New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-05-24

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We believe the larger numbers are unusual and that
1000 to 200 head weekly is about the average Very
few remain over from sale to another. Monday l.
the great sale-day. ON which nearly all the cattle
reco we'd up to that time are disposed OF. What few
remain over are generally sold during the week to
chance customers, while the arrivals are held in
hand for the next sac-day. The purchases are not
made for our City alone but Newark Paterson Bridge
port. New.Haven, Hartford, Boston, Sc regular
buyers at these sales.
The various modes of computing tho weight and
value Of the animals sold which employed at differ
ent markets must often perplex and mslead reader
not specially made acquainted with them. AZ each
market cattle are reported selling at 50 much per
hundred weight and Boston prices often # not gen
orally lower than those of NewYork, though the cattle
sold at Boston righton) generally driven by II not
actually bought here. The reason is that here nothing
but the naked beef the four querters-is counted and
maid for in the Cattle Market-the hide and rough tai
low being thrown in to the buyer while in Boston the
fire quarters are counted-thatis the Hide and Talow
are computed in the selling weight and 80 paid for by
the purchaser On the other hand, New.York hun.
dred weight is 100 pounds ayoirdupois In Boston It Is
49, Qn Philadelphia, we believe the four quarters
1
ll2 pounds)
The cattle arc sold alive thus paid for and driven of
by the purchaser though only the four quarters are
allowed to enter into the computation The rule is that
100 pounds in the gross weight the hooi will give So
pounds of beef though the best cattle viii Of course
cccd while the poorer will fall below this standard.
Generally however the parties agree the weight as
well as the price in making their bargain, that few
cattle are actually weighed out to the purchaser
The spectacle afforded by the cattle market a sale
day is an animatnc one. Here drovers from Ken
lucky. Ohio Illinois and Western New.York, who have
been from three 10 eight or ten weeks the road,
driving on long routes only 10 or II miles per day.
They are generally well built hardy intelligent looking
men, fairly but not nicely dressed while their boys and
other assistants in driving manifest considerable origin
ety aud entire independence in the matter OF costume
though many Of them paying their respects 10 the
great city for the first time The butchers and their
boys who come TO drive home the cattle they purchase
form distinct class and among them may he now ana
then speculaor the lookout for rare bargain, or
ncighboring farmer looking for drove 10 pasture for
day or 40 50 that salcday draws together some one
or two hundred peoplo-possibly morc-by whom am
pie Justice is rendered to the substantial and inviting
dinner served up al the Hotel the questionable but
convenient hour of T. W. The charges here, we be
hcvc are moderate the guests. though many Of them
wealthy. being class who visit New York not for show
but for subsiance-nOt 10 money but to make it
and the number of their driver. and the indefinite du
ration Of their stay rendering economy desirable We
did not inquire on this point but we presume drove
from Kentucky which sells for $1,000 in market
viii havoc nearly half that in travelling expenses
from the time the cattle collected to that whom the
drovier reaches his home again
Nearly all the cattle in market at this Bull
locks and Oxen. There were very few Cows and lleif
ers on the ground yesterday. great majority were
threc-year ods
- We cannot conclude without calling the attention
of oar citizens % the imperative necessity Of removing
the saughterin business from within the compact por
ton of our city Il is shame that this has been neg
eced so long The present practice is reyotng the
senses and dangerous to the health of people We
know no other city which aspires to cleanliness OF eN
empton from coniagion that toleraies the nuisance
Philadelphia we are sure does not Boston never did
at least no, within the memory OF the present genera
ton The Punishment Of slaughter houses from Paris
and their establishment in one place al proper ais
from the city Is reform for which Bonsparte IS
sti gratefully remembered NewY York has greater fsci
ties and least equally urgent reasons for such a
change. The concern might be located on one Of
the rivers. fow miles above the city, 50 as to be
thoroughly ceansed by Jet Of the Croton daily and
that one hite steamboat plying thence frequently to all
the chief markets might render the transportation
ally less expensive that i, now is Why should this
wait