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$4.00 per barrel; Wool, .30 to .45; Tobacco, .08 to .15. These 

 prices cover the variations for good articles at different seasons of 

 the year, but do not attempt to represent the extremes that some- 

 times have been attained. Creamery butter has ruled steady from 

 .30 to .45. Working oxen, $125 to $200 ; Milch cows, $30 to 

 $60 ; leaving out of account prices of choice Jerseys, Guernseys, 

 Ayrshires, Swiss, and Holsteins, which are the most popular breeds 

 at this date in the State, and largely superseding the favorite 

 Devon and Durham, which have been the source of so much 

 improvement in the past, the demand- for milk audits products 

 having caused increased attention to the so called milking breeds. 

 As a report for 1882, this brief record may prove instructive in 



future time. 



T. S. G. 



