178 Report of Experiments on the 
Avi'racfe Prices of Beef and Mutton. 
1855. 
1856. 
1857. 
1858. 
1859. 
1860. 
Bekf : — 
s. d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
s. «/. 
s. d. 
Inferior 
3 2 
3 0 
3 2 
3 0 
3 2 
3 6 
Middliug 
4 0 
3 10 
4 0 
3 10 
4 0 
4 f. 
4 10 
4 8 
5 0 
4 6 
5 0 
5 6 
Mutton : — 
3 2 
3 0 
3 10 
3 2 
3 4 
3 10 
4 2 
4 0 
5 0 
4 2 
4 8 
5 2 
5 4 
5 2 
6 0 
5 2 
5 10 
6 2 
From the above returns it will be seen that average number 
of beasts has been drawn from our grazing districts; that 
we have drawn extensively upon foreign resources ; but that 
the arrivals both from Ireland and Scotland have considerably 
fallen off. In reference to the value of lambs, we may state that 
at one period it was 8s. per 8 lbs. for the best Down breeds, now 
it is 7s. Both calves and pigs have ruled high ; the top figure 
for the former having been 65., the latter 5s. 4^?. per 8 lbs, to 
sink the offal. 
In a comparative sense the anivals of meat up to Newgate and 
Leadenhall, both from Scotland and different parts of England, 
have fallen off considerably. Prices have, consequently, kept 
pace with the rise in the live markets ; but our iihpression is, 
that they have seen their highest range for the year, and that 
they will tend to stimulate the production of stock both in the 
United Kingdom and on the Continent. 
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XI. — Report of Experiments on the Growth of Red Clover by 
different Mamires. By J. B. Lawes, Esq., F.R.S., F.C.S., and 
Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., F.C.S. 
Part I. 
Few questions in connexion with agriculture have excited more 
attention, or have been the subject of a greater variety of ex- 
planations, than the failure of Red Clover. It certainly seems 
somewhat strange that, whilst some of our farm crops can be 
grown jcar after year, or in pretty close succession, on the same 
land for a considerable period of time, and, for what we yet 
know to the contrary, continuously, others will only succeed when 
some years have elapsed since the same description of crop was 
grown. 
