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•good food oflfered for sale that month. In October the moderate 
'prices at which Americans were offered, and the goodness of the 
•quality of the best, greatly lessened the demand for English. In 
November the finest English held steadily, and the sale of eecond- 
rates was pressed; American scarcely varied this mouth. In 
December the market was steady, but not active ; holders of fine 
English were not pressing sellers, but were anxious to make pro- 
gress with second-rates. The supplies this month were liberal, 
•quotations for best having varied little for several weeks. 
Cork Butter Market. — After the previous years of drought, and 
■consequent short supplies, the genial spring and moist summer of 
1875 gave promise of an abundant make of butter, which was 
fully redeemed ; for the quantity sold in the Cork market — which 
is par excellence the chief butter market of Ireland — has exceeded 
that of 1874 by about 65,000 firkins, the total for 1875 being in round 
numbers 435,000 firkins, and exceeding that of any former year in 
the history of this market. This increase in supply would not now, 
however, have any appreciable effect on prices, as the increasing 
population of Great Britain is yearly taking a larger quantity ; but 
the general dulness of trade, and the reduced employment and 
wages of the workmen in England, have been sensibly felt in a 
much lower scale of prices, so that the money- value of the increased 
supply of 1875 was not much over that of the smaller quantity of 
1874, and was in keeping wdth the general dulness of the time. 
The year 1875 has also been one of veiy little fluctuation. 
