The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-08 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

fk)110t0I, FRIDAY, Nov. 4.—Ftne Weald oKe nt
and Susses pockets are iu moderate request, at full
prices. All other kinds of hops move off &hotly, at late
currencies. Mid and East Kent pockets. 1144. to 144);
Weald of Kents, 565. to 75*.; Stumm, 595. to 65*. per
cwt.

The effect of the large iunount of bu+iness done dur-
ing the season bas been fAt during the past week in
the diminished activity of our market. T'he transac-
tions have been principally confined to fine parcels of
Weald* and Sussex, whizh are not now easily met with.
In the lower and inferior sorts there is scarcely any-
thing doing and for these priers are merely nominal.
The imports of foreign hops into London last week,
were 20 bales from Hambro'.

RAY AND STRAW MARKET._

SIIITHIIZI.D, Nov. 4. Meadow hay, E 2 12s. to
£4 4g.; clover, ES 12a. to £5 5..; and straw,
El 4s. to El las. per load.

WOOL MARKET.

As the next series of colonial wool sales will com-
mence on the 10th instant, there is less activity in the
demand for most home-grown qualities; nevertheless,
owing to the continued activity in the manufacturing
districts, no sellers are corning forward except at full
prices. • A few parcels of long-wools have been dis-
posed of for shipment to the continent
Dow n Teo
Down F.wes
Halr.bred Hogs
Halt.bred Watben 16.4. 171.1.
Kent Ylesees
Lelwaster Flawns, mixed
Combing Skins
Flannel Wool
Blanket Wool

174. :M.
134. 164.
134. 194.
ed. 164.

LATEST PROVINCIAL MARKETS.
WAIIIIINSTIM Saturday, Nov. s.—Wheat, 38s. to
BOA. (lad week, 384. to ; new wheat, —s. to —s.
(la 4 week, —s. to —s.) Barley, Vs. to 464, (last week,
U., to 454.); Oats, 22e. to 28s. Sant week, 225. to 28e.
Bemis, 444. to (last week. 445. to 11)..) 81b. loaf. 11d.
—There wasa good supply. Wheat sold slowly, at last
week's rates. Business in barley was brisk. and last
week's prices were fully sustained. Oats worth rather
snore. Beans as last week.

t•toirru.turrox, Fnday. —Old wheat, £lO 104. to
£120.. : new, CIO lfa. t I:11 10.. per load. Malting
barley. 365. to 42..; grinding ditto, :Me. to 2145. Oata,
Me. to 30a. ; beans, 40e. to AN. malt 64e. to Ger. per qr. :
Flour 325. to MU. Od. per aack.—There was • fair
pale for wheat, at the full prime of this day week.
Barley of all dowriptions in fair demand, at full quota.
I.lone. Oata and beans without change. Flour Ann,
with • steady sale.

LIVERPOOL WOOL•MARKET, Nov. 5.
There has not been so much doing in foreign WOOl,
buyers being for the moment supplied ; and there !MVO
been no arrivals of moment to add to the choice in the
market. fleoteh.—There has been rather more inquiry
for Cheviot; other kinds are still in limited deinand.

WORCINTER HOP4E &MEET, Nov. 5.
The announcement in this day's morning paper of
the amount of duty on the different hop districts basset
at rest the question of the production of the year,
which is very nearly what it had been generally esti-
mated at, E 330.000 being the estimate latterly. We
routines to receive further supplies of hops from Here-
fordshire and the Western part of this county, sad
have to add more than 700 pockets. weighed in the
week led ended. With regard to prices, now that the
duty has been aerially declared we may look for a
mettlement of prices, though, of mune, where hops
am premed upon the market it must be at a aserifice.
par really rod samples, of which there are plenty, the
brewers w still give good prices, but infei ior are
comparative/1Y • drug.

All communications in relation to whatever de-
partmcnt the Paper are to he athlrexned to
Mr. FtLEDEI:icK ,lIALLErr, Editor of the DOl,fi
County Efpreo. and Agricultural Utneik, at the
Office, Church Street, Dorchester.
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