CURRENT FACTS IN AGRICULTURE. AAD 
cows, (miscellaneous,) $225. At Mr. Kinkead’s sale the highest figures 
for single animals were as follows: Sorrel gelding, $280; a bull, $365; 
a cow, $1,000; Essex hog, $75. At Mr. Talbutt’s sale a roan bull, calved 
in 1867, sold for $620, and a roan cow, calved in 1862, $580. At Mr. 
Groom’s sale a cow calved in 1866 was sold for $1,120, and a bull calved 
in May, 1864, $1,015. At Mr. Hampton’s sale the highest priced cow 
was $505 ; highest priced bull, calved in 1869, $500. 
Forty-two auction sales of Short-horns were held in England, Scot- 
land, and Ireland, in 1869, at which 1,585 head were sold at prices 
ranging from 34 to 650 guineas. The average realized was £35 5s. each, 
showing but a slight variation from the average price obtained in 1868, 
when 1,425 were sold at an average of £35 7s. each. 
The highest prices ever known to have been realized in England for 
Short-horns were obtained by Mr. Sheldon, of Geneva, New York, 
United States, for six Duchess, sold to Messrs. Wallcott & Campbell for 
the sum of 1,100 guineas each. 
VALUE OF DIFFERENT FOODS. 
In reply to an Illinois farmer, who inquires which is the cheapest feed 
for fattening sheep, corn at 60 cents per bushel, oats at 40 cents, No. 2 
barley at 75 cents, oil-cake at $35 per ton, or bran at $15 per ton, Mr. J. 
Harris presents the following estimate for one ton of each description of 
food at the stated prices: 
Price per | Value of | Actual cost 
ton. manure. of food. 
$14 59 $0 41 
6 65 14 85 
TOS 15 28 
7 70 17 30 
6 32 
| 25 34 
Mr. Harris thinks there is little difference in the nutritive values of 
corn, oil-cake, oats, and barley, and that (making no comparison as to’ 
bran) at the foregoing prices corn is practically cheaper for feeding 
purposes than any of the other three articles. 
Grinding and cooking corn.—In the district agricultural convention at 
Urbana, Ohio, in February, 1870, several members estimated the gain 
in the feeding value of corn ground and cooked at 100 per cent. over 
that fedraw. Mr. A. B. Buttles, of Columbus, made the only exact state- 
ment of cost of grinding and eooking, saying that he could get his corn 
. ground for 10 cents per bushel, and cooked for 3 cents per bushel. 
PROFITABLE HOGS. 
A farmer in Shelby County, Kentucky, it is stated, bought two hun- 
dred and ten hogs, and corn to feed them, for $3,563; fed and sold them, 
averaging 323 pounds, for $6,640, and refused $954 for one hundred and 
eleven shoats which he had raised from them. Another man and his 
son fed and seld seven hundred and ninety-two hogs, averaging 305 
pounds, receiving $21,000, his outlay having been $9,000. The first 
case shows a total profit (including valuation of shoats) of $4,031, aver- 
aging $19 20 on each animal of the original stock; the second, a 
total profit of $12,000, averaging $15 15 on each animal. 
Mr. William Magie, of Butler County, Ohio, has sold, this season, thirty- 
