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from some other foreign ports by the severity of the weather, 
this combination of events causing prices to rule unusually 
high. 
" Irish Butter. — Supplies of foreign being greatly diminished, 
from the causes alluded to above, enabled holders of Irish to 
show firmness, ^^'e commenced the month of January with the 
asking prices for Clonmels, &c., being 134s. to 150s., landed Corks 
142s. to I48s. The close of the month showed little change, 
their quotations ranging from 10s. to 20s. per cwt. higher than 
at the corresponding period of the previous year. Low qualities 
of Corks were, however, then much closer to the prices of first 
Corks; they are now — say, second Corks from 132s. to 145s., 
thiids, 132s. to I36s. 
In April scarcely any Irish butter was offered for sale ; in July, 
after being without a market price for Clonmels for about eighteen 
weeks, they were quoted by the end of the month at 112s. to 118s., 
Corks 121s. to 1228. In October there was a little more doing in 
Irish butter. In December an advance of 2s. was asked on Clonmels 
and Corks over the prices in the previous month, but the business 
transacted at these prices was very limited — more so than has been 
known tor many years past. The want of regularity in the selec- 
tion, and its general saltness, have been the chief complaints, the 
public prefei ring the milder foreign. 
" The quantity of butter brought to the Cork market in 1871 was 
greater than in any preceding year. The supply for the season, up 
to December 31st, was about 30,000 firkins over the corresponding 
period of 1870, and the farmer had higher prices than heretofore. 
The total receipts for the year 1871 number some 420,000 firkins, 
exceeding in value 1,500,000/.— totals unequalled by any that pre- 
ceded them in the Cork market. 
" Foreign Butter. — Shipments from France being prohibited, 
supplies were, in consequence, small. In February fine butter was 
scarce and dear. In the last week in the month the prohibition of 
shipments from France was withdrawn, and a few Normandys 
arrived, for which from 120s. to 170s. were asked. The month of 
May commenced with civil war still raging in Paris ; vegetation 
was earlier than in 1870, and there were large sTipi)lies of foreign 
butter; Normandys were as low as 100s. to 118i-. In November, 
American butter arrived in Liverpool in much larger quantities 
than in the same period of 1870. In December, while finest 
Normandys were saleable at 145s. to 150s., there was a difficulty in 
moving low qualities at 50s. to H0«. per cwt. less. The stocks .of 
