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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 IS „ 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 Savine 

 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 



No. 



No. 



No. 



No. 



No. 



1 



I 





h723 



24,855 



September 1896 









1,104 



19,329 



December 1896 









815 



15,806 



March 1897 - 



2 



14 



450 



785 



13,544 



June 1897 - 



3 



25 



197 



700 



13,131 



