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endon, very poor, owing to scarce feed; Greenville, thin, but healthy. 
Georgia, Franklin, bad; Towns, Carroll, Taylor, and Wilkes, all good 
- up to March, but much depreciated by extraordinary snow and cold in 
thatmonth. Louisiana,Cameron, bad, owing to too wet weather. Texas, 
Palo Pinto,poor. Arkansas, Izard,belowaverage. Tennessee, Johnson, 
§ per cent. below. Kentucky, below average in Spencer, Boyd, Harrison, 
and Jessamine, owing to wet weather; in Grayson, except the sheltered, 
have not done well for the same cause. Ohio, owing to wet weather, 
mud, and damaged hay, thin, poor, or below average in Montgomery, 
Pickaway, Hudson, Belmont, Putnam, Marion, Washington, Ottawa, 
Licking, and Fayette. Clarke reports that the past winter was the 
hardest on sheep for many years; “ flocks are thin and many will die; ” 
Preble, that sheep are in fine condition where well sheltered and fed, 
“but haggard where left to shift for themselves.” Michigan, Oakland, 
the housed in fine condition; but those left to roam in fields, very thin. 
Indiana, Clay, 10 per cent. below average; Vanderburgh, 5 percent. below; 
Lawrence, rather bad, owing to bad condition when they went into 
winter-quarters ; Knox, poor, and Orange, Wells, Hamilton, and Marion, 
below average, owing to excessive wet weather. Illinois, in Clay, flocks 
well cared for are in good condition, while others are poor and unhealthy ; 
in Shelby the smaller flocks are above average; the larger below; in 
Edwards, ‘the worst condition ever seen, many flocks dying off and 
losing all the lambs, from continuous wet weather ;” owing tothe same 
cause, the condition is not quite average in Warren. In Des Moines, 
Iowa, sheep have not done well, owing to rain, snow, and mud; in 
Decatur, poor; in Lincoln, rather poor. In Butler, Kansas, sheep 
are fat, ‘‘except scabby flocks, which are poor and dying.” In Furnas, 
Nebraska, all are in good condition, except the scabby. In San Joaquin, 
California, many sheep have been destroyed by sudden floods, and 
many sheep and lambs by severe storms; in Trinity they are poor; in 
Merced, the young are in good condition, but the old poor and scabby ; 
in Contra Costa, the losses of sheep by starvation, and of lambs by pro- 
tracted storms, are considerable; in San Bernardino, they are reported 
“terribly starved.” In Utah, Salt Lake and Tooele report sheep poor. 
In Colorado, Weld, 10 per cent. below average, owing to late rains. 
Thus, with unusually full returns, there is but one slight exception to 
reports of condition ranging from average upward to better than ever 
before, in New England; one in the Middle States; none in the Lake 
States; but one in the Gulf States; one in Arkansas; scarcely one in 
Kansas and Nebraska; none in Missouri and West Virginia, and very 
few in other States. 
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DISEASES OF FARM-ANIMALS. 
Our April returns show that horses in all sections of the ceuntry have 
been afflicted with a modified form of the epizootic influenza, and that 
in the South and West swine have suffered from epizootic maladies 
to an extent which doubtless contributed largely to shorten the pork- 
crop of 1875, Cattle and sheep have, to a much smaller extent than 
usual, shown prevailing tendencies to disease. The mild winter, just 
closed, was more favorable to the outdoor wintering of stock, but even _ 
with this advantage our returns show serious losses in some counties 
from exposure and lack of food. In New England, where, from the ne- 
cessity of circumstances, all branches of production are pursued with 
