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taking the place. The same is true of mules, stock-hogs, milch-cows, and other cattle. 
Austin : Sheep-raising is spreading again where the range is still sufficient. Upshur: 
Owing to the driving of cattle west from this portion of the State, they are getti 
scarce. Jood: Hogs are on the decrease, owing to the short corn-crop for the last two 
years and no mast. Fort Bend: Milch-cows receive but little attention. A citizen may 
own 5,000 and not milk one during the year. Nueces: Horses are increasing very 
rapidly. Cattle are daily decreasing in numbers; they are being driven off to Mexico 
by armed bands, who live by plundering. Sheep are increasing rapidly, and are paying 
from 30 to 50 per cent. on the investment. 
ARKANSAS.—Dallas: The horses raised are very inferior. About as many horses and 
mules are bought from drovers as are raised. Jzard; The great scarcity of fattening- 
hogs has caused many to be killed which were too young, and otherwise would have gone. 
over to the next season. Crawford: There are in the county at this time 5,384 sheep; 
some 2,000 have lately been driven to Kansas for better pasturage and protection. 
Independence : Farmers who keep brood-mares find it more profitable to raise mules 
than horses. Fulion: Some are awaking to the importance of better stock than our 
long-continued “scrub,” and are procuring improved stock of cattle, hogs, and sheep. 
Howard: A new impetus has been given to hog-raising in this and the adjoining coun- 
ties. A fair crop of mast has caused the country to abound in pigs. I think 200 is not - 
an over-statement of the percentage. Prairie: Sheep-raising is rapidly increasing. 
TENNESSEE.—Smith: Sheep are higher than last year, because the quality is greatly 
improved. No hogsa year old, except breeding-sows; all others have been slaughtered. 
Nearly all on hand are sucking-pigs and many are depending on pigs yet to come for 
next season. Grainger: Our market for horses and mules is in the cotton States, where 
they have ruled very low. Cattle and sheep have sold better than last year, and con- 
sequently fewer are on hand. Hogs have sold at $6 to $6.50 gross. Bedford: Hogs 
were better fattened than usual, and consequently stock for another year is very 
scarce. Coffee: Hogs have been disposed of at 6} cents gross, at the railroad station. 
Rutherford: Owing to the failure in the cotton-crop, farmers are disposing of all their 
surplus stock. During the last six weeks an average of three car-loads of mules 
per week has been shipped from this point, and droves are still shipped. Lincoln: 
The very short corn-crop in 1874 lessened the number of hogs; eiforts now to 
increase them. Prices of horses and mules lower than for years. Imported breeds 
of cattle much higher than the figures given for the average. Loudon: Except sows, 
all the hogs here over one year old have been put into market. Average price, 6} cents 
per pound, live weight, and average weight 260 pounds. Monroe: Fine stock is being 
introduced into the county very fast, such as short-horn and Jersey cattle, Cotswold 
and Southdown sheep, Berkshire and Essex hogs, and trotting horses. Davidson: The 
crop failures of 1874 caused unusual waste of cattle by the butchering, starvation, and 
sales at serious loss. Hog-cholera, added to the above cause, brought hogs down in 
number at least 50 per cent.,and perhaps more. Sheep have increased under an excel- 
lent dog-law. and will continue to advance in character and number if that law remains 
in force. Gibson: Hogs reduced, last winter, by starvation and disease, were in almost 
universal demand the present season; a sow and pigs commanded almost fabulous 
prices. The Berkshire are preferred to any other stock. 
West Vircis1a.—Jefferson : Sheep are increasing very rapidly. 
KENtTuUcKY.— Madison: A decrease in the mules raised, owing to a heavy decline in 
the price for the two previous years. The raising of horses has been stimulated and 
increased by the opposite reason. Fleming: The decrease of hogs is caused by the loss 
of pigs by disease, known as cholera, and by the high price, forcing info the mar- 
ket all large enough to kill. ; 
Ou10.—Clark: Raising more fine horses than formerly; some worth $500 to $1,000; 
cattle dull; hogshigh; 74 cents per pound gross. Coshocton: But few horses have been 
sold for the eastern market, owing to the low price; fully 5 per cent. of the matured 
horses are now for sale. Hogs of the sameage and breed average fully 10 per cent. less in 
weight than last year. Lucas: Some good blooded horses were brought into the county 
within two or three years, increasing the raising of colts of a higher grade. Monroe: 
Fat hogs selling at 5} to6centslive weight. Licking: Hogsvery high. Stock-hogs, that 
is, under one year old, sell as high as 8 cents. Washington; Cows are from 530 to $60. 
Tuscarawas: All kinds of stock have fallen off in numbers for several years, owing to 
short hay-crops and long feeding-winters for the last three years, and to imereasing 
shipping facilities which induce stock-men to cull out more closely. Jilliams: The 
price of horses is lower than for sixteen or twenty years; so low that farmers do not 
think it pays to raise colts. Hogs are scarce, owing to the fact that money is scaree, 
and they bring a pretty good price. Moreover, farmers are now beginning to see that it 
does not pay to keep a hog over winter, so that few are now kept, except for breeding 
purposes. Preble: Moises are 40 per cent. lower than they were eight months ago. A 
great many cattle were sold off after harvest for fear they could not be wintered. This 
has caused a deficiency. Perry: The reduction of cattle is owing to the fact that the 
szarcity of feed last winter caused every one to dispose of all he could. Marion: Very 
