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PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 



[March 1895. 



imiversally so. The prices quoted for cattle of prime or first 

 quality are highest in London and Aberdeen respectively 

 in the two contrasted years. In the second quality quotations 

 the average prices given for the markets of London and of 

 Newcastle are the same in 1894, and they very considerably 

 exceed those of Liverpool and Shrewsbury, which are probably 

 affected by the sales of store cattle in both the years for which 

 returns are available. In Scotland, the Edinburgh prices ai:*e in 

 both years slightly above the others. Roughly for the whole of 

 Great Britain it would appear to be safe from these returns to 

 conclude that the average live weight price per cwt. of inferior 

 cattle ranged in the eight markets from 21s. 4d to Sis. 2d. in 1893, 

 and from 24s. 6d. to SOs. 4d in 1894 ; that second class stock 

 were selling at from 2Hs. to 35s. per cwt. in 1893, and from 

 28s. 4}d. to 34s. in 1894, while prime cattle are reported to have 

 made from 32s. 6d. to 39s. 4d in 1893, and from 32s. 4d;. to 

 38s. 6d. in 1894. 



As it may be of interest to note further the course of prices 

 in the several qu alters of the past year, a table has been 

 -constructed as under, which supplies this information : — 







1 



England. 



Scotland. 





Liver- 

 pool. 



Lon- 

 don. 



New- 

 castle. 



Shrews- 

 bury. 



Aber- 

 deen. 



Dun- 

 dee. 



Edin- 

 burgh. 



Perth. 







Per 



Per 



Per 



P( 





Per 



Per 



Per 



Per 







Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



First Quarter :— 





s. d. 



s. 



d. 



d. 



s. 



d. 



s. d. 



s. 



d. 



s. d. 



s. 



d. 



Inferior or 



Third 





29 



10 





19 



10 



24 8 



25 



11 



24 11 



29 



11 



Quality. 





























Good or 



Second 



28 0 



35 



2 



32 6 



27 



4 



31 11 



31 



11 



33 6 



32 



1 



Quality. 

























33 





Prime or 



First j 



33 4 



39 



2 



35 2 



31 



2 



36 4 



34 



3 



34 8 



8 



Quality. 



























Second Quarter 

















25 4 



27 







30 





Inferior or 



' Third 





26 



e 





23 



10 



1 





6 



Quality. 

 Good or 



Second 



28 6 



36 



2 



34 10 



29 



10 



32 2 



32 



0 



33 8 



32 



2 



Quality. 

 Prime or 



First j 



34 4 



38 



6 



35 8 



35 



6 



3S 4 



34 



2 



33 10 



34 



7 



Quality. 





























Third Quarter :- 



















27 





27 6 



31 





Inferior or 



Third 





23 



0 





24 



4 



24 5 



1 



2 



Quality. 

 Good or 



Second 



29 6 



33 



10 



33 8 



29 



2 



32 7 



31 



9 



33 11 



32 



4 



Quality. 

























34 





Prime or 



First 



33 6 



38 



6 



36 6 



31 



8 



36 9 



34 



3 



36 0 



8 



Qunlity. 





























Fourth Quarter 



















25 







30 



0 



Inferior or 



■ Third 





27 



4 





25 



4 



23 1 



2 





Quality. 



















31 





35 6 



32 





Good cr 



Second 



27 8 



32 



4 



33 2 



29 



2 



31 8 



8 



1 



Quality. 

 Prime or 



First 



31 2 



37 



8 



31 8 



S3 



2 



35 9 



33 



10 



36 10 



34 



4 



Quality. 





























In continuation of the detailed statistics supj^lied for the 

 first three quarters of 1894 in the September and Dee^ber 

 numbers of ^this Journal, quotations, disiirguishing breed and 

 quality, are furnished in the following tables both for cattle 

 and for sheep. 



