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tons are third, consuming 230,000 tons, or an average of about seven pounds. 
The sources of supply are at present so numerous, and the cultivation of sugar 
can be so largely extended, and the crop is so remunerative, that there is a pros- 
pect of a continued increase in the use of this product, as the wealth and civil- 
ization of communities increase, until the present figures become insignificant. 
The growers of sugar, therefore, need have no fear of extending cultivation too 
far, as on the American and British scale of consumption the production might 
be increased three-fold. 
Ai a recent sale of short-horned cattle in Victoria, Australia, fourteen bulls 
were disposed of at an average of over $440 per head—the highest bringing 
$790. ‘The oldest was only fifteen months old, and the youngest three weeks. 
The average price of fifty-seven cows and heifers was nearly $315—the highest 
$740. Of the cows, many had long since passed their prime, and several of the 
heifers were quite young. 
Professor MecCall’s report on the dairies and cattle-sheds of Glasgow, and the 
losses by cattle-disease within the boundaries of that city in 1866, states that 
the direct loss, in money value, from rinderpest, in Glasgow, during the year, 
amounted to nearly $45,000; from “puerperal fever,” $35,000; pleuro-pneu- 
monia, $273,300; murrain, $36,000—the greatest loss from pleuro-pneumonia, 
lung disease and murrain being among Irish and other travelled cattle, which 
had been hurried to the railway stations, thrust from the railway trucks to the 
holds of the steamers, and there kept for thirty or forty hours huddled together 
without food or water, and almost without air to breathe. 
