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 - 



£ *. £ *. 



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 O 



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 



■ K'DED. 



Pleuro-Pneumonia. 



Swine-Fever. 



Outbreaks 

 Confirmed. 



Cattle 

 found 

 Diseased. 



Cattle 

 Slaughtered 

 as having 



been 

 exposed to 

 Infection. 



L 



Outbreaks 

 Confirmed. 



Swine 

 Slaughtered 



as 



Diseased, 

 or as 

 having betn 



exposed 

 to Infection. 





No. 



A r o. 



No. 



No. 



No. 



December 1895 









1,787 



26,958 



March 1896 - 





8 



78 



l»S»4 



19.596 



June 1896 - 



I 



1 



105 



1,723 



24,855 



September 1896 









1,104 



19.329 



December 1896 









815 



15,806 



March 1897 - 



2 



1 



14 



450 



735 



13.544 



