Prices of Live Stock. 



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Employing these data for comparative purposes, a table, 

 such as is subjoined, indicates a general rise in the price of 

 fat stock, varying in extent, however, at different places. In 

 the two upper grades, for which the figures are most reliable, 

 there is an increase everywhere except in Leeds, where the 

 quotation of 29s. lod. per cwt. given for the second three 

 months of 1896 is reduced to 29s. in the like months of 1897. 

 In the London market, on the contrary, the rise between 

 1896 and 1897 is from 33s. 46.. to 36s. lod. in second quality 

 cattle and from 36s. lod. to 40s. 46.. in prime stock. The last 

 fissure is the highest average shown in any of the ten places 

 selected : — ^ 





Infekiok 



Good 



Pkime 







or 



or 



or 





Places. 



Third Quality. 



Second Quality. 



First Quality. 







J 897. 



1896.' 



1897. 



1896. 



1897. 



1896. 





Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per 



Cwt. 





s. d. 



s. d. 



J. d. 



s. d. 



s. d. 





d. 



Leeds - 



28 0 



27 10 



29 0 



29 10 



32 4 



32 



0 



Liverpool - 



25 10 





30 10 



29 2 



34 0 



33 



0 



London 



31 0 



27 0 



36 10 



33 4 



40 4 



36 



10 



Newcastle - 



27 8 



25 8 



33 0 



29 10 



36 6 



33 



10 



Shrewsbury 



24 8 



27 0 



30 6 



30 4 



34 10 







Aberdeen - . i 



25 6 



24 2 



33 0 



31 4 



36 2 



34 



6 



Dundee - 



29 0 



25 0 



32 6 



30 8 



34 10 



32 



ID 



Edinburgh - 







34 10 



32 6 



35 8 



32 



8 



Glasgow - 



33 2 



31 6 



34 0 



32 0 



36 0 



34 



6 



Perth - 



32 10 



30 4 



34 10 



32 2 



36 4 



33 



10 



The sales of cattle reported as being by actual live weight 

 amounted to 928 out of the 27,728 transactions returned, and 

 748 of these were of cattle classed as prime, 365 of this grade 

 being returns from Dundee alone and 150 from London. 



In only one instance, that of Shrewsbury, so far as the 

 returns received by the Board show, was any considerable 

 number of store cattle reported as having been passed over 

 the weigh-bridge. In that place prices have been supplied for 

 61 inferior, 759 second class, and 660 prime stores, those 

 given for the several grades averaging respectivel}^ 26s. 2d., 

 30s. 6d., and 35s. lod. per live cwt. 



T he general statement of animals entering, weighed, and 

 priced during the second quarter of 1897 is given in the 

 following table : — 



