Prices of Live Stock. 



539 



description, there seems no reason to suppose that, for pur- 

 poses of comparison from month to month, the values here 

 given fail to afford a reasonable index of the general course 

 of trade at the cattle markets of Great Britain. These 



Months. 



Good. 



Prime. 



Price 

 per Stone. 



Price 

 per Cwt. 



Price 

 per Stone. 



Prict 

 per Cwt. 



January - 



s. 



d. 





d. 



s. 



a 7 . 



s. d. 



4 



oS 





6 



4 



3! 



34 6 



February - 



4 



of 



32 



6 



4 



4 



34 8 



March - 



4 



II 



32 



10 



4 



4i 



34 10 



April - - 



4 



If 



33 



2 



4 



4l 



35 2 



May .... 



4 



2 



33 



4 



4 



5i 



35 6 



June .... 



4 



4l 



35 



2 



4 



7h 



37 0 



July - - . . 



4 



5 



35 



4 



4 



7h 



37 0 



August - 



4 



2 



33 



4 



4 



Si 



35 6 



September 



4 



oi 



32 



4 



4 



3i 



34 2 



October - 



4 



°i 



32 



4 



4 



3i 



34 2 



November 



4 



2 



33 



4 



4 



4l 



35 2 



December 



4 



3i 



34 



4 



4 



71 



37 2 



figures show a fairly steady improvement in value during 

 the spring, the level of prices being apparently highest in 

 July. During the autumn there was a marked fall, the 

 lowest prices of the year being recorded in September and 

 October, although this was again followed by a recovery in 

 the last two months. 



In commenting on these Returns for 189S allusion was 

 made to the fact that the number of fat cattle which were 

 reported as having been actually sold by live weight at an 

 agreed on price per cwt. or per stone had in that year 

 reached 13,031, an increase of over 10c per cent, on the 

 preceding year.* It is satisfactory to find that in 1899 such 

 transactions appear to have been even more numerous, the 

 numbers of fat cattle thus sold being returned as 16,844, 

 These sales occurred in Glasgow, Falkirk, Dundee, Edin- 

 burgh, Wakefield, London, Liverpool, and Newcastle, two 

 other markets — Birmingham and Leicester — also reporting 

 isolated transactions conducted on this method. In addition 

 there were also 576 store cattle sold by actual live weight at 



* Journal Vol, V., No. 4, p. 541. 



