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to raising sheep. Our farmers sold all the hogs that were salable, the price being high 

 and, except breeding-stocii, only pigs are left. Cumberland : Very few horses and 

 mules selling. Cattle of all kinds quite plenty, and ver^^ low in price. Young hogs 

 for stock rather scarce ; average price, $4 per hundred. Saint Clair : Work-oxen have 

 become almost obsolete; do not know of a single yoke used on the farm. Mason: 

 Owing to the high price of corn and the prevalence of cholera, hogs have been shipped 

 out of the county more than usual. iStejjhenson : Fifty per cent, less sheep in the 

 county than ten years ago. 



Wisconsin. — TVaujjaca: Live hogs selling at 6 to 7 cents per pound. Juneau: Live 

 hogs worth 5^ cents. Jackson : Cattle quite plenty ; market depressed, but heavy 

 ■working-oxen range from §1U0 to $200 per yoke. The hog-crop is short, and coarse 

 feed worth more per pound than wheat. Vernon: Quite a depreciation on cattle; 

 working-oxen cheap and beef quite low, bringing only2^ to 3 cents on foot 

 in the nearest market. Fat hogs in demand; bring readily ti cents, live weight. Lit- 

 tle trade in horses and mules. Portage : As in all new counties, horse-teams are stead- 

 ily on the increase and ox-teams on the decrease. Douglas: Hard to fix on a cash 

 price for anything; money is so scarce that people are readj' to tiike just what they 

 can get in cash. JJunn : Stock of all kinds low and dnll of sale, owing in part to the 

 high price of fodder aud coarse grains. liichland : Live hogs, |6.f)0 per hundred to the 

 growers. Green Lake: Few sales ; none buying except at low figures, aud none selling 

 except from necessity. Sheep and hogs the only live-stock in demand. J'ierce: Beef 

 low; pork, good price, $7 per hundred. Jefferson: Cattle, especially for beef, lower, 

 and hogs higher than usual. Green : Hogs have saved the farmers of this country. 



Minnesota. — Siblei/ : The failure of the oat-crop has lessened the price of horses. 

 The failure of crops for the past two years accounts for the increase in cows. Atten- 

 tion is more turned to stock-raising, and stock of all kinds would be much higher than 

 now were it not for the scarcity of money, jyinona : No live hogs in the market. 

 Isanti : No demand for horses, work having stopped on all the railroads, and but. little 

 lumbering. For the same reason uxeu aud beef-cattle are very low in price. Sheep iu 

 good demand. Blue Earth : A !^tagual^ou in the horse-market for the past six months; 

 horses plenty and very cheap ; the same is true of cattle, sheeyt, and hogs. Mower : 

 Owing to the high price of pork hogs have been nearly all killed ; scarcely enough 

 stock-hogs left for the wants of next season. Lyon : The large per cent, of increase is 

 owing to the fact that the county is new and we have had a large immigration during 

 the past year. Steele: The market for horses aud mules dull; cattle have decliiit-d in 

 value aud are very slow of sale fur ordinary grades. Though dairy products are iu 

 great demand, with the price of wheat so low, cows have not quite kept up to last 

 year's prices. Imjuoved breeds of all kinds of stock are working into general use, 

 though not rapidly. EenviUe : The price of stock of all kinds except hogs is much 

 lower than last year, owing to short crops. Not hogs enough raised to supply the 

 Lome demand. A decrease in cows, oxen, and young stock, owiug to the fact that they 

 have been bought up for the Iowa market. Meeker : The low price of wheat has in- 

 duced many to turn attention to stock-raising. Kandiyohi : Few mules raised ; a good 

 pair would bring $400; sheep decreasing every year. lioek : Scarcity of corn has less- 

 ened the percentage and price of hogs. 



Iowa. — Washington : The high price of corn aud pork has induced farmers to sell oft 

 both corn and hogs closer than usual, and consequently to fatten fewer cattle. Powe- 

 aheik : No sales of horses. Guthrie : A great many hogs have died of cholera, so called ; 

 many lost all they had. Scott: Oxen but little used, probably not twelve yoke in the 

 county. For the past few years sheep husbandry has I'eceived more attention by a few 

 men, who make it a specialty. They are not kept, as a gen< ral thing, by the farmers. 

 The decrease in hogs is owing to the extreun; high price in Lecember, when all fit to kill 

 were sohl. Johnson : Live hogs selling at $6 to $6.30 per hui.dred. Shippers offering .^^5 

 per hundred for No. Isteei's. CVieroAee ; Hogs as high as $13 per hundred, gross. Cass: 

 Decrease in hogs owing to a fearful scourge of hog-cholera ; some of our farmers and 

 feeders have lost as many as 400 each, and from that all tho way down to lots of 8 and 

 10. .No treatment seems to be of any avail. Potk : Cattle lower iu price than at any 

 time since the war, owing mainly to the great swarms of Texas cattle constantly being 

 shipped into this section. Hogs higher than usual. Harrison : Increase in cattle, 

 owing to the number brought in from the giasshopper regions of Kansas and Nebraska. 

 Every pig that can be got into market being S(dd, yet many more hogs iu the county 

 now than at this time last year, owing to immigration. Ida : No sheej) in this 

 county last year; 150 now. Sheep seem to do first rate on this rolling prairie. 

 Sioux: The decrease in hogs owing to the entire destruction of the corn-crop by grass- 

 hoi)pers. Marion: One-third of the fat hogs yet in the hands of feeders; parties hold- 

 ing for 6 to 7 cents per pound gross. Des Moines : Prices of all kinds of stock receding. 

 Work-horses very low. Six cents, live weight, has called out all the available hogs 

 for meat, and the shortness of the corn-crop has stimulated the sales. Hancock: Mules 

 growing in favor for farm use; more profitable to raise than hoi-ses. A great desire to 

 increase the nuujber of cows, aud the raising of stock receiving a good share of atteu- 



