298 STATISTICS FROM OHIO AGRICULTURAL REPORT OF 1877-8. 
STATISTICS EXTRACTED FROM THE OHIO AGRICUL¬ 
TURAL REPORT OF 1877-78. 
ite of Ohio in 1878. 
Number. 
Value. 
Horses.. 
. . 740,200 _ 
.$36,771,500 
Mules. 
.. 27,306 . 
. 1.552,226 
Cattle. 
..1,568,878 . 
. 25,794,802 
Sheep. 
. .3,909,604 . 
. 8,578,123 
Hogs. 
.2,341,441 . 
. 5,464,465 
The zymotic diseases attacking horses in this locality are gland¬ 
ers and farcy, epizootic, and enzootic influenza, hoemoglobinnria 
and osteo porosis. 
Those affecting cattle are anthrax, Texas fever, tuberculosis, 
variola, a specific enzootic keratitis and some other contagious 
blood diseases which are not described in veterinary literature* 
Contagious pleuro-pneumonia has not made its appearance as yet. 
The so-called hog cholera is very prevalent in this region 
among the swine, destroying large numbers of them. Anthrax 
erysipelatodes is also somewhat prevailing. 
The therapeutic of the diseases among sheep as well as swine 
is generally in the hands of empirics. 
Died in 1877. Number. Value. 
Horses. 11,047 $747,213 
Cattle. 16,420 280,481 
Sheep. 59,106 148,700 
Hogs.306,349 1,334,655 
It is not stated in the statistics what special disease these ani¬ 
mals fell victims to ; mention is merely made that 20,623 of the 
sheep were killed by dogs. 
The health officer was consulted in regard to veterinary sani¬ 
tary laws and regulations, who informed me that there were no 
such laws existing in Ohio. In the Ohio Agricultural Report of 
