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of last year is not fullysustained. A comparison with last year is made 
in the rates of the following States: : 
Year. spab-d Virginia. | Georgia.| Texas. Ohio. Mie Missouri. Oregon. 
a Ny { eet a Se eae $37 50 $22 77 $17 02 $15 72 $32 65 $26 75 $20 86 $21 75 
37 50 22 94 18 85 13 33 30 42 
26 37 19 50 21 65 
The class including all cattle except cows exhibits no very sweeping 
changes. The abundance or scarcity of supplies for winter use causes 
local changes. In the Eastern States, prices are firmer in Vermont and 
Massachusetts; in Pennsylvania, in the Middle States; in Maryland, 
North Carolina, Alabama, Texas, the more eastern States of the Ohio 
Valley, with a positive rise in the district west of the Mississippi. There 
is little decline in New York, Delaware, Virginia, South Carolina, Mis- 
sissippi, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. There is some decrease in several 
of the New England States,in New Jersey, Georgia, and little in 
Indiana and Illinois, except that in the latter prices of matured stock 
are well sustained. The following comparison is made: 
1876. 1875, 
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1S SENET peed ena $10 89 | $20 43 | $33 19 | $58 22 | $11 56 | $21 12 | $34 09) ¢g63 00 
INOW ROLK ccc tsciccwdcemnsascecc as 10 31 19 40 32 08 96 10 45 19 50 32 64 52 08 
WNOrih! Caroling ce a/c scene use ese 3 55 €:33 10 21 15 35 3 35 6 00 9 40 14 70 
A DO LPR ME Maret sbomes aaiioe siciclalenia 3 97 5 97 9 29 13 47 4 10 7 00 10 75 15 00 
PLN 2 Sic 1S) EP Ae SE Te Br BS 3 54 5 87 9 13 14 18 3 18 D 28 8 16 11 82 
JETT TTF e 8 SES, Slay: een ean me tes 8 22) 1472] 2432) 3605 8 SSN i LAOS? he Do eter 34 53 
LUIS CCT ap RR a See 750] 14 00| 2424) 35 74 9 00 15 48 | 25 60 34 69 
MVMISSOWIN. woo ccs = ono adanceeueces as 6 41 11 56} 18 59 28 81 5 58 10 00 16 42 24 25 
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The rates for sheep are not materially changed in the Atlantic States 
north of Virginia, or in the Gulf States. In the Southern Atlantic 
States and in the Ohio Valley there is a slight tendency to high rates, 
and in the Missouri Valley prices are still more advanced. The numbers 
of sheep on the Pacific coast are so increased that in dry seasons some 
districts are over-stocked, tending to decrease in prices, which is indi- 
‘cated to some extent in the present returns from California. The prices 
of full-grown sheep are thus reported in the following States: 
Year. 
Vermont 
Pennsylva- 
nia 
Virginia 
Tennessee. 
Tinois. 
Nebraska. 
A slight increase in the prices of hogs is observed in New England, 
especially in those of more than one year old. There is an advance in 
the Middle States, in Virginia and North Carolina, but in South Caro- 
lina and Georgia prices are not fully maintained. In Arkansas and 
Tennessee, where supplies were scarce and high last year, with low 
prices for alt kinds of stock, there has been a manifest advance the 
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