. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. An annoying epidemical disease, resembling the epizootic in all its sj'mptoms, is spreading rapidly among the horses of this city. Three weeks ago a Tribune reporter visited the dif- ferent street railway stables to learn if this disease, then prevailing in Bufialo, had reach- ed New York in its march eastward. At that time no trace of it had been discovered. It was asserted on all sides that horses were more free from disease of all kinds than they had been sin
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. An annoying epidemical disease, resembling the epizootic in all its sj'mptoms, is spreading rapidly among the horses of this city. Three weeks ago a Tribune reporter visited the dif- ferent street railway stables to learn if this disease, then prevailing in Bufialo, had reach- ed New York in its march eastward. At that time no trace of it had been discovered. It was asserted on all sides that horses were more free from disease of all kinds than they had been since the remarkable attack of ejn- zootic almost three years ago. In June the horsas of the Eighth and Ninth Avenue rail- ways were suBering from inflammation of the bowels and pleurisy, brought on by sudden weather changes. Persons who have made horse disease a study, and who are familiar with the epizootic, say that the prevailing distemper is of the same nature, and difl'ers only iu its intensity. The horses are taken with a running at the nose, accompanied with a hacking cough and a sore-throat, but seem to lose none ot their vitality, and maintain a good appetite. Thus far about 200 hundred horses irom this cause have been unfit for work at a time, while at least 12,000 have been attacked. Most of those, however, have been worked as usual, and no aggravation of the disease is expected unless the weather should suddenly become wet and cold. A Tribime reporter called at many railroad and hotel stables yesterday, and learned that the favorable chaugo in the we'ither since the rains last week and Sunday had greatly miti- gated the disease. Friday night, September loth, was exceedingly cold, ami on the Satur- day a few horses in the northern and eastern part of the city were taken with the disease. On Thursday, September KUh, said the sur- geon of the Third avenue stable, the disease iu that ipiarler of the city became widely prevalent. The horses were taken suddenly with violent
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