The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-03 00:00:00

THE CATTLE TRADE.

METROPOLITAN, Thursday.—Although the supply ot
beasts in to-dare market was only moderate, the
demand for all breeds was heavy, at a decline in the
quotations compared with Monday of 24. per 81b. The
top figura was 51. 44. per 81b. We had a very slow
inquiry of sheep, at 24. per 81b. less money. The
general top prioe was 6s. 64. per 81b. Calves were in
good request, at enhanced rates. The quotations
ranged from 4s. 6d. to se. Bd. per 81b. There wane
good aale for pigs, on rather higher terms. In ankh
cows scarcely any business was doing. The general
quality of the stook was very middling.
Per 81b., sinking the Offal.
s. d. id. s. d. s.d.
laL coarse beasts 3 4 tot 0 Prlate2outbdowns6 Ito 6 6
&wand quality... 4 2to 4 8 Leg. coarse calves 4 6to 5 8
Prime larg • r see 4 10 to 5 0 Prime small
Prime Scots, &e. 5 2to 5 4 Large hogs...
lot coarse sheep 4 4to 4 10 Neat smi porkers 5 9to 5
&mond quality .. 6 oto 5 6 'Beteg. catres,eeh 22 6to 14 0
Prime coarse wild 5 Bto 6 0 Qr.old sir pi s.do 28 oto 34 e
Tam, SUPPLlL—British—Besals, 1,050; Cows, 132;
cheep, 7,000; calves, 370; pies, 250.—Foreign—Beasts,
570; sheep, 3,300; calves, 250; pigs 70.

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NNWOATIS AND LIADENHALL.—The Supplies of meat
on sale are only moderate. The trade is firm, at our
quotations.
Per 81b., by the carcass.
e. d. Ad. I e. d. s. d.
Inferior beef .. 3 2to 3 6 llnferlor mutton 4 4to li 0
Middling ditto 3 8 „ 4 S ,•iddline ditto.. 5 2„ 6 8
Prime large do. 4 4 „ 4 6 Prime ditto .. . 6 10 „ 6 0
Prime smell ditto 4 6 „ 4 8 I Large pork . .. 4 9 „ 6 0
Veal 4 6„ 6 4 I Small ditto .... 5 2„ 6 8
Baum', Thursday.—There was a very good supply
of fat beef, mutton and lamb, but a rather sluggish
sale, and at prices a little ender than last week. There
were a large number of sheep-13.4.000 71X1 and 800—
from Ireland, and these were considered by pennons asho
have attended the market for • great number of year%
to be the finest sheep they had ever seen there. Some
of these sheep, from eighteen to twenty months old,
realised from 70s. to 80‘ per head. They were, how-
ever, probably, a little too heavy for the weather' and
eonsequently did not sell so briskly as they might have
done under more favourable circumstances. There was
a very fair supply of Irish lambs, including some very
good specimens. The quotations were—Beef, 655. to
68.; mutton, 7d. to 81. per lb.; lamb, Bd. to Sad. per
lb. There were only tom or five cows end calves in the
market, and them of a very inferior quality, and not
enquired after. The pig market contained about an
average supply—quality good, and prices very high.
Small pigs realised from 255. to 385.; older More pipet
prices according to sise and age. There were not more
than • dozen homes in the market, and not a geed One
among them.

A "TALL" Tribe 6r A Gietrr.—The New York 7ri.
bunt tells a "tall" story of a RUIIIiAO giant on a spree.
He coinmenocrl to grow tipsy, and from mild idiocy
proceeded rapidly to the noisy, demonstrative state
wbieh is Indic...tie" of the drunken man. Entering a
dance-house, his hilarity assumed exaggerated propor-
tions. The mew of • French man-of-war, merry-making
in the saloon, sormig from their seats and politinua,
reliaquished their cards their dominoes, their saltatory
pertners, aud their untested iciaor, and rushed out into
the night, as if they had beheld the spectre of old
Neptune himself. The girls skrank into the remote'
corners and screamed; the 6d4lere dropped their
struments in amazement, and the proprietors turni.
pale. The giant, however, way in the merriest mood.
He introduced himself hy picking no a keg of lager
beer, extracting the bung with his teeth, and draining WOOL
Ii of its cone ti to the health of the company as- The wool trade is in • healthy state. Silleo the close
sembled. Then, seizing a couple of the weitreesea in of the jmblio sales very little hail been done in colonial
each arm, he swung them around on the platform in • wool privately; but the trade for English qualities is
Cossack jig, 'shill made the frame tenement in which ^t fully late rates.
he chanced to be vibrate to its centre. In the mean- MLR FAIL—MI old-established fair was held
time the top of his head stRA brushing the ceiling clear on ....ineeday, and the attendance was equal to the
of c,bwebe in the manner of • dusting brush, while his everage. The supply of homes VIM good, but the
mighty legs would swing from one side of the room to demand was dalL Good animals fetched their prices,
the other, like the walling beams of an ocean steamer, but colts varied much. Some superior animals fetched
His Terpsichorean exercise was suddenly brought to an £4O, whilst others realised only £lB. Of bulloaks there
end by his head coming in contact with a chandelier, was • small supply, and not much demand. Good fat
which fell with a crash loud enough to earth) even the cattle fetched 130. a score; medium qualities sold from
giant himself. Wilt a bound like that of • seared ' lls. 64. to 12s. Sheep was extremely plentiful, and
giraffe he sprang to the connter, emptied two bottlee of were a drug on the market. There were nearly 6,000
gin, a flask of Jamaica rum, and a email demijohn of penned. Yet sheep realised Bj4. per lb. 'and storm Ws.
applejack, at almost a single gulp, and then made be to Me. each. There was a good quantity of olvb
way into the street, bellowing like a Cape Horn tornad,,. pitched, which realised high prices.

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