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

 in the under-mentioned Months of 1897. 



(Compiled from the Economist.) 



Description. 



June. 



July. 



August. 



South Down 

 Halfbreds 



Leicester - - - - 

 Kent Fleeces 



£ s. £ s. 



8 15 to 10 10 



8 15 9 17 

 8 15 9 17 

 8 10 ,, 9 15 



£ s. £ s. 



8 10 to 10 0 



8 10 ,, 9 15 

 8 10 ,, 9 15 

 80,, 9 10 



£ s. £ s. 



8 10 to 10 0 



8 10 ,, 9 15 

 8 10 ,, 9 15 

 8 0 ,, 9 10 



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 



ENDED 



Pleuro Pneumonia. 



Swine-Fever, 



Outbreaks 

 Confirmed. 



Cattle 

 found 

 Diseased. 



Cattle 

 Slaughtered 



as having 



been 

 exposed to 



Infection. 



Outbreaks 

 Confirmed. 



Swine 

 Slaughtered 



as 



Diseased, 

 or as 

 having been 



exposed 

 to Infection. 



June 1896 - 



ATo. 



JVo. 



A/0. 



JVo. 



JVo. 



I 



I 





1,723 



24,855 



September 1896 









1,104 



19,329 



December 1896 









815 



15,806 



March 1897 - 



2 



14 





785 



13,544 



June 1897 - 



3 



25 



197 



700 



13,131 



