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FATALITY AMONG SHEEP. 
Corpus Christi, Texas.—“ During the past season, in many localities, through 
the months of August, September, and October,” writes F. W. Shaeffer, “the 
sucking lambs have died in great numbers. Upon a post mortem examination, 
I found in the abomasum, or fourth stomach, a small fine red worm, about one 
inch in length, appearing to the naked eye sharp-pointed at both ends. Upon 
opening the stomach, I usually found them rolled up in the shape of a ball. 
The lungs of the lambs were diseased, the intestines watery, and without any 
fat upon the kidneys. ‘The first evidence of their being affected is their lagging 
behind, generally commencing in the latter part of July. The skin loses color, 
the eyes become bloodless, and the lambs pine away from day to day, losing 
strength, until, in the course of a month or six weeks, they die. In many 
instances the entire crop of lambs have died out. Should any of those attacked 
by the worms be living when tke northers commence, being poor and thin, they 
are killed off by the cold winds. The worms are found only in the lambs while 
sucking, or living upon milk, or shortly after being weaned. Generally all in 
the flock are affected more or less before it is known, too late to save them. 
The cause of their origin we have not yet been able to find out, although it is 
attributed by some to the lambs feeding upon the red sedge grass while it is 
young, tender, and watery. Upon mesquit grass ranges it has not yet made 
its appearance. Any information the department can give us through its nume- 
rous correspondents would be of great public benefit, not only to this county, 
‘but to a large portion of western Texas.” 
THE TAPPAHANNOCK WHEAT. 
San Bernardino, California —* The Tappahannock wheat received last fall 
has proved a complete success, the return being one hundred fold, and the 
quality raised superior to the seed sent. In this climate the variety is distin- 
guished from all others by its dark-green color before it commences to ripen ; 
soil, a coarse, sandy loam; no manure applied; potatoes raised on the ground 
the preceding year. Fig-trees and grape-vines were growing within twenty 
feet. I esteem it a valuable acquisition, and if I am fortunate this year, shall 
be able to dispose of at least seventy bushels among my neighbors.” 
THE LIVERPOOL WOOL TRADE. 
The general and unprecedented depression of business which has prevailed 
throughout the year, with hardly any intermission, has been shared to a material 
extent by the English wool trade, none of the hopeful anticipations that were 
indulged in at the commencement of the year having been fulfilled. Although 
the British imports, and more especially the exports, of wool, as well as of woollen 
manufactures, show some increase of business over that of the year 1866, the 
home trade has been in the most languid state known for’ a long time. ‘The 
tendency of prices.of the raw material has been downwards from the beginning 
of the year, and at the close their range was lower than for many years. As 
an evidence of the advantage to American wool-growers of the increased tariff 
upon wools and woollens, we may state that the depression in the English trade 
is in a large measure attributed to “ the high, indeed almost prohibitory, duties on 
manufactures and the raw material imposed by the present American tariff.” 
Taking the returns of the Liverpool Board of Trade, we find that the imports 
of wool during the eleven months ending November 30 are in the aggregate 
