Prices of Live Stock, 



553 



beasts are in many cases too small to possess any statistical 

 value. The lowest level of price recorded was reached at 

 Aberdeen, where 5,433 animals averaged 26s. per cwt. of 

 live weight, while at Dundee 1 777 animals of the same 

 category realised a price per cwt. only 2d. in excess of 

 that figure. 



Comparing the prices shown in the statement below for 

 1 90 1 with those for 1900, a decline in value, though not to a 

 very marked extent, is apparent : 



Places. 



Inferior 

 or 



Third Quality. 



Good 

 or 



Second Quality. 



Prime 

 or 



First Quality. 





1901. 



1900. 



1901. 



1900. 



1901. 



1900. 





Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 





d. 



s, d. 



j. d. 



s. d. 



s. d. 



d. 



Carlisle 



27 8 



27 



31 2 



31 2 



34 8 



35 2 



Leicester - 



27 10 



32 8 



30 2 



30 0 



34 2 



34 0 



Leeds - - 



28 0 



28 6 



29 6 



29 8 



34 2 



34 4 



Liverpool - 



26 4 



26 6 



3° 4 



30 8 



34 2 



35 4 



London 



20 8 



26 6 



34 6 



34 10 



38 4 



39 4 



Newcastle - 





27 0 



33 .0 



35 8 



36 10 



38 8 



Shrewsbury 



29 4 



29 2 



33 2 



33 2 



35 8 



36 6 



Aberdeen - 



26 0 



27 4 



34 0 



34 8 



36 4 



38 2 



Dundee 



26 2 



27 0 



34 4 



35 2 



37 0 



37 i° 



Edinburgh 





30 8 



35 2 



36 4 



37 10 



38 4 



Falkirk - 



31 10 



30 8 



34 10 



34 10 



37 0 



37 « 



Glasgow - 



33 10 



32 8 



34 6 



34 0 



36 0 



36 10 



Perth 



33 6 



35 4 



35 6 



36 4 



37 10 



38. 8 



In the first quality cattle a fall, varying on the average 

 from 2d. to is. iod. per cwt., is observable at each market 

 except Leicester. For the second quality at Carlisle, Shrews- 

 bury, and Falkirk the price was stationary; and although 

 at Leicester and Glasgow values were higher on the year, 

 there appears to have been a slight decline at the majority 

 of the markets. 



The prevailing rates obtained for first and second quality 

 cattle, as represented in the aggregate of the returns from 

 these thirteen fairly typical markets, have been summarised 

 month by month in the following table, which probably 



