108 PRICES OF WOOL. [June 189G. 



PRICES OF WOOL. 



Average Prices of English Wool, per Pack of 240 lbs., in 

 the months of March and April 1896. 



(Compiled from the Economist.) 



Description. 



March 1896. 



April 1896. 



South Downs - - 



Half-breds 



Leicester - 



Kent fleeces - - 



£ s, £ s. 

 9 10 to 11 10 



9 10 „ 11 10 



10 0 „ 11 10 



9 10 „ 11 0 



£ s. £ s. 

 9 5 to 11 5 



9 5 „ 11 0 



10 0 „ 11 5 



9 10 „ 10 15 



DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 



i. — Diseases of Animals in Great Britain. 



Number of Outbreaks of Pleuro-Pneumonia and of 

 Swine-Fever, with the Number of Cattle and Swine 

 Slaughtered by order of the Board of Agriculture, in 

 Great Britain in each of the under-mentioned periods. 





Pleuro-Pneumonia, 



Swine-Fever, j 



Quarter 



ENDED 



Outbreaks 

 I Confirmed. 



Cattle 

 found 

 Diseased. 



Cattle 

 Slaughtered 



as having 



been 

 exposed to 



Infection. 



Outbreaks 

 Confirmed. 



Swine 

 Slaughtered j 

 as | 

 Diseased, 

 or as 

 having been 



exposed 

 to Infection. 



September 1894 - 

 December 1894 - 

 March 1895 

 June 1895 

 September 1895 - 

 December 1895 - 

 March 1896 



No. 



1 

 



1 

 1 



No. 

 7 



8 



No. 



88 



43 

 78 



No. 

 1,889 

 985 

 1,306 

 1,634 

 1,578 

 1,787 

 1,524 



No, 

 12,311 

 7,622 

 9,584 

 15,096 

 18,293 

 26,958 

 19,596 



