Warsaw Wool Fair. 



was a strong- demand for wool on the German market, so 

 that German merchants tried to obtain wool from Poland ; 

 they were not able, however, to obtain any quantity, as the 

 stock of 1897 wool which still remained to be disposed of 

 was at that time very small. At the small fairs held at the 

 beginning of June this year in various places in Silesia and 

 Prussia there was very little wool put on the market at all, 

 and at the big fairs of Thorn, Breslau, and Posen the 

 quantity of wool was much less than last year, from which 

 cause the tendency of the market was upward. 



The wool remaining unsold from the Warsaw Fair of 1897 

 was only 225,828 lbs., and, the demand for wool throughout 

 the year being so strong, only a very small quantity of last 

 year's wool — -some 47,196 lbs. — w^as still to be disposed of at 

 the beginning of this year's fair. The total quantity of wool 

 offered for sale in 1898 was 2,082,600 lbs., as against 

 2,542,428 lbs. in 1897. This decrease was attributed partly 

 to the fact that the quantity of wool actually produced was 

 less this year, and partly to the circumstance that wool had 

 been bought by the manufacturers and sent direct to the 

 factories previous to the fair 



The following were the average prices paid during the fair 

 for each quality of wool. 



Prices in Pence per lb. 



Qualities. 





From 



To 



From 



To 





d. 



d.. 



d. 



d. 



Extra fine 



10 



13 



10 



12 



Fine I. - 



9 



10 



8 



9 



Fine II. - 



8 



9 



6 



8 



Medium - - - 



7 



8 



4 



7 



Inferior - - - - 



6 



7 







1897. 



A characteristic of the Warsaw Wool Fair consists of the 

 way in which prices are fixed ; it might be expected that 

 prices, once fixed for wool of different qualities, w^ould be 

 generally adopted for the various transactions, but, on the: 



