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PRICES OF LIVE STOCK RETURNED UNDER 

 THE WEIGHING OF CATTLE ACT. 



Returns of prices supplied to the Board of Agriculture 

 from the places scheduled under the Markets and Fairs 

 (Weighing of Cattle) Act show that during the third quarter 

 of the year 267,782 cattle, 1,688,121 sheep, and 95,564 swine 

 were exposed for sale at the markets in the 21 places from 

 which particulars are obtained. The numbers of each class 

 of stock weighed and priced, as compared with those returned 

 for the corresponding quarter of 1898, were as follows : — 



Animals. 



3rd 

 Quarter, 

 1899. 



3rd 

 Quarter, 

 1898. 



Cattle : 







No. 



No. 



Entering markets 







267,782 



262,395 



Weighed - 







32,552 



32,274 



Prices returned - 







28,917 



28,799 



Prices returned with 



quality 



dis- 







tinguished 





24,036 



23,804 



Sheep : 











Entering markets 







1,688,121 



1,593,030 



Weighed - 









12,878 



Prices returned with 



quality 



dis- 











11,578 



10,956 



Swine : 











Entering markets 







95 > 564 



75,125 









710 



479 



Prices returned with 



quality 



dis- 







tinguished 





705 



467 



The number of cattle entering the markets during the three 

 months was somewhat larger than last year, and there was 

 also a slight, though not quite so large a proportionate, 

 increase in the number of those weighed. The actual per- 

 centage of cattle weighed at all the scheduled markets was 



