342 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



the disease of which they died was occasioned by feeding them with uiokly corn. 

 About one-third of our chickens have died of cholera. 



Xorthampton. — No epidemic disease hiis prevailed among any class of farm animals 

 in this county. The chicken disease has caused considerable loss. It has also at- 

 tacked turkeys with fatal results. 



Schuylkill. — No serious or destructive disease has visited our live stock the past 

 year. 



Somerset. — I am of the opinion that there has been no epidemic disease among our 

 stock for two or three years past, but of course there have been some deaths from 

 natural causes and common ailments. 



Sullivan. — This is a high, rolling county, with fine nutritious grasses, and is very 

 healthy for all kinds of farm animals. The losses the past year were only nominal- 



Susquehanna. — Scarcely any losses have occurred among our farm stock from disease 

 the past year. There has been quite a heavy loss among sheep, caused by dogs. 



Union. — No contagious diseases have made their appearance among our farm ani- 

 mals the past year. 



Venango. — There is not, nor has there been during the year, any contagious or infec- 

 tious diseases amongour domestic animals. The losses are such as are incident to alj 

 stock. 



Warren. — Of course an animal occasionally sickens and dies, but I can hear of the 

 prevalence of no epidemic among our stock during the current year. One butcher — 

 an isolated case — lost some hogs by cholera. 



Washington. — A few horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep have died from the eft'ects of the 

 various diseases incident to them during the past year. I cannot give the value of 

 such losses. The cholera or roupe has been destructive to fowls. The loss will aggre- 

 gate several thousand dollars for the year. 



Wayne. — No contagious or epidemic diseases among farm stock in this county. A 

 great many calves and yearlings have died of malignant anthrax or black-leg. From 

 UOO to 300 sheep are annually killed by dogs. 



Westmoreland. — Farm animals usually do well in this county. I can procure no re- 

 liable data as to annual losses by disease. The aggregate would amount to but little. 



Wyoming. — I have no diseases to report as prevailing among farm animals. I esti- 

 mate the value of the loss of fowls at $2,375. 



York. — I estimate the value of the losses among the various classes of farm animals 

 and fowls in this county for the year as follows: Horses, $8,500; cattle, $2,000 ; hogs, 

 12,000; sheep, $65; and fowls, $500. 



KHODE ISLAND. 



Bristol. — The prevailing horse disease has been pink-eye, of which few animals, 

 however, die, and those chiefly from ignorance. A small, cheap pamphlet, in large 

 type, describing the more frequent diseases incident to horses and cows, and indicat- 

 ing proper treatment, would save much loss and untold suffering to the animals. 



Kent. — The most j^revaleut disease among horses is pink-eye. Hogs have fevers 

 from exposure, and fowls are afflicted with roupe, caused by their damp quarters. 



Newport. — The loss among farm animals in this county during the past year has not 

 been very large. Nothing like an epidemic disease has prevailed. A large traffic in 

 the production of eggs has within the past few years grown up in the southern part of 

 the county. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



HarnweU. — Horses, cattle, and sheep in this county are remarkably free from ail 

 contagious diseases. They die from such s]>oradic attacks as are common everywhere, 

 and in some cases from poverty and bad treatment. Hogs and fowls are suffering 

 from a disease called cholera, of which numbers are being carried off. We have tio 

 remedy. . 



