The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-07-13 00:00:00

Olarittts.

BSI/VIOL CLITLII. TIIIIRSDAT.—We bids fair supply
of beef on our market to-day, but trade was very quiet,
owing to many dealers having supplied themselves from
the recent importations of Canadian stock. Best samples
realised The, and middling sorts from 651 to 67. per cwt.
Mutton was also in moderato supply, but met with only a
limited demand. Best webers (sashed from 91 to Slid,
end heavy ewes 81 to 84 I per lb. Lamb was plentiful, and
sold freely at from Ind to 101 per lb Mitch cows W•T•
Pleatif UL but the demand warn only very slow. There
WITS 2,400 store cattle on offer, and although offered at
' reduced rates, a good many were left unsold. There was
• Tarr short supply of pigs. Bacon fetched from Ils B{l
to lie 164„ and porkers from 19, to 124 3d per score.
BRISTOL CORN, THURSDAT.—Oo our market to-day
wheat eas 6d per qr. dearer, sod without activity. Illth
=aro and bark, Weill steady. Oats were in limited
request at lest week's prices.
/1N DOVZR OORN, ratnar.—There woos full attend.
mos of farmers and others. Wheat sold slowly, at a
reduction of la to 2. per quarter. Oats and other grain, •
fair trade at late rates. . .

FaiDST. With showery
weather and lees favourably report/ from America and the
Continent, holders of wheel this mambas ask la per
quarter OM last week's raw, whioh millers have to pay
to supply
artheir immediate requiremeuts. Beans and
maize re dearer. Oats steed?.
180 AMPTON CORN, FILIDA T.—There was a fair
attendance at today'. market. Foreign wheat—a steady
trade at layer qr. advance. Batley, maize, and oats firm
at last week's priors. Flour, quiet trade at barely last
week's prima. Neer wheat (atilda). red, £9 10. to £l4;
whits ditto, SW to AU 10.; trailing barley, fllis to 301;
oats, Ms to 211 a ;been% hos to 17.; pea Ms to Ms ; maixe,
We to 37s ; flour, Ms to Me per sack.
' SOUTHAMPTON CATTLE, I,lmi/sr.—TUT. W•I •
small 'apply of stock at this day's market, and a thin
attendance of buyer.; trade was consequently very dull.
A few of the best lots changed hands at the following
prime, viz —Wither.s. 81 to?. per stone. and beset* 14,
64 to 15s per score. The following were offered i—filheep,
372 : besets, ; crave% : horses, 22.
LIVICRPOOL CORN. FILIDAT.—With a fair att ndance
the market clmes ',fiat moderate demand for wheat at Id
toll per emtel advance. Californian. 881 to
Flour, little demand at alight advance. Indian me, new
mixed American, 4. Ild. Pees, Canadian, 1.14 to 7.41.
Beans, RyypUan, Ts 21 to 74 34. Oatmeal quiet. Oita
Sat, but steady.
BATH CORN, b'rruataar.—The supply of MIRA
wheat was extremely small. Trade was vary firm at ally
ls par qr. advance. Foreign held for ls le 21 MOTO mosey.
Floor rather dearer.

*GLOUCESTER CORN, SATITIMAT.—Thero was very
little English wheat on r•ffer, and the market being
influenced by the unsettled weather, prices for beet
samples were Od to Is per qr. higher. Foreign sold at •
simaar advance, but millers having bought during the
week, the trade we. alow. No qootable change in the
value of swing corn.
TAUNTON CORN, SATUIDi Y. The unfavourable
weather prevented a large attendance, and the business
doom was merely nominal, at late rates. The continuous
heavy rain Is causing much concern to those farmers whq
have their bay cut and not carried.
TAUNTON CAITLR. SovultDAY. —There wao • fair
supply of all kinds of stock, sad the (ollowina were the
rates made at auction :—Fat ewes, Its to 43s 64; fat
wethars,4o4 to 431; fat Wien. An to £3O; cows and
Cogood,_.Clo 151 to £10: hat remora, £9 to 415.
WARMINSTER CORN, Satwanar.—There was fair
'Dug: of wheat, which met • moderate 'Ails at last week's
Other corn
_quiet and unchanged. Wheat, boot.
40. to 48.; *woods. 3194 to 40.; grinding. Me to 98. Dean%
Sea to 56. 13s to VW per quarter.
CORK BUTFZR, SATURDAY. —Ordinary —firsts, Ills
FeCoudi, 104. ; thirds, 96, ; fourth.. 91. ; fifths. 764
superfine, 11755 Fine mild, 1001; mild. 106.... salt kegs—
first., nth seeouds. 106 ; thirds, 96.. Number of drains
in the market, 1613.
WAKEFIELD CA:MLR—The show of beef wile
twain a good one, both as regards the number of beasts on
offer, and the quality of the stock. There were 1,887
animals exhibited, as against 1,700 last week. There was
a good attendance of buyer., but trade ruled rather heavy.
Prime beef made 101 per stone of 141b5., ordinary sorts
from Os to 94 64, and heavy and rough bullocks from 8. to
8464. At the doss • fair clearance had been effected in
the beast market Notwithstanding that the supply of
sheep and lambs was much larger than last week. there
being 4,300 on offer as against kr" Wade ruled brisk. and
dealer* in moot oases had disposed of their stocks at a
moch earlier hour than usual, at an advance offrom a far-
thing to a half-penny per pound on last Wednesday's
quotations. little sheep made fully 104 per pound;
..
hee,a. scree ma to 9ed per pound, and lambs load to 1111.
A good show of fat craves, which met with &good 'Vt
I,
breeding calves selling at from 84 to 94 per pound.
400 pigs were as offer, but buyers bad very wawa, *
ruled heavy at priors in favour of N.
CHEMICALS continue to maintain • steady attitude,
and the week's business Ma been on a scale satisfactory to
maaufacturers. The home trades inquiries talus increase.
and Waassetions are more way associated.
lIIINERA.LB.—This breach of commerce centimes ia
an extremely quiet condition, and important tramestiose
are quite the exception.
lIETALS.—The report. to Idissibee the wash
unanimous as to an improved
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