PRICES OF LIVE STOCK. 537 


Diagram showing the Course of Average Live Werght Prices of 
Florned Cattle in each Month of 1900 and 1899. 














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price per cwt. or per stone live weight.* Ithasto Ee noted that 
there was in 1900 some decrease, the number so returned 
being 14,023. This is 2,821 less than in the preced- 
ing year, but with that exception the figures for 1900 are the 
largest returned in any year since the Act came into opera- 
tion. The places at which actual sales by live weight were 
reported during the year as having taken place were Liverpool, 
London, Newcastle, Wakefield, Dundee, Edinburgh, Falkirk, 
and Glasgow, nearly half of these transactions being now 
reported from the last-named place. 
There were also 694 store cattle sold by actual live weight 
at Leicester, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. The total 
number of store cattle weighed at the scheduled places during 
1900, tor which prices were returned, was 11,396, of which 
9,610 were sold at Shrewsbury. The prices realised ranged 
from 27s. 6d. to 38s. 1od. per cwt. 
The usual tables giving details for each of the scheduled 
places for the complete year 1900, and for the fourth 
quarter, are appended. 
| * Journal, Vol. VI., p. 539. 



