Worth. — Hog  cholera  was  unknown  In  this  countv  until  three  ^ears  ago.  At
that  time  a  grain  and  cattle  dealer  imported  a  car-loaa  of  shoats  wmch  turned  out
to  be  infected  with  hog  cholera.  He  traded  them  to  farmers  in  the  county  for  fat
hogs  to  ship,  and  so  infected  all  stock  and  yards  that  they  were  sold  to,  and  thus
spread  the  disease  more  or  less  through  the  coimty.  It  is  here  now,  spasmodically,
more  or  less  all  the  time.  I  estimate  the  loss  in  the  county  during  the  last  three
months  at  200  head,  and  the  value  at  $800.  They  were  mostly  smau  pigs.  The  loss
is  not  so  much  in  the  number  of  ho^  as  it  is  upsetting  our  calculations.  At  pres-
ent I  know  of  its  being  on  five  different  farms,  and  it  has  generally  swept  the
Sirds  clean.  I  do  not  know  that  the  farmers  do  anything  to  prevent  the  disease,
orses,  cattle,  and  sheep  are  healthy,

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Allen.— The  first  hog  cholera  known  in  this  county,  as  near  as  I  can  leom,  wa35
about  twelve  vears  ago,  and  came  by  cattle  feeders  going  to  the  stock-yards  in
Kansas  City, Mo., and  shipping ih  stock  hogs.  Since  then  there  has  been  more  or
less  every  vear  in  different  localities*  One  of  my  correspondents,  living  in  the  east-
em  part  oi  this  cotmty  for  more  them  twenty  years,  says  there  has  never  been  any
cholera  in  that  section,  I  think  I  have  never  had  a  case  of  it  on  my  farm  in  a  res-
idence of  thirty-one  years.
