372 PEICES OF LIVE STOCK. [Dec. 1895. 



orresponding figures for the same quarter of 18^94, are shown in 

 he following table : — 



Fat Cattle — Third Quarter, 1895 and 1894. 



Places. 



Inferior or Third 

 Quality. 



Good or Second 

 Quality. 



Prime or Pirst 

 Quality. 





1895. 



189-1. 



1895. 



1894. 



isyo. 





Liverpool 



Per Cwt. 



Per CAvt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



s. ch 



s. d. 



s. d. 



28 6 



s. d. 



29 6 



s. d. 



34 8 



s. d. 



33 6 



London - ■ 



20 4 



23 0 



34 6 



33 10 



38 0 



38 6 



Newcastle-on- 



Tyne. 

 Shrewsbury - 



27 2 



2i 4 



34 10 

 30 2 



33 8 

 29 2 



37 10 



35 8 



36 6 

 31 8 



Scotland : 

 Aberdeen 



26 3 



24 5 



34 7 



32 10 



38 0 



36 11 



Dundee - 



28 2 



27 1 



34 1 



31 9 



36 6 



34 4 



Edinburgh - 





27 6 



86 11 



34 0 



36 4 



36 0 



Glasgow 



33 6 





36 0 





36 10 





Perth - - 



33 8 



31 2 



35 5 



32 4 



37 1 



34 3 



_ It is practically only in the Scotch cases and the two English 

 markets of Liverpool and London that the basis of these figures 

 foi" the past quarter is sufficiently large to give a i-eliable 

 average of prices. But the data for Newcastle and Shrewsbury 

 have been continued on this occasion so to secure continuity in 

 the year's returns. 



Treating these statistics, however, as indicating the current 

 values of cattle per live cwt. at the several markets named, the 

 course of prices appears to have stood higher, on the whole, in^ 

 1895 than in 1894. The only exception that need be noted is in 

 the class of prime cattle sold in London, where the quotation of 

 38s. 6c^. per live cwt. in the three months ending 30th September 

 1894 has become 38s. only in the same period of 1895. 



The further tables which are appended give, for the various 

 markets, details similar to those which have been furnished on 

 previous occasions — the first of the series indicating the varying 

 extent to which the use of the weighbridge is reported in the 

 scheduled places in Great Britain, and the subsequent tables 

 supplying the quotations for the several breeds and qualities,, 

 an indication being also given of the number of cases where 

 the sale reported was a bargain actually made by live weight. 



