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per head, is ia New Jersey ; next in order stand Delaware, $43 ; Kew 

 York, $37, and Pennsylvania, $36. Delaware farmers, last year, re- 

 ceived the highest average price for hay, $20 per ton, and those of 

 New York the lowest, $13.10. New York received the maxim am price 

 for corn, 93 cents per bnshel, and Delaware the minimum, 70 cents. 

 The price of oats ranged from 52 cents in Delaware to GO in New Jersey. 



Of the South Atlantic States the highest average cost is in Maryland, 

 $34 per head ; next Georgia, $28 ; South Carolina, $24 ; Virginia, $22 j 

 North Carolina, $21. The farm-prices of hay ranged from $14.83 per ton 

 in North Carolina to $23.83 in South Carolina; of corn, from 64 cents 

 per bushel in Virginia to $1 in South Carolina ; of oats, from 54 cents 

 per bushel in Virginia to 01 cents in South Carolina. 



Of the Gulf States, Florida seems scarcely to know anything of the 

 necessity of wintering animals. One correspondent rather dubiously 

 assigns $10 per head as the cost of wintering horses. Louisiana aver- 

 ges $18 per head ; Texas, $20; Alabama, $22 ; Mississippi, $26. Florida 

 farmers not raising any hay, our correspondents were unable to name 

 any price obtained for it ; Texas averaged $10.92 per ton ; Alabama, 

 $17.50; Louisiana, $20; Mississippi, $21.09. Corn ranged from 75 cents 

 per bushel in Texas to $1.01 in Mississippi ; oats from 84 cents per 

 bushel in Texas to $1.02 in Mississipi)i. 



Of the inland Southern States the average expense of horse-keeping 

 through the winter averaged $20 in Arkansas, $21 in Tennessee, $18 

 in West Virginia, and $19 in Kentucky. Hay brings from $14.12 per ton 

 in Arkansas to $19.08 in Tennessee; corn from 55 cents per bushel in 

 Kentucky to 95 cents in Arkansas ; oats from 53 cents per bushel in 

 West Virginia to 92 cents in Kentucky. 



North of the Ohio Eiver the expense of horse-wintering averages $25 

 in Ohio, $28 in Michigan, $20 in Indiana, $19 in Illinois, $34 in Wiscon- 

 sin. The farm-prices of hay ranged from $10.07 per ton in Wisconsin 

 to $17.82 in Ohio ; corn from 51 cents per bushel in Indiana to 65 cents 

 in Michigan ; oats from 44 cents in Indiana to 50 cents in Michigan. 



West of the Mississippi the average cost of wintering ranges from 

 $9 in Kansas to $28 in Minnesota; Iowa averages $16, Missouri $15, 

 and Nebraska $13. Farm-prices of hay vary from $3.86 in Kansas 

 to $12.05 in Missouri. The cheaper hay of Kansas and Nebraska is 

 mostly made from the wild grasses of the prairies. Corn ranges from 

 43 cents per bushel in Iowa to 91 in Kansas, and oats from 38 cents 

 per bushel in Iowa to 53 cents in Kansas. The high prices of grain in 

 Kansas and Nebraska are largely the result of the grasshopper-devasta- 

 tions and the drought. 



On the Pacific coast winter-feeding of live stock is scarcely known. 

 One correspondent in California speaks of hiring pasture at from $1 to 

 $1.50 per month. Another states that onlyin the wetter portions of the 

 rainy season are farm-animals housed and stall-fed. At such times the 

 cost of hay-feeding per month is about $5. Another states that green 

 pasture lasts all through the winter. Work-animals are fed grain only 

 when at work. Very little corn is raised, but oats and barley in consid- 

 erable quantities. The same facts are reported as a general thing by 

 our Oregon correspondents. Only their stock-cattle and poor cows are, 

 in many places, treated even to hay ; the hardier and better-conditioned 

 animals take very good care of themselves upon the range. Farm-prices 

 of hay in California, $15.09; in Oregon, $11.50 ; corn 98 cents per bushel 

 in California and 94 cents in Oregon ; oats 69 cents in California and 42 

 in Oregon. 



In Colorado wintering horses costs from $5 to $25 per head ; in Utah 



