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mestic cows, $40 each; Texas, $20. Bourbon: The horse-disease is general ; few deaths. 
Linn: Have heard of but three deaths from the epizooty in the county. Stock hogs 
have been in great demand. Butler: A good deal of sickness among horses. Stock 
hogs are worth 5 cents per pound; dressed pork the same. For the first time in this 
county, farmers are stall-feeding cattle. Cowley: The epizooty is here in a mild form. 
Sulphur, relaxing food, and good attention is all the treatment needed. Lyon: The 
epizooty, in mild form, prevailing generally among horses and mules; some mortality 
in cases where the animals were driven while sick. Washington: The prices of horses 
and cattle have been depreciated by the epizooty and scarcity of money. The low 
price of grain has made a demand for stock hogs. With one of the best sheep-raising 
regions in the world, we still have no sheep, and farmers find that it takes all the 
grain they raise and half the farm, at present prices, to clothe their families. The 
great want of this county is sheep and wool. Smith: This being a new-settled county, 
the increase in stock is large. Improvements are going on rapidly, and the county is 
bound to become an important one in a short time. Jackson: Milch cows have depre- 
ciated in value more than any other class of stock. 
NEBRASKA, 
Merrick: The epizooty in full force; no deaths. Sheep are deing well. This 
is a splendid country for the production of wool, though we have small flocks at 
present. Lancaster: All the horses affected with the epizooty in a mild form; 
they get over it in eight or ten days. Have heard of but one or two fatal cases. 
Gage: The horse-disease raging, but light compared with other places. Pawnee: So far 
as heard from, only one horse in the county died from the epizooty. One-year old 
stock hogs sell for $1.75 per hundred; fat hogs for $2.50. Cass: Scarcely a horse or 
mule in the county has escaped the epizooty, but few cases fatal. Johnson: The 
epizooty has visited this county, but, so far as heard, no case has terminated fatally ; 
but very little treatment is resorted to. The fall rains kept the pastures in good con- 
dition for grazing, until quite late in the season; consequently all horned cattle went 
into winter quarters in good condition, and they continue so. In consequence of the 
enormous yield of corn this season, and the very low price for the same, every hog that 
will make pork at all will be fattened for market. Nemaha: The epizooty has proved 
fatal in but very few cases, and those generally where other disease prevailed with it. 
- A large surplus of horses in the county, and no market for them; mules increasing 
rapidly in number and quality ; number of horses in the county, 3,949; of mules, 351 ; 
of cattle, 7,780; of hogs, 14,409; of sheep, 1,632. The most of the latter have been 
brought in recently. Boone: Cattle generally look well; no corn, but plenty of hay. 
CALIFORNIA. 
Del Norte: Stock in good condition ; good work-oxen worth $150 per yoke. Plu- 
mas: Cattle and horses in good health; few sheep kept in this county. Napa: 
This is not a stock-raising county; our products for market almost exclusively 
wheat and wine. <dAlameda: Stock of all kinds looking better than usual at this 
season. Placer: The horses in this county have been much improved; those now 
bred are from the very best stock; mules are coming into more general use; oxen 
and other cattle are only raised in our county for use, not for market. Sheep 
are a source of large wealth to our county and are on the increase; they are 
considered the most profitable stock raised. Hogs suffered the past year from hog- 
cholera; fully 25 per cent. died of that disease. Sonoma: The decrease in cattle is 
owing to the past unfavorable season, which caused stock-raisers to reduce their 
herds—many ranges having been overstocked. The same cause has loweredthe prices 
of stock. Sacramento: Our stock of cattle and hogs has been much reduced in num- 
bers the past year on account of the abolition of our fence laws, requiring owners of 
stock to pay all damages from trespasses on lands not fenced. Amador: Sheep are 
always herded and the loss by dogs is very small. Mendocino: A great change in the 
pumber and character of our horses within a few years; the old Spanish stock has 
been well-nigh exhausted, and a much better has taken their place, but in much smaller 
numbers. Kern: Sheep-men have been improving the stock the past year; large im- 
portations from Vermont and New Hampshire. 
OREGON. 
Union: Crossing American with Indian horses is becoming quite a business and will 
prove remunerative. Clackamas: Cattle are doing well as yet without other shelter 
than that of timber. There is a small decrease in the number of horses owing 
to the fact that many are bought up im this and the adjoining counties for the 
California and territorial markets. Grant: Our farmersare gradually getting rid of their 
poorer stock of horses and introducing those of superior blood. We have now in the 
