The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-03-28 00:00:00

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&TEST NEWS.

MARK-LANE, Tuts. DAY..

Attendance fair, but without much business
doing. English and Foreign wheat opens with-
out change from last week. Exports, 8,711
quarters. Flour unaltered. Barley steady.
Oats maintained late values. Exports, 6,573
quarters. Maize unchanged. British—Wheat,
8,514; barley, 1,986 ; oats, 1,779; flour, 22,469.
roreign_wheat, 2,850; barley, Z 460; oats,
53,910; dour, 641 kicks.

Otoss.--The wheat trade to-day has been
&at at aa improvement of One Shilling per
quarter on the week. The supply of English
wheat limited; that of foreign moderate.
Barley moderately active, at full prices. Oats
steady. Beans and peso in fair request at late
rates. Flour more enquired after, at fully
previous prices.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, Tni. DAY.

Beef trade depressed, notwithstandiai the
favourable change in the weather and short-
ness of supply. The demand continuos
extremely languid. Our top figure must be
quoted the very extreme, and good useful
qualities hate sold at considerably less. Foreign
market also very dull, and both beef and mutton
show sdeoline on last quotations. Sheep market
tomtits. Large arrivals et Foreign at water-
side, Lower rates readily submitted to. We
came writing woollsd mutton from to-day.
Fair enquiry for lamb. Veal enquired for.
Pork dull and lower. Beef 31.64 to ss. 61. ;
mutton 3..10d. loos. fid.; veal 3s. 6d. to 65.; pork

Nod. toss. ed.; lamb 6s. Bd. to 8& Total aupply
beasts, 2,525; sheep and lambs, 17,160; calves,
70; ply, 75; of which foreign beasts, 675;
sheep and lambs, 780; calves, 65 ; pigs, 15.
Another correspondent telegraphs :—Cattle
trade dull, and demand heavy. Prices for Scots
Si 4d. Moderate supply of sheep. Trade dull.
Calveg and pigs unchanged. About 500 boasts
and 11,000 sheep at waterside.

PROVISIONS, MoD.
WIT= : Limited demand for Irish, and
1111pplies very light. Good qualities of Foreign
../• meet with a good enquiry, but commoner sorts
are a dull sale.—BacoN : Irish firm at a rise
of four to six shillings on the week. High
Primes however, check business.—Haus ; Very
little doing and prices tend in buyers' favour.
Lard dull but unaltered.—Curzsa : Fair buil-
nem doing in beet sorte.—Pons. ; Dull sale for
prime mese.

ANDOvIta. —For wheat an aOtio demand, at an advance
of fully Is the qr.
Banroaa. U.—Wheat business brisk, and from to to 3s per
load of live buabels dearer.
CeatelLS, U.—Wheat good demand at the full prices of last
week:
Counral.l., U.—Wheat holders wanted more than tie per
Cornish bushel, which millers and merchants would not rive.
Dolmas= 2.s.—Buyers eventually concesled an ad% mice
equal to about 6d: per load/
Doacususa, ts. —At the Dorchester Corn•Eaehange to-day
there was a fair supply of whwat. Trade was dull, 645. ed. per
qr. being the average price--about the same figure as last week.
Tlas supply of barley was short, but fully equal to the demand,
at 345, ed. per qr. Oats fully am dear. Inspector's return:
Wheat 560 quarters, L 1,017 10a. average 6... Id. Barley, 264)
quarters, £486 4I average 3 Tid•
Dhaolta, U. —Wheat about ls. per qr dearer.
Emu, 2.sth.—Markets fires during the week.
Ku?, 25.—Buelnes swan Inn at an advance of 1,. per qr for
best samples of wheat.

Lucesran, 26. -Bale. nudes& le to Is per qr more money.
25th.-A rise of about Is per qr in wheat.
Newcaett.s-on-Tins, 2.5th.-Fresh thrashed wheat being
much wanted, sold quickly at an advance of le per qr.
NORTSAarrOS 2.5. -Corn -market Inn, sod slightly in advance
of last week's rates.
NOSinicu, 25.-Wheat prices ems as on this day sennight.
NOTTISMILS 9.5.-Whitst prices of last week, exceeded by Is
to 2. per qr.
Osman, 24.-Wheat holders Would not abate price, few
transactions took place.
Pirrlilloloooll, 25.-Wheat a further advance of fully I,
Per W.
25.-Bsleo slow, sad prices Much the same as the
preview week.
RlrOS, 23.-Wheat fully Is. dearer.
W•tas (SOCtil), 25.- Some further Improvement is again to
b. notiv.d In th• •••,... •
WoIIeISIIIII, 23.-Full rates of last week were not goncrally
conceded, and budiurts was not brisk.
Yoal, 25th.-Wheat demand good if a slight advance.
TAVNTON. 25.--k steady business was done le the corn
trade, at the following quotation,: -Wheat. Gd to 60 Od
per bushel ; malting barley, fis 04; grinding barley, ts ;oat.,
S.od; beans, on Gd, Indian corn ; flax, les ; flour 384 per
per sack.
25.-A good supply for the 'wagon. Wheat
barely sustained lain week's rates, and trade war very flat, the
tendency being decidedly downwards. Barley for malting
Was still lndee.anl. and values were maintained. Other grain
Bat •t former rates.
Bars, 251h.-The quantity of wheat on offer to-day no,
small, sad sellers succeeded in obtaining an advance of I, per
Ir=r. In other grain previous rides were maintained.
, red, Sla to Ode; ditto white, 570 to 01.; barley, ol to
42.; oats. black, 21. to 24.; ditto, white, 261 to 30.; beans,
per sack, 23, to 26'; flour, seconds, 34s te 405:
25th-At the lomightly Wee held at Dorchester
to-day business was very brisk, the supply of both cattle and
sheep being large. Hellen and calves sold at from £I2 10s.
to LM ; bulls, from LI4 to £23; blarreners, £6 to £l7.
Dorset kern sheep realise I from 501 to Ode per head; Down
ewes fetched 800. Lambs tki 04 per head, or Itkl per pound.