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sbeep, owned by George H. Gill, of Kirkwoodj Missouri, were all killed 

 by dogs ill one night in June. 



Salt in Alameda County, California. — Between GOO and 700 

 tons of salt will be made in this county this season by evaporation from 

 sea water whicli is run on flats prepared for the purpose. 



Artesian Wells in Los Angeles County, California. — In Los 

 Angeles Valley artesian wells are completely successful, water being 

 obtained in great abundance at depths- raging from 75 to 1500 feet. 



Guano used in Austria. — The following returns for the Austrian 

 empire inclnde the guano used in Hungary: In 1861 it was 12,810 cwt.; 

 in 18G2, 13,370 cwt."; in 1863, 18,650 cwt.f in 1861, 35,261 cwt.; in 1865, 

 45,264 cwt.; in 1866, (the year of the war with Prussia,) 23,846 cwt.; in 

 1867, 63,446 cwt. ; in 1868," 67,684 cwt.; in 1869, 106,514 cwt. 



Peruvian Guano. — The total export of Peruvian guano for the year 

 1869, as shown bv custom-house returns at Callao, was 512,757 tons, 

 valued at $25,000",000. Of this quantity, Belgium took 82,428 tons; 

 England, 196,840 tons; North America, 25,321 tons. 



Draught Horses from Europe. — Messrs. Slattery, Euss, and Mc- 

 Courtie, of Iroquois County, Illinois, have imported from France five 

 full-blooded Percheron Xorman horses, for the improvement of the stock 

 of that county. Their respective weights range from 1,550 pounds to 

 1,800 pounds, and their height from 16i to 17:} hands. Mr. James A. 

 Perry, of the same county, has also imported lour full-blooded Perche- 

 rons, and an English draught horse weighing 1,940 pounds at three 

 years old. 



Musty Oats. — A South Carolina correspondent, after reporting the 

 loss of a horse, supposed to result from eating musty oats, says: "I am 

 certain more horses die in the South from eating damaged oats than from 

 all other causes. As the oats are cut rather green, and often with many 

 green weeds among them, it is very difficult to keep them from mold- 

 ing more or less in the center. Many animals die from this cause, which 

 are supposed to have had blind staggers, as in the case of mine. Another 

 horse recently died near me in the same waj', after being fed on oats 

 mostly sound, but some of the bundles musty in the middle." 



