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PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 

to month in 1900 contrasts with an opposite tendency in the 
same months of last year. 




Good, Prime, 
or Second Quality. or First Quality. 
per cwt. per cwt. 
Months. 
1900. 1899. 1900. | 1899. 
: os | | 
Se Sen Ss | Sa ts 
January - -— - 34 8 g2 mo | 37 2 | 34 6 
| } 
February - - - 34 6 22580 36 8 | 34 8 
March - - - BA 32 10 20: Oram 34 10 


The number of fat cattle which were reported as actually 
sold by live weight—z.c, at a rate per stone or per cwt. 
previously agreed upon—continues to be comparatively small 
and at only eightof the 21 scheduled places were transactions of 
this nature recorded. ‘The prices calculated from these sales 
alone show a range of from 39s. 2d. per cwt. to 33s. 8d. per 
cwt. for first quality, and from 35s. 10d. to 29s. 4d. fer second 
quality, the highest being in each case in London and the 
lowest at Wakefield. 
Shrewsbury still retains an almost solitary position in the 
practice of weighing store cattle in any numbers, but a few 
instances are, as usual, recorded at Edinburgh and Glasgow, 
while a score of first quality stores were also reported as 
weighed at Leicester. 
The usual table giving details for each of the scheduled 
places is appended. 
