I have here a table which shows, even under those difficulties, the increase in that respect in the Southern States of live stock.

These are very significant figures.

It is entirely an accident that I happened to get hold of them last night.

The live stock of New York in 1870 was 5,286,421; in 1880, 5,422,238, an increase of 2 per cent.

In Pennsylvania it was 4,484,748 in 1870; in 1880, 5,255,204, an increase of 17 per cent.