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to embitter Texas against the United States government than almost 

 any other one cause. They read in the Constitution a clause providing 

 for free trade between the States, and then ask, ' What are the guaran- 

 tees of the Constitution wortli to Texas?' I have asked them why they 

 did not apply to the courts for redress. The invariable reply is that 

 the amount of two or three dollars on a beef will hardly justify a suit 

 against so many parties, to wit: each of the Indian tribes, and each of 

 the States through which they have to pass: and, say they, 'if we sue 

 them, it is in courts and before juries of their own section, and what 

 hope can we have of obtaining justice I' As to the cry of disease pro- 

 duced in the ISTorth by Texas cattle, no sane man in the State believes 

 but what it is a hoax to prevent Texas beef from competing with West- 

 ern beef. How can a sound and perfectly healthy animal produce dis- 

 ease in another in the same condition? During fifteen years' residence 

 in this county I have not known a score of deaths from disease among 

 cattle." 



Williamson County, Texas. — Large droves of beeves are on their way 

 to Kansas and a Northern market. It is estimated that at least fifteen 

 thousand head have left this county this spring, and there are five 

 thousand more to leave in the fall, making twenty thousand in all. 

 Stock of all kinds looks extremely well. 



MINNESOTA BEEF. 



Wahasha County, Minn. — There has never, since the settlement of our 

 county, been any prevailing disease among cattle. It is a noticeable 

 fact that almost every beef slaughtered here is in every respect perfectly 

 healthy. This fact is worth the notice of lovers of wholesome beef, and 

 our beef ought to bring a better price in market than beef raised where 

 cattle are subject to a complication of diseases. 



STOCK HOGS. 



Edgewood, Effingham County, III. — From all 1 can learn, there are ten 

 stock hogs in this portion of the State where there was one last year. 

 Everybody appears to have the pork mania, and pork will sell for less 

 than $5 per hundred within less than twelve months. 



COARSE WOOL VS. FINE WOOL SHEEP. 



Mahoning County, 0/ito.— The farmers in this county are importing 

 from Canada and foreign countries large numbers of Leicester and Cots- 

 wold breeds, and are selling off their fine wool sheep. This change from 

 fine to coarse wool has been gradually going on for two or three years. 

 A lot of two hundred Cotswold, Leicester, &c., were recently sold for the 

 Philadelphia market, said to be the best ever taken from this part of 

 Ohio. Average weight, two i^undred and one and one-half pounds; sold 

 at 10 cents per pound. 



DOGS vs. SHEEP. 



Cave Spring, Ga. — I have noticed in your monthly, as well as an- 

 nual reports, the great destruction of sheep by dogs, and your appeal 

 to Congress to levy a tax upon dogs in protection to sheep raising. Our 

 State legislatures have also been appealed to, but as your correspondent 

 from Lincoln, Kentucky, remarks " they have turned a deaf ear to our 

 appeal." If Congress does not take the matter in hand and protect the 



