270 PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 


prices were reported, was relatively small, and no quotations 
whatever for this grade were supplied from Leicester, New- 
castle, Edinburgh, or Perth. The prices recorded for first 
quality animals, which in the immediately preceding months 
of this year fluctuated between 33s. 4d. per cwt. at Leeds 
and 4os, at London, now range from 34s. 4d. to 39s. 2d., 
the quotations for nine of the thirteen markets in this 
table reaching or exceeding 37s. 6d. per cwt. 
A comparison of the prices realised at each of these 
thirteen places during the second quarter of 1900 and of 
1899 respectively is made in the following table, and indi- 
cates that in the great majority of cases a considerably 
higher level of value has prevailed than in the same quar- 
ter of the previous year. 








INFERIOR is Goop PRIME 
De ae. | : vate . oe 
pee Third Quality. Second Quality. i Pusher —_ 
Igoo. 78g. | 190d. 1899. | 1900. 1899. 
| { 
| eReriCwits pen lCyvt20i| berm Cuts | Per Cn | Per a Per Cwt. 
So nae || caee7Ay | SS CE | Sy See Su as 
Carlisle. =.) eile e7 et) leeezOuns Pe 3010 - || 35 6 34 
ieee oo | meta Pee ome |e Sek d 30 8 | 34 Bo ae 
Leeds - 3 A 28 0 | 25 ON) 28 Io =| 20eONea 34 4 B22 
Liverpool - - | 26 8 | 25 2 | 29 4 «| 39 4 36 0 | 34 2 
ll@ndon < «| 20°80 | 27 NO)! S59 am metro 39 10 | 38 4 
Newcastle - - | a | 28 4 | 308 | 32 8 | 39 2 | 37 0 
Shrewsbury -j| 29 6 | 29 4 | 33 t0 32 8 || a7 6 35 0 
Aberdeen - 4 28 0 266 |) 34 6 32 10 | 37 10 4 36 4 
Dundee - -/|| 26 8 2810 || 35 © 32 8 37 6 34 8 
Edinburgh - || = ra | 372 35 2 38 6 35 10 
Falkirk - - || 29 10 | 3x 6 | 35 10 344 |), pase 35 8 
Glasgow - - 1 32 8 | 32 4 | 34 8 asic 37 § 30 0 
Perth - - - | = 28 10 | 36 10 Bowed 38 Io | 35, 8 


The number of fat cattle which were reported as actually 
sold at a rate per stone or per cwt. of live weight previously 
agreed upon were most numerous in Glasgow and Falkirk 
The prices calculated from these sales alone show a range of 
from 37s. 4d. to 41s. 2d. per cwt. for first quality, and from 
31S. 10d. to 36s. 8d. for second quality. 
