Prices of Live Stock. 



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shown to bfc weighed has thus crept up to 7-57 per cent., as 

 compared with 2*22 per cent, in 1893. This is a relatively 

 greater advance than in Scotland. 



The following table shows the aggregate number of cattle, 

 sheep, and swine respecting which particulars have been 

 received during the past year. The number of sheep weighed 

 showed a further decline compared with 1900, and it may be 

 noted that about two-thirds of those for which prices were 

 supplied were weighed at Aberdeen alone. 



Animal: 



Cattle : 



Entering Markets .... 

 Weighed - - - - 

 Prices returned - 



Prices returned with quality 

 distinguished 



Sheep : 



Entering markets - - 



Weighed 



Prices returned with quality 

 distinguished 



Swine : 



Entering markets .... 

 Weighed - - - - - • 

 Prices returned with quality 

 distinguished 



1 901. 



1900. 



No. 



No. 



1,161,516 

 156,289 

 I3i>792 



1,187,603 

 141,611 

 124,648 



109,590 



104,318 



4>3H,232 

 39,371 



4,325,6i3 

 43,58i 



32,439 



36,312 



383 875 

 2,167 



442,216 

 2,196 



2,161 



2,120 



The extent to which advantage was taken in 1901 of the 

 weighing facilities provided at the scheduled markets will be 

 seen from the table on page 556, in which the number of cases 

 in which prices were distinguished is also shown. In three 

 of the English markets— Birmingham, Lincoln, and York— 

 although nearly 119,000 cattle in all were exposed for sale 

 during the year, none are returned as having been weighed ; 

 and at Ashford, Bristol, and Norwich the number was insig- 

 nificant. In the case of Salford, although the number weighed 

 increased from 2,974 in 1900 to 4,116 in 1901, the market 

 authorities have again failed to return the price at 

 which the animals were disposed of in any single instance. 

 This absence of information contrasts very unfavourably with 



