140 



Diseases of Animals. 



Average Prices of English Wool, per sack of 240 lbs., 

 in the undermentioned months of 1897. 



(Compiled from the Economist.) 



Description. 



March. 



April. 



May, 



South Down 

 Halfbreds 



Leicester - . - - 

 Kent Flee -es - 



Is. £ s. 

 9 0 to II 0 



9 0 10 0 



9 0 ,, 10 2 



9 0 „ 10 0 



£ s. £ s. 

 9 0 to II 0 



9 0 10 0 



9 0 ,, 10 0 



9 0 10 0 



£ £ s. 



9 0 to II 0 



9 0 „ 10 0 

 9 0 10 0 

 9 0 ,, 10 0 



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. 



Quarter 



BNDEO. 



Pleuro-Pneumonia. 



Swine-Pever. 



Outbreaks 

 Confirmed. 



Cattle 

 found 

 Diseased. 



Cattle 

 Slaughtered 

 as having 



been 

 exposed to 

 Infection. 



Outbreaks 

 Confirmed. 



SvV(NE 



Slaughtered 

 as 



Diseased, 

 or as 

 having betn 



exvoitd 

 to Infection. 







JVo, 



A'o. 







December 1895 









1,787 



26,958 



March 1896 - 



I 



8 



78 





19.596 



June 1895 - 



I 



I 



105 



1,723 



24,855 



September 1896 









1,104 



19,329 



December 1896 









815 



15,806 



March 1897 - 



2 



14 



450 



735 



13.544 



