6o2 Live and Dead Meat Trade in September, [oct.,. 



price at which this progressive section of the Canadian Dominion is 

 offering linseed enables it to be sold on Mark Lane at 48s. per 416 lb. 

 Considerable increase in Indian rapeseed shipments, as compared with 

 last year, is reported. Cottonseed continues to fetch about 8s. per cwt. 

 for the finest Egyptian. 



Farm Seeds. — Red cloverseed is decidedly dearer on the month, at 

 the close of which 70s. was paid for best English, 64s. for imported. 

 A less favourable feature is the frequency with which poor seed at 36s. 

 to 38s. only is offered. Fine Alsyke makes 88s., good ordinary 76s., 

 while cowgrass has commanded 72s., Lucerne 78s., and early trifolium 

 50s. ; all these prices are per cwt. 



Minor Staples. — Canaryseed is rather cheaper on the month, and 

 commands an improved sale at 50s. per 464 lb. for Argentine and 

 Turkish descriptions. Carraways are a useful and safe appetiser for 

 stock, and fetch 34s. per cwt. We do not seem to secure as much dari 

 as the market could use. Burma has entered the field with some con- 

 signments at 26s. to 27s. per 480 lb., but the prime claim of dari as a crop 

 is for growth in those subtropical regions where rainfall is too poor for 

 cereals. It will grow, we are told, with a yearly rainfall of twelve 

 inches, and there are large areas in Africa and Australia that might 

 produce this serviceable and appreciated food. 



THE LIVE AND DEAD MEAT TRADE IN 

 SEPTEMBER. 



A. T. Matthews. 



Fat Cattle. — There was a tendency to weakness in the trade for fat 

 cattle throughout the month, and a gradual but not very serious decline 

 in values. It is very usual, as autumn approaches, to find the quality of 

 the animals coming to market beginning to deteriorate, and lower quota- 

 tions are often more the result of loss of condition than any real falling 

 off in values for equal quality. The extremely wide range of quota- 

 tions for Shorthorns of " first quality " in the September official reports 

 is very suggestive on this point, showing as they did a difference of 

 over id. per lb. between the highest and lowest in the third week. 

 Ipswich stands almost alone at this season of the year as a market 

 where prime stall-fed cattle are to be found, and in consequence the 

 top price there was no less than is. 2d. per stone above the average of 

 English markets. 



Supplies were moderate in the first week, many reports speaking 

 of "a small proportion of first quality," and the average price of 

 Shorthorns in 23 English markets was 8s. i\d. per stone for first, and 

 7s. 5^. for second quality. Herefords in the same week were only 

 quoted in four markets, their average being 8s. $\d. and 7s. 6fd., that 

 of Devons being 8s. $\d. and 7s. Sd., Welsh Runts 7s. n^d. and 7s. 3d., 

 and Scots 8s. 2fd. and 7s. yd. In London, on the 6th, the supply 

 was too large for the demand, and prices gave way Id. per lb., but 



