124 PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 

proportions are no doubt still small, but it “is satisfactory 
that they exceed any yet recorded, and indicate a gradual, but 
it may fairly be hoped a persistent, tendency in the direction 
of what is generally admitted to be the more systematic and 
satisfactory mode of conducting business. The figures in the 
case of sheep and pigs continue to be, so far as the use of the 
weighbridge is concerned, insignificant. 
It must be admitted, however, that the tendency above 
referred to is not without exception. The weighbridge seems 
to have been entirely idle throughout the three months at 
Bristol and York; and at four other places—viz., Ashford, 
Birmingham, Norwich, and Salford—although some cattle 
were weighed, no information is forthcoming as to their value. 
At Leicester, although the numbers are not large, particu- 
lars both of weight and price have been regularly furnished 
for several years, and it is therefore now included in the 
list of places from which returns are taken into account for 
the purpose of price comparisons. The usual table, which 
follows, accordingly contains figures relating to seven 
English and six Scottish markets, showing the number 
and average price per stone and per cwt. of fat cattle of each 
class weighed and priced. 











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Pricel| bxice Price | Price | | Price | Price 
; Number. |_ per per | Number./ per {| per | Number.| per | per 
| Stone. | Cwt. Stone.| Cwt. | {| Stone. | Cwt. 
| 
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Carlisle f=) >}, SSO. Nes nes mazes 706 | 3 10x | 3r | 2,044 | 4 4% | 35 © 
Leicester - oe ae = a a 29 3) 30 0} 122 4 34] 34 2 
| 
Leeds - = 13 3 6 28 0 66 3 8 29 4 | 217 |4 2 | S50 + 
Liverpool- -{ 168 Si eddalie7a coal 476 3 10% | 3010 | __ 1,667 4 62/36 2 
] | | 
London - - 2 3 44 | 26 ro | 258 4 53/35 6| 98° 5 of) taaae 
Newcastle- - | = = =e | 276 A736) To 437 4 8} | 37, 10 
Shrewsbury - 149 3.9: |) 23 8 204 py pe ies & 267 4 6 | 36 ° 
| ‘ 
Aberdeen - - 1,373 ay 7 26 8 2,554 4 34/34 2 2,222 4 8} | 37 10 
Dundee - - | 494 |3 4 20On| er a> CGY oe Pai ee 767 | 4 7t | 36 10 
Edinburgh =| 2 | 3 5st |e27 8 3,005 4 63 | 36 2 zoo | 4 8% | 37 x0 
| 2 
Falkirk - - 75 RZ TO || qo 509 4 3% | 34 24 428 4 OF | 36 6 
Glasgow - - | 257 Amora souedal 654 AB aR 4 2,553 4 5} | 35 x0 
| | | | 
Perth = os] 4) Sr lcoy zo 449 4 5t/ 35 6! 122 y 8} } 37 8 


