536 



Prices of Live Stock. 



Animals. 









i8qq. 



_ _ 



1898. 



Cattle : 









No. 



No. 



Entering markets 



- 



• 



- 



1,236,091 



1,263,991 



Weighed - . 









139,482 



i3 5 ,°5 2 



Prices returned - 









I2zL. HC2 



124. IQ7 



Prices returned 



with 



quality 



dis- 







tinguished 







I03,6l3 



102,299 



Sheep : 













Entering markets 





- 



- 



4,68l,602 



4,691,619 ( 



Weighed - 









4 5 ,°43 



49,953 



Prices returned 



with 



quality 



dis- 







tinguished 







42,154 



40,460 



Swine : 













Entering markets 









455,056 



363,37o 



Weighed - 









2,205 



1,614 



Prices returned 



with 



quality 



dis- 







tinguished 









2,070 



i,437 



There would appear to have been during the past year 

 some slight extension of the practice of weighing cattle in 

 English markets. Thus 45,101 out of atotal of 966,197 were 

 returned in 1898 as weighed, while in 1 899 the number weighed 

 was 53,224 out of a total of 945,636. This increase is almost 

 entirely attributable to three markets, viz., Shrewsbury, Wake- 

 field, and, in a less degree, Carlisle. At the two former 

 places the number of cattle weighed during the past year 

 was doubled as compared with 1898. Shrewsbury is still 

 distinguished for the extent to which the scales are used in 

 the sale of store stock, about four-fifths of the cattle 

 weighed at that market being of this class. At the Scottish 

 markets the extent to which the weigh-bridge was used 

 remained very much as in 1898, but taking Great Britain as a 

 whole the percentage of the cattle entering the markets 

 which were weighed was 1 1*28, or higher than in any previous 

 year. In the weighing of sheep there was no great change, an 

 increase in the number weighed at Liverpool being more 

 than counterbalanced by a decrease at Leeds, London, and 

 Wakefield. 



Prices are now available in conjunction with live weight 

 for 103,613 cattle as compared with '102,299 in 1898 out 



