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died from eating white-oak leaves before the iuzz comes off, which 

 dries cattle up and they die very soon afterwards. They quit eating. 



DOGS VERSUS SHEEP. 



Camiihell County^ Tenn. — I have recently purchased some land in East 

 em Tennessee, with the intention of going largely into sheep, breeding, 

 if the prospects should prove encouraging. But I am afraid there will 

 be a great drawback to an enterprise of this kind from the want of some 

 legislation with reference to dogs. I hope it may be possible to call 

 attention to this w^ant, by submitting to members of Congress some 

 account of the great depredations committed by these animals, thus 



inducing 

 breeders. 



some national or State legislation for the relief of sheep- 



BEITISH IMPORTATIONS OF 1870. 



WHEAT. 



The importations of wheat and flour into Great Britain, for five mouths 

 of the r)resent year, are larger than the receipts of five months of last 

 year. The increase amounts to 1,417,108 hundred-weight of wheat, and 

 432,087 barrels of flour, equivalent to nearly five millions of bushels 

 of wheat. The amount supplied by the United States was 5,264,745 

 hundred- weight of wheat, and 920,934 barrels of flour, together equiva- 

 lent to 14,432,194 bushels of wheat, against 7,387,717 bushels for the like 

 period of last year, an increase of 7,044,477 bushels. This increase is 

 more than two millions greater than the total increase from all countries, 

 showing a falling oft" elsewhere to that ext^iut. The ofiicial figures are 

 given in detail as follows : 



Where from. 



Kassia 



Denmark 



Prussia 



Schleswig-Holstein and Lanenburg . . . 



Mecklenburg 



Hanse Towns 



France 



ni.yria, Croatia, and Dalmatia 



Turkey and Wallachia and Molda%na 



Egypt 



United States 



Chili 



British North America 



Other countries 



Total 



WHEAT-ilEAL AXD FLOUK. 



Hanse Towns 



France 



United States 



British North America. 

 Other countries 



Quantities imported. 

 1869. 1870. 



Quit. 

 015, 148 

 160, 318 

 734,041 



24, 909 

 276, 860 

 293, 881 

 117,726 

 390, 170 

 604, 822 

 329, 343 

 131,597 

 165, 074 



43, 061 

 164, 767 



10, 451, 717 



243, 822 

 649, 692 

 308,414 

 18, 423 

 437, 002 



Total ." 1, 658, 013 



Owt. 



4, 209, 872 



197, 101 



984, 241 



6,011 



304, 634 



137, 312 



1.5, 987 



42, 327 



181, 162 



95, 5.50 



5, 264, 745 



73, 584 



194, 070 



132,229 



11, 898, 825 



378, 733 

 .500, 072 

 920, 934 

 24,556 

 265, 805 



2, 090, 100 



