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fields, as an experiment. A decrease in the number of hogs, owing to the killing of 
many stock-hogs for pork, the price being $9 per hundred-weight. Henrico: A dispo- 
sition to increase the pumber of stock-hogs, owing to the low price of corn. Pitisyl- 
vania: The hogs are of the inferior stock called “ Virginia pine-rooters.” Orange: The 
last five or six years, so fatal to young grass, have checked the increase of stock, and 
caused the sale of young cattle at almost any price. 
NortH CArROoLInA.—Chowan: Cattle and hogs have decreased. Farmers will have to 
plant less cotton and raise more stock and grain, or they will soon play out. Bruns- 
wick : The marked decrease in milch-cows is owing to severe weather last winter; feed 
gave out, and they had to be turned out into the swamps. Nash: More inclination to 
raise cattle and sheep than for some years. Hertford: Stock of every kind are steadily 
increasing, save sheep, and they would do well but for the multitude of dogs. 
SouTH CaRroLina.—Chester: The freedmen are accumulating more stock, and! take 
better care of it than formerly. 
GroreGia.—Laurens : Work-oxen are $30 to $60 per pair; beef-steers, at maturity, 
$20 to $30 each. Montgomery: Most of the horses and mules are brought here from 
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana. Gwinnett: Horses, mules, and other stock are 20 
per cent. lower in price than a year ago, owing to the low price of cotton and money- 
pressure. Cherokee: For the last few years we have been using commercial fertilizers 
to raise cotton, and neglecting out-stock. The consequence is that a large number of 
people have no meat-supply and no money to buy with. Covington: The hard winter 
of last year and the hog-cholera have reduced the number of our stock. DeKalb: 
Though sheep have suffered from dogs, more attention than formerly is being paid to 
sheep husbandry. The flocks are more closely watched and cared for. Perry: There 
is a decided disposition to raise more horses, cattle, and hogs. 
Mississtppi.— Lauderdale : Cattle and sheep have been diminished, owing to the high 
price of meat. The increase in provision-crops has caused an increased effort to raise 
hogs, and but for the persistent stealing of hogs by the negroes, the farmers of the 
county would raise their own pork. As it is, more will be raised here in 1876 than since 
the rebellion. Noxubee: Stock-hogs increased in number, and healthy. If the thieves 
- will suspend, we will soon be self-sustaining. Wilkinson: More attention to the rais- 
ing of hegs than for some years. Full-blooded Berkshires most in demand. Pigs six 
to eight weeks old sell for $20 per pair; young sows with pigs, at $20 or more each. 
Inferior hogs cheap. Coahama: The raising of hogs has almost ceased in consequence 
of depredations by the freedmen. This evil seems to have no remedy. DeSoto: More 
meat killed than for years, and we are becoming independent in the way of ‘‘ hog and 
hominy.” Lee: Stock-raising is losing ground. Hogs over one year old are now scarce, 
from the fact that mast and corn were plenty, and meat is scarce and high. Jefferson : 
ae attention is being paid to the raising of horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs than ever 
efore. 
ALABAMA.—Amite: There has been an average decrease of about 10 per cent. in the 
value of all stock except sheep. They now sell for as much per head as last January, 
and I think there is an advance in the price. is 
Lovuistana.—Jackson: Average value of horses and mules, $40 per head; oxen and 
other cattle, $5; milch-cows, $10; sheep, $1; hogs, $1. 
TEXAS.—Smith: Hogs are seldom slaughtered under eighteen months old, and usually 
at two years old and upward. Hog-stealing is now a.penitentiary offense, and more 
attention is paid to raising hogs and improvement of breeds. Burnet: Hogs over one 
_year old very scarce. Goliad: The greatest change in stock-raising results from the 
increasing disposition of the farmer to combine with that branch other agricultural 
industries. Titus: Mule-raising is on the increase, and they will soon take the place 
of horses on the farm. Beef-cattle killed up very close, owing to a great scarcity of 
bacon, caused by cholera among hogs. Hogs healthy now, and a good increase the 
past fall; nearly a supply for the county. Pork 10 cents per pound. Williamson: By 
a late law hogs are not allowed to run at large; consequently the number is less. Bell: 
Neat-cattle have been driven to western and California markets until the number is 
getting down below home necessities. The county is gradually introducing short- 
horned cattle and Berkshire hogs. Bastrop: Most of the beef-cattle and oxen have 
been driven from the county to the northwestern States. While the percentage of 
hogs has fallen off better hogs are being grown—Poland, China, Berkshire, and Essex. 
Lampasas : The number of horses has increased in consequence of increased immigra- 
tion into the county in 1875. Lamar: The increase in horses and mules is owing more 
to immigration than any other cause. Grayson: We maintain our percentage in horses 
and mules more by immigration than by raising them. Collin: The decrease in cattle 
is due to the fact that some large cattle-raisers have moved their herds farther west 
for better range. Dallas: What stock is kept on the farms is of better quality than 
that formerly raised, and there seems to be a general disposition among the farmers to 
improve their stock. Cooke: Referenge to the tax-rolls shows the number of horses to 
be 8,406; average price, $35. Cattle, including milch-cows, 41,175; average price, $7. 
Sheep, 2,353; average price, $1.50. The estimated number of hog's 3,300, and the value 
$3 per head. Hunt: The native stock of horses is decreasing, and better breeds are 
