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Fé Railroad reached Fort Dodge, above the great bend on the Arkansas 
River, in Kansas, on the 23d of September, 1872. From that date:to 
December ol, the shipment at that station of buffalo. hides was 43,029 ; 
of buffalo- meat, 1,436,290 pounds. These figures do not include the 
many bufialoes ‘shot by sportsmen in warm weather, nor tho 2 slain for 
food by frontier residents; and, although they show ht 
43,000 in a little over three months, they are considerabl 
would have been had not the prevalence of the horse 
minded the transportation of hides and meat to tl 
hind ce haying disappeared, it is estimated that 
January ny will exceed those of the preceding months. 
and res for the season of 1872~73 the slaughter in the. 
of page Be will amount to at ee 109, 000 bate 
salmeicate the agr icultural varity add thrift which 5 
section of Southern Illinois. ae small county lies on! th 1 
of 1870, it had, in 1869, 75, 832 acres of improved ane 33 ,606 acres of 
wood- land, and 5,500 acres of other unimproved land. The cash value of 
its farms was $3, ,383,201 ; of the products of its orchards, $150,576; of 
its market eardens, $24, 510; of its forests, $12,031; of its home manu- 
factories, $26,284; value of its animals slaughter ed, or sold for slaughter, 
$137,288; amount of wheat produced, 180,: 231 bushels; of corn, 679,753 
bushels; of oats, 124,475. There are three railroad stations in the 
county—Anna, Cobden, and Dongola. In 1872, among the products 
received and forwarded were, at Anna Station, 38,300 barrels of lime, — 
9,300 of flour, 4,800 of meal, 2,900 of onions, 2,948 of apples, 4,780 of — 
sweet potatoes, 1,140 of dried fruit, 96 bales of cotton, 150 hogsheads 
of tobacco, 10, 090 tons of fite- clay, 1 090 of white clay, 75,009 callons 
of stone- aware, 9,866 bushels of peaches, 4,490 crates of berries, 5,000 
pounds of wool, 22.100 pounds of pie-plant, ce 146 pounds of green hides, 
609 pounds of dry hides, and 10 ear- loads of poultry. At “the Cobden 
Station, 8,514 bushels of strawberries, 1,653 of raspberries and black- 
berries, 190 of canned raspberries and ‘blackberries, 450 of cherries, 
22,885 of apples, 46,596 of _peaches, 6,192 of “pears, 12,705 of tomatoes, 
8, 000 of preserved apples s, 7,000 of canned peaches, 417 barrels of sweet 
potatoes, 3,110 pounds of orapes. At the Dongola Station, 6,000 bar- 
rels of sweet potatoes, 4,300 of onions, 3,200 of apples, 5,100 of flour and 
meal, 100 bales of cotton, 3 3,100 fiour- barrels, 2,212,000 feet of lumber and 
ties. The canned pe: wchies and berries specified above were put up by 
Messrs. Cooledge & Wells, and the preserved apples by the Alden 
Fruit-Preserving Company, both establishments being located at Cobden. 
It was feared that the fruit trees, especially the peach, in that section. 
had been greatly injured by the extreme cold weather in the latter part 
of December ; but fruit-growers, who have made examination, concur 
in testifying that, owing to the dry autumn, the buds were in a remark- 
ably good condition to resist the cold, and, in fact, have received com- 
paratively little injury. 
‘‘ BLOODY MURRAIN.”—Mr. C. R. Moore, of Johnsontown, Virginia, 
writes to the Department as follows: 
One of my neighbors, a short time since, lost four out of six head of cattle with what 
is here called “ bloody murrain’ ”__loody urinary discharges. I went to see him, to 
learn the particulars, ‘which I send you. All his cattle were attacked. After losing 
four he gave the remaining two a pint each of petroleum, such as he burned, by pouring 
it down their throats. They recovered. He opened those which died, and found the 
bladders much distended with what appeared to be blood, but which was probably 
