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KEPOET OF THE COMMISSIONEK OF AGRICULTURE. 



improvement in values may occur during? the coming year, though great 

 changes in this direction should not be expected. While fluctuations 

 are inevitable, depression followed by elevation, there is some reason 

 to suppose that lower levels of valuation will obtain than in the past 

 two decades. 



The following table gives the estimated average prices of farm ani- 

 mals of different classes by age, horses and stock cattle under one 

 year, two years and not less than one, and three years old and uj)- 

 warclsj while sheep and swine are placed in two divisions, one year be- 

 ing the dividing line. 



Table sliowing the esiimated numlers of animals on farms, expressed as a percentage of the 

 mimiers of ])reviou8 years ; also average of actual 2}rices in January, 18SG. 



