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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTIOATED ANIMALS. 317 



Davis. — We have been very lucky with our stock this year, no disease of any kind 

 worthy of meutioii. About 800 sheep have been killed by dogs. 



Decatur. — Never in the history of the county have farm animals been so generally 

 healthy. Every assistant makes the same report. I believe this result is attributa- 

 ble to the shortness of grain to feed with. 



Delaware. — Horses and cattle have been healthy, but hogs have suifered to some ex- 

 tent with the usual diseases. Auinials perhaps to the value of .fiSjOOO have been lost, 



Dubuque. — The only disease that has prevailed among any class of domestic animals 

 in this county the past year has been the disease known as cholera among hogs. I 

 cannot give the number or value of those lost. 



Emmet. — The losses among farm|animals in this county have been so insignificant 

 for the past year that they are not worth recording. 



Fayette. — A few herds of hogs have been affected by disease, but the losses have 

 been comparatively light. No disease has prevailed in an epidemic form. 



Floyd. — Epizootic influenza has prevailed to some extent amoug horses, and a few 

 cases of glanders have been reported. Cattle have suifered with lung diseases and 

 hogs with cholera. The losses, as to value, have been about as follows: Horses, 

 >;i,000; cattle, !5!:i,750 ; hogs, $7,500. 



Greene. — Horses, cattle, and sheep are in good health. The prevailing disease amoug 

 hogs and fowls is that known as cholera. The value of the hogs lost by this disease is 

 about $4,000, and chickens about $900. 



Hardin. — Some cholera has prevailed among hogs and fowls. Sometimes this dis- 

 ease will carry oh" almosr, every hog one farmer will have, while those of a neighbor 

 \\ ill not be afi'ected. I think $15,000 a fair estimate of the value of those lost by the 

 malady. 



Henry. — No disease among farm animals, and no losses except from old age, acci- 

 dent, &c. ; cholera prevailed among fowls during the mouths of July, August, and Sep- 

 tember. 



Ida. — One thousand dollars will, perhaps, cover the losses among hogs by disease. 

 Xu other class of animals have been afflicted in this county the past year. 



Iowa. — Farm stock has been unusually healthy the past year. No epidemic has pre- 

 vailed. Comuion diseases, neglect, and accident have caused about the usual losses. 



Jasper. — The only disease worthy of notice is that prevailing among swine and 

 fowls. The per cent, of disease among the former will not exceed 2 per cent., and 

 amoug the latter about 5 per cent. 



Jefferson. — Chicken cholera prevails to a greater or less extent every year, and the 

 Josses from this cause are often very serious. Farm animals generally are in good 

 heal . 



Lee. — Among horses there has been no epidemic of note for several years. We hear 

 occasionally of a case of pink-eye, colic, bots, and meningitis. Cattle have also been 

 atlected to some extent this season with piuk-eye. Calves frequently die of black-leg. 

 Sheep are more frequently troubled with scab than any or perhaps all other diseases. 

 Grub in the head kills its proportion. Some sheep died of hoven during the two 

 past wet seasons. Fowls have been subject to but one disease — that known as 

 cholera — and this frequently depopulates whole farm-yards of chickens and turkeys. 

 Almost all epidemics among domestic animals are confined to smaller areas than 

 formerly ; sometimes to but one farm, section or township. A few years ago, hog 

 and chicken cholera generally extended over one or more States. Black-leg in cattle 

 was never so general or wide-spread as now. 



//i»H.— No epidemic has visite<l horses, but the vast number of unsound ones is ap- 

 l)alling. The number of halt, blind, ring-boned, spavined, &c., is astounding to a 

 close observer. A few cattle have died of ordinary diseases. Some little cholera 

 among chickens. 



Marion. — During the past three months influenza has been destructive to many 



