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Animal Census. —The estimated number of domestic animals 
now on farm and ranch in the United States are thus classified: 
Horses, 13,172,936; mules, 2,191,727; milk cows, 14,856,414; 
oxen and other cattle, 34,378,363; sheep, 43,544,755, and swine, 
44,346,525. The estimated average values are: Horses, $71.82; 
mules, $79.78; milk cows, $24.65; oxen and other cattle, $17.79; 
sheep, $2.05, and swine, $4.98. The live stock interests of the 
country, including horses and other animals in cities, represent not 
far from $3,000,000,000. Those who have been in the habit of 
attaching bnt little importance to veterinary education should 
ponder these figures. The nation cannot continue prosperous 
when interests so vast and susceptible to disease are consigned to 
the keeping of ignorant pretenders. Thorough veterinary educa¬ 
tion is a question in which our people should feel the deepest con¬ 
cern.— Turf\ Field and Tarm. 
Hydrophobia in West Virginia. —In Jackson county an 
epidemic of hydrophobia among cattle of all kinds has broken out, 
and the farmers have lost thousands of dollars’ worth of fine stock. 
A dog owned by a man named Huffman went mad, and before 
he was killed attacked a number of other dogs, cattle, sheep, 
swine and poultry on several farms. These animals nearly all 
went mad, and have since died. The dog went to the farm of a 
man named Wright and attacked a valuable stallion, which has 
died. It ran into the open door of a school-house and created an 
uproar in the school, snapping and biting at several of the children. 
One little girl is seriously hurt. There is scarcely a farm in the 
upper part of the county upon which some animal has not been 
bitten. The dog, when it reached home, attacked its master, who 
felled it to the ground and chained it till it died. More than fifty 
hogs have leen killed, and numbers are yet about the country. 
In Havenswood, in the same county, the mayor has ordered every 
dog muzzled, and much excitement exists. Deaths among the 
cattle are increasing. Cattle that have died from hydrophobia 
are lying in the fields, and persons are afraid to eat any meat from 
that section .—National Live Stock Journal. 
