352 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



Tliey have a cough and soon quit eating. Nearly all the yonng animals affected die. 

 The disease seems to be coulined to localities where the hogs feed on acorns. Cholera 

 also prevails among fowls, and the losses have been quite heavy. 



Hardy. — Very little disease among horses. Cattle have suffered with black-leg, 

 hollow-horn, murrain, and foot-evil. Last spring our young hogs died of cholera in 

 certain localities like flies. Sheep have died of rot, and a great many fowls of cholera. 

 The following is regarded as a fair estimate of the value of the losses for the year^ 

 Horses, $800 : cattle, $7,500 ; hogs, $7,500 ; sheep, $2,250 ; and fowls, $500. 



Harrison. — But few losses have occurred from disease among the farm animals of 

 this county the current year. 



Jackson. — Farm animals of all kinds are looking well. No contagious or infectious 

 disease has existed amoi}g them the past year. 



McDowell. — Our farm animals have escaped all fatal diseases during the past two 

 years. Hog cholera appeared in some localities in the adjoining county of Buchanan 

 in the early part of the fall, but the area of infection has not enlarged. 



Marshall. — There have been no losses from disease among any class of farm stock in 

 this county which could be reliably estimated. Some cases of distemper have been 

 reported among horses, but there have^been few deaths. 



Mason. — No contagious or epidemic disease has visited any class of our domestic 

 animals this year. 



Mercer. — No disease of a virulent type has prevailed among our horses, thotigh an 

 animal occasionally dies of distemper. Cattle have been affected with murrain, 

 hogs with cholera, and sheep with rot. 



Mineral. — All classes of our farm animals are exceptionally free from disease of 

 every kind. A few cases of cholera have occurred among hogs and fowls during the 

 year. 



Monroe. — The loss of hogs in a j)ortion of this county has been considerable. The 

 disease is similar to scarlet fever, with more or less throat trouble. Some par- 

 ^ties have lost all, while others have saved a few animals. Those that recover con- 

 tinue poor and worthless. The disease is variously jjronounced scarlet fever, diph- 

 theria, and a new kind of cholera. 



Morgan. — The only disease that has prevailed among any class of farm animals has 

 been among hogs. Fowls have suffered to some extent with the usual maladies. 



Mononr/alia. — Horses are frequently attacked with distemper, but animals rarely 

 die of the disease. Cattle are subject to black-leg, which usually i^roves fatal. 

 Sheep die of rot, and fowls of gapes and cholera. 



Nicholas. — Horses are occasionally afflicted with a mild type of distemper. Cholera 

 has destroyed a great many hogs, but I have no means of ascertaining the number 

 or value. Sheep have the rot, but that disease don't amount to much. 



P/ert.san^s.— There have been no contagious or epidemic diseases among our farm an- 

 imals. Some losses have occurred among sheep and fowls, but it" is very difficult to 

 value the loss. 



Preston. — Sixty-tliree horses died in this county during the year of pneumonia, and 

 27 of other diseases. A few cattle died of murrain, and some hogs of the usual dis- 

 eases. Grub in the head is the only thing that has afflicted sheep. 



Raleigh. — Hog cholera is the only disease of a contagious character prevalent 

 among farm stock in this county. It has been quite destructive. 



Randolph. — We have had no widespread disease among any class of our domestic 

 animals during the year. A few cases of black-leg have occurred among cattle. 



Ritchie. — Stock is in unusually good condition and entirely free from disease. 



Roane. — A few hogs and quite a large number of sheex) have died during the year 

 of diseases incident to these aninmls. 



Summers. — The only losses of consequence among farm animals have occurred 

 among hogs. I think I can safely estimate that 40 per cent, of the total numl)er in 

 the county have died during the year. The disease is similar to swine plague as de- 



