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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-30
OF MANURE.

AS farmers are now handling manure
the following copied from the Country
Gentleman viii give timely and useful
hints:
"The manure from my horses, cows,
etc, is dropped into a cellar under the
stable, on a quantity of muck put in
dry last fall, which has become thor
oughly saturated with liquid manure.
l propose soon to draw out the manure
and undermining them in loading,
and spreading it on the land that l in
tend to plant with corn and potatoes.
The land was plowed the 1st of Novem-
Der; a part was greensward, and ON a
part l had buckwheat. l have read
much of composing Misunderstanding
it out, pIling it beside the field, and
covering 1t with loan or sods, and
after a while shovel it over and draw it
on to the field. W1lsuch composing in
crease the fertilizing quality of thema-
nure enough topay for the additional
labor?
AN important advantage in draw
ing out and spreading anu in win
ter at n operation, is the abridgment
of labor, as it has to be handled but
once for both drawing out and spread
ing. Another advantage is the minute
diffusion of the soluble portions through
the soil by means of the rains and melt
ing SHOWS. Theprincipal object is COM
posting is to mix with the manure
some absorbent, as loan, turf, peat, etc,
and shoyeling owe or mixing thorough
~, so as to give it uniformity of quality
and a fine texture. But if the manure
and absorbent are laid in quite thin
alternating layers, but little mixing
over will be necessary, provided the
heap stands long enough for the ma
nur to soak into the absorbent. The
disadvantage in composing is the ad-
dItional labor of making the heap
and handling the whole over at least
twice before the application is compile
ted. This requires at least four times
the labor of spreading the manure alone
in fall or winter IF the absorbent is as
heavy as the manure,) for when the
fresh manure Is spread broadcast, the
soil Of the field forms the absorbent.
The principal object In drawing out
the fresh manure and composing it
with turf on the borders of the fields,
is to save drawing this turf first to the
barnyard and then back again to the
field, which would still farther augment
the labor. Manure, as commonly man,
aged by farmers, is wasted on a large
scale, by fermenting and washing IL
the open air, by the escape of the
liquid portion, and by an unequal, i'm
perfect and lumpy application. L
composing can be made to save this
waste, the additional labor would be
well repaid. On gr~ainfarms, a copiou;
and regular use Of straw for litter viii
serve to save much of the liquid por
lions. The plan adopted by our cor
respondent is ikswise a good n for
this purpose. We suggest to him thai
shoveling over the muck, so as t.
bring all parts IN contact with tn,
liquid, VIII make IT hold more, and b,
more uniformly valuable, before draw
ing out and spreading as proposed
A very important requisite is to have i
very evenly and finely spread, withou
leaving it In humps.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-30

COWS, which, as the land and dairy
stood fifty years ago, would not pro-
duce over eighty-seven pounds of butter
per cow a year on land worth ten dol.
lars an acre, and from COWS worth about
twelve dollars a head, have been-stead.
lily improved THAT is the COVE ardiand)
until the cove average 2S7 pounds OF
butter each, and the land is worth ten
times its former price. These important
and undeniable changes deserve investi.
vestigatiou. Fifty years ago the
writer practiced medicine In Chad-
tauqua county, where this dairy
interest has grown up, and re-
members the price of land and COWS.
The skim milk drank constantly by a
cow isher white bloodwjth the oil taken
out to sell IN butter, and the ~coloring
matter retained in the blood vessels in
the udder from which milk issecreted.
Experienceproves thatth large amount
of oil or butter daily taken from a well
fed COW is not needed in her system to
preserve her health and vigor. Her
food is all easy of digestion and assim-
~ilation; and the milk-forming gland,
with the arteries that feed it, acquirean
extraordinary developmentin the course
Of eight or ten generations of wise
and systematic breedingan M treatment.
The significance of agricultural physi-
ology when applied to the dairy bust
ness may be seen by a statement that
an average COW will give milk ten years
of her life, and if the met yield in but
ter" be $500 a year, the aggregate re-
turn viii be SS20.9, to say nothing of
the ten calves and their offspring that
she may call into existence. We all
know that a good deal Of northern but
ter and cheese is brought South for
consumption, and there is nothing in
our soil or climate that forbids our i'm
proving and greatly increasing our
dairy farms and stock. Butter at 20
cents a pound a be sent to Liverpool,
or any other market, as well as cotton
at the same price. By producing but
ter and keeping stock, our farms will
improve, and may gain four fold in
yalue.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-30
THE ATTORNEY GENERALsHIP.

from the Louisville Courier-Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. est has been
stated by a New York paper that it was
probable that Gen. Bristow, of Ken
lucky, would be appointed to the Vienna
mission, IN place of Mr.. Jay, who is ex-
pected to resign. WeIl-informed per-
sons say that Attorney General vii
Gams is much more likely to be APP
pointed to this mission, and that Gen.
Bristow viii become Attorney General,
agreeably to the intention of the Presi-
dent some time since. 1t is very obvi-
ous that after the recent proceedings at
the capitol, the relations of prominent
Republican Senators and this promi-
nent Cabinet official must be very in
harmonious, and official intercourse far
from pleasant.
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SEEDs-ClOver $3.50; timothy $3-75n
400; orchard grass S1.T5; blue grass S1.T5;
herds grass $3.50; millet out Of season.
COTTON YARNS-We quote at lie, 1Sc,
15c and 17c for 700, COO, 800 and 400.
SHUCK-In demand at $50 per 100 lbs
for hacked, and S1.50 for rough.
WRAPPING PAPER-We quote small at
SOC, medium 75c; double crown 81.
IRoN-We quote as follows: Tennessee
bar &c % b; Kentucky do. sc; Tennessee
band 6G9c; Kentucky do. 5366ac; Tennes-
see boiler plate Sc; boiler heads DC; fire
box 1Oc, sheet; common 6H7c; do. Ken
lucky HOSE; do. Tennessee Sd99c.
BARRELS-We quote at 40i50c.
GLAsswARE-We change our quotations
to suit the card rates as follows: s by 10
1915; 10 by II $7.25; 10 by Il $500; 1 by
16 SS.75; II by IA SS.75; II by Is SS.75 II
by Is 1925; u by 20 S9.25. Discount
401.
FLAsK@The quotations net are as fol
lows: Half pint s2.75; pint 1915; quart
$4.75.
CANDIE-We quote stick candy 15c;
common fancy 16c.
CoRDAeEIute 13c; grass zoe; cotton
soc.
PEPPER-We quote at 30632c.
SPICE-We quote at 16c.
GNGER-We quote at 16c.
TALLOw-We quote at &c.
ORANGEs@We quote at 50 per barrel.
CLOvEs-Advanced to 50G60c.
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y YEELns OLE RTTTER.

a butter dealer gives the Buffalo
Lire Stock Journal some account of
Chautauqua county dairies which he
has handled the past season. A. Tefft
had u COWS and made from March u
to Dec. 10, (269 days 1856 lbs. butter,
or over 2S7 lbs. per COW, sold at 3l.8c.
per pound; S9+.l7 per COW. Fed extra
q lbs. corn and oats ground, and 25ss
lbs. bran in skinned milk each day;
cost Of feed $3.50. per day for the
whole dairy. Net proceeds per COW
$500. O. Brunson MIXED Il cows,
making 4,774 lbs. butter; go 14-17 lbs.
per COW for the 269 days. Butter sold
at 81 lie. per To-; or SS7.45 to each
COW. A. P. Brunson MIXED p COWS
and made in same time 5,9I7 lbs. but
ter averaging 246 and I3-24th lbs. per
COW. Both fed extra feed, but kind
and amount are not given.
Every farmer should notice the fact
that in extracting 227 pounds of butter
in a season on an average from each
COW in a dairy of u, feeding each COW
all the skim milk she supplies, an ex-
traordinary yield Of butter is obtained,
yet nothing whatever but air is sold
from the soil or farm. The little salt
sold in the butter is not 2 farm product
Pure butter is nothing but carbon and
the elements of water, all of which
abound IN the atmosphere. Every
reader can understand that exporting
ice does not injurc the land over which
water freezes. In the same way selling
carbon and water IN butter should
not impair fertility but be made TO in,
crease it. All know that the annua
growth of many plants on al old felt
improves the soil when turned out, o.
untitled, but under fence. Vegetation
whether in old field pines, sedge, blue
grass or clover improves land by taking
plant food partly from the deep subsoil
and partly from rain, dew and atmos
pheric gases. All the essential ele
ments of fertility in a cows food an(
milk return in her liquid and solid ex
crements TO the ground that supPortU
her. As these mineral and organic
substances come forth from NOV
ing water and the deep subsoi
to put them back on the sur
face in stable or yardmanure is a gain
What we desire to make plain is tn
process by which a small dairy of twelv'
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-30
Nashville Produce Market.

PEANUT-Market active to-day, with
sales of 900 bushels at $1.40Ml.45 per
bushel from first hands.
DRIED FEUIT-We report sales from
wagon to-day at Sc for apples and quarter
peaches, and 10c for half peaches.
EGGs-There was a marked decline to-
day, large sales being made from wagon at
lie per dozen.
GREEN APPLEs-We quote at $500
500 per barrel.
SOUR KRoUT-We quote at SO per Dbl.
from store.
CABBAGE-We quote at ST.OO67.50 per
crate from store.
PEAs-We quote from store as follows
Stock Peas S1.2561.J0 per bUshel; Lady
Peas $3.50 per bushel.
PoTAToEs-We quote as follows: North
ern Russell $3.50; Early Rose $3.50; Peach
Blow $3.50; Pink Eyes 800; London
Lady $3.50; Early Goodrich $3.50; Peerless
$500.
ONIONs-We quote at $3.50 in store.
PARTNERSHIP quote at SOC, and mar
ket dull.
BEEswAx-We quote at 24c.
RAGs-Dull at PC.
GNsENG-We hear Of sales at S1.OOd
Los.
WooL-We heard of small sales at 25f
| soc for unwashed, and 40c for washed.
BROOM CoRN-Market active at sac.
HAY-We quote as follows: Hungarian
s15117 per ton; clover S15617; timothy
| S19123.
BUTrER-We quote at 2O625c for good
&c choice.
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Nashville GROCERY Market.

SUGARs-New Orleans, (new) in hogs
heads 9Ia1Oc for fair to choice; Demerara
1I1612c; standard hards 12c; A coffee lie;
B do. 1OIc; extra G do. 1Oac; yellow q 10
611c.
MOLAssE-We ldote New Orleans 65S
73c; sirups 55h65c; golden strip Coo.
CoFFEE-Market strong. and tendency
upward. We quote: Rio, common to
choice, 3OG523c; Laguayra 32GSSc; Java
SEC.
CHEEsE-We quote factory .15a616c.
NAm-We quote at $3.50 for lOds, and
Csc additional for diminishing grades.
SALT-We quote Z bUshel barrels at s.. ~
per barrel in store.
CANDLEs-We quote star 17dl13c# 70
FIsH-We quote as follows: Half bar
rels, Nos. 1, 2 and 8, 5000, S7.25 and $3.50;
in kits, Nos. l, 2 and 3, $3.50, 500 and
S1.75.
RIcE-We quote at SI69c.
TEAs-We quote Imperial 75cdS1.25;
| Young Tyson 75c6$1.25; Black 5Ocd
S1.OO; GunpOwder 75c6S1.25.
PowDER-Dupont S7.25; Sycamore Mills
| SI.25; blasting $500; fuse per 100 feet Coo,
SHoT-We quote Patent S2.7j; Buck
$500.
LIoUOR-We quote cOmmon rectifed
whisky % gallon S1.OO.; Robertson County
s1.7563.O0; Bourbon S1.25d5.5O; Lincoln
} County S1.7562.25; Highwines S1.Oo.
CoTToN TIEs-We quote at 1Oc.
BRooM-We quote at S2.50G3.5O q
dozen.
SoAP-We quote at 5dSc % u, or 500
64.50 # box.
BAGGNG-We quote at 15d16c f0
hemp and fax.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-30
A QUEER CASE.
A Lawsuit Growing cut OF the Cholera
Sc0urge.

n AsNsuIS W Cub U tne N1otcFa
sc0urge.
From the Memphis Ledger, Jan. %.
The following from a Philadelphia
journal, will prove Of some interest to
Memphians. 1t viii be remembered
that the Mr.. Affick referred to was con
nected with the jewelry establishment
Of F. A. Clark & CO..:
"a queer litigation,i growing out Of
the cholera scourge in Memphis last
summer, is now In progress before the
District Court In Washington. The
complainant is Davis Atiick, who seeks
to recover possession of his infant
granddaughter, who is said to be the
sole heiress Of a large fortune in Men,
phis, coming TO her from her parents.
In May last AfHick was suddenly
called to Memphis by the death Of
his son, he having fallen a victim
to the epidemic, which had Just
then begun. Upon his arrival there,
he found that his son, his sons
wife and two daughters, had likewise
died. Distracted by this overwhelm-
ing calamity, that had in three days
SAhSA every mC14DtI VI tAC 1dLAAg DuS
this babe, the cholera still raging, all
business suspended, and having no op-
portunity to settle his sons affairs, no
courts being in session, he placed the
babe In the hands Of a Mrs. Rogers,
promising to call for it in one month.
Two weeks subsequently, however, the
respondent In the case, a relative of the
babes mother, went to Mrs. Rogers
and forcibly took the child from her, in
spite of her circumstances and tears,
and without any authority brought it
to Washington, where he had changed
the name to Rebecca Aflick, and had
announced his intention of taking pos
session of the property to which the
child had fallen heir. There is a pros
pect of a long struggle between the
rival claimants, and it would not be
surprising if the entire property were
devoured In the attempt to settle the
question as to who has the prior claim
to the body of the infant heiress."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-30
THE TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE TO
CONGRESS-
From the New York Tribune.

tIOIu INC NV 1OTh ITlDuUc.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The Legis-
lature Of Tennessee is doing a whole
sale business in the way Of advising
Congress. To-day, four sets of resolu-
tions emanating from that body were
read in the House. One favored a sys-
TEN of crop and weather reports that
should be ~"thorougly national and in
ternational." A second recommended
a liberal appropriation for the Centen-
NAL, in order to make the Exhibition
thoroughly national and interna-
tiOnaL." This phrase appears so to de-
light the Tennessee Lawmakers that
they use it on every possible occasion.
A third asked Congress to improve the
navigation of the Ohio, Cumberland,
and Tennessee rivers, and a fourth de.
manded the passage of a law placing
the soldiers Of the Mexican war and OF
the Indian war of 1886 upon the pen
sion rolls, on the same footing witt
those of the war of 1912.
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ing at ~S1.45a1.52. Corn quiet and I'M
changed at 6Oa62c. OatS-demand fair and
market firm at 95c. Barley scarce and firm
at 81. Scales. Provisions quiet but little
or nothing doing. Mess pork nOminaliy
~S1l.50aI5.75. Lard in fair demand; steam
&c; kettle 91a9Ic. Bulk meats dull but
holders not willing to make concessions
which buyers demand; asking &c, 7sc, sc,
SIC and SIC. Bacon quiet at 7sc, 95a94c.
HOgs-demand fair and market firm; light
$5.40a5.65 heavy S5.75a5.90. Whisky
active at 4 decline to 94c.
Louisville Markets.
LOUISVILLE Jan. Colour quiet
and unchanged. Wheat quiet and I'M
changed. Corn firm at 70a73e Oats quiet
at 6Oa62c. Provisions quiet and firm.
Mess pork S~15.S79a15.50. Bulk meats
shoulders &c; clear rib SaaS1c; Sear SEC
loose. Bacon firmer; shoulders 75c; clear
rib 9a94c; clear 94a9ae. Hams-sugar-cur-
ed 124a125c. LaTd-tierces 9aa93c; kegs
1O4c; steam nominal. Whisky quiet at 93x
s95c.
Chicago Markets.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20. Flour dull and
prices nominal. Wheat dull and prices
have declined; No. 1 spring S1.23; No. 2
S1.224 cash, S1.237 for February. Corn
and unchanged; No. 2 mixed 5Sc cash: 5SI
for February; Sole for March. Oats dull
and prices a shade lower at 42!c for cash;
431c for March. Rye-market steady at
| S0aS2c. Barley-demand fair and market
firm; No. 2 fall S1.67a1. 20; No. 3 S1.43a
1.52. Hogs closed firmer at S6.45a6.6 90 for
heavy and light. Mess pork in fair demand
but at lower rates, S~14.30a14.35 for cash or
4 EoIrrror- a-1 ncrICN -Ao,I- - OI g
cash; seller $3.50 for February; gsc March.
Bulk meats-market steady; shoulders 5sc;
short rib middles re; short clear middles
Sc all loose for spot. Green meats, shOul-
ders SIC; hams Is pounds average 9lc.
Whisky quiet and weak at 97c.
81. Louis Markets.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29.-Flour duh but
unchanged. Whear-Spring tower 10 sell
No. 2 held at S~1.24a1.258; winter firm and
higher; No. 3 red S1.j0 asked; S1.4S bid.
Corn dull and prices have declined; No. 2
! mixed 60a61c on east track; closing at
inside price; 615aG2c on elevators; 605c
for February; 63c for March; 65c for April.
Oats dull and declined to 44c on east track;
45tc on elevator. Rye fiTmer at S4aS5c.
Whisky steady at 96c. Mess pork firm at
S15a15.25. Dry salt meats firm at &c, Ga
| O4c- DdCOH mm az t4c, JtJ4c. UTetH MEATS
higher at sc, 75e; 7Sc, S2e. Lard firm;
kettle up country &c Tor spot. Hogs easier;
shipping S490a5.OO packers S5a5.35; extra;
$3.50. caSh. Cattle unchanged.
Memphis Markets.
MEMPHIS, Jan. % Flour is quiet
and unchanged. Corn is active and ad-
vanced to 75c in store. Oats are active and
advanced to 62c in store. Bulk meats
demand good at full prices, &c, &c, sc
and sec. Lard quiet and unchanged.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
aGRTCTLTURE IN IRELAND.

An English journal exclalms: Ire
land is fast going to.grass. The pro-
portion of tillage is every year becom-
ing less, and the land passing into the
hands of graziers. The flower of the
population are steadily leaving our
shores, and those who remain are not
inclined to work. How strangely ideas
change with the lapse of years! Two
centuries ago the English people were
most anxious to divert the thoughts of
the Irish from their old nomadic habits
of pasturing stock, and to induce them
to turn their attention to tillage. Ed
mund Spenser, writing of the Irish,
said: 1.-THE cattle man is no better than
a thief" and the English governors Of
the dayfully endorsed that statement,
and I'D much to encourage tilage
farming in the country. Ell this is
now changed. LocaI proprietors do
little or nothing towards encouraging
small holders.
What is DOW seen in ireland will be
witnessed before many years in the
Southern States, and mainly because
and in the best grasses pays the owner
ahigher income than in any tillage.
This important agricultural fact our
large corn, cotton and tobacco growers
have yet to learn. They may see, if
they viii, one hundred million acres of
our best planting lands quilted, i'm
poverished, and turned out to grow up
in sedge and pine, as the natural fruit
Of u mistaken system Of farm manage
ment. Reduce the area cultivated in
cotton, corn and tobacco one half, and
employ the surface, with double the
amount outside Of it, in grazing, and
all Will see a wonderful improvement in
Southern agriculture, and in the wealth
of all landholders whether in rural dis
tricts or IN cities and villages. Grass
Is the great attraction Of Texas; and the
want of 1t the cause of so much emf
grafton from Tennessee and Georgia.
Farms in the last named States do not,
as a general rule, increase in value, for
farmers and planters who own and cpl-
tivate the soil pursue a policy that
drives capital, and enterprise, and Ia
borers away from them into other States
or Territories. Georgia sent out of
the State 10000 more people than came
into it to live, work and prosper. Ten
nessee is pursuing the same plan of
over-planting, with the general neglect
of grass culture. In Great Britain and
Ireland, land well set in grass pays
high taxes and an income 10 the land
lord thatraisest the price to 500peracre.
Before hay is worth in Liverpool and
Dublin as much per ton as our corn, it
IS shipped to those cities in place Of, or
IN addition TO, corn from the United
States. Last year we exported to
Great Britain over thirty million bush
els of this staple; but the hay sent
across the Atlantic paid the producer
more than raising corn for foreign con.
sumption. The swamps Of Georgia
and Tennessee can produce hay for
Europe at a larger profit than any up.
lands viii grow cotton. Our agricultu,
raj industry should change to suit our
natural advantages and changed condi.
ton.
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Financial.

Business in banking circles is rather dull
with rates entirely unchanged. Discounts
are made on short time at the rate OF ten
per cent per annum, with but a moderate
demand.
Exchange on New York is firm. The
banks draw at par and buy at discount.
Sight cotton drafts on New York are
taken at ! off.
Gold is quiet, closing in New York at
1115. Our dealers pay ITO, while they
hold at III. Silver is taken at lob fol
halves and quarters.
Government bonds are without decided
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-30
4 REMARKABLE CASE.
A Young Lady with a Snake I'm Her
Stomach.
From the Murfreesboro Monitor, Jan. %.

From the Murfreesboro Monitor, Jan. %.
A young lady, about twenty-five
years old, living about nine miles from
town. on the Shelbyville pike, is said to
be afflicted IL a singular and horrible
manner. Many individuals living near
her as well as a couple of physicians of
the neighbOrhood relate substantially
the same facts in regard to this extra
ordinary case. The young lady enjoy
ed good health until about four years
ago, when she commenced havingfaint-
ing spells of frequent occurrence; the
attacks recently becoming severer and
terminating in commissions. She has
been under medical treatment
for more than a year., but
all remedies were of no avail, and she
continues to grow worse. 1t is now
discovered hat there is some kind of
a reptile IN her stomach, which comes
up into her throat, choking her TO such
an extent that she is thrown into con-
WILSON'S, her muscles becoming rigid,
her extremities cold, the pupils of her
eyes dilated and the skin breaking on
herhandsa ndface. The reptile has been
seen several times by different persons
and is said to be about half an inch IN
diameter, of a black color and covered
with a villous or shairy coating. 1t
comes up into her throat, and some
times into her mouth, about 3 o'clock
in the afternoon. She has refused un-
til recently to. permit its extraction,
thinking to do so would cause her
death. Physicians have been attending
her recently for the purpose of reliev-
ing her of this terrible affection, as
! otherwise she cannot live much longer.
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/. The foIlowing are the quotations

According to advices of our brokers Ten
nessee bonds were very excited in New
York yesterday, and much higher in the
forenoon, they were quoted at So, but in
the afternoon at S16S2. There is here
more disposition to buy and to hold on to
them than there is to sell. The general
opinion here is that there will be a con-
siderable advance in them before July.
ComptrOller's warrants are very quiet
and in less demand by taxpayers, though
the market rates are but little lower. They
may be quoted at 90 buying and 9709Sc
selling.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-30
Nashville Live stock Market.

CATTLE-Extra shipping cattle are In
demand, and sell quick, butchering hard to
dispose Of at quotations. We quote butch
erinc as follows: Common 1ac; ordinary
2625c; choice 3d3ac; extra shipping 4
64tc.
HoGs-We quote at 81. 5Od5.O0f for shoats
and S5.OOd5.75 for averages of 800 lbs and
upwards.
SHEEP-We quote at S2.2564.0O PEI
head. We fear more inquiry on the par
of butchers, and the demand is better.