Diseases of Animals. 



425 



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

 in the under-mentioned Months of 1897. 



(Compiled from the Economist.) 



Description. SeptExMber. 



October. 



November. 



South Down 

 Half breds 



Leicester - - - - 

 Kent Fleeces 



£ £ 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 

 80,, 9 10 



£ s. £ s. 

 8 10 to 10 0 



8 10 ,, 9 15 



8 10 ,, 9 15 



80 ,, 9 ID 



DISEASES OF ANIMALS IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



Number of Outbreaks of Fieuro-Fneamonia, 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 



Pleuropneumonia. 



Swine-Fever. 



Outbreaks 

 Confirmed. 



Cattle 

 found 

 Diseased. 



Cattie 

 Slaughtered 

 as having 



been 

 exposed to 

 Infection. 



Outbreaks 

 Confirmed. 



Swine 

 Slaughtered 

 as 



Diseased, 

 or as 

 having been 



exposed 

 to Infection. 







No. 



No. 



No. 



No. 



September 1896 









1,104 



19,329 



December 1896 









815 



15,806 



March 1897 - 



2 



14 



450 





13,544 



Jmie 1897 - 



3 



25 



197 



700 



13,131 



September 1897 



I 



4 



71 





8,026 



