Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-08-17
DROVE NOTES.

The census returns show that for
thirty years there have been in this
ecu ltry eighty neat cattle to each hum
dred of the population. Of these
elght must be working oxen and
twenty eight milch cows.
There is a peculiar cow disease
around Charleston, Ill The bovines
become blind in few hours after
being attacked.
The Bslvidere Northeastern saysf
''Abner Scott of Capron, recently
washed pig, the skin of which was
diseased with scurvy, and'in the oper-
alton allowed some of the wash to get
on his person, and now his entire
body is covered with the disease.
A western paper tells a story of a
man who having gone into a heavy
purchase of pork on a falling market,
was overheard praying in the following
style; 20, Lord, fol my sake just adj
vance hogs one cent per hundred. and
| won't pay but four dolllrs per hun
dred for any mOre.-Amen.
There are five thousand dollars
worth of Poland China pigs in the pens
OF Iowa EailS-
In Eria, Pa, Mr. Henry lost a COW,
advertised it, but John Hess who
found the COW and could not find the
owner, takes no papers, so he saw no
advertisement. Consequently, the cows
being found in possession of John
Hess, was fined $50 for OBTAINING the
animal. This is the way everybody
makes out who don't take the papers.
l-Ecenihg Post.
A recent issue of Our Dumb AnE-
mails, the organ of the Massachusetts
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, says: lit appears that
cattle lose an average of 200 pounds
each in transportation from the West
to market They corroborate this by
a special case, it has been ascertained
that Blis isham Young's cattle lost an
average of 2I0 pounds last November
in their passage from Utah to Chicago.
| Our investigation shows that between
200 and 500 carloads of cattle arrive
weekly at Albany, averaging from I6
| to "a animals EACH To approximate
the result of this loss, let us estimate
a weekly arrival of 300 cars with 20
cattle each, which shows a loss of l.
100000 pounds, which, st 10 cents per
pound, is $4,000 per week, or So
100000 per annum; but to allow a
wide margin for errors and exaggera-
tons, let US call it S3,OOO,O0 per
annum on a tie arriving at Albany
alone, saying nothing of loo carloads
weekly of fshogs and sheep. Add to
this the arrivals at all other Joints, and
we see an astounding result, not ap-
preciated by the people, nor even by
the parties interested. This sum
would go far towards paying all the
extra cost of delay in unloading and
reloading cattle for rest and refresh
ment, or of providing compartment
cars in which they could have proper
food and rest. When the sanitary
co 1sider ii ms have been properly pre-
sented by our State Board of Health,
or other like organizations, and people
understand the diseased condition of
cattle after the many days of suffering
for want of food, water, and rest
added to the excitement necessarily
incident to transportation by rail, and
the bruising and beating to which they
are subjected, then the people will de-
mand a remedy, if, in the meantime,
the interests of the drogers shall not
have forced the corporations to adopt
it."