WEEKS: IMPERIAL AVERAGES. inactive. Fair supplies of Egyptian may be expected, and much will depend on the hardness of FOR THE LAST SIX Wheat. Barley. Oats. Rye. Beans. Peas. the winter whether prices will improve; but as they are now easy, it seems unlikely much reduction can take place under any circumstances. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 5 42 3 37 2 23 9 35 641 240 5 36 2 22 8 36 541 0 40 6 51 1 35 5 22 5 34 8 39 2 41 1 34 8 21 5 33 4 39 34 5 21 734 140 3 41 2 5 35 341 11 40 5 COMPARATIVE AVERAGES-1862-61. From last Friday's Gaz. s. d. Peas also have not hitherto been much in request, but the falling off of foreign supplies gave some hardness to values of English on the fourth Monday, especially as the stocks of foreign white feeding sorts have been gradually diminishing. Boilers, though low priced, have hardly come into demand yet, and the present rates are not high Barley 51314 34 5 enough to induce farmers to send them before wanted. The imports into London for four weeks were 3,073 qrs. English, 3,003 qrs. foreign; against Peas........ 3,305 qrs. English, 453 qrs. foreign last year. The price of linseed has kept high all through the month, but the rates have scarcely been maintained, and cakes finished in calm after an active demand. The holders of cloverseed have been firm, from a reported failure of the English crop, and fine trefoil has increased in value. Mustardseed has partly recovered from its late depression, but only in fine qualities of white, which have brought 9s. 6d. to 10s. per bushel. Winter tares being yet abundant have given way, and 7s. 6d. per bushel has become a full price. New canaryseed has appeared of middling quality, and was held at about 60s. Old has remained much the same as to price and demand. OATS, English, feed 20 to 23 ...Potato.............. 23 26 52...... Wheat ......124242 qrs. 56 3 36 9 21 6 39 1 Beans ...... 42 5 Peas Rye ........ 233 31 8 Beans 3093 .. 1596 POTATO MARKETS. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. LONDON, MONDAY, Oct. 27.-Since our last report fair supplies of home-grown Potatoes have been received at these markets, and the arrival of French produce has continued on a moderate scale. The trade, generally speaking, has ruled inactive; nevertheless, prices have been fairly supported. Kent and Essex Regents.. 80s. to 110s per ton. Rocks 70s. to 858. 558. to 70s. "9 DONCASTER, French... COUNTRY POTATO MARKETS. PRICES OF BUTTER, CHEESE, HAMS, &c. Dorset, fine............................. ........ ................ Fresh........................ 114s. to 118s. 13s. to 15s, perdoz. lbs. CORK BUTTER EXCHANGE, (Saturday last.)-The supplies during the week were large, and the demand good. Heavy salt Butter rose from 100s. to 101s., and seconds from 958. to 968., which prices have since been maintained; nor, unless supplies be much larger than at present, are the quotations likely to be lower for some time. Light salt Butter continues in moderate request. Prices rose 3s. on firsts, seconds, and thirds during the week. Its price to-day was 111s., 104s., and 98s. for each quality. GAINSBOROUGH FAIR. - The quantity of cheese pitched on the two days was rather above the average. Prices were rather higher, with a good sale. Best Notts 70s., second quality 60s. to 65s., third quality 50, to 60s., fine Leicestershire 70s., Cheshire 60s, to 65s. per cwt.; Stilton 10d. to 11. per lb. MARKET HARBOROUGH.-There was not a large supply, and the greater part of the cheese pitched was by factors, who had bought up the best samples. Prices ranged from 60s. to 758., per cwt., according to quality. PERTH FAIR.-Skimmed-milk cheese brought 5s. to 6s. per stone of 221b. Saturday cheeses 6s. to 7s. per stone. Sweet-milk cheese realised 6d. to 7d. per lb. PRICE CURRENT OF GUANO, &c. Peruvian Guano, direct from importers' stores, £13 bs. to £13 10. p. teb, Nitrate of Soda, 14 10s. to £15 108. per ton. Linseed Cakes, best American, £11 7s. 6d. to £11 12s. 6d. per br, E. PURSER, London Manure Company, LIVERPOOL SEED American, thin £10 10 0 to 10 150 Barcelona...... 0 0 0 0 00 English ........ 11 00 11 50 6 10 0 Cotsd. Cake, decort.8 10 0 4 10 0 Brimstone,2d & 3rd 6 10 0 2 36 Nitr. of Soda, p.et. 0 12 6 Linad. Bomby,p.qr.3 80 2 00 Tallow, ist P.Y.C.2 96 SAMUEL DOWNES AND Co., General Brokers, Do. Half-bred Hogs 20 10 Do. Kent...... . Do. ...... 19 0 Southdown Ewes & Wethers 19 10 Do. Leicester do............... 18 0 Sorts Clothing,picklock............ 20 10 Do. Prime and picklock.......... 19 10 Do. Choice.............................................. 18 0 Do. Super 20 0 20 0 19 0 21 0 2 30 2 per cent...... Cloverseed, American, red, new, per cwt.l 17 0 20 0 19 0 Do. Picklock Do. Common Do. Combing-Wethermatching.. 20 0 17 10 ....................................... 15 10 ..... 16 10 17 10 20 10 18 10 .................. 16 10 22 0 18 10 16 10 Do. Hog-matching ...................................... 21 0 Do. Picklock matching Do. Super do...... LEEDS (ENGLISH and Foreign) WOOL MARKETS, Friday last. There is but one report given of the state of the English wool market by the staplers, and that is that manufacturers are buying only what they need, and yet prices keep up well. In foreign wool both demand and price are unaltered, and there is the absence of speculation at present. Low wools are not selling so high as was expected a few weeks since. LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET.-Oct. 25. SOTCH.-There is a fair inquiry for all kinds of Scotch. Stocks are exceedingly light; holders are asking very high rates, and there is little doing in consequence. Do. do..washed...... 24 0 27 0 White Cheviot do..washed...... 34 0 42 0 FRANCE.-WOOL MARKETS.-Buenos Ayres and Montevideo wools have been sold at Havre this month in a dirty state at 10d. to 12d. per lb. At Marseilles business has been very restricted. Transactions between wool producers and manufacturers in France are kept as secret as possible; nevertheless it transpired the other day that 2s. per lb. was offered for a lot of mixed Merino of fine quality-terms 4 per cent. discount, The seller stood out for 2s, 1d. per lb. TO J. AND F. HANCOCK, PULVERIZER PLOUGH WORKS, DUDLEY PORT, TIPTON. Compton Castle, Castle Cary, Sept. 15. SIR,-In reply to yours of some day in August I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your Butter-masing Machine, which came only ten days ago. My dairymaid is delighted with it, which is more than I could have expected, as you know how seldom servants are pleased with a new invention. It answeri admirably. I beg to enclose a cheque for it, according to your account, and am, Sir, &c., S. W. SANDFORD. Chatton Vicarage, Sept. 24. Sir, I have the pleasure of enclosing you a post-office order for £2 1s. 6d. for the Butter Machine, which quite answers the purpose which your agent in London described to me; and now that I have seen it in operation, think that it does its work very MATT. BURRELL. effectively. Yours truly, I shall recommend the machine to all my friends. Delamont, Downpatrick, Oct. 1, 1862. Mrs. Gordon considers the Prize Butter Machine of Messrs. Hancock the most perfectly satisfactory machine for the purpose she has ever seen, and encloses a post-office order for the same. Foston, Derby, Sept. 8, 1862. Sir, I am happy to say that we find your Machine for purify ing butter answers extremely well. We have not yet tried it for salting butter, but doubt not that it will succeed in that process also. A post-office order was sent to you last Friday from Derby, I am, &c, To Mr. Hancock. JOHN BROADHURST, PRICES OF BUTTER MACHINES.-No. 1, for private use, £2 2s.; No. 2, for dairy use, £2 12s. 6d., sent on receipt of postoffice order, payable to J. and F. Hancock, Tipton, where illus trated sheets may be had of their celebrated pulveriser plough, Printed by Rogerson and Tuxford, 246, Strand, London, W.C. PLATE V. FIRST FRUIT; THE GOLD MEDAL SHORTHORN BULL AT THE BATTERSEA MEETING OF THE ROYAL First Fruit, bred and exhibited by the late Mr. Another breeder, who is giving up sheep for Jonas Webb, and calved in September, 1861, is by Shorthorns, Mr. Pawlett, of Beeston, was second Englishman, out of Welfare, by Lord of the North here, with the second of the sort he has ever en(11743), her dam Wallflower, by Aliwal (8831)-tered: while Mr. Robinson, of Clifton Pastures, Welcome, by Paris (7314)-White Violet, by King of Trumps (4156)-Brenda, by Vanguard (5545) Red Rover (4903)-Anticipation (750)-Emperor (1014)-Young Windsor (699)-Windsor (103). Englishman, bred by Mr. Webb, in September 1859, is by Sir Charles (16948) out of English Rose, by Cheltenham (12588), her dam Lady Stuart, by Red Roan Kirtling (10691). Welfare, a roan cow, calved in January 1854, was also bred by Mr. Webb. First Fruit, so called for his being one of the first of Englishman's calves, was 10 months 2 weeks and 4 days old when he was brought out before the judges at Battersea. His appearance here created a deal of sensation, as he not only took the first prize of £15 as "the best Shorthorn bull calf above six and under twelve months old," but also the Gold Medal as the best bull in the four classes of Shorthorn males. We thus spoke to the award at the time: "The Triumviri went on for another white, and another surprise when they decreed the medal for the best of all the males' to a bull-calf, whose chief merit consisted in his being wonderfully well got up for the occasion. He was as level and neat as feeding could make him, but he is neither good in his head and neck, nor from behind; and if First Fruit ever stands so high again, we will undertake to eat him-perhaps, in his capital condition, the very best purpose he could be put to. It is surely wild policy making a model of an animal at such an age, the more so when you have to depend so much on 'malt and meal. However, Mr. Webb has once more taken fortune at the tide, for the Gold Medal is all his own, both the sire Englishman and the grandeire Sir Charles being not only in the Babraham herd, but on the Battersea Show-ground. still a coming man,' is never now without his place. We go more with the general commendation over the bull calves." Mr. Robert Smith, in his more deliberate examination of the show, subsequently said in our pages: "The bull calf class, containing a very large entry (42), with the exception of five or six, presented but few promising animals. Mr. Webb's first prize and Gold Medal calf, First Fruit, by Englishman, was wonderfully got up for his age, showing his tendency to fatten, with a robust constitution. His bringing out had been well timed, as he was getting very shaky on his fore legs, and if not slackened and relieved will soon be the worse for his high keep. It is said that his owner refused 400 guineas for him on the ground. Although the Gold Medal was awarded to First Fruit, many good authorities think that a bull calf is so liable to change, and so much indebted to milk and high feeding for his appearance, that it should not form a criterion to warrant the awarding of the highest prize in all the classes. It would certainly be safer, or more strictly carrying out the object in view, if it were given to an animal fit for service, and not so likely to change in general appearance. Still First Fruit was highly deserving of his prize; he was so much admired by the public, that at times it was difficult to get a sight of him. The re-appearance of this animal in public will be looked for with much interest." Later still, one of those anonymous judges has thus written officially in the Journal of the Society: "Class IV. was by far the best, as Mr. Jonas Webb's First Fruit was the richest specimen I ever saw at the age, both as regards symmetry and quality. Mr. Pawlett's Hopewell, and Mr. Robinson's Jericho were good, and there were at least ten more fit to take a prize." |