CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 823 



Trimhle. — Our county is uniisnally healthy for farm animals. Never any disease 

 among any class except an occasional case of hog cholera. 



Union. — Horses and cattle have been unusually healthy. A great loss has been oc- 

 casioned by hog cholera. More animals have been affected with the disease, and it is 

 thought that more died, this summer than during the six years preceding. The value 

 of the losses may be set down at $50,000 or $60,000. No remedy has been lound for 

 the disease. A few sheep have died of rot. 



Wushinyion. — Horses and mules have suffered from pink-eye. Cattle have been 

 visited by an unknown epidemic. Cholera has been more fatal to hogs than usual. 

 Sheep have suffered from various causes and ailments. 



Whitleii. — The only loss among farm animals in this county has been among hogs. 

 I think $10,000 would cover the value of these losses. The disease affecting both hogs 

 iiud fowls is known here as cholera. 



LOUISIANA. 



Bienville. — None but ordinary and common diseases have affected farm stock iu 

 this county the past year. 



Bossier. — Horses, mules, cattle, sheep, and hogs have been extremely healthy this 

 fall, and all are doing well. 



Catahoula. — Value of horses lost the past year, $2,334.50; value of cattle lost, 

 $3,727.50. Hogs have continued very healthy. A few sheep have died of pleurisy 

 and pneumonia. 



Franklin. — Horses have been aftlicted with glanders, staggers, charbon, and big- 

 head ; cattle Avith charbon, big-head, and hollo w-horn ; hogs with staggers, and sheep 

 with rot. 



Iberville. — All kinds of farm animals have been healthy during the year. There 

 has been some fowl cholera. 



Jackson. — Less disease among horses this year than for twenty-five years past. 

 Cholera and mange have been fatal to a great many hogs. Cholera has also been de- 

 structive to fowls. 



La Fourche. — No epidemic disease has prevailed among any class of our animals the 

 past year. 



Livingston. — The following are perhaps correct estimates of the value of farm ani- 

 mals lost in this county the past year, viz: Horses, $170; cattle, $1,500; hogs, $2,000; 

 sheep, $750. 



Madison. — We have but few hogs, and no malady among them. YTe have a groat 

 many fowls and plenty of chicken cholera. 



Morehouse. — All kinds of animals are healthy. Our soil is destitute of gravel, and 

 we have to grind up old crockery, «fcc., for our fowls. When this is neglected cholera 

 appears among them and kills from 10 to 20 per cent, of the whole number. 



Bichland. — Much stock was lost by the overflow in this county, and many cattle 

 were afterward forwarded to Texas, so that we have but few of this class of animals 

 left. No disease of conse(|uence. 



Saint Helena. — During October and November a disease prevailed among our hogg 

 which was said to be cholera. In the higher piney woods portion of the parish the 

 diitcase killed many hogs — as near as I have been able to learn, full 50 per cent. 



Saint Marifs. — We have but little stock in this county, and what we have is iu a 

 remarkably healthy condition. 



Saint Tammany. — None but common diseases have visited any class of farm animals 

 the past year, and the losses have been very light. 



Vernon. — With the exception of sheep, all classes of domestic animals have remained 

 healthy. 



Jf'esI Carroll. — We have lost quite a number of all classes of farm animals during 

 the year by disease. The diseases, however, have not been of a contagious character. 



