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Prices of Live Stock. 



12*16, but as usual the average for Scotland far exceeded that 

 for England, being 31*26 per cent, as compared with 6*09. 

 The numbers of sheep and swine exposed for sale were in 

 excess of those returned for the corresponding period of 1898, 

 but the number weighed of these classes of animals is still 

 too small to afford any reliable basis for calculation. At four 

 places — viz., Birmingham, Bristol, Lincoln, and York — where 

 the weighbridge is seldom in request, it has not apparently 

 been used on any single occasion during the three months. 



While from all the scheduled places in Scotland sufficient 

 statistical data as to prices of fat cattle weighed are received 

 to enable them to be included in the following table, only six 

 of the similar places in England furnish returns at all adequate 

 to be taken into account in calculating prices. 





Inferior 





Good 





Prime 







or 



Third Quality. 



or 



Second Quality. 



or 



First Quality. 



Places. 





















Number. 



Price 

 per 

 Stone. 



Price 

 per 

 Cwt. 



Number. 



Price 

 per 

 Stone. 



Price 

 per 

 Cwt. 



Number. 



Price 

 per 

 Stone. 



Price 

 per 

 Cwt. 



Carlisle 



546 



Sm d. 



3 5 



s. d. 



27 4 



535 



j. d. 



3 95 



j. d. 



30 6 



700 



s. d. 



4 3 



d. 



34 0 



Leeds 









8 



3 7 



28 8 



182 



4 °i 



32 2 



Liverpool - 









295 



3 9 



30 0 



2,029 



4 2A 



33 8 



London - 





3 if 



25 2 



660 



4 if 



33 2 



S19 



4 7* 



37 0 



Newcastle- 



2 



3 Si 



27 10 



144 



3 "1 



31 10 



S3 2 



4 7h 



37 0 



Shrewsbury 



71 



3 2I 



25 10 



334 



3 9^ 



30 4 



204 



4 3 



34 0 



Aberdeen - 



1,192 



3 2 



25 4 



2,317 



4 2J 



33 3 



i,58i 



4 8| 



37 6; 



Dundee 



282 



3 4l 



27 2 



911 



4 2 



33 4 



70S 



4 6 



36 0 



Edinburgh 









2,802 



4 4i 



34 10 



209 



4 9 



38 0 



Falkirk - 



"3 



3 8 



29 4 



55S 



4 *\ 



33 8 



346 



4 6i 



36 4 



Glasgow - 



321 





31 8 



868 



4 2 



33 4 



2,443 



4 5 



35 4 



Perth 





3 6£ 



28 4 



j 23 



A 2* 



33 8 



,91 



4 6£ 



36 6 



The prices realised for cattle of first quality ranged from 

 4s. o|d. per stone (32s. 2d. per cwt.) at Leeds to 4s. gd. per 

 stone (38s. per cwt.) at Edinburgh. For second quality beasts* 

 ignoring the return from Leeds, which is based on too small 

 a number of animals to be of value, the prices ranged from 

 3s. 9d. per stone (30s. per cwt.) at Liverpool to 4s. 4±d. per 

 stone (34s. iod, per cwt.) at Edinburgh. 



