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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



score; heifers and cakes, from A.'IO 10s. to ,€13 lUs. each ; 

 yearlings, £5 eacli ; two-year-olds, £'3 10s, to c£7 lOs. each. 

 A few sheep offered ; but few sales, if any, were made. The 

 best store pigs at from '25s. to 35s. each ; small, from 4s. 

 6d. to 8s. 6d. each ; sows, with their yonng pigs, £4 to £4 

 5s. each. 



DUNSB HOGG TRYST.— The supply was fully an average 

 one. The demand was good, and a great many sales were 

 made. The following were the current prices : Cheviots 

 from 163. to 223. ; cross-bred from 26s. to 34s. ; a lot of half- 

 bred sold at 403. There were a number of stirks in the mar- 

 ket, which were selling at from £6 to £10 each. 



DUNSMUIR TRYST.— There was a large attendance 

 of farmers, dealers, and others, and there was a considerable 

 quantity of stock on the ground, which found ready pur- 

 chasers on good terms. Prices of prime fat were 9s., down 

 to 8s., according to qua'itj'. A very excellent lot of queys, 

 considered the best in the market, were sold by Mr. 

 Webster, Witston, to Mr. Welsh, Tillytoghills, at £16 

 16s., which was considered about 9s. per stone; and several 

 other lota were sold at the same price. There was a fair 

 supply of grazing cattle, which were for the most part dis- 

 posed of fully above that figure. The other descriptions of 

 cattle met a ready sale at reasonable prices; and, on the 

 ■whole, the market was good. 



EXETER FAIR.— Tfie attendance of agriculturists was 

 good ; and the number of beasts driven in was rather above 

 the average. The trade, however, was not brisk, and a great 

 deal remained unsold. Best beef fetched from 9s. to 10s. per 

 score. Bsrreners, best quality, 63. 6d. to Ss. per score ; cows 

 and calves, £10 to £16. There was a good supply of store 

 sheep, and prices ranged from 30s. to 389. each. 



GLOUCESTER MONTHLY CATTLE MARKET.- An 

 abundance of beef, mutton, and lamb, and purchasers were 

 well supplied with every description of stock. Beef ruled 

 from 6d. to 6|d. ; mutton, 6d. to 6^-d.; lamb, 8d. to 8^d. 

 per lb. 



HAY FAIR was a full one of stock. Young steers and 

 fresh barrens were in good demand, but owing to the want of 

 grass in the midland counties the dealers were not willing to 

 speculate for fresh bullocks. Good cart horses were readily 

 sold at very remunerative prices ; there were but few good 

 hacks, and for them prices were lower. 



HALTWHISTLE FAIR.— Shorthorn cows, milking or 

 in-calf, made from £15 to £19 ; stirks, £7 10s. to ^9. Gal- 

 loway cows, in milk or about dropping a calf, from £12 to £15 

 — some prime ones a few pounds over the last figure ; heifers, 

 calved or in calf, from £11 to £13; stirks, £5 to £6 lOs. ; 

 two-year-old bullocks or heifers, from £7 lOs. to £8 lOs. 

 Irish heifers, £5 to £7. Galloway cows, not in milk, ready 

 for the grazier, £9 lOs. to £11 lOs. There was only a small 

 show of sheep. Blackfaced hoggs ranged from I69. to 193. ; 

 Leicester hoggs, from 233. to 27s.; Cheviot ewes, with lambs 

 at their feet, from 35s. to SSs. a couple. The Leicester hogs 

 were also good in quality. There were 23 cartloads of pigs, of 

 average quality, which sold well. Pigs six or seven weeks old, 

 from lis. to 153. ; seven to nine weeks, 153. to 193. and 203. 



HEREFORD FAIR.— Fat cows sold readily at 7d. per lb. 

 for all on offer ; fresh barrens and young grazing stock also 

 commanded a ready sale, but lean steers and cows with calves, 

 of which there were a large number in the market, hung on 

 baud rather heavily, owing to ths lateness of the season^aud 

 the high price of keep in some districts. There was a large 

 supply of sheep in and out of the wool. Fat wethers, and all 

 ovine stock fit for the knife, readily realized 7s. per stone in 

 the wool, with a proportionate reduction in others for the ab- 

 sence of the fleeces. Ewes with lambs ruled about 468. to 

 483. per couple ; a few very prime ones fetched over SOs. 

 Lambs sold singly to the butchers from £1 to £1 8s., accord- 

 ing to age and fatness. Store pigs were numerous, and changed 

 hands with celerity, at prices fully equal to those which have 

 lately been obtained. There was a large horse fair ; but besides 

 a limited number of useful hacks, which met a ready demand 

 the majority of horses on offer were for heavy draught pur- 

 poses ; these also sold estremely well, according to aire, con- 

 dition, and quality. 



HOLBEACH FAIR.-A large show of horses ; many 

 ot them very middling and inferior, but for anything good 

 (and there was a fair supply of these), there was a fcsk 

 demand, and rather better piices were obtained t'ir.n I'am 



prev.ailed of late, the attendance of buyers being very 

 great. 



IPSWICH FAIR.— The show of cattle and sheep was 

 larger than seen for years. Owing to the recent flatness in the 

 Metropolitan Market, trade opened dull and continued heavy 

 throughout the day. Fat beasts fetched from 68. 6d. to 78, 

 per stone— store beasts from 33, to 3a. 6d. per stone what they 

 will weigh when fat. Hoggets from 32s. to 488.; fat lambs, 

 25s.; stores, 133. to 223. ; couple from £2 23. to £3; stock 

 lambs from 14s. to 243, Of cart horsea and colts, there was 

 about an average supply. 



KIDDERMINSTER FAIR.— An average supply of 

 cows and sheep, for which there was but a moderate de- 

 mand. Only the best stock fetched previous prices, they 

 generally being at lower rates ; mutton scarcely realizing 

 6|^d., and beef 6d. per lb. A good show of pigs, which sold 

 at rather less than of late. 



KNIGHTON FAIR was very numerously supplied. Prices 

 were obtained much superior to those of any neighbouring 

 ■fairs. Mutton brought 6id. to 7d.; beef, 5:Ld. to 6d. Store 

 animals sold well. Wool fetched Is. to Is. 3d. per lb. 



LEDBURY FAIR.-A goodly number of excellent fat 

 cattle, including some fine oxen. The supply of sheep was 

 also tolerably good, more especially stores, which did 

 not sell quite so well as at former fairs. Of store cattle 

 also the supply was larger than the demand, and upon all 

 kinds of stock a slight I'eduction in price had to be made 

 before sales could be effected. The fair was also tolerably 

 well supplied with store pigs. The fat stock was nearly all 

 disposed of. Fat cows, Cd. to G|d. per lb. ; ditto sheep, 6d. 

 to 6|d., and a few choice ones a shade dearer ; store sheep, 

 26s. to 38s. each ; ditto pigs, 20s. to 40s, each. 



LINCOLN SHEEP MARKET.— A fair, though by no 

 means a large show of sheep, and prices were fully Is. to 2s, per 

 head lower than the high rates realized this day fortnight. 



MUIR OF ORD MARKET.— The show of cattle was 

 above the average of May ; there was also an extensive show of 

 hoggs. The prices of sheep, that is hoggs and lambs, were 

 slightly above those of last market, and a good many sales 

 took place, buyers and sellers seeming equally eager to do 

 business. In cattle there was an advance from the price of 

 last market, varj'iug from 5 to 10 per cent. ; or, as it was 

 loosely said on the market, of £1 10s. on the average 

 stock. The prices were therefore not very much below those 

 of May, 1857— very different from what all but the moat san- 

 guine calculators had looked forward to. The heavy rains 

 which have lately fallen all over the north have given farmers 

 assurance of a fair grass crop, and increased the upward ten- 

 dency in prices commenced at the April market on the Muir. 

 There were a good many south-country dealers present. The 

 market was very brisk. There was not much done in the 

 horse market. 



NEWARK FAIR. -— A large show of beasts and sheep. 

 The former sold readily at advanced prices. The best stores 

 for summer grazing made from £12 to £14 each. Milkers 

 also realized good figures. Sheep were disposed of at liberal 

 prices, but did not sell quite so well as at the previous market. 

 Hogs 42s. to 45s. each. The horse fair was large, but it con- 

 tained many animals of an inferior order. The better sort of 

 norses, of which there was a tolerable sprinkling, were very 

 soon disposed of. 



NEWTON STEWART MONTHLY CATTLE MAK- 

 KET. — Sales were very brisk, and the cattle of each class 

 (stirks and two-year-olds) brought good prices. Whether 

 from the prospect of a plentiful supply of grass, or other 

 causes, the prices obtained were fully beyond what had been 

 anticipated, and if this one be taken as an earnest of our fu- 

 ture markets during the season, our farmers and graziers will 

 certainly be well remunerated. 



STRATFORD-ON-AVON FAIR, — The number of fat 

 cattle was small ; the supply of stores was good ; stirks, &c., 

 making from £4 to £10 each; cows with their calves were 

 plentiful, and met with a ready sale from £14 to £22 together ; 

 barrens brought from JEIO to £18 ; calves, weaners, from SOs. 

 to 50s, ; sucklers, from 253. to 35s. each. There was a brisk 

 demand for sheep, of which there were penned about 3,000, 

 besides lambs of first-rate quality, and there were several fine 

 lots of sheep shown in the wool. They brought high prices. 

 Beef, 5d. to 6d. per lb. ; mutton, 5^4. to 7Jd. ; veal, 6|d. to 

 7Ad. ; Iamb, 7id to Sid. ; poik, 6id. ; fat bacon piix.', 8.^. Gd. 



