PRICES OF LIVE SFOCK. 
RETURNED UNDER THE WEIGHING OF CATTLE ACTS 
The returns furnished to the Board of Agriculture under 
the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act, 1891, show 
that during the third quarter of the current year the 
numbers both of cattle, sheep and swine entering the 21 
scheduled markets of Great Britain were fewer than in the 
corresponding quarter of 1899. The number of animals 
exposed for sale in the corresponding months ot each year, 
the number weighed, and the number whereof prices have 
been furnished under the Act, are shewn in the following. 
table :— 

| 3rd 3rd 
Animals. | Quarter, Quarter, 
| 1900. 1899. 
CATE E:: | No. No. 
Entering markets - - : - | 245,762 267,782 
MWewhedwea wiser Wow =) 29,817 32,552 
Prices returned - - - - | 25,991 28,917 
Prices returned with quality dis- | 
tinguished” - - - - - | 21,764 24,036 
SHEEP : | 
Entering markets’ - - - =GleetyA GT, O25 1,688, 121 
Weighed - - - - - =) 12,381 1357 
Prices returned with quality dis- ; 
tinguished - - - - =i 10,375 11,578 
SWINE: | 
Entering markets —- - - - 83,424 95,504 
Weighed - - > : ; = 635 710 
Prices returned with quality dis- | 
_ tinguished - : - - = | 635 705 


The cattle returned as passing over the weighbridge in 
the six Scottish markets were more than 33 per cent. of the 
