Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1846-07-17
CATTLE TRADE.

CATTLE TRADE.
The June number of that very valuable work.
the Farmers Library, edited by j. S Skinner and
publ she'd by Greeley and VI rElrath New York.
contains spirited article on the cattle trade be-
tween the Western and Eastern States We
extract the following passages from the article
The curious fact in S'rin J'0gy j. iirmcl by a
Kentucky drover. that his hogs which weighed
on hundrcdand fifty at ,,rting reached an aver
age of on hundred AID eighty on arrival nj New
lork-5eng nearly haf pound day while on
the journey. On the other hrnd the loss Of
Walght-3r drift. "a ii Is called--1f cattle is
equal TO one hundred and fifty pounds. which
bullock OF one thousand pounds wairht ntlcavinr
,o' ,"ssen' on hi way to the Atlantic butcher.
ms drIi' Ga loss il is Observed is chiefly fir,t in
inc kldneF-ltt ann CT of the cntrails. Il has
, On a sc"raInad that a No. ,,.iu ST out ON hi.
journey u that bourne whence no ...I tr,,.i.r
returns, 50 fat as to have no cavity or vac, in
hi- corporation. l.,as h. journeys on, YOU don
feed him, lac lives first upon and consumes his
g't-a'. then his kidney-iat, and l~stly, his car
cas- wastes away.
In driving cattle, the practice i to stop (but
not 10 feed for an hour at midday. when the cat
tie in less than iiye1nnutr@ all H. down 10 rest.
drove ofone hundred and twenty cattle.
easily driven Il -mIllnr number. j. usually at
tended by mlnl'nr" on horseback an two
Iootih'n. One loJtHau goes ahead. leading an
0X the whole war. say p@,t hundred miles
The manager on ho-sahtch take. his station be-
hind the iir-t forty heal, and the tlird man on
loot brings upthr rear There are sutton along
the whole rou'c-country tlyerns. often kept hy
the owner OF the adjoining farm who thus ind,
market OF ms own produce. and keep, ri any
rate. II constant supply of what is needed for the
drovcr. Vending their way through Ohio. the
ilrmcr supplies them with that glorious plant
the priie OF our country. Indian corn. Is they
nave caSt,d on AZ home, stalk blade. and grain
altogether; but. when on their melancholy Jour-
nry they touch tn, line of Pennsylvania. Nyn-
hccr brings forth his fragrant hay and corn al
reli! shuckci. and finally. when they come late
enough to mIrket the; are turned at nignt into
grass lots, prepared AMI kept for the purpose.
me cattle reared in the corn regions Of the
West, especially in Ohio and Kentucky. have
b'en heavily dashed with the shor-horl blood
by WMch tlrir average weight h,s been incrpas-
ell, 1t Is said about two hundred pounds. with
great improvement in their ntten.nr properties
and the quality OF the meat
y Kentucky iirmcr would now bc very 10th TO
III ablll OF th' much vdunt"l old b ikcwcll breed
with his ,trlig1t back and long horns and fat allto
lt'eil everything the carcass CONF within a ten
loot pole OF his hcrd ofcoWs. Cattle wtha stroDp
infusion OF the improved short-hom blood. as by
the late celebrated graziar Stncnbrrren. are still
esteemed to be preferable to the full-bood. AZ be-
ing more thrifty and active.
FOR obvious reasons, cattle are not so much
transported on railroads in this country. as in
England, where the distances from the fncdinr
place to the market are 50 much shorter. Cattle
will 90 very well on II railroad for twelve hours
together. but then they must lie down. which they
cannot do IN cars like hog. that lets himself
down and sleeps on the space upon which he
SEl'luS. Inc charge too, on the railroad in our
country Is too high, For lame bulocks that are
sometimes sent from IIarr,blreh to the philadal-
pima market, they charge hall u, muchas itco.t-
To drive them all the way-sevcn hundred and
my or elght hundred miles from Kentucky to
new iork-thr one being IS, the other e,tima-
ted at about SIG.
The system OF selling their cattle is the last
act in the drama For th. purpose the rrazie,
calls in the assistance of his agent intbc laro,
e towns. Here, too, is another of the branches a
business or divisions Of labor. cut out for mutua
convenience, but a usual, at the farmers. o
grazers, or countrylnen's EXPENSE His agcn
is kept constantly advised by his managerof tn,
, approach of hi, cattle, as they come marchin,
on their Winning way so that were these agent
> to meet together daily, and compare notes the,
: could tell almost To an hour how many ca,tl
= would arrive on anygiyen day. Having arrive,
= in the outskirts of the town with his cattle TN,
, grazler or the manager puts them underline con
troll OF the agent, giving the Necessary attendance
? until they are sold. The agent is hencciorwarl
and from the beginning, the only man known t,
, the butcher or grizitr The recognized robe
, tween-both. lie gets from the grazer one dolla
head Tor selling, but the countryman, in th
= protracted business, is not yet done paying-ln
: other Iaring Is 10 b. taken oil his appe-inpth