Prices of Live Stock. 



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the two preceding years. The diagram reproduced below 

 shows the course of these prices during 1900 and 1901. 



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1901. 



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The number of recorded sales of fat cattle at an agreed 

 price per cwt. or per stone live weight would appear to have 

 fallen to 10,632 as compared with 14,023 head in 1900. 

 These actual sales by live weight were reported as having 

 taken place during the year at the ten markets of Leicester, 

 Liverpool, London, Newcastle, Wakefield, Bristol, Dundee, 

 Edinburgh, Falkirk, and Glasgow, but more than one-half of 

 the transactions recorded came from the latter city. 



The weighing of store cattle, on the other hand, seems to 

 have been more freely resorted to in the past year, as the 

 number weighed, for which prices were recorded at the 

 scheduled places, increased from 1 1,396 in 1900 to 14,054 in 

 1 90 1. Of this total 1 1,376, or about four-fifths, were reported 

 from Shrewsbury. The prices realised at that market would 

 seem to indicate some decline in values for this class of stock. 



The usual tables are appended. 



