80 THE WARSAW WOOL FAIR OF 1899. 


30 pure-breds ordered direct from England, black Berkshire, 
Yorkshire, Lincoln and chestnut Tamworths. The maximum 
price obtained was 320 roubles (£33), the minimum 66 
roubles (£7). Tickets afixed to each inclosure gave the 
names and addresses of the British breeders of these swine. 
The sheep exhibited were 35 in number, mostly Oxford- 
shire Down, Shropshire and South Down, for which at the 
subsequent sale there was a good demand. 
In addition to the above some eighty saddle horses were 
exhibited, mostly Steppe breeds, half-breds, Anglo-Arabs 
and hunters, with a few English trotters. 
In spite of unfavourable weather and an inconvenient 
iocality the show attracted some thousands of visitors, and 
it is proposed to still further extend and improve the show 
capacity for next year. 

THE WARSAW WOOL FAIR OF 18Q9. 
An account of this fair was given in a Foreign Office 
Report published in 1898,* and Mr. Consul-General Murray 
gives the following information as to the business done at 
the fair in 1899 in his annual report on the trade of Poland. 
Sheep farming in that country, Mr. Murray observes, has 
been going out of favour steadily for some years, as the 
small demand and the low prices caused the farmers to think 
they could do better with cattle. Besides this, they not only 
diminished the number otf their flocks but tried to cater for 
the demand for inferior qualities of wool, but in this line 
they were unable to compete with foreign wool. This steady 
decrease in the quality of wool produced has had the effect of 
running up the prices of good qualities. 
In the early spring of 1899 much of the new clip was 
already sold, chiefly to speculators. The expectation, how- 
ever, that for this. reason the amount of wool brought to the 
fair would be smaller than usual proved incorrect, as the 

* Journal, Vol. V., p. 238, Sept., 1898, 
