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ARKANSAS.—<Arkansas: Cattle looking well; sheep looking finely, but not many ot 
them. - 
TENNESSEE.—Cross: Cows are improving very fast. Grainger: Cattle dying with 
the ‘dry murrain.” 
- WEsT VIRGINIA.—Braxton sheep lost 10 per cent., lambs 15 per cent., from diseases 
and other casualties. Nicholas: Sheep not so well; dog ravages increasing. Tyler : 
Cattle wintered on short allowance. Harrison: Beef-cattle a little below average ; 
horses in good condition. 
Kentucky.— Fayette: Live stock thin. 
Oxn10.—Jackson: Live stock came out of winter quarters in splendid condition. 
Warren: Many sheep killed by dogs. 
Inpiana.—Grant: Stock in good condition. Kosciusko: Dogs have greatly injured 
sheep. 
SER —Winnebago: Cattle not looking so well as April 1; sheep largely destroyed 
by wolves, which are increasing, in spite of all efforts for their destruction. Scott : 
Spring pigs have not done well. Ogle: Sheep and lambs generally healthy. Montgom- 
ery: Large numbers of sheep killed by wolves and dogs. Boone: Unusual mortality 
among lambs ; sheep too highly corn-fed. 
WISCONSIN. Jefferson : Live stock affected by scarcity of food, especially cattle. 
Iowa : Late cold spring severe on cattle. 
Minnesora.—Faribault : Many lambs lost through wet weather. 
Towa.—WMontgomery : Fewer calves dropped this season; cows failed to get with 
calf last season. Polk: Stock wintered well; cows and calves of good quality ; no 
sheep lost. Guthrie: Decreasing number of calves born, in consequence of a scarcity 
of bulls. ; 
Missouri.—Polk: Cattle look well; some died of exposure. Caldwell: Lambs 
dropped mostly in winter ; 60 per cent. lost. Ste. Genevieve: Dog interest has destroyed 
sheep husbandry. Crawford: A large amount of live stock died of starvation and 
exposure. 
NEBRASKA.—Werrick : Sixty per cent. of the sheep perished in April storms. 
Kansas.—fepublic: Cattle, after wintering in good order, are thin for lack of spring- 
feed; many killed in the heavy three days’ storm of April. Atchison: Large per cent. 
of lambs winter-killed. Doniphan : Stock of all kinds doing well. 
CALIFORNIA.— Kern : Most of the sheep lost died either of starvation or of eating 
poisonous weeds; about a fourth of the cattle were driven out of the county last 
winter. Alameda: Sheep wintered well; 90 to 95 per cent. of lambs saved; many 
flocks produced as high as 110 per cent., so many of the ewes bearing twins. Mendo- 
cino: Sheep remarkably exempt from their usual casualties. 
CoLoravo.—Huerfano : Cattle and sheep doing very well; young animals strong 
and healthy; lamb-crop splendid. El Paso: Losses of sheep entirely due to misman- 
agement. 
IpaHo.—Nez Perces: Cattle wintered finely, and are very fat. Epizooty just making 
its appearance. Sevier : Sheep and cows do well. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL RECORD. 
By TOWNEND GLOVER, ENTOMOLOGIST. 
THE TWIG-GIRDLER.—Mr. G. F. B. Leighton, president of the Nor 
folk (Va.) Horticultural and Pomological Society, in aletter to this Depart- 
ment, in answer to some questions relating to the twig-girdler, Oncideres 
cingulatus, states that during the past season he has made some interest- 
ing observations which may be of interest to entomologists and horti- 
culturists. After remarking on the habits of the insect, he states that 
a close scrutiny revealed the fact that the insects girdle the twig before 
depositing their eggs, although he supposed it otherwise the previous 
season; he also recommends burning the twigs, as spoken of, in the 
report of 1871. 
THE COLORADO BEETLE.—Mr. David Peeler, of Johnstown, Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania, reports the Colorado potato-beetle in considera- 
ble numbers. The first brood had attained maturity June 8, and he 
