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qualities, will always sell at good fair prices ; that English Cheddar cheese, 

 year after year, had been worth not far from ninety shillings sterling per 

 cwt., while American cheese had varied from thirty to seventy shillings per 

 cwt.; that on the eleventh of December, 1875, the market for cheese was 

 as follows : English Cheddar, first quality, ninety shillings per cwt., equal 

 to twenty-two and one-half cents per pound, currency ; second quality, 

 seventy-four shillings per cwt., equal to eighteen cents currency ; English 

 Cheddar, first quality, eighty-six shillings per cwt., equal to twenty-one cents 

 currency; second quality, seventy-six shillings per cwt., equal to eighteen 

 and one-half cents currency; third quality, seventy shillings per cwt., equal 

 to seventeen cents currency ; Scotch Cheddar, first quality, seventy-six 

 shillings per cwt., equal to eighteen and one-half cents currency ; second 

 quality, fifty-four shillings per cwt., equal to fifteen and one-half cents 

 currency; Dutch Gonda, first quality, sixty shillings per cwt., equal to 

 fourteen and three-fourths cents currency ; second quality, fifty-six shillings 

 per cwt., equal to thirteen and three-fourths cents currency ; Dutch Edam, 

 first quality, sixty-eight shillings per cwt., equal to sixteen and one-fourth 

 cents currency ; second quality, fifty-six shillings per cwt., equal to thirteen 

 and three-fourths cents currency ; American, first quality, fifty-eight 

 shillings per cwt., equal to fourteen cents currency; seco»d quality, fifty 

 shillings per cwt., equal to twelve cents currency ; third quality, forty 

 shillings per cwt., equal to nine and three fourths cents currency. And Mr. 

 Willard remarks : " Such a difference in values proves either that our 

 goods do not enter into competition, or that the quality is so inferior that 

 our competition is practically no detriment to the foreign producers." 



Mr. Livesey, of Derbyshire, England, who has made a specialty in 

 keeping the run of the matter, says in a recent letter to Mr. Willard, that 

 there has been scarcely any variation in the price of first-class cheese for 

 many years in the markets of England. The variation has been confined 

 exclusively to the American and inferior grades. 



By reference to these figures it will be seen that first quality of 

 American cheese in the London market in December, 1875, was eight and 

 one-half cents per pound, currency, below the first quality of English 

 Cheddar ; seven cents per pound below first quality English Chistim ; three 

 cents per pound below the price of the third quality of English Chistim ; 

 one and one-half cents per pound below the lowest grade quoted of Scotch 

 Cheddar, and only about on a par with the lowest grades of Dutch cheese 

 in that market, while the third quality of American cheese was only worth 

 about fifty-seven cents per cwt.,. or a little over one-half that of third quality 



