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SMITHFIELD 

 MARKET. 



heifers, which happened to go up to a good in. 

 market laft week. They neated 1047. i-js. BULLOCKS 

 lod. f, or p/. i is. ahead. They cofl about TURXEPS. 

 6/. i$s. and therefore left a profit of 2/. i6s. 

 a piece, only; but, confuieringthe high price at 

 which they were bought-in, and the untoward- 

 nefs of the feafon, they have not done amifs. 

 He may thank, however, the fluctuation of 

 Smithfield market. 



The preceding week there was an uncom- 

 monly full market. Smith alone drove feven 

 fcore. The demand was glutted and the prices 

 low. (A farmer in the neighbourhood fent up 

 three, which were fold for what he had ex- 

 pedled for two of them !). This frightened 

 the grazier ; fo that, laft week, the market 

 was thin, and they fold well. 



A week or two at the finifhtng of the tur- 

 neps feems to be an injudicious time to fend 

 bullocks to Smithfield and St. Ive's : there is 

 generally a glut about that time. If, there- 

 fore, bullocks are fit, they ought to be fent 

 off a week or two before j if not, they ought, 

 if poflible, to be kept two or three weeks 

 longer. 



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