. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. ise in price overlast years quotations was obtained. Ewes andhalf-bred were making an advance of from £ l^d. per lb., and Cheviot was making a riseof as much as l|d. to 2^d. per lb. Blackfacedwool was also meeting a better demand, and priceswere from |d. V° |d. per lb. higher than the ex-treme rates which were obtained for this classlast year. Blackfaced ewe was making from 7^d. per lb. ; wedder. 7Jd. to 8d. ; hogg. 7^d. ;to 7|d. ; cross, 9d. to 9\d. ; cross hogg, 9]jd. to10Jd.; half-bred lOJd. to 10?d. ; Cheviot, 10£ ll£d. ; Chev
. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. ise in price overlast years quotations was obtained. Ewes andhalf-bred were making an advance of from £ l^d. per lb., and Cheviot was making a riseof as much as l|d. to 2^d. per lb. Blackfacedwool was also meeting a better demand, and priceswere from |d. V° |d. per lb. higher than the ex-treme rates which were obtained for this classlast year. Blackfaced ewe was making from 7^d. per lb. ; wedder. 7Jd. to 8d. ; hogg. 7^d. ;to 7|d. ; cross, 9d. to 9\d. ; cross hogg, 9]jd. to10Jd.; half-bred lOJd. to 10?d. ; Cheviot, 10£ ll£d. ; Cheviot wedder, lid. ; Cheviot hogg,102(1. to llid. ; Shropshire, 10Jd. ; South Down,lid. j and Dorset, 10id. Salisbury. At this wool fair 120,000 fleeces were top price of washed was 14d. last year Is. ;top price unwashed, lid. last year 9d. Washedwools ranged from 12£d. to unwashed lid., lambs wool 8^d. to 10id. Trade waswell up to the average of recent sales. Therewas a large attendance of buyers and Lincoln Show. The annual three days show of the LincolnshireAgricultural Society was opened at Grantham onWednesday. The sum offered in prizes reachedclose upon £1,500, and disbursed as follows :—Servants and labourers, £81; cattle, £331;sheep, £177; wool, £6; pigs, £86; horses. £618;Grantham and district and other special pri/> -.,harness and jumping prizes, £92; butter, eggs,table poultry, etc., £18; poultry, £61; honey,hives, etc., £28; total £1,498, inc luding £l,li7societys prizes and £381 specials. The entries,although hi some instances below those of lastyears show at Grimsby, were satisfactory, andaltogether a splendid exhibition has been pro-duced. Cattle numbered 141, as compared with51 when the society last met at Grantham in1895; the sheep 81, against 68 ten years ago;pigs 79, against 50; while the horse section a good show, the entries being slightly lessthan bust year. There is a smaller
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