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Prices of Live Stock. 



separated markets, under various conditions, can hardly fail 

 to a certain extent to be regarded as typical of the course of 

 trade. 



Reverting to the quarterly prices, it will be seen from the 

 following table that, with one or two slight exceptions, they 

 show an improvement in comparison w r ith those for the 

 similar period of 1898. 



1 - 



1 Places. 



Inferior 



or 



Third Quality. 



Good 

 or 



Second Quality. 



Prime 

 or 



First Quality. 



•1899. 



1898. 



1899. 



1898. 



.1899. 



1898. 







Per 



Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



Per 



Cwt. 



Per Cwt. 



I 



s. 



d. 



s. 



d. 



d. 



J. d. 



s. 



d. 



s. d. 



Carlisle 



26 



8 



25 



4 



30 4 



29 10 



33 



0 



32 6 



Leeds - 



28 



0 



28 



0 



28 10 



29 6 



32 



0 



31 10 



Liverpool - 



24 



4 



24 



0 



29 0 



28 0 



33 



4 



32 0 



London 



26 



4 



25 



4 



34 4 



32 10 



38 



0 



37 4 



Newcastle - 



28 



4 



26 



4 



32 4 



29 8 



34 



10 



33 6 



Shrewsbury 



29 



8 



24 



8 



32 10 



29 8 



34 



8 



33 8 



Aberdeen - 



25 



0 



24 



4 



32 4 



32 2 



35 



0 



34 6 



Dundee 



27 



4 



26 



10 



32 2 



32 0 



34 



4 



34 0 



Edinburgh - 







28 



10 



33 10 



33 0 



34 



10 



33 8 



Falkirk ' - 



29 



4 



28 



8 



32 8 



32 2 



33 



10 



33 to 



Glasgow 



3 T 



4 



3i 



0 



32 8 



32 0 



34 



10 



34 4 



Perth - 



30 



8 



30 



4 



32 2 



32 2 



34 



4 



34 4 



The actual sale of fat cattle by live weight — as distin- 

 guished from the larger number for which weight and price 

 are returned whether the transaction took place at an agreed 

 rate per stone or per cwt. or not — appears to grow in favour. 

 The number returned as sold at an actual rate per live 

 cwt. during the first quarter of 1899 was 3,806 ; and small as 

 this number is, it is to be remembered that it com- 

 pares with a total of only 2,090 for the first quarter of 

 1898. Glasgow and Falkirk still retain their pre-eminence 

 in this respect, and the other places at which sales by live 

 weight were recorded were Dundee, Edinburgh, London, 

 Liverpool, and Newcastle. The prices calculated from these 

 sales by actual live weight range from 4s, 2d. per stone at 

 Liverpool to 4s. 7|d. per stone at London for prime quality, 

 and from 3s. iofd. per stone at Edinburgh to 4s. 3M. per 

 stone at London for second quality cattle. 



