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Prices of Live Stock. 



The prices of both first and second qualities of fat cattle, 

 which were in March last at the same level as in the preced- 

 ing year, and in April had risen slightly above that figure, 

 fell in May and June as compared with last year, the reduc- 

 tion in the latter month being nearly 3s. per cvvt. 



Sales of fat cattle by live weight, i.e., at an agreed rate per 

 stone or per cwt, were reported from eight of the scheduled 

 places, viz., Glasgow, Dundee, London, Edinburgh, Wake- 

 field, Liverpool, Falkirk, and Leicester, but the transactions 

 so recorded were very limited in number at the three last 

 named places. 



At Shrewsbury, the practice of weighing store cattle still 

 prevails to a considerable extent, no less than 3,571 being 

 returned, with the prices realised, during the quarter. Edin- 

 burgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, and Leicester were the only other 

 places in the list where the weighbridge appears to have 

 been resorted to in connection with the sale of store cattle in 

 these three months. 



The appended table gives the usual details for each of the 

 scheduled places : — 



