Chicago, packed 1,405,000 1,500,000
Kansas City 254,059 233,336
Cincinnati 301,000 300,000
St. Louis 200,000 207,000
Indianapolis 181,700 183,000
Milwaukee 185,000 197,000
Louisville, Ky. 142,000 118,000
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 91,618 86,965
Cleveland, O. 62,280 42,352
Keokuk, Iowa 28,601 31,411




IOWA STOCK BREEDERS.


The Iowa State Improved Stock Breeders' Association had a good
attendance at its annual meeting at Ames, last month.


SHEEP.

Hon. J. Kennedy read a paper on the subject "Will Sheep Breeding Pay."
Viewed from a financial point of view, he thought there had been no
better financial results from any commodity than from the sheep--the
wool and mutton--when given proper care and attention. Speculators and
traffickers in wool and woolen goods were failing all over the country,
but he attributed this to want of fitness for the business in which they
were engaged. Though the present depression in the wool market was