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Indiana. — Perry: Beef-cattle, $6 net; hogs, $8 net. Jennings: Stock-hogs worth 5 

 cents gross. Franklin: Owing to scarcity of hay and high price of corn, horses and 

 mules can be sold only at ruinous rates; and the prices of all kinds of stock to be kept 

 over seriously affected by the same causes ; no market for such. Floyd : Horses, mules, 

 and cattle lower than for years. Hogs have sold at $4.75 to $7.20 per hundred. 

 Crawford : No sales for horses and mules ; beef-cattle have ranged very low. After 

 consulting with many sheep owners and dealers I have placed the percentage at 60 ; 

 but sheep have been in such demand for mutton and buyers so plenty that, in my own 

 part of the county, I am sure that 40 represents the per cent. Wells : Mules, not raised 

 until within the last few years, are being bred to a considerable extent. Sheep are 

 raised for both wool and mutton, and are ready sale at all times. Hogs are our main 

 crop, and, having an extra corn-crop, we have sold our hogs at good prices. More 

 attention to breeding good stock of all kinds ; a marked improvement in the last two 

 years. Farmers do not now sell their calves for veal ; they find it more remunerative 

 to keep them until two or three years old. Washington : Owing to the high price hogs 

 commanded, $5.50 per hundred, they were sold off very close. About 6,000 have been 

 sold by our farmers to the pork-packers at Louisville, Ky., and New Albany, at an av- 

 erage of about 6i cents per pound gross at our depots. Powy : Of mules, which are 

 taking the place of work-horses, the number raised and now in use is greater than last 

 year. Less number of cattle raised and fattened than last year, owing to the high price 

 of feed. More attention to improved milch-cows ; also to sheep, the quality of which 

 is already greatly improved ; but hogs have been more improved in quality than any 

 other stock. Oue farmer, James Cole, delivered in our ujarket this season 60 hogs, aver- 

 aging 501 J pounds net ; William Warren raised here and sold one weighing 940 pounds 

 gross — 777 pounds net. Orange : Hogs have sold at 6 to 7 cents gross ; and every hog 

 big enough to grunt or squeal has been ordered to the front and captured. Cattle in 

 moderate demand at 2 to 4 cents per pound gross. No sale for horses or mules. NoMe: 

 Not much sale for any stock except sheep and hogs. Gibson : Fewer stock-hogs than 

 for several years. Dearborn : The high price of corn and the ready market for hogs 

 have thinned our lasual stock very much. Boone: The stock market, except for 

 hogs, is duller than for many years. Horses, mules, and the lower grade of cattle not 

 in demand at all. Feed is high, and very much stock will consume its value in feed 

 before May. Huntington : Hogs run from $1 to $5 per hundred pounds. Hamilton : 

 Very dull market for horses, mules, and cattle. Cattle lower than for years, and grain 

 and feed so high that there is no money in feeding any stock. Stock-hogs rule high, 

 6 to 7 cents gross. Clay : Stock-hogs are being iudustriously hunted up at 5 cents per 

 pound. Tippecanoe : We have as great a number of every variety as at any former 

 period, except of mules, which, owing to the condition of the Southern market, have 

 been steadily declining since the war. The prices of horses and mules are merely nom- 

 inal, as it is almost impossible to effect sales at quotations. Sheep are much sought 

 for, and the prices high ; hogs range from $4 to $6 (according to quality) per hundred, 

 and purchases hard to make at that. Steuben : Not more than one-fourth the number 

 of hogs in the county in 1874 that there were in 1873 ; price in 1873, $3 to $3.50 per 

 hundred pounds ; in 1874, $6 to $6.50. 



Illinois. — Morgan: Horses not much in demand; mules sell better; not as many 

 cattle feeding as usual. Warren: The sheep have been driven west to Colorado and 

 California, leaving no large flocks in the county. The Norman horses ai'e being very 

 generally introduced for heavy draught ; the half-bloods are proving altogether sui^erior 

 to the native stock. Vermillion : The price of all kinds of live-stock has been reduced 

 fully 20 per cent., owing to scarcity of feed. Feed of all kinds 33 to 50 per cent, higher 

 than usual. Scott : The decrease in cattle is owing to the cheapness at which they can 

 be shipped in here from the West. Lawrence: Stock-hogs very scarce. Edwards: Ow- 

 ing to the high price of pork, everything available has been fattened, and no store- 

 hogs are left for sale. Pork has been $6.50 gross, $8 net, and weighed heavy. The 

 county is remarkable for fine-bred hogs, both Berkshire and Chester; Berkshire pre- 

 ferred. Putnam : All kind of stock, except hogs, in excess of one year ago. Hogs 

 sold very short, owing to the short crop of corn. Cass ; Horses dull of sale ; mules 

 more in use than formerly. There are, not including yearlings and younger, 4,000 cat- 

 tle in the county feeding for beef. The raising of hogs would pay better than any 

 other stock but for hog-cholera, of which hundreds die every year. Carroll : Several 

 Norman stallions introduced into the county have somewhat increased the average 

 value of colts, and heavy-draUght horses are now being bought up for the Eastern market 

 at an average of $250 per span. Burrow: But few sheep. Winnebago: Good common 

 work-horses are worth $100 per head. Shelby : The ravages of cholera among hogs the 

 past two years have been so great that many farmers are changing from hogs to cat- 

 tle. The Cotswold sheep have been lately introduced, and are preferred over all 

 others. Ogle: Prices of horses and mules nominal ; but few selling. Dull market for 

 oxen and cattle. Fat hogs higher in price, but stock-hogs lower, owing to the appre- 

 ciation in the price of corn. Johnson : More mules raised than horses, but mules are 

 exported to a much greater extent ; hence the decrease in number. Little attention 

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