344 CONTAGIOUS DISEA.SES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



(iibaon. — No disease except ordinary distemper among horses. Bloody murrain and 

 Texas fever reported iu two or three neighborhoods ; very fatal. In three or four 

 districts cholera is reported as being very fatal to hogs, especially to fattening hogs. 

 Gapes quite often prove fatal to young fowls and cholera to older ones. 



Giles. — Horses are quite healthy. The loss of cattle is the result of contagious dis- 

 eases produced by the importation of cattle from the mountainous districts of Alabama. 

 There should be a law enacted by the present Congress to prevent tlie importation of 

 stock from one State to another iu such cases. The disease has proved fatal in every 

 instance to native stock. Our county has lost many hundreds of dollars by the im- 

 portation of such stock. Our losses for the year are estimated as follows: Horses, 

 $12,750; cattle, 118,750; hogs, $20,000; sheep, $850, and fowls, $1,200. 



Grainger. — There has been some hog and fowl cholera iu this county the past year, 

 but as to the extent and value of the losses no one knows. Cattle, horses, and sheep 

 seem to have been free from disease. 



Greene. — Cholera has prevailed among hogs and chickens in some localities in this 

 county. A few horses have suflcred with blind staggers. Hog raising is still declin- 

 ing in favor of cattle growing. 



Hancock. — One-fourth of the hogs of this county have been affected with cholera 

 during the fall season, and the disease is still raging with great destruction. Some 

 cattle have died of murrain ; fowls have died of cholera, and chickens of gapes. I 

 estimate the value of cattle and hogs lost as follows: Cattle, $1,080; hogs, $17,500. 



Hardeman. — No epidemic disease has prevailed during the year among any class of 

 our domestic animals except among hogs. Fowls have suffered also to some extent. 

 The disease prevalent among both hogs and fowls is known as cholera. 



Haywood. — No disease of a general character has prevailed among any class of farm 

 animals in this county the past year. All that have been lost is the result of old age 

 or neglect. Our county is in a prosjierous condition as regards stock of all kinds. 



Henderson. — Cattle have been affected in some localities with what is here called 

 bloody murrain. The true nature of the disease is little known. It usually proves 

 fatal. Hog cholera has prevailed to some extent in certain localities, but the disease 

 is not general throughout the county. 



Hickman. — Hog cholera prevailed in this county to an alarming extent during the 

 year 1882. More than 75 per cent, of the hogs died that year. It has not jirevailed 

 in a destructive form since. A few cases of pink-eye occurred among cattle the past 

 spring and summer, but there were no deaths. 



Humphreys. — I estimate the value of hogs lost by cholera in this county the past 

 year at $10,000. Cholera has also prevailed among fowls, and has been quite de- 

 structive. 



James. — The most fatal epidemic we have to contend against is that called murrain 

 among cattle. It is called both bloody and dry muri'aiu, and kills almost every ani- 

 mal it attacks. Unless some remedy is fouiul for this malady, it will destroy the cattle 

 interest in this section. 



Johnson. — In the early spring horses were affected to some extent with pink-eye. 

 Cattle have suffered with black-leg, hogs with cholera, sheep with pneumonia, and 

 fowls with cholera. 



Knox. — Only a small number of our farm animals have been affected by disease, and 

 but few of those affected have died. No epidemic worthy of mention has occurred. 

 There have been a few cases of cholera among hogs and fowls, but the losses have 

 not been so great as in former years. A few deaths have occurred among cattle, 

 caused by the introduction of animals from more southern States. For instance, one 

 farmer bought a car-load of cattle iu Alabanui, some hundred miles south of this locality, 

 and brought them to his farm to pasture through the suumier. These cattle did very 

 well, but almost all the native cattle on the farm died. The cause and nature of this 

 disease is not understood here. 



Luke. — The value of the farm animals and fowls lost in this county the past year 



