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PKICES OF LIVE STOCK. 



[Dec. 1894. 



XVII.—PRICES OF LIVE STOCK AS RETURNED UNDER 

 THE MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF 

 CATTLE) ACT, 1891. 



Information is collected weekly by the Board of Agriculture 

 under the provisions of the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of 

 Cattle) Act, 1891, respecting the numbers of cattle, sheep, and 

 swine entering the 19 places in Great Britain, scheduled under 

 the Statute, as to the number, weight, and prices of animals 

 weighed in the markets or auction marts to which the provi- 

 sions of the Act apply. 



The following data, abstracted from the returns received, are 

 now furnished in continuation of the statistics laid before 

 Parliament for the year 1893, in the paper entitled Prices of 

 Live Stock, C.-7314, and of the tables for the first half of 1894 

 published in the September number of this Journal. 



In the 19 places mentioned in the Act, the total number of 

 cattle, sheep, and swine, respecting which particulars were sup- 

 plied in the returns rendered during the three months ending 

 30 September 1894, contrasts as under with the information 

 for the similar period of the previous year : — 



Animals. 



Third Quarter, 

 1893. 



Third Quarter, 

 1894. 



Cattle : 



Entering markets _ - - 

 Weighed - 

 Priced - _ _ 



No. 

 281,126 

 21,334 

 19,706 



No. 



279,586 

 20,611 

 18,408 



Sheep : 



Entering markets - _ . 

 Weighed _ _ - _ 

 Priced - - - - - 



1,648,764 

 10,076 

 8,421 



1,502,874 

 9,278 

 6,526 



Swine : 



Entering markets _ - . 

 Weighed _ _ _ _ 

 Priced ----- 



42,110 

 318 

 123 



20,676 

 743 

 157 



Of the 20,611 cattle weighed in the quarter, 15,078 were 

 reported from the Scotch markets alone. The number of sheep 

 weighed in England and Scotland were more nearly equal. 



