Prices of Live Stock. 



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over 31 per cent, of the animals exhibited, while prices 

 in complete form were supplied for 22 per cent, of the 

 total cattle shown in the five Scotch towns scheduled 

 under the Act of 1891. 



Cattle at Scheduled Places in 

 Scotland. 



1st 1st 

 Quarter, Quarter, 

 1897. 1896. 



1st 

 Quarter, 

 1895. 



Number entering markets 

 Number weighed 

 Prices returned 



Prices returned with quality distin- 

 guished 



64,739 59,420 

 20,339 19,198 

 19,942 1 18,962 

 14,259 1 13.169 



60,871 



18,534 

 18,502 

 13,109 



The following further table gives for ten of the scheduled 

 places the average of prices per stone and per cwt. ascer- 

 tained by dividing the total values reported by the aggregate 

 live weight of the animals, and it in the first quarter of this 

 year shows also the number of cattle returned in each 

 grade or category — these figures not including cattle dis- 

 tinguished as stores. It will be observed that the data even 

 in these selected towns are very defective in the third 

 or inferior class, except at Aberdeen, and the general 

 reports received indicate that it is, comparatively speaking, 

 rare to find the weight of the lowest quality of stock tested 

 on the weighbridge. 



Places. 



Inferior. 

 (3rd Quality.) 



Good. 

 (2nd Quality.) 



Prime. | 

 (ist Quality.) 1 



Number. 



Price 



per 

 Stone. 



Price 

 per 

 Cwt. 



Number. 



Price 

 per 

 Stone. 



Price 

 per 

 Cwt. 



Nuniber. 



Price 

 per 

 Stone. 



Price* 

 per 1 

 Cwt. 1 



Leeds 



16 



^. d. 



3 6 



s. d. 

 28 0 



73 



s. d. 

 3 8 



s. d. 



29 4 



165 



s. d. 



4 0,^ 



.J 



32 6 



Liverpool - 



28 



3 4 



a6 8 



309 



3 102 



31 0 



886 



4 2 



33 4 



London 



47 



3 61 



28 6 



310 



4 3l 



34 6 



1,007 



4 9I 



33 6; 



Newcastle - 



iS 



3 3i 



26 4 



39 



3 9 



30 0 



43^ 



4 4l 



1 



35 0 



Shrewsbury 



4^ 



3 if 



25 2 



166 



3 9 



30 0 



31 



4 3^ 



34 4 



Aberdeen - ... 



1.425 ■ 



2 iif 



23 10 



3.149 



4 ol 



32 4 



2.537 



4 4l 



35 2 



Dundee - - 



i '92 



3 4i 



27 0 



1 1,547 



4 o| 



32 4 



1,003 



4 3f 



34 6 



Edinburgh 









2,654 



4 3 



34 0 



176 



4 5 



35 4 



Glasgow ... 









1 355 



3 II 



31 4 



326 



4 5i 



35 6 



Perth- 



108 



3 9! 



30 6 



i 

 1 



4 I 



32 8 



342 



4 3I 



34 6 



