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county the past season, and was very fatal. It is now somewhat abated. 
Washington: About 10 per cent. of the hogs have died of cholera. Ciay : 
The number of hogs has been steadily declining for three or four years, 
owing to the prevalence of cholera. Lrown: Many hogs have died of* 
cholera in portions of the county. 
Tilinois.—Saline: Cholera among the hogs has prevailed throughout 
the county to an alarming extent. Tazewell: Hog-cholera has prevailed 
to some extent; mostly confined to young hogs; very few fattening 
hogs have died. Fulton: The fatality, by cholera, among the pigs of 
last spring has been unusually large. Scott: Cholera has killed nearly 
all the hogs in the county. Know; Hog-cholera very bad, and also a 
new disease in the form of colds, coughs, and lung difficulties. 
Iowa.—tolk : Fully 25 per cent. of our hogs have died of the cholera, 
so called. Harrison: Many hogs dying of what is called cholera. 
Missouri.—Carroll: The hog-cholera has been all the fall, and is 
now, very destructive, and there appears to be neither preventive nor 
remedy. Nodaway: Cholera, so called, which is nothing more than 
. worms, has destroyed 20 per cent. of our hogs. They might have been 
saved by feeding, constantly, copperas and sulphur, alternately, at the 
rate of a table-spoonful to 8 hogs, every fourth day. This is a prevent- 
ive. There is probably no cure. Jlucon; A great many hogs have 
died, and a great many are still dying, of some disease. 
AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.—New Hampshire.—Cheshire : Hundreds 
of acres are worked over every year without manure, giving but small 
crops. This reduces the average of our highly-cultivated fields. Carroll: 
The farmer goes into winter-quarters with contentment, in spite of high 
. taxes and scarce money, as the barns are well filled and stock in good 
- condition. 
Vermont.—Essex ; November, a hard month, requiring liberal feeding. 
Maryland.—Harford: Very few cattle fed; pasture still good. 
Virginia.—Henrico: Our farmers do a vast deal of labor for nothing ; 
they eultivate too much land in cereals and too little in forage-crops. 
A ton of hay is a small average here, yet it is worth more than 30 bush- 
els of corn, with much less labor to make it. Appomattox: Freedmen 
generally imperfect cultivators when left to themselves; they are poorly 
furnished with implements, and are growing poorer. 
North Carolinia.— Wayne: At the close of the year farmers feel dis- 
posed to allot less Jand for cotton, but when planting comes their re- 
solves are forgotten. Land prepared with the same care for wheat as 
for cotton would yield over twenty bushels, besides a subsequent crop 
of turnips or pease, greatly improving the land and reducing the cost 
of labor. We need to get out of the ruts. Nash: More than usual of 
acres in winter-oats ; more stock-hogs, sheep, and cattle ; more ecouomy 
in expense; more thorough manuring and more diversity of crops; 
more labor by the farmers and less hiring. Camden: Orops mostly 
average, but low prices discourage the farmer. Beaufort: Improved 
farms increasing. 
South Carolina.—Clarendon: Much suffering must result from want 
of provisions. Union: Fine fall for harvesting. Chesterfield: Hard 
times the coming year. 
Georgia.—Harris: Crops short, cotton low, and people in debt; con- 
dition worse than since the war. Troup: Great change for the better 
in farming. 
Alabama.—Saint Clair: Better farming and better tools. Henry: 
People disposed to greater economy. 
