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few hogs remain over: some for breeding purposes. The breed has been greatly im- 
proved. No difficulty in making spring-pigs weigh 200 to 300 pounds by November, and 
those weights bring the best prices. Delaware: The large number of hogs coming on 
will make cheap pork within the next twelve months. 
MicuiGan.—AHillsdale : The price of fat cattle in the market is $3 to $4 per hundred; 
fat hogs, on foot, $6; dressed, $7.50. Calhoun: Sheep have been sold less than usual ; 
many of our farmers finding them indispensable and profitable for their farms. Mecosta : 
As the county develops, all kinds of farm-animals are increasing. 
InpIANA.— Clay: Sheep-husbandry declines, owing to destruction by dogs; mule- 
raising declines for want of a certain and remunerative market. Wabash: The high 
price for hogs has used up the stock very clean, except afew for breeders. Stark: 
Oxen and other cattle have not been sold out so close for ten years. Warren: 
Hogs have brought $6 to $8 per hundred. Ohio: As corn is cheap and pork 
high, everything that will make pork is being fattened. Hamilton: Hogs very 
scarce owing to deaths by cholera. Washington: About all the hogs over six months 
old have been fattened and sold at $6 to $7.15 per hundred gross. 
Intio1s.— Winnebago: A large proportion of the calves sold to butchers. Mercer: 
The decrease in mules is owing to the fact that the epizooty took most of the jacks 
out of the county. Piatt: Not many cattle over three years old in the county, ex- 
cept milch-cows. Iroquois: The number of hogs fattened will fall short of an avyer- 
age 30 per cent., but the quality will raise the quantity. De Kalb: A falling off in 
the price of cows, owing to a decline in dairy products, especially cheese. Ford: 
The increase in the number of horses is owing to immigration. Carroll: All kinds 
of stock are declining in numbers, except horses and milch-cows. The number of 
horses is kept up because there has been no demand from abroad, and of cows, because 
the farmers are turniug attention to the manufacture of cheese on the co-operative 
plan. White: The decrease in farm-stock is owing to scarcity of feed. Hogs have 
been shipped to the greatest extent. Boone: Scarcely any hogs over one year old, and 
very few cattle over two and a half or three years. 
WISCONSIN.—Clark: The increase in stock of all kinds is owing to the fact that the 
county is new and rapidly developing. Crawford: Hogs andsheep are the only kinds of 
stock which have paid expenses, sheep paying best; dressed hogs $7.50. Green Lake: 
The quality of all kinds of farm-stock is gradually improving. Sheep are the favorite 
stock, and the finer grades are most numerous, being kept mostly for wool. Columbia: 
Great numbers of young hogs shipped, owing to the short corn-crop. Green: Nearly 
all the hogs not sent to market are under one year old, aud some of them will be 
marketed between this and spring. There is a steady increase in the number of cows, 
the dairy business growing constantly. 
MINNESOTA.— Waseca: We are beginning to raise cattle and hogs, instead of so much 
grain. Cheese-factories are springing up; hence the increase in cows. Faribault: 
- Farmers have learned by sad experience that persistent efforts to make a living by 
wheat-culture alone only renders them poorer and poorer every year, and, therefore, 
are paying more attention to the raising of stock and hogs than ever before. 
Iowa—Sioux: The prices of horses, mules, cattle, and hogs are much higher in our 
newly-settled county than in the regular market. Polk: While fewer mules have 
been raised, a larger proportion has been shipped Southand to Colorado. Both fat and 
stock-hogs sell readily at 6 to 64 cents per pound. Howard: Hogs bring a good price 
and are selling off rapidly; lowering the percentage of stock hogs, and raising the 
price of young pigs. Scolt: Most of the fat hogs sold are from fifteen to twenty-two 
months old. Linn: The hog crop is 10 per cent. short. Cherokee: The price of pork 
has created quite a demand for stock-hogs. 
Missouri.—Jasper : Native breeds of cattle are being greatly improved by the intro- 
duction of full-bloods. Howard: Almost impossible to purchase hogs of any age. 
Never knew the difference to be so great between the prices of corn and of hogs; corn 
20 cents per bushel, and stock-hogs 5 to 6 cents per pound. The hogs fattened next 
year will be spring pigs. Jefferson: Milch-cows scarce ; average price, with calf, $30. 
Mules are superseding horses here. Marion : Stock-hogs rate at about 5 cents, fat hogs 
at 6. Carroll: The increase in the total number, and the large percentage of oxen and 
other cattle, is owing to the great number brought into the county to feed. Reynolds: 
Cattle, young horses, sheep, and hogs are reduced very much, owing toscarcity of feed 
and severe weather last winter. Polk: Hogs sell at 6} cents, live weight. Platte: 
Hogs selling at 6} cents, gross. Pork-packing in the county not yet over; 1,500 to 
2,000 fat hogs stillon hand. Perry: The reduction in cattle and hogs is owing to the 
scarcity of feed last winter. Dent: A great many eattle have been shipped out of the 
county. Dallas: Large hogs were thinned out last winter by cold and starvation, and 
the number is not yet made up. The increase.in milch-cows results from more and 
better feed than last year. Caldwell: Fat hogs and breeding sows are much higher in 
price than usual. Many cattle are being fattened. Barton: Last year we sold all our 
hogs off, owing to a failure in the corr-crop; now we have to pay $10 per head for 
‘pigs. Holi: About 3 per cent. of the hogs have died from disease. Every case is 
