Cebbo  Gobdo.— I  do  not  think  any  contagioTls  disease  has  prevailed  among  hones
in  this  county  the  present  year.  Occasionally  we  lose  a  few  cattle  by  a  disease
known  as  **  black-leg,"  but  I  do  not  think  the  losses  will,  at  any  time,  amoont  to
one-half  of  1  per  cent.  We  had  a  little  hog  cholera  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  coontj
last  winter  and  spring,  but  I  think  it  has  all  disappeared*

Chickasaw.— Hog  cholera  has  not  prevailed  to  any  great  extent  in  of^t  county  for
the  past  year,  and  yet  the  disease  has  been  among  some  herds  of  hogs,  and  poesibij
some  have  died  from  it.  Many  formers  are  using  '*  concentrated  lye  *'  in  the  slops,
thinking  it  a  good  preventive  of  the  disease.  Hog  cholera  made  its  first  appearance
here  shortly  cuter  tne  Colorado  potato  beetle  made  its  iirst  appearance  among  ua-
about  1665, 1  think.  Borne  years  ago  the  disease  wai)  bo  fatal  that  nearly  every  herd
of  hogs  in  the  county  was  badly  decimated  with  it,  but  for  several  years  past  only
in  locSjities  has  it  prevailed  to  any  extent.
