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olina, Greenville reports cattle thin but healthy, and Clarendon very 
poor, owing to scarcity of feed; all other returns are favorable. In 
Georgia, out of between seventy and eighty returns, only five indicate 
an unfavorable condition, and that chiefly owing to the snowy and 
freezing weather in March. Jefferson alone returns a bad condition 
owing to a scarcity of feed. Effingham, Hull, Pierce, Montgomery, 
Mitchell, Baker, Coffee, Taylor, and McDuffie, report the best condition 
for many years. Dooly, Cobb, Dodge, Worth, and Walker, the best 
ever known. In Colquitt many of the cattle are fat enough for good 
beef. All returns from Florida show a condition much above average, 
and all from Alabama, except Perry and Franklin, in which it was much 
above until the 1st of March, and Etowah, in which, owing to scarce 
feed and the cold spring, cattle are poor. From Mississippi, all returns 
are favorable except Tunica, thin; De Soto, very poor; and Lee, bad, 
owing to the long winter. The favorable returns range from good, 
thrifty, never better, up to good beef. In Louisiana, Cameron alone 
returns a bad condition, owing toa too wet winter; while in Morehouse 
and Franklin the condition is the best for many years, and in Madison 
cattle are very fat. 
In Texas, among fifty-seven returns, Cooke reports cattle as notin 
very good condition, and Blanco as very thin; all others indicate a good 
condition, and most of them one of extraordinary thrift. The winter 
was so mild and free from hard storms, that the grass on the range has 
continued to grow, leaving stock nothing to do but to eat and grow fat. 
In the following counties the condition reported ranges from the best 
for many years to better than ever before: Aransas, Bosque, Coryell, 
Dallas, Goliad, Matagorda, Falls, Collin, Hunt, Fannin, Hardin, Harri- 
son, Kendall, Col6rado, Williamson, Titus. Cattle are described as be- 
ing fat enough for good beef in Henderson, Red River, McLennan, Har- 
din, Fannin, Williamson, Burleson, Waller, and Hays. Much above 
average, fine, excellent, flattering, splendid, &c., are descriptive epithets 
which abound in other returns. 
In the interior Southern States the general condition is also remark- 
ably good. The only exceptions reported are in Dorsey, Arkansas, 
“ very bad ;” Izard, below average, and Saint Francis, poor, owing to 
neglect; in Sullivan, Tennessee, “thin but healthy ;” Pleasants, West 
Virginia, bad, owing to rain, sleet, and mud; and Nicholas, poor, owing 
to a short hay-crop; Daviess, Kentucky, rather poor, owing to the in- 
jury of crops by the great floods last summer ; Mason, very low in flesh ; 
Speneer, 10 per cent. below average; Scott, healthy but poor, owing to 
wet weather; Kenton, thin but healthy ; and Lincoln, good but suffered 
from the severe weather in March. 
In the States bordering the Ohio River on'the north, rains in large 
measure took the place of snow in ordinary winters. As a consequence 
unsheltered stock suffered more than usual from exposure, and still 
worse from the mixing of feed with the cold mud in which they 
stood. Greatinjury to the hay-cropin these States by the unprecedented 
rains during the hay-season, operated as a further drawback upon the 
condition of stock. But notwithstanding, on the 1st of April the general 
condition was much above average. In between fifty and sixty returns 
from Ohio, not more thansevenimply an average condition below fair or 
good, while a large portion range from very good to never better. In Indi- 
ana the general average is not quite so favorable, ten returns out of forty- 
eight describing the condition as something less than good. In Illinois, 
Edwards report a condition below average, “‘and in the flooded districts 
many haye died ;” White, 40 per cent. below, and “5 per cent. have 
