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the city of New York are worth more than New YorkCity’s entire taxable personal property, and half a dozenmen in New York are worth more than the State’s.

“ The absurdity of these figures, as a just statement ofthe real value of the personal property in this State, willappear from the United States census of 1880, in thetable of cattle, etc. Assuming that the assessments willbe made in the springtime, after the cows have been win-tered and before the sheep have been sheared, the esti-mates of value have been given by one of our farmers :

Horses, 610,358 at $100. $6,103,580

Mules, 5,072 at $20. 101,440

Working oxen, 39,633 at $50. 1,981,650

Milch cows, 1,437,855 at $50. 71,894,275

Other cattle, 862,233 at $20. 17,244,660

Sheep, 1,715,180 at $5 . 8,575,900

Swine, 751,907 at $4. 3,007,628

Making a total of.$108,909,133

“ Without therein taking any account of the 230,-000,000 quarts of milk, 111,000,000 pounds of butter,and 8,000,000 pounds of cheese, we find the visiblepersonal quadruped property of the farm'ers exceeds by$15,000,000 all the assessed personal property of theState, exclusive of the three principal cities, and that itis double all the personalty in the rural districts.

“ Nor is this all, nor the most lamentable fact. Thesefigures demonstrate that the assessors and taxpayers