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and Nebraska. In Texas there is a tendency to advance in all kinds of 
farm-animals, in part from relative decrease in numbers, and also because © 
of increasing facilities for meeting the demand from other States, and 
from the improvement of animals by breeding and care. The decrease 
is only nominal in Arkansas and Tennessee. It is greatest in the Eastern 
States. The following figures may he deemed representative of the 
prices in districts indicated by the States named: 
1876. 1875. 
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States. FH Wack es Mey a Ma $s | P20 ae 
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Massachusetts ..2...2.0-c0i see noe $30 00 | $48 33 | $72 66 $108 33 $66 66 | $95 00 | $135 00 
RennsylVanias co o.c ta ss ose enemeneniae 34 58 | 5472) 80 45 | 108 39 63 72 2 25 | 123 20 
INerini@aroluns, so c.s 4s. ens slee=e 31 31 428 16 67 92 90 00 52 54 75 96 96 74 
MISSISSIPPI. oats ogee aon nine baete sin Q7 41 42 7 62 35 89 00 45 75 65 00 94 20 
RANG Oe oe es 2 te ne cee alae aeice 13 04 19 32 28 28 45 50 19 77 28 26 44 81 
GEM GMGIGY & scesie stots cae cc n sane 26 25 39 60 55 30 75 00 40 46 57 19 78 00 
NG RN ES eee oe eke weeee eo See cletlebles 26 73 40 60 59 52 84 88 41 50 61 58 85 47 
Oregon....... pace ee cence eeee eee nee 19 00 | 2750) 39 28 60 43 28 00 39 50 60 30 
The value of mules has declined very materially from New York to 
Florida. In Alabama the downward tendency is checked by prosperous 
cropping, a disposition being manifested to encourage home supplies, 
placing the prices for young mules higher than in 1875. There is no 
material falling off in Mississippi, and in Texas there is a slight 
advance, as in the case of horses. Prices are pretty well sustained in 
Arkansas, and in Tennessee. In the Western States the decline is quite 
sharp, as shown by the following table: 
1876. 1875. 
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States. a 52 re 25 Sa ae 
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Georgia- 22-02. (22526 -2e e-- << eee $31 34 | $50 69 | $79 11 | $99 00 $65 00 | $96 25 | $115 50 
MMIBBIBSIDDL oon -cnseabe saber rlaccia=e 32 00 50 50 74 50 | 102 7 50 20 76 50 102 10 
SERINE SHOG a. ce ceebee se sees mc ese ack 32 80 49 02 72 50 90 00 51 58 75 00 93 30 
ACOUGNOKY, < cnc caste cones sss oust nine== 29 24 46 70 68 50 88 72 47 70 70 10 91 91 
GIA cco c/ciacicinasennet cannes = la= 28 81 45 59 68 67 96 15 48 8&8 71 34 97 77 
OMIMOTHIG 2 obs cst cls cb ew ose bowen'e 23 00 34 33 55 00 93 50 32 53 52 38 88 39 
The rates for milch-cows are not sustained in the Eastern States, 
except in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The average is the same as 
that of last year in New York, a decline being perceptible in the remain- 
ing Middle States. There is an increasing demand in Maryland and 
Virginia, States well suited to dairying, and prices have advanced some- 
what. In the Carolinas and Georgia the rates sympathize with the pre- 
vailing downward tendency. From Florida westward along the Gulf 
coast, and in Arkansas and Tennessee, prices are higher, the greatest 
proportionate increase being in Texas. In every State of the great 
interior valleys there is an increase, except in Nebraska, where prices 
ruled very high last year. On the Pacific coast the high California rate 
