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other States and sold in their unbroken state at about $300 per pair. Early spring 
lambs sell from $7 to $8 per head at three to four months old, while at one year old they 
could hardly find a purchaser at $5. Perhaps 500 would not be far from the number of 
sheep killed in this county by dogs in 1872. Warren: Thereis seldom a mule raised in 
this county. They are bought in by dealers in- stocks when about 3 years old, and sold 
at about $350 per pair. I have put the average price of sheep under one year old at $4 ; 
but lambs sold for market while young, at au average of about $6 per head. 
PENNSYLVANIA, 
Clinton: Excepting the horse-disease all kinds of stock have been healthy. 
Snyder: Very few horses escaped the epizooty, and very few diéd with it. 
Cambria : Only such horses as were worked or unnecessarily exposed died of the epi- 
zooty. Horses kept warm and clean, not worked or exposed, with light feed, such as 
bran and boiled oats, with little hay, were successfully treated. There have been in- 
troduced several herds of good cattle, which are destined to have great influence on 
the stock of this county. Distinct Durham, Hereford, and Alderney flocks are now bred 
pure in this district, and with regular pedigrees. We esteem the Alderneys very much 
for improvement in our dairies. Dauphin: Deaths of horses from a dropsical affection, 
following the epizooty, are of frequent occurrence. The most effectual remedy has been 
turpentine applied to the throat and top of the head. Butler: The epizooty eaused but 
little damage; hardly a dozen horses died with it; all appear well again. Lycoming : 
A few horses have died of the epizooty, but in nearly every instance the loss can be 
traced either to improper usage or to the effect of some other disease previously con- 
tracted. Chester: About 3 per cent. of our horses died of the epizooty. Have rated 
mules higher than horses because there are fewer very poor ones; the price of good 
horses is higher than of good mules. Elk: Not many fatal cases from the epizooty, and 
those, for the most part, of horses that had been affeeted by some other disease. The 
exceeding cold of the past month has been hard on stock. Ducks: Loss of horses by 
the epizooty not more than one-half of one per cent. Cattle and sheep about station- 
ary ; nine-tenths of the cattle are used for dairy purposes. Pork, dressed, is selling 
at about 64 cents per pound—mostly used for sausages. 
MARYLAND. 
Baltimore: Horses will sell high. Mules in good demand. About 300 sheep killed 
by dogs. Howard: Dogs have destroyed the profit of sheep husbandry. 
VIRGINIA. 
Prince George: The fence law is a barrier to stock-raising. Pittsylvania: Cattle 
and all kinds of live stock inferior. Market facilities do not encourage enterprise. 
Montgomery: Marked improvement in quality of live stock. Orange: Increased at- 
tention to horses and mules. Zssex: Sheep fast disappearing before the dogs. 
Hogs inferior; improved breed of Chester Whites lately introduced. The war 
depleted the stock of horses, but left some fine breeds descended from American 
racers, good for saddle and draught, Augusta: The number of old horses decreases 
the average price. Gloucester: Bells a partial protection to sheep. Highland: Sheep 
and other stock on the increase. Rockbridge: The dog law so unpopular that it was 
repealed; sheep consequently disappearing. Southampton: Dogs very destructive to 
sheep. 
NORTH CAROLINA. 
Gates: Epizooty general, but mild; few deaths. Ashe: Large numbers of sheep sold 
to northern markets. Person: Dogs very destructive to sheep. Craven: Sheep lost 
20 per cent. by dogs; stock but a fourth of what it was formerly. Guilford: A hog 
killed here weighed 724 pounds gross, 650 net. Greene: All horses and mules had the 
epizooty; ten deaths. Montgomery: Sheep disappearing before dogs. Horse-disease 
mild. The cotton fever, with the low price of westernfpork, has killed hog-raising. 
SOUTH CAROLINA. 
Darlington: Epizooty reduced the price of mules. Clarendon: Hog-disease general 
and fatal. Stewart: Hog crop larger than since 1865. Union: Horse-disease mild ; 
no deaths; horses worked did as well as those blanketed and nursed. 
GEORGIA. 
Cobb: Fifty dogs to one sheep. Douglass: About every horse and mule had the 
epizooty. Wilkes: Live stock generally decreasing in number but improving in quality. 
