346 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



tagious diseases except hogs. There have heen a few causes of cholera among these 

 animals. Cholera is now prevailing and proving quite fatal to fowls. 



Unicoi. — No diseases of a contagious or epidemic character have prevailed among 

 our farm stock the past year. 



Aransas. — No contagions disease has prevailed among any class of farm animals in 

 this county the past year. Cholera is the prevalent disease among fowls, and an- 

 nually kills large numbers of them. 



Austin. — No disease among any class of farm stock, except the usual sickness among 

 hogs. The losses have not been very heavy. 



Bandera. — The only loss I have to report among our farm animals was among cat- 

 tle, caused by the disease known as black-leg. 



Bastrop. — I cannot give the statistics desired, but I am prepared to say that there 

 has been no fatal diseases prevalent among our farm animals the past year. 



Bee. — Horses, cattle, and hogs have been remarkably healthy the past year. Sheep 

 have died of lombriz and scab, but owing to the dry weather they have been health- 

 ier than in former years. 



Bexar. — No destructive disease has visited our horses, cattle, or hogs the past year. 

 Scab prevails to some extent among sheep and cholera among fowls. 



Bowie. — I have no diseases of a contagious character to report as prevailing among 

 the farm animals of this county. 



Brazos. — Sheep are the only class of animals that have been seriously affected by 

 disease in this county. They have suffered with scab and foot-rot. Cholera among 

 fowls prevails in some neighborhoods almost continuously. 



Brown. — Horses, cattle, and hogs have escaped all epidemic diseases the past year. 

 Sheep had a hard time of it last winter — no shelter and bad feed. About one-half or 

 two-thirds of the number in the county died. 



Caldwell. — Horses and cattle are healthy. Hogs are suffering with cholera, which is 

 now prevalent in this county. Sheep are affected with scab. Cholera is prevalent 

 and quite destructive to fowls. This disease annually destroys about half the hogs 

 and fowls in the county. 



Callahan. — A few horses have been attacked by blind-staggers during the past year, 

 and about all attacked with the disease died. Cattle are plentiful here, I know of 

 one man who owns 4,000 head, another 3,400, and several others who own from 800 

 to 1,200 each. They have been free from disease the past year. I have heard of some 

 few deaths among young cattle just brought in. I think fine stock should be brought 

 here in the late fall, say from October to December, in preference to the spring months. 

 Hogs do well, and are healthy. Sheep have largely increased within the last year. 

 There are probably more than 100,000 head in the county. Some few cases of scab 

 prevail, but this usually only reduces the clip of wool and rarely kills the animal. 

 Under the laws of Texas we now have a sheep inspector in each county, who ex- 

 amines diseased herds and prescribes proper treatment. 



Cass. — Our losses among horses and mules the past year from blind-staggers were 

 nuusually large. This disease is supposed to be caused by eating smutty corn. Cat" 

 tie are healthy, bvit a great manj^ die annually from poverty and lack of proi)er shelter. 

 Hogs are afflicted with cholera. 



Chambers. — We have had so few deaths among farm animals the past year that the 

 number is hardly worth recording. About 10 per cent, of our fowls are annually 

 attacked by cholera, and 90 per cent, of those attacked die. 



Cherokee. — No infectious or contagious diseases have attacked the farm stock of 

 this county the past year. 



Clay. — No epidemic of any kind has visited our farm animals this year. 



Coleman. — Some little disease has recently appeared among horses in this county. 

 Young cattle on the range are reported as suffering seriously with black-leg. Animals 



