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and scarcity of rough feed. The report from Boone states that sheep 

 run at large in the mountains the year round, keeping perfectly healthy, 

 and (if rightly managed) will come home for salt every eight or ten days. 



In Kentucky, Edmonson reports a low condition ; Boyd, poor, owing 

 to the amount of wet weather ; and La Kue, the worst ever seen, owing 

 to the disease elsewhere noticed ; seven counties return fair or average, 

 and nineteen a higher condition ; Fayette, where the grass has been 

 green all winter, very fine ; Jackson, also, in which the number of lambs 

 living is 50 per cent, greater than average. 



Eight counties in Ohio return poor condition, ascribed principally to 

 ■want of shelter, wet weather, and mud, injuring both them and their 

 feed ; in Perry, good, except as affected by the disease referred to under 

 the head of "diseases."' Five counties report average, and twenty- 

 nine above. 



Michigan : three counties average, five below, and eighteen above. 

 Macomb, 20 per cent, below ; Cass, light, owing to scarcity of feed ; Car- 

 roll, poor, owing to open, wet weather ; YanBuren and Antrim, in first- 

 rate condition. 



In Indiana, Knox returns poor condition, resulting from a severe 

 drought last fall ; Scott, those not sheltered, poor, but good where well 

 cared for; and Brown, the strange paradox of 10 per cent, below aver- 

 age, but 20 per cent, more lambs saved than usual. Nine counties re- 

 port a condition about average, and twenty-five range above. 



Among the returns from Illinois nine counties range somewhat below 

 average; fourteen are designated as fair or average; and twenty-six 

 range higher. Less favorable than last year in Boone, Winnebago, 

 McLane, Eichland, Wayne, and Mercer, owing to scarcity of grain and 

 forage, or wet weather. The few flocks in McHenry are better than 

 average, because " in the hands of farmers who give them the requisite 

 attention.'' 



Twenty-eight counties report from Wisconsin : Adams, not quite av- 

 erage ; Washington and Dodge, not as good as last year ; Clement, fair; 

 all others better than average. Among those in which the grade of 

 condition is the highest, are Green, Sheboygan, Crawford, Dunn, Fond 

 du Lac, Columbia, Walworth, and Oatagamie. In the latter, more than 

 ordinary eflbrts to improve flocks are noted. 



The general condition in Minnesota is remarkably high, only four 

 counties, Goodhue, Isanti, Kandiyohi, and Steele being reported as low 

 as average. In Murray, Martin, Kedwood, Fillmore, Waseca, and 

 Douglas it is first rate. 



From Iowa, Monroe reports rather thin, owing to short corn-crop ; 

 Lyons, very poor ; eight counties fair, or average ; thirty-one range 

 from good to never better. In the latter class are Taylor and Jasper. 

 Marion, 12 per cent, above average. Benton, better than for several 

 years. 



Missouri reiforts nine counties in average condition ; six below ; and 

 forty-five above. In Saint Francois the condition is bad, because cattle 

 are not generally sheltered, and there has been a great amount of rain 

 and sleet. In Saint Clair, where they are thin, the loss of lambs is 

 great. T'ery thin in Clay, owing to. scarcity of feed. In Stone, sheep 

 are " mutton-fat, having wintered almost entirely on the growing wheat." 

 In Vernon the wool-clip will be one-third heavier than last spring. In 

 Holt " the mutton for sale is superior to what it usually is." In Jeffer- 

 son, while the common breed is in fair condition, the merinos and cots- 

 • wolds are not, they not standing exposure as well as the others. 



In Kansas, sheej) appear to have suffered extensively for the want of 



