Montgomery had 63,134 hogs; Butler, 51,640.  Animals slaughtered:  Montgomery, $336,915; Butler, $318,274.  In grain Butler was considerably ahead, but in roots Montgomery led.  Montgomery doubled Butler in the production of wool, and had its cotton crop to show besides.  The total value of the crops of Montgomery County was $3,264,170; those of Butler only $1,671,132.

     There is Montgomery County, Alabama, compared with the
     leading producing county in Ohio.

     Q. Do you know as to the relative size of the two counties? 
     —­A.  I think it was given here: 

          A handsome triumph for the Alabama county!  And
          yet Montgomery is not up to the average of the
          prairie counties of Alabama.

     I do not know the relative size.  Here is a fact to which I
     wish to call particular attention: 

We have examined the mortality tables of the United States census for 1880, and find that as regards health, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi make a better showing than some of the oldest and most densely populated Northern States.

There is generally an idea prevailing that the Southern States are very unhealthy.  It is a point that bears directly on our labor question, and for that reason I wish to call special attention to this table, which is taken directly from the census: 

     ANNUAL DEATH RATE FOR EACH THOUSAND OF POPULATION

     New York 17.38
     Pennsylvania 14.92
     Virginia 16.32
     Massachusetts 18.59
     Kentucky 14.39
     Georgia 13.97
     Alabama 14.20
     Mississippi 12.89

     Mississippi has the smallest average death rate of any of
     that number of States which I have enumerated.

Q. I suppose the circumstance that the average death rate is larger in cities ought to be taken into account, the Southern population being mostly rural, is it not?  —­A.  The Southern population is to a very great extent rural—­Still there are cities in Georgia which I suppose in proportion to our rural population would not make the latter in excess of what it is here.  If you take your rural population here and in New Jersey, where you are densely populated, we are no more densely populated in the proportion of our city population to the country than you are here, I think.

     Q. Of the population, which is, as a rule, the more healthy
     in the South, the colored or the white population?

     By Mr. PUGH: