The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-23 00:00:00

Agriculture.

Aattannnut. STATISTICS are about to be taken for
third time. The two previous attempts wowed them-
selves valueless, from having been
_taken at different
seasons

Th.oso lag retar; will, however. Mu fair

eomparison with layear. Next Thtulday, the 25th,
is the day for taking the live stock.
TH I Southampton committee for securing the presence
of the Bath and West of England Society are endeavour
ing to obtain an rime@ of fonds over ordinary charges
for the purpose of giving local prises foe New Forest
ponies, Channel Island owes, and Ilampaltir• sheep.
This is a most laudable object.

TAutrrou FAIR on Wednesday was well supplied
with sheep, but of bullocks there was a eery scanty
supply. Mutton fetched front dd. to tild. per lb.;
grazing ewes and wethers, 34.. to Ow; lambs, 20e. to
281. Trade was not fast, on savant of the dryness of
the weather, the gnus crops failing.

_
Lawnarea CAISTLI FAlL—This fair was held on
Wednesday, and although the attendant* and the stook
was an improvement on Siciford fair, the business
trsneseted wee of s very limited °barmier. Ewes
fetched from 30s. to 42a., and lambe from 184. to 22a. GL
me pig trsde ruled dull, and prices were low.

INPOITAIT STOCK SAL. AT GIZAT TOLLZ IL —llse
horn Sock of the late E lward Popo, Fog., was sub-
mitted to public competition on Tuesday, by Mr. J.
T. &nor, when there was a spirited competition among
the isocline agriculturists of ths diMcW. Six-tooth
ewes made from 42a. to 54a. each, averaging about
sSio There was great competition for the two-tooth
ewes, one
;TOL" LEIZ. ci high agitOsPolatheo.lertftestra.
risSite, to Oa; ohilser lambs from 30a. to 44e., averaging
about 38..; wither lamb, from 20e. Sd. to 220.; and
srom.bred lambs from 235. to 25a. The four-tooth
rams were knocked down it El etch; one aix•tooth ,
TIM tan up to £2.5, and another to £10; while hog runs ,
mads from £6 10s. to £l5 mob.

ftlarketsS.
At Muk.Lane on Friday, the higher prlcom of Monday
were well supported. The extremely forcing weather
of May, which enabled speculators to create • male for
a few days, haa begonia serious, from its continuant:a
without an adequate supply of rain. Our province satis-
faction at the prospect of an early harvest in thin year
of scarcity in only greatly leasemed by the way in which
crops are wasting in some districts as they stand. At
Liverpool and Wakefield on Friday wheat wee • turn
higher.—Tho meat trade is heavy from this hot weather
having wmted the feel till the supply is above the
average, while the demand I. less from people's sp.
petite for moat being affected by the heat.
CURRENT PRICES OF KROUSE, GRAIN.
Per 14,• Par Qr.
welLaT a. s.l O. a.
Kesel and Kent, red to
" Ditto, new ... 63 to 77
" to
" Ditto. new. ... 06 to 76
l',2•t6n, red .. —to 800.
Ditto. whit* —to Foreign,..,
•
OATS.

1111A11.

13 to 45
Whit. ... 43 to 67
43 to 47
Foreign. 41x11.3 to

Englith molting ... to 17
•Dim 27 to 42
.

Er11.h,f..d... NwsS
p.tlo . $0 t. U
Isoth. (..d. —t—

10
Tick. 42 1044
II arrow 43 to 64
44 to 60
610-14144 „. .„ to

• potato —to
Irish, black ... 23 to $0
alilts IS t, 32
——

ILOVI.
Tovoo-ntade. 190 lbs. U W
Couotz ... 49 to 30
Norfolk ita4 offolk... 40 to 48

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