New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-25

Common fows.......... 5d saw
The price IL very huctuatng. The above is one 10
two cents lower than it curing the cold days Of
NE first week of December, anc, as will be seen,
cent or more lower than ast year. Poultry is seldom
lower than it is uow unless absolutely spoiled, which,
if the warm weather HAD continued would have been
Il case now as the stock on hand il m nonse, and
more coming.
Messrs. H. & II. showed us the bill Of one con-
Segment, or the way from Erie, Pa OF 500 pounds.
And these large receipts and sales, recollect are
those of only one of many houses in the same trade.
PREPARING POULTRY FOR MARKET.
The first grand preparation should be 10 make every
bro fat for il only such that sell quick, at fair
price, Ii is because nearly all that GENE 10 market
this year are rot fat that the average price runs so
low The birds should be killed in cold, dry weather,
by cutting or the heads, or, in Of turkeys cut
ting the veins Of the throat with sharp pen-knife,
while the bird ia suspended by the heels In cutting
off heads draw the skin of the neck back 50 that 1t
will afterward stretch forward and cover the bone,
where it should be tied. BE careful not TO break the
skn in any ott er spot Be sure the birds all bleed
freely. Don't scald them. II FAY, they can be picked
clean while dry. Hang them up by the feet till ooln.
pl.tely cool or firm. Never feed your fowls just be-
fore killing them thinking to eel pint Of corn by
the pound at the price of the meat. You will find it
Just such money making business az the follow did
who stole the skim-mk cheese and hid it in bag Of
wool. which the merchant aftex ward weighed and
charged cheese and all at wool price. New York
poultry buyers are sharp fellows ard you stuff with
corn they VIII cut down prices. You may think you
can draw the wool their eyes but in the end you
will pay for the cheese
PACKING POULTRY FOR SHIPMENT.
Procure merchants drygoods boxes ofthe best kind
If air tight the better, and clean rye araS-nothng
ese if you have 60 forty miles afte< the rye Place
lsyer of straw two inches deep in the bottom, and
then put in tier OF bodies Of birds, each kind TO-
cether every one of them resting upon the breast.
Never vary that mode. Nov put straw around 30
that in no place the meat and boards touch and over
the bodies so that the next tier will not touch the
lower one, and 50 till the box Is full. Cover the
top with AZ much straw YOU can press down, 50 a.
to all on the lid which must be fastened with hoops
If Won are sure Of cold weather you can ship your
box by slow line for it wiz keep sweet just as long
as il keeps cool 1t il safest TO send il by express
MARI the destination plain and full
Be sure never to draw" any kind OF poultry, par
ticulary turkeys and chickens, for the New-York
narKet. Ii makes ten TO twenty-five per cent diff
ference in favor of the former. Other markets re-
oure that these birds should be already prepared for
the spit.
GAME BIRDS.
These are sent entire. They may be packed in the
same way or in barrels. They are frequently sent
loose in baskets crates Ii the weather Is cold
hs, will do. They never should be packed. The
quantity sent to this market is enormous. The Ma
,ra.kce Senhn SAYS that eight hundred and sixty doz-
en- quss have been sent from that TO vn this season.
Our correspondent asks. 4" Should poultry be
"salted - Most empha,ically, 80 The leAst amount
of salt in box would produce dequessence, followed
by ust taint carton, if The weather turned warm.
vESIsoS.
Deer II sent entire to market are simply disen-
boweled. Most u.usly the SADDLE only Il sent In
that case the fore-quAriers skinned and the skin
turred back and wrapped around the headquarters
snd lied. This keeps the meat clean Ia selling, al
il cod tcgeiher-skin, meat and legs The price Of
sas dies row is II 70 cents per pound The skins a-e
worth e 10 81 cents Venson carcasses are worth
as cents per pound This includes head an1 horns.