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PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 



[Sept. 1895. 



In what are returned as prime or first quality cattle, the range 

 of quotations during the quarter ended on the 30th June last 

 may be thus shown : — 



Eno;lish Markets, 



Scotch Markets. 



Per Cwt. 



Liverpool - - 345. 8d. 

 London - - 355. to 405. 4c?. 

 Newcastle - - 305. to 405. 

 Shrewsbury - 82s. 4(f. to 36s.lOc?. 



Per Cwt. 



Aberdeen - - 365. 6c?. to 375. Sd. 

 Dundee - -335. 8c?. to 365. lOd. 

 Edinburgh ~ - 35s. lOd. to 40s. 

 Perth - - 35s. 2d. to 37s. 4d. 



Taking, however, the better test of actual average values 

 obtained by dividing the total prices by the aggregate live 

 weight in each grade (omitting all quotations of store cattle), a 

 figure may be obtained which will present a possible comparison 

 with the similarly ascertained averages in the same period of 

 1894. The results are as under, and they show a slightly higher 

 level of price to have prevailed in 1895 in the case of inferior 

 stock, a distinctly higher level in medium or second quality 

 cattle in Scotland, and higher prices at all markets except 

 that of the metropolis in the grade of prime or first class 

 cattle : — 



Places. 



Inferior or Third 

 Quality. 



Good or Second 

 Quality. 



Prime or First 

 Quality. 





1S95. 



1894. 



1895. 



1894. 



1895. 



1894, 



Liverpool ; 



Per Cwt. 

 s. d. 



Per Owt. 

 s. d. 



Per Cwt. 

 s. d. 



28 0 



Per Cwt. 

 5. d. 



28 6 



Per Cwt. 

 5. d. 



34 8 



Per Cwt. 



5. d, 



84 4 



London - 



28 6 



26 6 



36 0 



33 2 



38 4 



38 6 



Newcastle - on- 



Tyne. 

 Shrewsbury - 



26 2 



U 6 



34 4 

 31 6 



34 10 

 28 6 



36 2 

 34 6 



35 8 

 33 0 



SCOTLAIfD : 



Aberdeen 



25 8 



25 4 



33 1 



32 3 



36 9 



36 4 



Dundee - 



28 11 



27 1 



33 9 



32 0 



35 5 



34 2 



Edinburgh 







36 1 



S3 8 



36 0 



33 10 



Perth 



33 9 



30 6 



34 7 



32 2 



85 2 



34 7 



The first of the tables appended enables attention to be drawn 

 to the extent to which farmers make use of the facilities afibrded 

 to the sellers of live stock for the disposal of their produce by 

 the legislature of 1887 and 1891, and it indicates also consider- 

 able local variation in the amount of information furnished as 

 regards prices by the authorities and persons on whom the 

 Legislature, in compliance with the suggestions of the Royal 

 Commission on markets, imposed this statutory obligation. 



