On the 2d day of July last, Dr. Trumbower reported the prev alence of swine plague on many farms in the vicinity of Patoka, Ill. On the 17th of the same month, it was reported as prevailing quite seriously among hogs in the vicinity of Geneseo, in the same State.

Mr. W. N. Hubble, Gonzales, Monterey County, Cal., writing under date of June 23 last, thus speaks of the ravages of swine plague among his own and his neighbors' hogs:

I have lost some 250 head of hogs from swine plague, and they are still dying, as I lost 2 to-day. There has been a heavy loss from the disease in this county. The greater part of those who have died have been sucking pigs, but the two that died to-day were large hogs. I have about 20, or perhaps 30 head now sick. The animals are running in a barley field with an abundance of water. The first symptom of illness is a cough. It is sometimes from one to three weeks before some of them show serious illness. Then the cough increases in intensity; the hog humps up its back; scabs appear about the eyes, and some of them go blind. At this stage they still have an appetite, eat well, but grow poorer all the time, I do not believe any of them ever recover, though some of them will live for a period of two months. The disease has been on this farm for years.

Mr. R. E. Eveleigh, Bloomfield, Ind., writing under date of June 24, says that swine plague has almost ruined the hog industry of that State.

Mr. C. C. Buckuld, Raccoon Ford, Culpeper County, Va., writes as follows under date of July 3 last:

This section of the State has been visited for several years past by a disease called cholera, which has destroyed a great many swine. Many of my neighbors_have suffered from it, but until recently my own hogs have escaped the plague. I now have 4 or 5 which I fear are affected by it.

On he 8th of July last, Dr. J. Eugene Jarningan, Toby's Creek, S. C., writes as follows concerning the disease in that State :

Many farmers of this section are losing their swine by disease, and I have been careful to make many post-mortem examinations, and in all I found the same lesions, but in some better developed than in others. I found all the organs of the thoracic cavity in a healthy condition. The liver was always in a state of inflammation. In some specimens the gall-bladder was filled with an almost black, effusive, semi-solid liquid, too thick to flow out of the duct; in fact the duct seemed to be closed by the matter becoming solid in it. In some cases the descending colon or "Tom Thumb" was highly inflamed. The mucous membrane seemed to be rotten, of a dull, ashy-gray color. The inflammation generally appeared more severe near the end of the "Tom Thumb," or the attachment of appendix vermiformis. The kidneys were normal and the intestines filled with gas. These are all the lesions found.

The hogs are running in swamp pasture and on oat lands, and get plenty of oats and grass. The first symptoms I have noticed are sick stomach and vomiting, with a sort of "rash" about the head, ears, neck, and belly. In violent cases these attain the size of a No. 2 buck-shot. The eyes, or more properly the eye-lids, seem to be inflamed, as they frequently stick together so closely that they blind the animal. Around the eyes the skin has a rough, scaly appearance. This I find confined to the early stages of the disease. I have taken the trouble to kill animals at the various stages of the plague, so as to inform myself properly, and I will say that in the first stage the gall-bladder is filled with bile, not unlike the yolk of an egg; so yellow is it that the gall-bladder has the color of an orange.

Mr. D. S. Waddell, Saint Maurice Parish, La., writing under date of August 6, 1886, says:

In the spring of 1885 a disease attacked my hogs, killing 32 out of 35 head. It was an irruptive disease, and I give a history of the outbreak as follows: I had 5 grown sows with 30 pigs, all in good order. The first symptom was high fever, then cough (dry), then an irruption, swelling of the head, eyes closing, with foam exuding from the eyes; skin of the belly red; violent spasms; eyes oscillating, and tremor and twitching of the muscles as if under the influence of strychnine. About

three days after the irruption they would die. If they went into water it rapidly hastened death. Some would get down on their knees and squeal terribly while the "fit" was upon them; others would come up, walk around, and die in a few seconds without a struggle. One sow escaped without any symptoms of the disease; two lived through, and where the irruption occurred white hairs grew out (they were black hogs). These two sows have since had two litters of pigs. Of the first litter, now shoats, one this spring (1886) had a "fit" and vomited. I made an incision half an inch long and about one-fourth inch deep in the back of its neck, and inserted about 3m of morphine. It recovered, but carried its head with a twist. The sows appear well, but I notice one pig of the second litter in the last day or two has a cough. I forbade my sons handling these hogs, and my health being too feeble to make post-mortem examinations I can not give such information as will prove satisfactory. I will state, however, that the people around me at the time were sorely afflicted with measles, and I rather believe the hogs had that disease. Their bowels were in no way disturbed. I noticed that the tongue and the mucous membrane of the mouth appeared very red. Some of them were very restless-could find no position that would relieve them, and would lean against a fence until they would fall dead. All "panted" as if their lungs were congested.

Dr. T. W. Roane, of Tennessee, says that swine plague prevailed to a considerable extent in that State during May and June last, and that while it was equally as fatal "it was not so generally diffused as in 1884." He attributes the disease to the poison communicated by buffalo gnats. No doubt these gnats assisted in spreading the disease by innoculating the animals with the virus of swine plague, an infinitesimal portion of which was sufficient to set up the disease.

Dr. A. B. Bradbury, health officer of Delaware County, Ind., and Mr. John M. Graham, president of the Delaware County Agricultural Association, writing under date of August 27 last, states that hog cholera or swine plague is prevailing extensively in that county, and that the losses are very heavy.

Mrs. S. T. Henderson, Sloan, Woodbury County, Iowa, writes, under date of September 5, that hogs are dying by hundreds in that county of swine plague.

PARALYSIS IN PIGS.

Mr. George Jacobis, Philmont, Columbia County, N. Y., writing under date of January 4, 1886, says:

A disease hitherto unknown has broken out among swine in this vicinity. It is confined principally to pigs. The disease seems to attack the loins, the animal soon losing the use of its hind legs. I find the same symptoms described in the annual report of the Department of Agriculture for 1881-82, by R. J. Donaldson, of Georgetown, S. C. In the South Carolina case the feed was ground rice. Here the feed has been corn.

DISEASE OF SHEEP.

Mr. Aquilla Denmead, Del Rio, Val Verde County, Tex., writing under date of February 20 last, gives the following account of a disease which has proved quite destructive to his sheep:

I have been a sheep raiser here in Texas for eight years, and have had no disease in my flock until about the 1st of last August. About that time my lambs and yearlings commenced to die at the rate of about two or three a day in a flock of 1,200. They become poor and would eat but very little, and finally got so weak that they could not stand up. I do not think that over 10 out of the number that were effected recovered. I thought they had got hold of some poisonous herb, and I gave those that seemed to be sick plenty of melted grease, but it seemed to do them no good. They did not stop dying until we had rain, which occurred about the middle of September. About the 1st of January they commenced to get sick again. They were affected in the same way, and soon commenced to die, which they are still doing. Those that are dying now are last year's lambs and two-yearolds next month. I did not think it was poison this time. I have examined a great

many of those that have died, and find in all that one of the small stomachs, or contents of the same, is very dry, nothing like as soft as the contents of the other. I have been unable to detect anything wrong in my examination of the liver and lights. I have given those that are affected linseed oil (raw) in 2-ounce doses, but it does not seem to do them any good. In skinning one that died the other day one or two worms dropped out of the nose, and since then I have been cutting the head open and find worms at the root of the nose in all of them. It is a worm about three-quarters of an inch long and about one-quarter of an inch in diameter, with black stripes across the back. Some of them are white, with no black stripes. A kind of mucous, mixed with some blood, comes from the nose of those affected. I mixed up a strong solution of tobacco and added a few drops of strong carbolic acid, with which I syringed the nose of the sick animals. I do not think it did them any good, as they swallowed the injected wash. Some of those that have died were nice and fat when first affected, but they would soon become poor, and would die, as near as I was able to judge, in from five to ten days after the first symptons were noticeable,

MYSTERIOUS DESTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

Mr. J. L. Gleaves, Wytheville, Va., writing under date of April 12 last, gives the following account of the loss of many domestic animals which annually occurs in that locality from some unknown

cause:

I desire to call your attention to a matter which is now of great interest, and is of increasing importance to a large number of our people. In the counties of Washington, Smyth, and Grayson is situated what is known as White Top Mountain. This is the highest mountain in Virginia. The soil all over the mountain is very fertile, as well as that upon neighboring ranges. It is peculiarly adapted to the growth of blue grass and pea vines, and furnishes pasturage for a large number of cattle, sheep, and hogs. These thrive and fatten during the spring and summer, but about the last of August and first of September there comes what is called by the people of the mountains fall poison, which sometimes kills whole herds of cattle, sheep, and hogs. What it is the people do not know. It is not a weed or any vegetable matter, but something which, as they say, falls upon the grass. It is particularly destructive about and after sundown. People have been made sick by drinking the milk of a cow allowed to feed upon blue grass or pea vines after sunA very large and valuable territory is thus rendered practically useless at the season spoken of, when it is most needed. I simply write to ask if it would not be well to investigate the matter and ascertain the true cause of this evil, and, if possible, find a remedy therefor?

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WILL STRYCHNINE KILL BUZZARDS?

The statistical correspondent of Chautuaqua County, N. Y., says: Your correspondent lost 68 hogs out of a herd of 108. Many of my neighbors lost all they had. My hogs were in three separate pastures, with good grass and clover and sound corn. Had no communication with other hogs. No other hogs within less than one-half mile of them when the first ones were taken sick. All drank from the spring in the fields where they were confined; no water from other fields or outside lots running through the hog lots. Buzzards flew over this field morning and night, going to and from dead hogs on farms three-fourths of a mile away. Changed fields with this lot four times; took out the sick as fast as discovered, and burned the dead ones. Swarms of buzzards then came, and I then made many gashes in three dead hogs and put in enough strychnine to destroy all the buzzards that would feed upon the carcasses, and watched the results. Did not discover that it had any effect upon them. They ate the three hogs that day; heard of no dead buzzards in the vicinity. Found three dead hogs the next morning that had been gnawing the bones of the hogs in which the poison had been placed. Query: Will strychnine kill buzzards?

LAWS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES FOR THE CONTROL

OF CONTAGIOUS ANIMAL DISEASES.

The following are official transcripts of the laws of all the States and Territories adopted since the publication of the Second Annual Report of the Bureau for the control of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases of domesticated animals. The proclamations of the governors of the various States and Territories which have adopted quarantine measures to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases will also be found below:

ALABAMA.

AN ACT for the prevention and suppression of infectious and contagious diseases of horses and other animals.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Alabama, That it shall be the duty of any person who is the owner or possessor of a horse, mule, or other animal having the glanders or other fatal, contagious, or infectious disease, to keep such diseased animals away and removed from any public or other place where horses, mules, or other animals are usually kept in said counties, and also to keep such diseased animals at a distance from any common rendezvous for animals therein, whether such rendezvous or place of resort be maintained for public or private use and convenience; and any person refusing or wilfully neglecting to obey this provision of law, by bringing such diseased horse, mule, or other animal or causing the same to be brought to any rendezvous of animals or other place where the same shall be usually kept, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and may be indicted therefor, and upon conviction thereof, by or before any court of this State competent at this time to try and punish misdemeanors committed in said counties, shall be fined not exceeding $50 nor less than $5 for any violation of this law: Provided, That the prosecution and conviction of any person under this statute shall not be a bar to an action for civil damages against said person for loss or injury incurred by reason of the violation thereof.

Approved February 28, 1887.

ARIZONA.

AN ACT for the protection of domestic animals.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Arizona: Five commissioners identified with the live-stock interests of the Territory of Arizona shall be appointed by the governor, who shall constitute the live-stock sanitary commission of the Territory of Arizona. Before entering upon the duties of his office, each commissioner shall take and subscribe the oath of office, and file the same with the secretary of the Territory; and each commissioner, before entering on the performance of his duties, shall execute a bond, to be approved by the governor, in the sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office, and file the same with the secretary of the Territory. The term of office of said commissioners shall be for the period of two years from the first day of April, 1887, next succeeding their appointment, and the governor shall have the power to fill any vacancy in said commission. Said commissioners shall elect one of their number chairman, and the Territorial veterinary surgeon hereinafter provided for shall be ex-officio secretary of said commission.

The secretary shall keep a full and complete record of the proceedings of the commission, and make such report to the governor as may from time to time be required.

SEC. 2. The governor shall nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the legislative council, appoint a skilled veterinary surgeon for the Territory, who at the date of such appointment shall be a graduate in good standing of a recognized college of veterinary surgery, and who shall hold his office for the term of two years, unless sooner removed by the commission: Provided, That the salary of said veterinary surgeon shall on no account exceed the sum of two thousand dollars per annum, and fifteen (15) cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled in the discharge of his duties; and the Territorial auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Territorial treasurer for the said amounts, properly verified, to be paid out of the live-stock sanitary fund hereinafter provided for.

Before entering upon the duties of his office the Territorial veterinarian shall take and subscribe an oath to faithfully perform the duties of his said office, and shall execute a bond to the Territory of Arizona, in the sum of three thousand ($3,000) dollars, with good and sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, which bond and sureties thereto shall be approved by the governor, and said bond, together with his oath of office, shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of the Territory.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the commission provided for in the first section of this act to protect the health of the domestic animals of the Territory from all contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character, and for this purpose it is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain, and enforce such quarantine, sanitary, and other regulations as it may deem necessary. It shall be the duty of any member of said commission, upon receipt by him of reliable information of the existence among the domestic animals of the Territory of any malignant disease, to at once notify the Territorial veterinarian, who shall go at once to the place where any such disease is alleged to exist, and make a careful examination of the animals believed to be affected with any such disease, and ascertain, if possible, what, if any, disease exists among the live stock reported to be affected, and whether the same is contagious or infectious or not; and if said disease is found to be of a malignant, contagious, or infectious character, he shall direct the temporary quarantine and sanitary regulations necessary to prevent the spread of any such disease, and report his findings and actions to the commission.

SEC. 4. Upon the receipt by any member of this commission of the report of the Territorial veterinarian, provided for in section two of this act, if said member shall be of the opinion that the exigencies of the case require it, he shall immediately convene the commission at such a place as he may designate, and if upon consideration of the report of the veterinarian the commission shall be satisfied that any contagious or infectious disease exists of a malignant character, which seriously threatens the health of domestic animals, they shall proceed at once to the infected district, ascertain and determine the premises or grounds infected, and establish the quarantine, sanitary, and police regulations necessary to circumscribe and exterminate such disease; and no domestic animal liable to become infected with the disease, or capable of communicating the same, shall be permitted to enter or leave the district, premises, or grounds so quarantined, except by authority of the commission. The said commission shall also from time to time enforce such directions and prescribe such rules and regulations as to separating, mode of handling, treating, feeding, and caring for such diseased and exposed animals as it shall deem necessary to prevent the two classes of animals from coming in contact with each other, and perfectly isolate them from all other domestic animals which have not been exposed thereto, and which are susceptible of becoming infected with disease; and the said commission, or any of the members thereof, and said veterinarian, are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon any grounds or premises to carry out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 5. When in the opinion of the commission it shall be necessary to prevent the further spread of any contagious or infectious diseases among the live stock of the Territory to destroy animals affected with or which have been exposed to any such disease, it shall determine what animals shall be killed, and appraise the same as hereinafter provided, and cause the same to be killed and the carcasses to be disposed of as in its judgment will best protect the health of the domestic amimals of the locality.

SEC. 6. Whenever, as in the fourth section of this act provided, the commission shall direct the killing of any domestic animal or animals, it shall be the duty of the commissioners to appraise the animal or animals to be killed, and shall make an inventory of the animal or animals condemned, and in fixing the value thereof the commissioners shall be governed by the value of said animal or animals at the rate