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Loldinfj of the Taunton Great (acnthly) Cattle Market the 

 same day tended iu some measare to leaseu the amouut of 

 business tranaacted. Of fresh steers, owing to the great 

 scarcity of grass in West-of-England pastures, we had an 

 iinuaually large supply; but for horned cattle there was a very 

 dull sale — ia fact, the greater number were driven away with- 

 out changing hands. There was a moderate show of sheep 

 oCFereJ ; and breeding ewes of tl'.c Down breed sold remark- 

 ably well. There were comparatively few transactions in fat 

 stock, late quotationi being generally well maintained. 



WOODBURYFAIR— The weather was everything that 

 could be desired, but the attendance was not aa large as we 

 have seen on former occasions. There was quite the usual 

 number of sheep penned, between 10,000 aud 12,000, and they 

 met with a better sale than at Toller Down, by 23. or 3s. per 

 head. A prime lot of Down ewes, shown by Mr. Dowdeu, of 

 Roke Farm, realized 453. per head, and a pen of lambs, exhi- 

 bited hy Mr. J. F. Fowler, Kingston, 31s. 6J., while Mr. 

 Heasaut'a lambs made SOs., and his ewes 403. per head. Upon 

 the whole, prices wcrs considered to be satisfactory. There 

 was about an average supply of cart colts, iu which depart- 

 ment, however, the trade was very depressed, and animals 

 ^hich last year would have made £40, might^e had at from 

 30 guineas to £35. A number of Irish horses met with a sale 

 at from £20 to £25 for those of a useful description, but in- 

 ferior were quite unsaleable. 



WORCESTER FAIR.— The attendance was good, but the 

 I'lisiness done in most articles was small. The supply of store 

 sheep was large, but the quality very inferior, and few were 

 sold, at a reduction of Ta. to Ss. on the prices obtained at our 

 1.1! t September fair. Fat sheep met with a ready sale at 6|d. 

 to 7d. fier lb., and all that were offered were quickly bought 

 lip. A very indifferent supply of beef, and but few sales. A 

 great many piga chauged hands at a slight advance in price. 

 Cart horses were in good supply, and were all sold out at 

 good average prices. There were no good nags. Cheese, of 

 w)i ch there was cnly a middling supply, brought from 5JJ. 

 to 7d. 



WELSH FAIRS.— Fairs were held at Langadock and 

 Maeuclochog on the 16th, at Llanboidy on the 18th, at 

 Lsndysil on the 20th, at Newcastle Eralyn on the 2l9t, at 

 Pembroke and Llanarth on the 22nd of this month. There 

 -,vas a larger number of store beasts for sale at each of those 

 places, and a very full attendance of dealers, who purchased 

 rcarly the whole of those that were suitable for ths English 

 fair?, at a slight advance in their value. Oxen were scarce, 

 and sold briskly at high rates. Fat cows were in fair supply 

 aud demand, at from 4id.to 6d. per lb., according to quantity, 



sinking the offal. Cowi with calvea were scarce, and conse- 

 quently sold at improved prices. A large number of agricul- 

 tural horses and colts were on offer, aud many sold at about 

 late rates. A very large number of sheep were shown at 

 Maenclochog, Llauboidy, and Llanarth, which sold at highly 

 satisfactory prices. Bacon pigs and porkers were in fair 

 supply and demand, at about 5d. per lb. dead weight. Iloraes 

 were in large numbers, at no improvement in their value. 



IRISH FAIRS.— Listowel: The pig fair was well at- 

 tended by buyers, and there was a good supply of fat pigs. 

 The prices were much better than last fair. The cattle fair 

 was well attended by buyers, and there was a good supply of 

 stock, and an improvement iu prices since the last. Ennis- 

 CORTHY was uuusually largely attended with stock of all 

 kinds, hut depression was the general and prevailing feature, 

 and consequently little business was transacted, except in pigs, 

 of which between 700 and 800 were bought at from 383. to 

 403. per cwt. Bennett's Bridge (Monday): Fat cow g, 

 very scarce, sold at from £10 to £14 ; new milch cows, also 

 scarce and iu demand, £9 to £12; springers £8 to £10: 

 strippers, £7 to £9 ; two-year-olds, £7 to £10 ; yearlings, £4 

 to £6 ; fat sheep, 353. to 45s. ; lambs, 20i. to 27s. ; fat pigs, 

 423. per cwt. ; stores, 403. to 50'. each ; bonharas, ISs. to SOs, 

 per couple. Banagher (Friday) : The cattle fair closed 

 about twelve o'clock, all the prime lots exhibited tor s-ile having 

 been purchased at that hour. There was a very good supply 

 of milch cows and springers that brought prices varyin? from 

 £8 to £14 ; weanling calves weut at from £2 lOs. to £3 lOs. 

 All the inferior lots were driven out unsold. Dunleer 

 (Co. Ix)uth) : There was a tolerably good supply of prime 

 beef, which met with a ready sale for the sister country. Prime 

 beef met wi'h a ready sale, for exportation, at from 5d8. to 

 603. per cwt.; some of the prices obtained reached rather be- 

 yond that figure. There was a good supply of springers, for 

 which there was sharp buying ; their price3 ranged from £8 

 lOs. to £16 and upwards. Dry cows aud store cattle were m 

 fair demand, the former rating at from £7 to £10 each ; the 

 latter at from £6 to £10 for two-year-old bullocks. Yearlings 

 sold moderately well, at from £4 to £5 lOi. each ; and wean- 

 lings at from 25s, to 6O3. each, according to the breed or con- 

 dition. Mutton may he quoted at former prices, viz. — from 

 5|J. to 6jd. per lb. The supply of store pigs a.-id tmall ones 

 wa3 uncommonly good, for which the buying wa? very &harp, 

 the former ranging iu price from 253. to 453 , and the latter at 

 from I83. to 283. the couple. Bacon pigs appear to be some- 

 what more plentiful, and commanded from 483. to 503. per 

 cwt. What were offered for sale were bought up at an early 

 hour. 



REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE 



DURING THE PAST MONTH. 



The anxious period of harvest-time has now 

 about closed all over the British Isles, after some 

 hindrances in the North and Scotland by rain, and 

 more damage to the condition in Ireland ; but the 

 greater productiveness of these countries will in 

 some degree compensate for a partial deterioration 

 in the produce. Balancing the various conflicting 

 accounts received, we arrive at the conclusion that 

 an average crop has been gathered throughout the 

 United Kingdom — Scotland excelling this season 

 in its quantity and quality, and many locaUties in 

 England producing samples little inferior to the 

 crup of 1857. Early preparations have commenced 

 for autumnal sowing; and with a farther moderate 

 fall of rain, much land will speedily be in fine tilth 



for seeding : as yet, the work of ploughing is too 

 severe. 



The markets during the past month have pre- 

 sented one uniform feature of dulness for all grain, 

 supplies having been more liberal of our own 

 growth, and foreign imports continuing free. It 

 is not, however, in the fact that farmers have sold 

 more freely than last year at this jieriod — as the 

 sales of the last four weeks were 13,344 qrs. less 

 than in 1857 — but in the large influx of foreign 

 grain that has set in upon a year of unusual abund- 

 ance, that we find the chief cause of the present 

 depression. Tlie official returns up to the end of 

 August show our receipts this year to have been 

 in wheat and flour equal to 3,880,204 qrs., which 



