Dec. 1894.] 



PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 



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The number of cases in which the authorities and auctioneers 

 have been able to supply particulars of price is still far from 

 satisfactory. As the table just presented indicates, the largest 

 number of quotations, in proportion to the total instances where 

 use was made of the weighbridge, come from Liverpool, Aber- 

 deen, and Dundee. In London prices were got for about half 

 the number of cattle weighed, but for less than one in seven of 

 the number of sheep. In Edinburgh and Perth the returns are 

 again defective in form for the construction of an average result. 



The returns supplied from the five markets, whence alone 

 sufficiently numerous particulars of prices of cattle have been 

 rendered for the latest quarter, show the following range of 

 prices, during the three months ended 30th September last : — 



Places. 



Third Quarter of 1894. 



Inferior or 

 Third Quality. 



Good or 

 Second Quality. 



Prime or 

 Pirst Quality. 



Liverpool 



London - 



Scotland : 

 Aberdeen 



Dundee 



Edinburgh 



Per Cwt. 



21s. id. to Sis. 6d. 



245. Qd. to 26s. 6d. 

 24s. Od. to 30s. Od. 

 27s. 6d. 



Per Cwt. 

 29s. 6d. 



33s. Od. to 36s. 4d. 



24s. Od. to 36s. 6d. 

 30s. lOd. to 33s. 6d. 

 29s. 4d. to 35s. Od. 



Per Cwt. 

 33s. 6d. 



36s. 4cZ. to 40s. 4cZ. 



30s. lOd. to 39s. 2d. 

 30s. Od. to 36s. Od. 

 35s. 4<d. to 38s. Od. 



As indicated on a former occasion, in order to obtain an 

 average quotation of prices, the aggregate of the local prices 

 realised at each of the five markets above nanned must be 

 divided by the total live weight recorded. If this calculation 

 be made, the following is the result for each of three quarters 

 of the current year, 1894 : — 





First Quarter. 



Second Quarter. 



Third Quarter. 



Places. 



Inferior 



or 

 Third 

 Quality. 



Good 



or 

 Second 

 Quality. 



Prime 



or 

 Pirst 

 Quality. 



Inferior 

 or 

 Third 

 Quality. 



Good 



or 

 Second 

 Quality. 



Prime 



or 

 Pirst 

 Quality. 



Inferior 

 or 

 Third 

 Quality. 



Good 



or 

 Second 

 Quality. 



Prime 



or 

 Pirst 

 Quality. 



England : 

 Liverpool - 



Per 

 Cwt. 

 s. d. 



Per 

 Cwt. 

 s. d. 



28 0 



Per 

 Cwt. 

 s. d. 



33 4 



Per 

 Cwt. 

 s. d. 



Per 

 Cwt. 

 s. d. 



28 6 



Per 

 Cwt. 

 s. d. 



34 4 



Per 

 Cwt. 

 s. d. 



Per 

 Cwt. 



fl. 

 29 {) 



Per 

 Cwt. 

 s. d. 



33 6 



London 



29 10 



35 2 



39 2 



26 6 



36 2 



38 6 



23 0 



33 10 



38 6 



Scotland : 

 Aberdeen - 



24 8 



31 11 



36 4 



25 4 



32 2 



36 4 



24 5 



32 7 



36 9 



Dundee 



25 11 



31 11 



34 3 



27 1 



32 0 



34 2 



27 1 



31 9 



S4 3 



Edinburgh 



24 11 



33 6 



34 8 





33 8 



33 10 



27 6 



3 5 11 



36 0 



The details of the prices quoted for each of the breeds and 

 classes of animals (actual sales for live weight being dis- 

 tinguished) on which these averages are based are shown in the 

 following tables : — 



