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PRICES OF WOOL. 
popular disinfectants. They took a quantity of urine, diluted 
it with water, and measured 100 cubic centimetres into each 
of 34 jam pots. They then added to each part the one- 
thousandth part of its weight of a disinfectant, making each 
experiment in duplicate. In two cases they added water only. 
The results were as follows:— 
Antiseptic, O'] per cent. 
Day on which mould 
appeared. 
Day on which 
putrefactive odour was 
distinct. 
I. 
II. 
I. 
II. 
Water only .... 
9 
9 
14 
13 
Terebene (Dr. Bond’s) ; 
10 
10 
13 
18-23 ?# 
Carbolic Acid (Calvert’s No. 5) 
None by 
75th day 
None by 
75th day 
Burnett’s Fluid 
9 
9 
12 
12 
Condy’s Red Fluid . 
10 
10 
15 
10 
Turpentine .... 
13 
14 
18-23 P 
18-23 ?* 
Chloralum .... 
8 
8 
10 
11 
Borax ..... 
8 
9 
18-23 ? 
18-23 ?# 
Cupralum (Dr. Bonds) . 
8 
8 
12 
12 
Ferralum (Dr. Bond’s) . 
None by 
14th day 
8 
8 
Sodium Salicylate . 
10 
10 
14 
14 
Sanitas (Aromatic, No. 3) 
8 
9 
9 
10 
Sanitas (Inodorous, No. 3) 
9 
9 
15 
11 
McDougall’s Fluid . 
12 
9 
13 
12 
Sauitas (Aromatic, No. 1) 
9 
9 
14 
14 
Sanitas (Inodorous, No. 1) 
j 
9 
8 
15 
11 
PRICES OF WOOL. 
The average price of English half hogg wool for the ten 
years ending 1820 was l6Jd. per lb.; for a similar period 
ending 1830, 12d. per lb.; ten years ending 1840, 14id.; 
ten years ending 1850, 11 Jd.; do. I860, l6d.; do. 1870, 21d.; 
in 18/8, 15d.; and the average 1871-78, 20d. The average 
for 68 years was 15Jd. per lb., and present value 13fd. per lb. 
The highest price was 27d. in 1873, and the lowest lOd. in 
1849. The yearly averages of English hoggs and wethers 
was—1865, hoggs, 27d., wethers, 24|d. per lb.; 1866,25d.— 
22d.; 1867, 20jd.— 17d.; 1868, 19d.—15|d.; 1869, 20£d.— 
I6id. ; 1870, 18fd.— 15d.; 1871, 22jd.—20±d. ; 1872, 
26jd. 25d.; 1873, 26id.—22jd.; 1874, 23ld.—18jd.; 
1875, 22d.—17|; 1876, 18fd.—l6Jd.; 1877, l6jd.— 15|d.; 
1878, 15|d.— 14^d. per lb.— Leeds Mercury. 
* Some uncertainty as to exact day, owing to absence from home. 
