The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-21 00:00:00

cArru MARKETS.

II•tmot, Nov. I6tll-.--:-We bad a scorter--supply of fat beef at
our market to-day, the supply front Ireland being hardly so full
sail has been for the past few weeks. There WM a good
demand for beat descriptions, and prices were • little Armor,
with an advance in the cue of very choice dtscriptionn There
were some half dozen instances in which 74s and 754 were given
for exceptionally prime sorts, but very good useful meat was
sold at 725, while middling and inferior deecriploons sold at
from 654 to 70e per cwt: We also had • more litntWd supply of
sheep, but the dentand was anything but brisk, and prices were
easier, and in wine caste a reduction was noticeable, but
withers selling at aid and 3d, and in only • few instance% was
9kd given while heavy descripUons sold Id per lb cheaper. Of
store cattle we had a very large supply, numbering upwards of
1000, and there was a very fair trade done, thitigh, owing to
the rouih weather In their transit from the Irish porta, the
animals were in very indifferent condition. Ililch cows were
on full supply, but trade was remarkably dull, and price. lower
the average quotations ranging front £l6 to 1.20. There was a
very full supply of pigs, and thongh trade opened well, business
was rather dull at the close, at • reduction in prices, bacon pigs
ulling at from lila Od to Us, and porkers from Os to Os 3d per
score.

MTuIOPOatTAR 16—There are • few more foreign Waste
than hat Thureday, but warmly as many English. The trade
I. dull, yet choice qualities are so mare° they make about as
on Monday. The supply of English sheep I. Lieu very short,
of foreign rather larger. There in very little businem doing,
but quotations remain unaltered. Thorn is no alteration In
the calf trade. Our foreign supply consist. of 415 beasts,
6.140 sheep, and 139 calves.
Best Soots. If ervfJr•la .. 8 to 0 0
Boot Bhurt-11..nks .. • • .. 0 to 6 8
Second quality 11.-11. s 0 to 4 8
Beet Down, 1. lialf-toreds, to 7 0
Best Long-w,,015,
Kwes world qtrality, • . oto 5 IS
Beasts at market, 1,010; sheep and lambs, 7.435; calrea,
635; and pip, 45.

METROPOLITAN MCAT MARKET, PIUDAT.
Supplies llghter,and prices firmer on summit of tho weather.
quotations :—Beee, 3o A to 6. ; mutton. 40 Gil to Os 4d;
veal. es to 64 ; pork, es to Css 811.er stone of elle. by the
CS/CAMS.

PROVISIONS MARKETS,

Fresh Butter ls-sie;sly—it; enlue. 7i,-; ply of Englieh is
getting very @bort, which is however amply made up by good
foreign. The quility is very good this week. Demand not at
all urgent. Firsts 113., wconcle 17s, thirds 16e, and west country
12. 0,1 to 171 ad per dozen. inferior experiences • very had
sale, ()stand les ad to 10. ad.
Fine qualities of Foreign butter continue to meet • fair
demand_ Friesland 1213 s to 138.; Normandy, One 130. to 132.,
extra 148. to 160 s, good 100 s to 1231 and inferior down to 10$s;
Jersey 1011 e to 122.; Zwolle, lee 12)1; Kampen 120 e; American
We to 110 e per cwt.
Lard sills moderately well at the quotations.
The Bacon market is quiet but steady for most descriptions.
Hombre, prime sizeable, is quoted si 64., Landed; Waterford
at al.' on board.
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Fine Hams, of small and medium sizes. are In fair demand.
Ostend Rabbits as 8d per stone.
For redly Sas firm handsome forward cheese, both English
and American there lea fair enquiry, but the trade generally ls
quiet at present.
Of Egp the supply le short—deassad fair.
Dames, Thunday.—The following were the current prices
at this market to-day:—Milk butter, par lb., la, W. to Is. 3d.;
whey ditto, lid. to Is,