Prices of Live Stock. 



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largest local auctioneers there and at Perth intimating" their 

 inability to class the stock sold according to cjuality as is done 

 elsewhere in Great Britain. 



Turning to the prices quoted in these returns, the subjoined 

 table gives, for the same markets as vv^ere selected in the 

 preceding months of the current year, the numbers of the 

 transactions in each grade of stock and ths prices per live 

 stone and per live cwt. respectively : — 





Inferior 





Good 





Prime 











or 







or 



i 





or 









Third Quality. 



Second Quality. 



First Quality. 





Places. 

























Price 



Price 





Price 



Price 





Price 



Price 







Number. 



per 



per 



Number. 



per 



per 



Number. 



^per 



psr 









Stone. 



Cwt. 





Stone. 



Cwt. 





Stone. 



Cwt. 









s. d. 



J. d. 





.y. d. 



J. d. 





s. d. 



J. d. 





Carlisle - 



588 



3 24 



25 6 



733 



3 8f 



29 10 



555 



4 4 



32 'lO 





Leeds 



2 



3 6 



28 0 



39 



3 l\ 



29 0 



439 



4 0 



32 0 





Liverpool - 



91 



3 o\ 



24 2 



20 



3 6 



28 0 



457 



4 I 



32 8 





London 



7 



2 iii 



: 23 8 



557 



4 



32 10 



623 



4 6J 



36 6 





Newcastle - 



22 



3 2§ 





142 



3 9 



30 0 



870 



4 1? 



32 ID 





Shrewsbury 























Aberdeen - - . 



i>i47 



3 o\ 



24 2 



2,881 



3 1^4 



31 8 



1,822 



4 si 



34 4 





Dundee 



272 



3 4 



26 8 



2,251 



3 



30 10 



1,313 



4 2 



33 4 





Edinburgh 









2,931 



4 li 



32 ID 



424 



4 2I; 



33 6 





Falkirk - 



63 



3 8 



29 4 



379 



4 



32 4 



428 



4 3 



34 0 





Glasgow - 



410 



3 T-o\ 



31 2 



987 



4 o\ 



32 2 



1,353 



4 3I 



34 2 





Perth 



178 



3 9 



1 30 0 



674 



4 o| 



32 2 



365 



4 4 



34 8 





It will be seen that the failure of the town of Shrewsbury 

 to report any prices for fat stock weighed and sold leaves 

 that market a blank as r.^gards information Avhich has been 

 formerly available. This is perhaps the more remarkable, 

 as the reports received from Shrewsbury indicate that there 

 is there an exceptional use of the weighbridge for the sale of 

 store stock, of which 643 were w^eighed and priced out of a total 

 of no more than 670 in Great Britain in the second quarter of 

 1898. The table also shows that the number of cases where 

 inferior stock were weighed and priced is still relatively very 

 small in all the markets except Aberdeen and Carlisle, and, as 

 has been before observed, the prices quoted for inferior stock 

 at Glasgow and at Perth seem to suggest that some 

 different method of classification may be adopted locally 

 from the usual practice elsewhere. 



Contrasting the prices of the last three months ending 

 June 30th with those in the same perioi of 1897, the 

 values, v\^here comparisons are possible, are nearly everywhere 



