Live Weight Prices of Cattle. 273 



Months. 



Prime or First Quality. 



Good or Second Quality. 



1903. 



1902. 



1903. 



1902. 



January 



Per cwt. 

 s. d. 

 37 8 



Per cwt. 

 s. d. 

 36 2 



Per cwt. 

 s. d. 

 36 2 



Per cwt. 

 s. d. 

 34 6 



February 



37 0 



36 4 



35 0 



34 6 



March 



37 0 



36 4 



35 4 



34 6 



April ... 



37 2 



37 8 



35 2 



35 10 



May 



36 8. 



39 8 



34 6 



37 4 



June 



36 8 



42 8 



34 10 



40 4 



July., ». 



37 0 



41 4 



34 10 



39 8 



There appears to have been on the whole no such striking 

 variation in values during the present season as marked the 

 summer months of 1902. Second quality cattle fell to 35s. in 

 February, and the fluctuations since then have been unim- 

 portant. First quality cattle show similar characteristics, the 

 variation over the first seven months of the present year not ex- 

 ceeding is. per cwt, whereas in 1902 the maximum and mini- 

 mum prices in the same period differed by no less than 6s. 6d. 

 per cwt. 



The sale of fat cattle by live weight at an agreed price per 

 stone or per cwt. was only reported from six markets in regard 

 to 2,527 cattle, the majority of these transactions taking place 

 at Glasgow. 



A number of store cattle were also reported to have been 

 weighed during the second quarter of 1902, and prices were 

 furnished in respect of 6,414 head. Nearly the whole of these 

 were reported from Shrewsbury, and comparing the returns 

 received from this market with those for the corresponding 

 period of 1902, it would seem that rather higher prices were 

 realised in 1903, the value of second quality animals being re- 

 turned at 36s. iod. as against 35s. 6d., while for first quality 

 cattle 40s. 2d. per cwt. was obtained as against 39s. 6d. per cwt. 

 in 1902. 



The table giving the usual particulars for the quarter is 

 appended, 



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