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Prices of Live Stock. 



markets is greater than in the same months of 1896 the 

 percentage weighed would appear to be fractionally less. 

 The comparison with 1895 is much more favourable in this 

 respect. 



In the general table on page 272, the numbers weighed and 

 priced respectively at each scheduled place in the past quarter 

 are shown in detail, and attention may again be drawn to the 

 absence of any single case of cattle weighing at Birmingham, 

 and to the very small numbers reported from Lincoln and 

 York. Sheep also were weighed at only four of the fourteen 

 English markets, but an improvement in the numbers of 

 sheep weighed at Leeds may be regarded as worthy of note. 

 From the Scotch and English totals in the same table it will 

 be noticed that both in the case of cattle and of sheep much 

 fuller returns continue to be received from Scotland — where 

 the system of auction marts largely prevails — than from the 

 English markets. This feature has been remarked on all 

 previous occasions on which comments have been made on 

 these live weight returns. 



For ten of the nineteen scheduled places a sufficient report 

 of cattle- prices is again forthcoming to enable a statement 

 of average current value to be given, in the form previously 

 employed, although the quotations in the third or inferior 

 class, as on some former occasions, rest on too small a 

 number of transactions to be accepted as satisfactory at 

 either Leeds, London, Newcastle, or Shrewsbury, while the 

 local classification in use in Glasgow and Perth appears to 

 present points of difference from that adopted elsewhere. 





1 Inferior 





' Good. 





Prime. 





Places. 



(3rd Quality.) 



I (2nd Quality 





(ist Quality.) 

























Price 



Price 





Price 



Price 





Price 



Price 





Number. 



per 



per 



Number. 



per 



per 



Number. 



per 



per 







Stone. 



Cwt. 





Stone. 



Cwt, 





Stone. 



Cwt. 







J. d. 



s. d. 





s. d. 



j= d. 





d. 



s. d. 



Leeds ... 





3 6 



28 0 



53 



3 7h 



29 0 



134 



4 °h 



32 4 



Liverpool - 



95 



^ 2! 



25 10 



lOI 



3 io| 



30 10 



450 



4 3, 



34 0 



London 



6 



3 



% I 



199 



4 7t 



36 10 



1,094 



5 05 



40 4I 



Newcastle - 



13 



3 si 





14 



4 



33 0 



954 



4 61 



36 6 



Shrewsbury 



6 



3 I 



24 8 



51 



3 9% 



30 6 



60 



4 4i 



34 



Aberdeen - 



1,126 



3 2I 



25 6 



3,553 



4 



33 0 



2,399 



4 6^ 



36 2 



Dundee 



144 



•V^ 



29 0 



1,775 



4 o\ 



32 6 



1,470 



4 4? 



34 10 



Edinburgh 









2,378 



4 4? 



34 10 



416 



4 Sl 



35 8 



Glasgow - 



279 



4 .i 



33 2 



582 



4 3 



34 0 



557 ■ 



4 6 



36 0 



Perth- 



102 



4 .;- 





468 



4 4i: 



34 10 



362 



4 61 



36 4 



