Prices of Store Cattle per Live Stone, and. Official Quotations. 863 
4s. 9hd. and one smaller and younger, 52 stones, 5s. 0\d. per stone. 
About the same time 21 black-polled Irish (64 stones) were bought 
at 4s. 6\d. at Leicester. In February 1890, 15 Hereford oxen, 
cross-bred, weighing 61 st. 1 lb., each made 4s. l\d. per stone at Shrews- 
bury, and 1G, a year and a half old, 58 \ stones, made there 4s. 8(7. 
per stone ; 64, two and a halfiyears old, 64 stones, made there 4s. l\d. 
per stone, and 20 heifers, two years old, 55 st. 12 lb., 4s. 9<f. per 
stone ; while 8 inferior shorthorn heifers, 60 stones, made but 3s. 9^(7. 
In the same month, three-year-old best Welsh runts at Oswestry, 80 
stones, made 4s. 6(7. per stone, and the same description, 59^ stones, 
4s. 8c/. per stone at Craven Arms. On April 2, 20 of the same sort, 
(outlayers), 68 st. 5 lb., cost at Leicester 5s. 0^d. per stone; when 
also cross-bred polled Galloway heifers, excellent quality, not two 
years old, 51 st. 1 lb., cost in Cumberland 6s. 3(7. per stone (much too 
costly) and shorthorn oxen, home-bred, fair quality, 76 st. 5 lb., 
cost at Leicester 4s. 8c7. per stone. 
On May 1, homebred shorthorn bullocks, 74 stones, made 4s. 9|(7. 
per stone at Lincoln. At the same date, 60 dishorned Irish oxen, 
three years old and fresh, 66 st. 2 lb., made 4s. 5c7. a stone in Ireland, 
their carriage to the Midlands would add 2^d. a stone to their cost ; 
and 40 dishorned Irish heifers of the same breed, 48 st. 11 lb., cost 
in Ireland 4s. 7|c7. per stone, while a similar lot of 4 at Shrews- 
bury, 57 stones, were bought at 4s. 6^(7. per stone. Welsh heifers at 
Leicester at that date, 45 stones, made 4s. 10(7. to 5s. 2|(7. per stone, 
and shorthorn heifers, to keep round, 52 st. 7 lb. down to 39 st. 1 lb., 
cost at Leicester 4s. 8(7. to 5s. 8(7. per stone. These Welsh shorthorn 
heifers could not at such prices be expected to make a profit to the 
grazier who fed them. At Leicester Fair, however, some good 
shorthorns, on May 12, 74 st. 8 lb., made as much as 5s. 3(7. 
per stone, and black-polled Irish heifers, good quality, 56 stones, 
5s. 2|(7. per stone, but these were dangerous prices to buy in at. 
Shorthorn bullocks, however, at Shrewsbury, from 46 to 51 stones, 
were making 5s. 1(7. average per stone, and shorthorn barren cows, 
68 stones, 4s. 7 j ! (7. ; Herefords (barreners), 63| stones, 3(7. a stone more 
money, while Hereford heifers, 12 of 48 stones, 27 of 55 stones, and 
48 of 48 slones, made respectively 4s. 1H(7., 5s. 1(7., and 5s. H(7. per 
stone, and 50 Hereford barreners, 6H stones, 4s. 9(7. per stone ; 
40 two-year-old Hereford steers, 63 stones, made 5s. Hr7. These 
could not have been well bought. So much for the month of May. 
Coming now to June 4 and Glasgow market, 4 Canadian heifers, 
64 stones, made 4s. 1^(7., and 20 oxen, some polled, 5 coarse, but the 
rest well bred or nice, made from 3s. Q\d. to 4s. 8|(7. per stone — these 
beasts have, it is believed, paid for grazing. In July, 322 Hereford 
bullocks at Shrewsbury, scaling from 52^ up to 70^ stones, made 
from 4s. 8(7. up to 5s. per stone, and 128 Hereford heifers, weighing 
from 44^ up to 54 stones, made from 4s. 9|(7. to 5s. 1(7. per stone ; 
123 shorthorn heifers of 60 stones, making 4s. 11(7., and bullocks 4(7. 
less. In J uly, at Shrewsbury, heifers came down 2(7. per stone. 
Here, then, is a sketch of the cost per stone of nearly 3,000 head 
of store cattle which has been collected and tabulated by private 
