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Prices of Live Stock. 



lower, the drop in some instances, and more particularly in 

 London, being considerable, as the following figures show: — 





IXFERIOR 



Good 



Prime 





or 



or 



or 



p 



LACE . 



Third Quality. 



Second Quality. 



First Qualitj'-. 





3898. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 





Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 





J. d. 



s. a. 



J. d. 



s. d. 



s. d. 



J. d. 



Carlisle 



25 6 





29 10 





32 10 





Leeds - 



28 0 



28 0 



29 0 



29 0 



32 0 



32 4 



Liverpool - 



24 2 



25 10 



28 0 



30 10 



32 8 



34 0 



London 



23 8 



31 0 



32 10 



36 ID 



36 6 



40 4 



Newcastle - 



25 8 



27 8 



30 0 



33 0 



32 10 



36 6 



Shrewsbury 





24 8 





30 6 





34 10 



Aberdeen - 



24 2 



25 6 



31 8 



33 0 



34 4 



36 2 



Dundee 



26 8 



29 0 



30 10 



32 6 



33 4 



34 10 



Edinburgh - 







32 10 



34 10 



33 6 



35 8 



Falkirk 



29 4 





32 4 





34 0 





Glasgow 



31 2 



33 2 



32 2 



34 0 



34 2 



36 0 



Perth - 



30 0 



32 10 



32 2 





34 8 



36 4 



The range of values for the second quarter of 1898 in the 

 two superior grades, in which the transactions quoted are 

 fairly numerous, gives a price of from 28s. per cwt. at Liver- 

 pool to 32s. lod. per cwt. at London and Edinburgh for 

 second quality cattle, and one of from 32s. per cwt. at Leeds 

 to 36s. 6d. per cwt. in London for prime stock. 



Fat cattle to the number of over 3,000 head were reported 

 to have been sold at an agreed on price per cwt. of live weight 

 at 7 of the 21 markets during the quarter. Of these 

 quotations only 137, however, came from English markets, 

 and more than two-thirds of the whole were supplied from 

 Falkirk and Glasgow. In these last markets the value per 

 live cwt. of second quality stock thus sold was quoted as 

 32s. 4d. and 31s. lod., and of prime cattle 34s. and 34s. 2d. 

 respectively. 



The development recorded in this section of the returns is 

 the most hopeful indication of an increasing appreciation of 

 this method of sale yet reported, as the number of actual 

 live weight transactions is half as great again as in the 

 first three months of the current 3^ear, when 2,090 such 

 transactions were returned. 



The customary table, giving ^he numbers of stock and the 

 extent of the use of the weighbridge at each of the 21 

 scheduled places, is added for reference. 



