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LIVE WEIGHT PRICES OF CATTLE. 



The returns received from the twenty-one places in Great 

 Britain scheduled under the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of 

 Cattle) Act, 1891, show that the number of cattle entering the 

 markets in the second quarter of 1902 was 336,829, as compared 

 with 300,579 head in the corresponding period of last year. 

 There was a substantial increase in the number of pigs exposed 

 at these places of sale, and the sheep were also rather more 

 numerous. 



Animals. 



2nd 

 Quarter, 

 1902. 



2nd 

 Quarter, 

 1901. 



Cattle : 

 Entering markets ... 

 "Weighed 

 Prices returned 



Prices returned with quality distinguished 



No. 

 336,829 

 44,348 

 36,332 

 29,158 



No. 

 300,579 

 36,384 

 32,848 



26,535 



Sheep : 

 Entering markets ... 

 Weighed 



Prices returned with quality distinguished 



1,187,169 

 13,018 

 9.240 



1,145,699 

 M,396 

 10,591 



Swine : 

 Entering markets ... 

 Weighed 



Prices returned with quality distinguished 



IOO,lo8 

 840 

 84c 



88,238 

 652 

 646 



The number of cattle weighed was 13*2 per cent, of the 

 total, compared with I2"i per cent, last year, and prices were 

 available in io*8 per cent, of the total number of cattle, a slight 

 increase on any previous quarter. The use made of the weigh- 



