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West of the Mississippi Eiver the smallest loss of grown sheep — 5 per 

 cent. — was in Nebraska ; Kansas lost 6 -per cent. ; Iowa and Minnesota, 

 7 per cent. ; Missouri, 11 per cent. The losses of lambs were as follows : 

 Minnesota, 12 per cent. ; Iowa and Kansas, 10 per cent. ; Missouri, 18 

 per cent, ; Nebraska, 9 per cent. Our correspondent in Butler, Kansas, 

 touches the real point in the case when he attributes the mortality 

 among both sheep and lambs to defective feeding. One flock in Ellis 

 County, of that State, which dropped 3,000 lambs, did not lose 1 per 

 cent. 



California lost 6 per cent, of her sheep, and 9 per cent, of her lambs j 

 Oregon, 10 per cent, of sheep, and.13 per cent, of lambs. 



