winnebago. — The county assessors return the following as the value of losses among 

 farm stock for the year: Horses, $11,512: cattle, $8,196; hogs. $9,112; sheep, $720; 

 and fowls, $1,858. 



Adams. — No disease has prevailed during the year among either horses or cattle in 

 this county, but some hogs liav« died of cholera. This disease has been neither so 

 widespread nor destructive as iu 1882. 



Benton. — Some few cattle died during the year with pink-eye. We can't depend on 

 the health of our hogs from one week to another. They are now suffering with the 

 old-fashioned cholera. Sheep have died of foot-rot and scab, and a great many fowls 

 have been lost by cholera. 



