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kinds of prairie-grass, aud iu spite of tlie dronglit there is more hay iu the county than 

 ever before. Crawford : Have but little hay except from prairie-grass, which is fair. 

 The chinches do not injure that. Miami: Prairie-haj" generally fair; a i>leuty of 

 fodder. 



Nebraska. — Otoe : More wild hay put up than usual, owing to the short crops. 



Oregox. — Clatsop : Grass crops heavy and well secured. 



STOCK HOGS. 



The apprehended scarcity of feed in all quarters of the Union has 

 caused a general reduction in the numbers kept for fattening. Dela- 

 ware, Georgia, and Texas are the only States in which the number 

 retained is equal to last year. The condition is above average only in 

 Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Texas, Minnesota, 

 California, and Oregon. 



Virginia. — Bland : Hogs scarce. Bedford : Stock of hogs depleted by cholera. 

 CltesterfieJd : Fewer than since 1866 ; good mast aud corn crop. Madison : Hogs scarce 

 aud small. Elizabeth City : Stock increasing. 



North Carolina. — &ranviUe : Many died from eating mushrooms. Caldwell : In- 

 creasing, but not in remarkably good condition. 



Georglv. — Doohj : Dying fast from cholera ; no remedy. Laurens : Dying fast from 

 cholera. 



Alabama.— C'onn(//o« .- Cholera very fatal. Winsto7i : Hogs nearly all died of 

 cholera. 



Mississippi.— ITario)) ; Cholera destroyed 85 per cent, of the hogs. 



Arkansas. — Crittenden: Hog-raising ceased. Woodrujf : Three-fourths died of chol- 

 era. Sharp : Hogs unusually healthy. 



West Virginia. — Braxton : No mast ; number and condition of hogs must conse- 

 quently decline. Kanawha : Many hogs have died of a new and peculiar disease. 



Kentucky. — TVarrcn : Half the stock-hogs sold for export, fearing a scarcity of corn. 

 Boyle : Hog-cholera destructive ; the bulk of the stock-hogs have been shipped to Indi- 

 ana aud Illinois for fixtteuing. Russell : Many hogs died for lack of corn. 



Ohio. — Crawford : Few ; many killed last winter from lack of feed. Hancock : Hogs 

 scarce. 



Tennessee. — Cannon : Hogs sold to be fed elsewhere. Williamson : Driven north of 

 the Ohio to fatten. 



Indiana. — Clay: Hogs, $.5 per 100 pounds gross. Hamilton: Scarce and high priced. 

 Washington : Fewer than usual, and decreased 20 per cent, iu average weight. Fayette : 

 Poor on account of short pasture aud scarcity of corn. Elkhart : Stock reduced by 

 scarcity of corn. 



Illinois. — Madison : As many raised as last year, but rapidly disposed of in view of 

 scarce corn-crop. Edwards : Cholera destructive, esiiecially to white hogs. Macon : 

 Unusually scarce. 



Iowa. — Lucas : Many hogs will be received for fattening from Kansas and Nebraska. 

 Montgomery : Stock increased by shipments from the grasshopper districts of Kansas 

 and Nebraska. Woodbury : Stock light. 



Missouri. — Caldwell : Stock-hogs shipped away on account of lack of corn. Moni- 

 teau : Selling our hogs to counties that have corn. 



Kansas. — Marshall: Hogs generally shipped away on account of lack of corn. 

 Franklin : Within ten days every salable hog has been shipped. Nemaha ; Nearly all 

 shipped away. Jackson ; Almost all the hogs in the county bought and shipped ; 

 about 7,000 have been shipped. Craivford: Poor, and, in consequence of a short corn- 

 crop, a great many sold and shipped. 



Nebraska.— Pau'Hee ; All sold out of the county. Cass : In very bad condition ; all 

 that would possibly do have been shipped to market. Gage : Corn being destroyed 

 by grasshoppers, pork has to be fatted on wheat. All the hogs that could be spared 

 have been sold and shipped east. 



Ohio. — Boss : Hogs short, 



Michigan. — Cass .- Selling off hogs on account of scarce feed. 



Indiana. — Marion : Driven away to feed. 



Illinois. — Randolph : Will be driven away to feed. 



FRUIT. 



The large promise of fruit in the early spring, if not nipped in the 

 bud, was extensively nipped, soon after the abundant bloom, by late 

 frosts. Since then various insects and widespread aud protracted 



