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qualities, will always sell at good fair prices; that English Cheddar cheese, 
year after year, had been worth not far from ninety shillings sterling per 
cwt., while American cheese had varied from thirty to seventy shillings per 
cwt.; that on the eleventh of December, 1875, the market for cheese was 
as follows: English Cheddar, first quality, ninety shillings per cwt., equal 
to twenty-two and one-halt cents per pound, currency; second quality, 
seventy-four shillings per cwt., equal to eighteen cents currency; English 
Cheddar, first quality, eighty-six shillings per cwt., equal to twenty-one cents 
currency; second quality, seventy-six shillings per cwt., equal to eighteen 
and one-half cents currency ; third quality, seventy shillings per cwt., equal 
to seventeen cents currency; Scotch Cheddar, first quality, seventy-six 
shillings per cwt., equal to eighteen and one-half cents currency; second 
quality, fifty-four shillings per cwt., equal to fifteen and one-half cents 
currency; Dutch Gonda, first quality, sixty shillings per cwt., equal to 
fourteen and three-fourths cents currency; second quality, fifty-six shillings 
per cwt., equal to thirteen and three-fourths cents currency ; Dutch Edam, 
first quality, sixty-eight shillings per cwt., equal to sixteen and one-fourth 
cents currency; second quality, fifty-six shillings per cwt., equal to thirteen 
and three-fourths cents currency; American, first quality, fifty-eight 
shillings per cwt., equal to fourteen cents currency; second quality, fifty 
shillings per cwt., equal to twelve cents currency ; third quality, forty 
shillings per cwt., equal to nine and three fourths cents currency. And Mr. 
Willard remarks: “ Such a difference in values proves either that our 
goods do not enter into competition, or that the quality is so inferior that 
our competition is practically no detriment to the foreign producers.” 
Mr. Livesey, of Derbyshire, England, who has made a specialty in 
keeping the run of the matter, says in a recent letter to Mr. Willard, that 
there has been scarcely any variation in the price of first-class cheese for 
many years in the markets of England. The variation has been confined 
exclusively to the American and inferior grades. 
By reference to these figures it will be seen that first quality of 
American cheese in the London market in December, 1875, was eight and 
one-half cents per pound, currency, below the first quality of English 
Cheddar; seven cents per pound below first quality English Ohistim ; three 
cents per pound below the price of the third quality of English Chistim; 
one and one-half cents per pound below the lowest grade quoted of Scotch 
Cheddar, and only about on a par with the lowest grades of Dutch cheese 
in that market, while the third quality of American cheese Was only worth 
about fifty-seven cents per cwt., or a little over one-half that of third quality 
