324 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



Androsco(jgin. — Horses, cattle, hogs, aiid sheep are in about the same condition as to 

 liealth as last year. 



Cumberland. — Domestic animals have been very free from epidemic diseases. Pink- 

 eye has prevailed to some extent aniong horses, but no cases have proved fatal. An 

 unknown disease prevailed among horses to some extent last fall, of ^vhich several 

 died. Some attributed it to poison, and others thought it a congestive fever. The 

 horse would be suddenly attacked, lose the use of his hind legs, as well as all power 

 to swallow. If on the road, in harness, would fall without warning, never to rise 

 again, 



Franldin. — An occasional case of pink-eye has been reported among our horses, but 

 no deaths have occurred from it. No other diseases among farm animals. 



Kennebec. — Pink-eye and epizooty in a mild form have jirevailed among horses. 

 Cattle, hogs, and sheep are healthy. 



Oxford. — All kinds of domestic animals are reported healthy in this- county. 



Penobscot. — All kinds of farm animals are healthy. There has been no special dis- 

 ease among our cattle during the past twenty years. 



Somtrsft. — Horses are reported to have had lung troubles. Some cows coming in 

 have been sick. Sheep have had the foot-rot, but the percentage of loss to the whole 

 number has been exceedingly small. There have been no epidemic or contagious dis- 

 eases. 



Washington. — With the exception of pink-eye among horses, with no fatal results, 

 I can hear of the prevalence of no disease among the farm stock of this county. 



Tork. — The domestic animals of this county have been free from all kinds of epi- 

 demic diseases during the past year. 



MARYLAND, 



Anne Arundel. — There has been no epidemic among farm stock in any part of the 

 county, and losses have only been such as usually occur from accident or to such acute 

 attacks as animals are sometimes subject. 



Baltimore. — My district has been afflicted by a disease among fattening hogs, which 

 spread to others in this and adjoining districts. I myself lost all but one sow, some 

 20 head, and my neighbors on each side of me for a mile lost all they had. . The dis- 

 ease was so rapid in its results (death) that we were not able to make much use of 

 remedies, or take steps to prevent its spread. Tlie symptoms were so difierent, or 

 were described so differently, that I am unable to give an account that would cover 

 any but my own cases, although I am sure that what caused my loss was the same as 

 that which caused the loss of my neighbors. My pigs commenced to mope; refused 

 food; jaws seemed to lock; some had cough, and were dead in a day or two, except 

 in one or two instances in which they limped and broke out into sores all over the 

 body. The first one attacked recovered, which she did without having been given 

 anything in the shape of medicine. The neighbors doctored and gave medicine, but 

 lost their animals just as I did. I could not bring myself to use all the remedies rec- 

 ommended, because I could not tell jnst what ailed the hogs, and preferred to trust 

 to nature and good food and nursing, rather than be doubtful after whether I or the 

 disease killed them. I know the loss must have been much heas'ier than I have rep- 

 resented ($-2,.5()0), as I have just learned from one coming in of additional cases in va- 

 rious localities, enough to raise my estimate $.500. 



Calvert. — This has been an unusually healthy year for all kinds of farm animals in 

 this county. There have been no deaths that I can hear of except such as are inci- 

 dent to accident and old age. 



Frederick. — There has been no epidemic disease among either horses, cattle, hogs, 

 sheep, or fowls; hence the losses have been occasioned by accident or old age. 



