934 PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 

Comparing more closely the returns of last year with those 
for 1899 it appears that fewer cases were reported of the 
weighing of sheep and pigs at the scheduled places, but that 
in the case of cattle, while the numbers entering the markets 
were distinctly smaller, both the number weighed and the 
number priced were larger than before. 
From several of the scheduled places the returns of 
transactions always have been and still are insignificant. 
In markets such as Bristol, York, Lincoln, and Birming- 
ham the owners of live stock seem content to make little or 
no use of the facilities for weighing their cattle, and in such 
transactions as have occurred in Ashford, Norwich, and 
Salford, the market authorities appear unable to ascertain 
the values of any proportion of the stock that have been 
weighed. Nevertheless the data available in other centres 
are sufficient to afford the basis for an interesting record of 
prices. Those for the past year may be shown as follows :— 


INFERIOR Goop PRIME 
Ore ty Oe BOE 
Third Quality. Second Quality. First Quality. 
PLACES. | neal ; ie : 
Price | Price Price | Price Price Price 
Number. | _ per per | Number.| per | per | Number. | per per 
| Stone. | Cwt. Stone.} Cwt. Bas Cwt. 
| 
% & % & is uuiczanl| es enntea = ss eee sce 
Carlisle | 1,602 Bi 5a) 27. non en 606 3 tof | 3t 2] 6,275 | 4 ee eee 
Leicester = - 18 4 I | 32 8 201 319043050 473 4 3 | 34 © 
ceeds ia 21 3 Of] 28 6 192 | 3 83/29 8] 968 | 4 3%] 34 4 
Liverpool- — - 225 3 32 26 6 | 1,471 Bot sions 3 7,049 |4 5 | 35 4 
London - - 13 3 Zee || 25 6 1,418 4 4% | 34 10 | 3,672 4 Ir | 39 4 
Newcastle- 2 5 3) 42 |n278 0 834 4 53 | 35 8 1,880 410 | 38 8 
Shrewsbury” - 660 3 7 || 2) 2 738 Ae 8 || Bs 2 842 4 6} | 36 6 
Aberdeen- -| 4,794 35 (27 4 | 7.986 4 4 | 34 8] 8,066 4 94] 38 2 
Dundee - -| 1,621 3 43 | 27 0} 4,802 4 Ad || S52 al) 22.98% 4 82 37 x0 
Edinburgh —- CoN (ce CoN =I ee) 0 NN Ur CD Uc 756 | 4 oF | 38 4 
: | 
Falkirk -  - 639 | 3 10 | 30 8) a,774 4 4h | 34 r0\) 5-300) ) eaeeeneneem 
Glasgow - -| 1,041 Aig |e |) sheet, 4 3 |34 0] 9,e090 | 4 7a 36 70 
Berth) cane TO 7) a be eo5 se 57} 4 63 | 36 4 5€7 4 To | 38 8 




The average prices for the year ranged, it will be seen, for 
prime or first quality cattle from 34s. per cwt. (4s. 3d. per 
stone) at Leicester to 39s. 4d. per cwt. (4s. 11d. per stone) at 
London. For second quality beasts the range was from 
