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regions, affording the widest ranges of forest pasturage for stock, and who 

 consider stock-raising as one of their most important concerns. This 

 opinion among the sand hills arises from the fact, that there is 2.47 

 head of stock to each one of population, nearly double the average for 

 the State, which confirms the importance of their stock to them, while it 

 fails to show that lands in woods-pasture, with freedom of range for stock, 

 give as much return in stock as lands under cultivation. On the con- 

 trary, tables here appended, show that the amount of live stock per 

 square mile increases, with the increase in the number of acres of tilled 

 land per square mile. Whence it follows that stock raising in this State 

 has passed out of that early condition of things, w^hen wild stock roaming 

 at large yielded the largest return. 



