318 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



yoiiug hogs. Swiue plague has also prevailed in certain localities. Scab and foot-rot 

 have caused losses among several different liocks of sheep. 



Alitchell. — Domestic animals generally are healthy, and have been so throughout 

 the year. The diseases that have prevailed from time to time have been the usual 

 well-known maladies. The value of the losses are estimated as follows: Horses, 

 ;ii8,3r)0; cattle, |5, 000 ; hogs, $2,500 ; sheep, $250. 



Monona. — Some cattle have died of black-leg during tlie year. Some little disease 

 has prevailed auiong hogs, but the losses have been light. 



Monroe. — No contagious diseases have prevailed among any class of domestic ani- 

 mals in this county during the year except black-leg among calves. These cases have 

 been few. Cholera has killed a great mauy fowls. 



O^Brien. — For two seasons our horses have suffered from an epizooty. It left many 

 with a running at the nose. In careless hands the discharge has run along until 

 many horses here are suffering from au offensive nasal disease called every name be- 

 tween bad cold and glanders. 



Palo Alto. — Farm animals generally are healthy. I have not heard of a case of 

 contagious disease among hogs for the past year. 



Fli/mouth. — Horses in some localities in this county are said to have chronic glan- 

 ders, which is causing some excitement. A disease called measles has prevailed among 

 hogs, causing some losses. 



Pottawattamie. — Last spring, in one neighborhood in the county, a new and quite 

 strange disease appeared among both horses and cattle. It was pronounced "button- 

 farcy " in horses. The symptoms were similar in cattle. 



Shell)!/. — There has been some disease followed by fatal results among horses and 

 cattle the past year, but swine have been healthy. A great many fowls have also 

 died. 



Tama. — Horses, cattle, sheep, and fowls are in good health and condition. Hogs are 

 dying to an alarming extent throughout the county with both quinsy and cholera. 

 These diseases broke out about sis weeks ago. 



Washington. — There is no disease prevailing among farm animals in this county. 

 Even the hog cholera has disappeared. Perhaps this is owing to a very poor crop of 

 corn. 



Woodhuri). — Horses are healthy. A fe^ cattle die aunually of black-leg. Hogs are 

 comparatively healthy. Now and then a farmer loses his pigs, and a few grown hogs 

 die of cholera. Chicken cholera is quite prevalent. 



Allen. — Stock has generally been healthy in this county. I know of some 5 head 

 of fine steers, worth f 300, that died of Texas fever. A few cattle were also reported 

 to have died after being turned luto stock fields. I think they died for want of suf- 

 ficient water. 



Barhour. — The horses in this county are Texas animals, and die principally from eat- 

 ing Loco, a poisonous weed. They also die of itch and other skin diseases. A great 

 many cattle have died; perhaps the valiu^. of those lost in the county will aggreg.ate 

 $20,000. They have to get their living on the range, and during a severe winter many 

 die from exposure. The same mtiy be said of sheep, of which there is a large num- 

 ber in this county. 



Barton. — Stock is in good health and condition in this county. Occasionally an 

 animal is lost by accident, but one seldom dies of disease. 



Brown. — The county assessors make the following returns as to the value of ani- 

 mals lost in this county the past year from all causes, viz : Horses, $9,900 ; cattle, 

 $8,280; hogs, $10,995 ; sheep, $345 ; mules, $1,125. 



Butler. — This county contains a large number of cattle, hogs, and sheep, but they 

 have been measurably free from disease during the year. Perhaps 50 head of cattle 

 would cover all the loss worthy of recording. 



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