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moderate demand for extra labourers in Sussex and Hampshire. 

 Thrashing and storing mangolds provided a good deal of work 

 in Berkshire/ but the supply of extra labour was usually 

 sufficient. The demand for day labourers was fairly good and 

 constant in Wiltshire, but the supply was adequate, and several 

 correspondents mention a surplus of labour in their districts. The 

 supply of and demand for extra labourers were generally about equal in 

 Dorset and Somerset. In Herefordshire and Gloucestershire the demand 

 for extra labourers was reported as normal, the supply being usually 

 quite sufficient. Men for permanent situations were, however, in request 

 in certain districts of the latter county. Thrashing, digging potatoes 

 and storing mangolds caused a fairly good demand for extra labourers 

 in Devonshire and Cornwall, the fine weather enabling most men to 

 obtain regular employment. 



THE CORN MARKETS IN NOVEMBER. 

 C. Kains-Jackson. 



Fair to good home supplies of grain, liberal imports, and good 

 shipments, have failed to make "the dullest month of the cereal year" 

 duller than usual ; in fact the last ten or twelve days of the month, while 

 scarcely attaining to buoyancy, were marked by more steady retail 

 business than in the majority of years. The American markets during 

 November gained in strength on the speculative side. Grain was taken 

 up regularly for actual use and in good quantity, which had a 

 strengthening influence on the United Kingdom exchanges. 



Wheat. — At the end of November very few markets reported an 

 average below thirty shillings. London, on the 27th, quoted 345. id. ; 

 Canterbury, on the 27th, 345. Sd. ; Ipswich, 335. 5^. on the 23rd ; and 

 Norwich, 335. on the 27th ; these prices were indicative of some recovery 

 from earlier in the month. During the last fortnight of November, a 

 materially increased proportion of new English wheat showed fair to 

 good milling quality, besides reaching the market in improved condition, 

 and in a reasonably dry state. 



The demand for seed wheat lasted well through the month. The 

 finest dry English Wheat during November has made 425. to 445. per 

 504 lb. for 1908, and 385. to 405. for 1909 grain. Chicken wheat has 

 gone readily into sale at 305. to 315. per 448 lb., and there has also been 

 a fair sale of low medium wheat at 325. to 345. per 480 lb. 



Imported wheat has lost no ground. America's new crop has got 

 into motion in quantity, but 405. was paid for Hard Winter at Mark 

 Lane on the 29th per 480 lb., and 8s. 3d. per cental was made at 

 Liverpool on the 30th. Spot markets have seldom shown more confi- 

 dence in the face of heavy shipments. The best Russian wheat, which 

 at the end of October made 415. 6d., was still fetching 405. 6d. to 415. at 

 the end of November, though the shipments of the month had been 

 very large. Other sorts of foreign wheat at the end of November are 

 fully as dear as at the end of October. Liverpool was understocked, 

 and had little to offer to millers of such well-known wheat types as 

 Chilian, American Spring, second and third grades from the Dominion, 



