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Both these samples are Red Dog (Minnesota goods) ; each is high 

 grade, better than it is guaranteed to be. The first, quoted at $1.80 per 

 hundred pounds, is quite appreciably better than the latter, although it 

 was quoted 20 cents higher. 



Red Dog was quoted the past year at $1.80, $1.90, $1.95, $2.00 per 

 100 pounds. 



Shorts or middlings were quoted at $1.60 by leaps of 5 cents all the 

 way up to $2 per 100 pounds. Here also prices do not vary with feeding 

 value, as witness the following : 



Here are two quotations on the same day, June 16, and they were 

 made in the same town. This indicates that the man who on that day 

 paid $2 per 100 pounds for his middlings could have gotten a better 

 article ''just around the corner" for $1.60. 



MIXTURES OF BRAX, SHORTS AND SCREENINGS. 



(Analyses, pages 36, 37.) 

 The number analyzed is seventeen, eleven being official. The varia- 



