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On Wt'iyhiny Lire-Stock. 
used once ; " " none ave sold by weight," and so on. At 
Kidderminster, however, the return is, " the practice of weigh- 
ing is very particularly adopted, and is on the increase." At 
Liverpool, December 19, "the number of cattle weighed on 
the bridge in Stanley Cattle Market has considerably increased 
within the past two months, and to the best of my knowledge 
the sales of cattle by live-weight have also increased within the 
same period." From the Metropolitan Market, Islington, "many 
animals are now weighed, some before sale, but the greater 
portion after sale." From Macclesfield, " all the cattle sales by 
auction ; the animals sold by weight are weighed immediately 
after the sale." From Rye, " since December last, when a 
weighing-machine was fixed in the market, there has been an 
increasing practice to weigh the animals sold." From Edin- 
burgh, " except at the Haymarket (Swan's Sale Yard) the 
^jractice of weighing cattle is not generally in vogue." From 
Dublin, " a scale has been erected for weighing cattle. It is not 
apparently used, so that sales are made by hand, and not by 
ascertained weight." This is the reply made by the Market 
Authority to the Board of Trade Circular ; but evidently there 
has been some weighing and sales by weight, as appears at the 
end of the return, from information supplied to the Board of 
Trade by the Dublin Farmers Gazette, which gives quotations 
per cwt. for live-weight of first, second, and third qualities of 
bullocks and heifers, and in the same table adds the dead-weight 
prices for the three qualities. The Dublin Farmers Gazette 
also furnished a second return, showing the number of beasts 
sold weekly by live- weight in Dublin Market from August 2, 
1888, to December 27, 1888, with the total live-weights of each 
lot, and the price made per cwt. live-weight. From this we 
learn that no less than 1,275 beasts were sold during that period 
by live-weight, and the prices made recorded. It would seem 
from this fact that the Market Authority, in stating that sales at 
Dublin Market were made by hand and not by ascertained 
weight, were insufficiently informed, or ignored the weekly sale 
by live-weight of a total of 1,275 beasts. 
The return from Newcastle-on-Tyne states that weighing 
live animals on the market machine is practised only " on rare 
occasions," but a letter dated December 21, 1888, from the City 
Treasurer's Office, in reply to a personal inquiry, shows that from 
February 21, 1888, to June 5, 1888, olG head of cattle were 
weighed alive; from June 8, 1888, to March 25, 1889,419 head; 
from April 1, 1889, to October 12, 1889, 224 head: or 959 in 
all. In addition, 1,427 live pigs were weighed, proving that the 
machine is not boycotted, and that it is affording a sufficient 
