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Prices of Live Stock. 



infinitesimal. In London and in Shrewsbury, on the other 

 hand, one in every five of the cattle shown was weighed. 

 Prices were ascertained in nearly every instance at Shrews- 

 bury, but in less than half the cases reported from London. 

 The transactions reported from Shrewsbury are also remark- 

 able in consisting mainly of store cattle. As regards sheep, 

 only two English markets, Leicester and Leeds, furnish prices 

 of weighed animals, and the Metropolitan Market Authority, 

 although reporting the weighing of 1,542 sheep, have failed to 

 discover the price in any single instance. Of the 12,290 

 sheep weighed in Great Britain, 7,239 were returned from the 

 auctions of Aberdeen alone. In swine, no instance of weigh- 

 ing is reported from any place in Scotland, except Perth, 

 and there only 91 are recorded, and although weighings of 

 swine are returned from Newcastle, Leeds, Leicester, and 

 London, prices are quoted only in Newcastle in 375 instances, 

 and in Leicester in 8. 



The following table shows the average of the prices of fat 

 cattle, according to quality, in the undernoted ten places, 

 which have been compared on former occasions : — 





Lnfekiok. 



Good. 





Prime. 





i 



Places. 



(3rd Quality.) 



(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. 







s. d. 



s. d. 











.c. d. 



s. d. 



Leeds 



4 



3 6 



28 0 



96 



3 9 



30 0 



132 



4 0^ 



32 4 



Liverpool - - - j 









443 



3 95 



30 2 



I 194 



4 li 



32 10 



London - - - ' 



14 



^3 



28 8 



608 



4 24 



33 6 



857 



4 9, 



38 0 



Newcastle- - - ' 





3 5| 



27 ID 



8 



3 9^ 



30 0 



361 



4 8i 



37 6 



Shrewsbury 



8 



3 2f 



25 10 



15 



3 



31 8 



17 



4 35 



34 4 



Aberdeen - 



84S 



3 if 



25 2 



2,207 



4 3 



34 0 



1,739 



4 7i 



36 10 



Dundee 



90 



3 4^ 



27 0 



1,339 



4 of 



32 6; 



1,093 



4 52 



35 8 



Edinburgh 









2,188 



^ 



34 0: 



403 



4 5f 



35 10 



Glasgow - 



336 



3 10 



30 8 



605 



4 I* 



33 0; 



789 



4 6i 



36 2 



Perth - - - { 



157 



3 



31 6 



355 



4 3i 



34 2j 



281 



4 (>i 



36 6 



The values per live cwt. thus calculated range from a 

 minimum average of 25s. 2d. for animals of the inferior class 

 at Aberdeen to 31s. 6d. at Perth. In the second or medium 

 grade, the range is less — from 30s. per cwt. at Leeds and 

 Newcastle to 34s. 2d. at Perth. In prime cattle, the Shrewsbury 

 returns of fat stock show 34s. 4d. per cwt., but this average 

 is deduced from the sale of 17 animals only, whereas the 



