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Cattle, bogs, and sheep are healthy. Cholera has prevailed to some extent among 

 fowls. 



Nemaha. — There is so little disease or loss among farm animals the current year as 

 to hardly be worth mentioning. Some distemper and piuk-eye among horses, but no 

 loss. A few cases of " kidney worm " among hogs, which readily yields to treatment, 

 and scab among sheep. 



Phelps. — The only loss among farm animals worthy of record has been among 

 sheep. I suppose $1,000 would cover the value of these losses. 



Platte. — No epidemic has appeared among the domestic animals of this county for 

 the current year. 



Polk. — No fatal diseases among farm animals. Chicken cholera has been quite 

 prevalent and fatal. 



Richardson. — Scarcely any disease among the farm animals of this county. I do not 

 know personally of the death of a horse, cow, or hog during the season, and my loca- 

 tion is a central one. 



Saitndey-s. — I have been unable to hear of the prevalence of any fatal disease among 

 live stock in this county. 



Webster. — With the exception of hog cholera, no other contagious disease seems to 

 have visited any class of our farm animals during this year. 



Esmeralda. — Horses have been afflicted with distemper and lung fever. The latter 

 has proved very fatal to stallions. Black-leg has been quite fatal to calves and year- 

 ling cattle. It has been fatal in almost every instance. The symptoms are the swell- 

 ing of one or more of the legs. Sometimes the swelling is confined to the hip or side 

 of the neck and head. After death the part alfected becomes badly bloodshotteu. 

 No remedy has been found for the malady. 



Lyon. — Lung fever has proved fatal to some horses, and black-leg has been very 

 fatal to cattle. Hogs and sheep are healthy. 



Nye. — The annual losses of farm animals iu this county from disease are trivial. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Belknap. — There has been no prevailing disease among animals in this county the 

 current year. Some few animals have died, but I am unable to form any idea of the 

 number or value. It must be, however, a very small percentage of the whole number. 



Cheshire. —No epidemic disease among horses, cattle, or hogs. Some foot-rot among 

 sheep and diseases among fowls. 



Coos. — No epidemic disease of any nature has prevailed among our farm animals 

 during the year. The losses have been comj)aratively small. 



Hillsborough. — I hear of but few losses of cattle, sheep, or hogs during the past year. 

 No epidemic has occurred among either class of domestic animals. 



Sullivan. — The value of the farm animals lost in this county by disease the current 

 year will probably aggregate iu the neighborhood of $5,000, as follows: Horses, 

 12,400 ; cattle, $1,500 ; hogs, $-250 ; sheep, $700. 



NEW JERSEY. 



Atlantic. — I have hoard of no contagious or epidemic diseases existing among our 

 farm animals. The increase of live stock in this county since 18(^0 has been at least 

 15 per cent. 



Camden. — All classes of farm animals liavo been unusually exempt from disease the 

 past year. I canot hear of a case of contagions disease that has proved fatal. Fowls 

 have sulfcred with cholera, but tliis disease yields readily to treatment with sniphur 

 and sulpiiiiric acid. 



Cape May. — No diseases exist among farm animals or fowls in this county. Occasion- 



