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the percentage was scarcely 5°4 per cent. of the aggregate 
number entering the markets. Information as to price is 
not forthcoming for all of these, but the proportion of those: 
weighed and priced exceeded 8 per cent. of the whole 
accounted for as exposed for sale in Great Britain. The use 
of the weighbridge remains insignificant in the case of sheep 
and pigs, sheep being returned as weighed at only six of the 
15 English centres and at four of the six Scottish markets, and 
swine being weighed in any material number only at 
Newcastle, and on a much smaller scale at three other 
places. 
The weighbridge seems to have never once been resorted 
to throughout the three months at Bristol, and only a single 
animal was weighed at York. At Ashford, Norwich, and 
Salford, although some cattle were weighed, no information 
is forthcoming as to their prices. 
The table which follows gives for seven English and six 
Scottish markets the number and average price per stone 
and per cwt. of fat cattle of each class weighed and priced. 








INFERIOR [ Goop PRIME 
or Ona or 
Third Quality. Second Quality. First Quality. 
PLACEs. aoe : ; ee ie . 
| Prices Price Price | Price Price | Price 
Number. | _ per per | Number. | per per | Number. | per per 
| Faeee Cwt. Stone.} Cwt. Stone. | Cwt. 
| SE So % GZ \\ & Gh S& Chil Se 
Carlisle | 8 eS | aga 294 | 3 10¢] 3t 2| 1,618 | 4 54] 35 6 
Leicester = cat 7a = a 27 3 93 | 30 4 43 Awa S406 
Leeds - - ls) © es © 49 {3 74 | 28 to 339 |4 32 | 34 4 
Liverpool-.  - | 28 3 4 | 26 8 41 3 8 | a 4 694 | 4 6 | 36 o 
London - : 10 5 2 | ao © 242 A We 3G 996 4 11% | 39 to 
Newcastle- - = — = 227 A || O38 1,0g0 ABIOTsESo 
Shrewsbury -| = 125 Q Se || oy 173 4 2% | 33 10 290 | 4 83 | 37 6 
Mierdeene = | t,123m || 3° 6) | 280) 1,900) | 4° 34 34 6 | 3,892. | 4) 83137 10 
Dundee - - BAM Gueaue20) Ol er,2O5u e400 42) S58 OM t,G8s | F4e 8s.) 3706 
Edinburgh : = = = 2,914 Ae We bay) @ 180 4 9% | 38 6 
Falkirk - - 14 | 3 8% | 29 10 352 5i | 35 10 45 | 4 94 | 38 6 
Glasgow - =| 166 Zh 3 32 8 559 Ana este O 2,676 4 83 | 37 8 
Rett += —- ie = = 156 | 4 7% | 36 10 193 | 4 104 | 38 10 




As usual, except in a few instances, the total number ot 
animals which were graded as of the third quality, whereof 
