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quality than those first introduced, and under better regulations there is 

 no Spanish fever. 



Lake County^ Ohio. — An unusual number being grazed. Condition 

 very fine. 



Butler County^ Kans. — Preparations are being made to winter about 

 20,000 head of Texas cattle in this county, at $4 per head. 



Gallatin County^ Mont. — Our cattle are, as usual at this season of the 

 year, highly fattened upon the native grasses. Our stock has been 

 augmented by several thousand head imported from Texas, the Chero- 

 kee lands, and Utah. 



DISEASES OF STOCK. 



York County^ Pa. — The hog cholera is killing off many hogs in the 

 southern part of the county. 



Elk County, Pa. — Many fine large pigs have died the past month. 

 They drop off suddenly. 



Montgomery County, Md. — The disease of hogs mentioned in last 

 month's report continues unabated. One farmer has but three left out 

 of sixty, and those not lost are unthrifty. 



Campbell County, Tenn. — Hogs dying of cholera in large numbers in 

 some neighborhoods. 



Sullivan County, Tenn. — Hog cholera prevailing to an alarming extent. 



Greene County, 111. — Four herd of Texas cattle have been brought into 

 the county this year against the statute, and the persons importing them 

 were indicted at the September term of court. The Texas fever has 

 made its ai)pearance. One farmer has lost about twenty head, most of 

 them suddenly. About the first of September bloody urine was an ap- 

 parent sym])tom. 



Lincoln Co^mty,, Ky. — Some hog cholera, but not severe. 



Boyle County, Ky. — Hog cholera becoming prevalent, and confined 

 mostly to pigs and sows. About two-thirds of those attacked are usu- 

 ally lost. 



Spencer County, Ky. — Hog cholera more or less prevalent in three- 

 fourths of the county. . 



Clinton County, Ky. — Cholera in some parts of the county, but about 

 twice the usual number of hogs are being fattened for market. 



Oivsley County, Ky. — A great many hogs dying of cholera. Some 

 farmers have lost all they had. 



Bes Moines County, Iowa. — Hog cholera iirevailing extensively. 



ADDEESS AT THE ILLINOIS STATE FAIE. 



The following address was delivered by the Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture at the fair of the Illinois State Agricultural Society, at Decatur, 

 on the 28th of September last : 



Faemers of Illinois : It gives me unalloyed pleasure to greet, at this aunual festi- 

 val, the associates of former years of rural labor and experiment, generous rivals in my 

 stock-breeding eflbrts, and intelligent cultivators of as rich a soil, as a State, as this 

 or any other nation can truthfully boast. Worthy of such a soil are its noble occu- 

 pants, the young, the vigorous, the spirited and intellectual, drawn from the seaboard 

 States, and iiom countries beyond the sea, by the magnetism of these broad and beau- 

 tiful prairies. Year by year their taste and skill and industry are giving new touches 

 of beauty to a landscape that was ever beautiful, uniting utility with grace, and pre- 

 senting a scene instinct with life, unexampled growth, and tireless activity. 



