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PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 



Returned Under the Weighing of Cattle Act. 



The number of cattle returned as entering the markets at 

 the places scheduled under the Markets and Fairs (Weigh- 

 ing of Cattle) Act, 1891, during the second quarter of the 

 year 1901 was 300,579, or slightly less than in the corre- 

 sponding quarter of 1900. The supply of sheep was almost 

 precisely the same, but the number of swine exposed for sale 

 showed a marked reduction, 



Animals. 



2nd 

 Quarter, 

 1901. 



2nd 

 Quarter, 

 1900. 



Cattle : 



No. 



No. 





300,579 



309,384 





36,384 



34,806 



Prices returned - - 



32,848 



31,684 



Prices returned with quality distinguished - 



26,535 



25,709 



Sheep : 







Entering markets - 



1,145,699 



1,145,266 





H,396 



10, 802 



Prices returned with quality distinguished - 



10,591 



8,392 



Swine : 









88,238 



103,473 





652 



721 



Prices returned with quality distinguished - 



646 



717 



The proportion of animals weighed, and also of those for 

 which prices as well as weights were returned, shows a 

 general, though slight, increase, and, as regards cattle, is 

 larger than in any previous second quarter of the year. At 

 Birmingham, Bristol, and York the weighbridge appears to 

 have remained unused during the three months, and, 

 although a certain number ot cattle were weighed at Ash- 



