571 
and geldings under four years, 16,905; asses and mules, 5,475; total 
horses, asses, and mules, 105,799. | | 
Horned cattle —Bulls, 10,311; milch-cows, 553,205; breeding-heifers, 
74,634; beef-cattle, 52,203; calves over six months old, 172,826; calves 
less than six months old, 130,012; total, 993,291. 
Hogs.—Boars, 1,544; sows, 30,288; fattening hogs, 190,705 ; sucking- 
pigs, 81,951; total, 304,428. 
Sheep, 447,001. Sheep, 375,482. 
The foreign trade in cattle shows an import of 103,424 horned cattle 
in 1871 against 6,987 in 1870; and of 2,191 calves against 2,711 the pre- 
vious year. The exports of horned cattle in 1871 were 54,971 against 
41,062 in 1870; of calves, 8,157 against 11,683 the previous year. In 
1871 the imports of butter and lard were 55,483.49 quintals against 
35,404.21 in 1870; the exports were 15,492.92 quintals in 1871, and 
22,149.70 in 1870. The exports of cheese exceed the imports by about 
60,000 quintals. 
The dairy facilities of Switzerland are attracting the attention of for- 
eign capitalists. Among the exhibitors at the Vienna Exposition was 
the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, an association of English 
and Swiss capitalists, which has factories at Chane, Gossau, and Fri- 
bourg, Switzerland, and at Chippenham, England. The central office is 
at 38 Leadenhall street, London, but their main establishment, at Cham, 
in the Swiss canton of St. Gall, was erected in 1866, ‘The company has: 
a capital of a million of frances actually invested. In 1872 it produced 
3,500,000 packages of condensed milk, each weighing one pound. It 
has numerous agencies in Europe. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL RECORD. 
By TOWNEND GLOVER. 
PROTECTION AGAINST COTTON-INSECTS.—The following circular on a 
subject, the importance of which will be generally acknowledged, was 
recently sent to the regular corps of Department correspondents in the 
cotton- growing States: 
The annual losses of cotton from ravages of cotton-insects amount possibly to half 
a million bales in years of insect prevalence. One-fourth of a million bales would be 
deemed a light infliction, and yet, at $100 per bale, such a loss would be equivalent to 
$25,000,000. The methods to be employed for lessening their ravages have been here- 
tofore canvassed by the entomologist of this Department. The remedy can only be 
applied by the planters themselves, and their own experience can best render practica- 
ble and efficient the means employed. 
Numerous correspondents have of late been experimenting with a mixture of Paris 
green and flour or plaster, dusted on the plants when wet with dew—a remedy which 
has proved very efficient against the Colorado potato-beetle and other insects. Some 
report this remedy effectual against the cotton caterpillar, while others declare it of 
no value whatever; others still hesitate to try it for fear of poisoning. It is of the 
utmost importance that the facts in the experience of planters the present season 
should be carefully reported, showing the quality and proportions of material used, 
the method and frequency of its application, and the observed results, that a thorough 
test may be made of its value or worthlessness. The answer of the following questions 
is therefore requested : 
1. What is the result of your experience or observations as to the efficacy of Paris 
green, or other arsenical compounds, mixed with flour or plaster, for the destruction of 
the cotton-caterpillar ? 
