204 
Prizes to Enffiiie-Drivers. 
Fleeces : — s. 
Southdown lioggetts .. .. 1 
Halt-bred lioggetts 1 
Kent fleeces 1 
Southdown ewes and wethers 1 
Leicester ditto 1 
Sorts : — 
Clothing picklock 1 
Prime 1 
Choice 1 
Super 1 
Combing : — 
Wether matching- 1 
Picklock ^ 1 
Common 1 
Hog matching 1 
Picklock matching ,. .. 1 
Super ditto 1 
1866. iser. 
Ppi- lb. Per lb. 
d. 
•S. 
d. 
.s. 
d. 
s. 
d. 
(;• 
to 
1 
7 
1 
to 
1 
2h 
7-i 
to 
1 
8d 
1 
2i 
to 
1 
O 1 
o~ 
7 
to 
1 
8 
1 
1 
to 
1 
u 
41 
to 
1 
1 
1 
to 
1 
«; 
to 
1 
7 
1 
1 
to 
1 
2 
7i 
to 
1 
9 
1 
oh 
to 
1 (; 
G 
to 
1 
7 
1 
to 
1 f) 
to 
1 
6 
1 
H 
to 
1 4 
4} 
to 
1 
5 
1 
o 
to 
1 3 
8 
to 
1 
8d 
1 
5 
to 
1 
Hi 
5h 
to 
1 
6* 
1 
2-i 
to 
1 
" 
3^ 
to 
1 
4 
1 
0 
to 
1 
lOJ 
to 
1 
lU 
1 
5 
to 
1 
5h 
7 
to 
1 
7i 
1 
2h 
to 
1 
34 
4i 
to 
1 
5 
1 
0 
to 
1 
1 
It will be seen from the above comparison that the decline in 
prices since 1866 has been unusually severe, but our impression 
is that, although possibly continental houses will be large buyers 
of wool this year, there is very little room for any important 
upward movement in the quotations. Production has evidently 
overtaken the power of consumption. 
4, Argyle Square, St. Pancras. 
XIII. — Prizes to Engine Drivers. A Letter addressed to the 
Editor, hy W. Wells. 
Sir, — If you have a page to spare in the Journal, I think the 
success which, at the four last meetings of our Peterborough 
Agricultural Society, has attended the allotment of a Prize to 
Drivers of Agricultural Portable Steam Engines, deserves to be 
recorded. 
I had long thought that the growing importance of the position 
of these men in the agricultural world required to be recognised, 
their careful services encouraged, and their interest in the 
mechanical details of their duties stimulated. I had not heard 
of any instances of special prizes being open to them, and I 
determined therefore, in 1864, to olfer through the medium of 
our Association a prize of lOZ., to which the following con- 
ditions, drawn up after careful consideration by a Committee, 
were attached. 
