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PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 



[June 1895. 



The London prices range from 29s. 4(i. to 30.s. per live cwt, 

 for inferior animals in the first three months of this year, as 

 against 28s. 4c^. to 33s. 2d. per cwt. in the same months of 1894. 

 The second quality of stock is quoted as from 31s. 2d. to 

 37s. \<d., against 32s. to 37s. in 1894, while the quotations of 

 prime cattle seem lower than last year, or from 35s. 10c?. to 

 39s. 4d per live cwt. against 37s. 6d to 40s. ScZ. ia 1894. 



The Scotch prices of such stock as are there graded in the 

 lowest class run from 24s. 4(i. to 27s. 8c?. per live cwt. at 

 Aberdeen, from 23s. Qd. to 29s. 4cZ. at Dundee, and apparently 

 from 27s. 4cZ. to 30s. 10c?. at Perth. 



In the medium or second quality stock, the prices seem to 

 have ranged lower during the first three months of 1895 at 

 Edinburgh and Perth, — 27s. 6c?. to 33s. 8c?., — than in Aberdeen 

 and Dundee where the range was from 31s. 2c?. to 35s. In the 

 same period of 1894, at all four of these markets, the quotations 

 in this grade were closer, ranging from 31s. to 34s. 6c?. 



In cattle classed as prime the Scotch quotations for the 

 quarters now contrasted were as under, per live cwt. : — 



1895. 1894. 



Aberdeen - 

 Dundee 

 Edinburgh - 

 Perth 



3os. Ad. to 375. 

 336". Ad. to 35s. IQd. 

 335. 2d. to 39s. J Oc?. 

 33s. to 38s. id. 



3.)5. Ad. to 38s. 

 34s. 2c?. to 35s. 

 33s. 6c?. to 44s. %d. 

 33s. 6<?. to 34s. fic?. 



These prices relate to cattle not distinguished as stores, there 

 being 90 cases in these four irarkets where transactions in store 

 cattle with the aid of the weighbridge are reported. 



As on former occasions, it may be useful to obtain an actual 

 average of the transactions in cattle recorded at the followino- 

 places in the several grades shown. This is to be got by 

 dividing tlie total price by the total live weight of the animals 

 in each class, when the comparison for the first quarter of 1895 

 with that of 1894 stands as follows : — 



Places. 



Inferior or Third 

 Quality. 



Good or Second 

 Quality. 



Prime or Pirst 

 Quality. 



1895. 



1894. 



1895. 



1894. 



1895. 



1894. 



England : 

 Leicester 



Per Cwt. 

 s. d. 



30 2 



Per Cwt. 

 s. d. 

 31 0 



Per Cwt. 

 s. d. 



33 2 



Per Cwt. 

 s. d. 



Per Cwt. 

 s. d. 



Per Cwt. 

 s, d. 



Liverpool 







27 8 



28 0 



88 10 



33 4 



London - 



29 4 



29 10 



34 0 



35 2 



87 6 



89 2 



Newctistle-on- 

 Tyne. 







32 8 



82 a 



34 2 



85 2 



Scotland : 

 Aberdeen 



24 8 



24, 8 



31 6 



31 11 



35 6 



86 4 



Dundee - 



26 2 



25 11 



31 8 



31 11 



33 8 



34 3 



Edinburgh - 

 Perth - 



29 8 



24 11 

 29 11 



83 6 

 32 0 



33 6 

 32 1 



84 0 

 34 10 



34 8 

 33 8 











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