New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-03
FYGF Prices or FOOD


Thor universal cry all over ,hs City that g, esih-,
eaahls . Sesr-never VA desr before NswiO-k
was CITY not even sheu in the pccsso u the Brush.
when al the farmers Ia the camp OF the Revolution
arv army. aud there j. cons ant inquiry a. tn wha; u tie
cause Of such Of things We are told taa food n
New.Yo-k /. more costly than in any other city in The
United States We cannot answer FOL thar oui We Nno"
there rea; complaint everywhere We have been ae-
cus,omed 10 hear and we know from personal observation
that family marketing Is cheaper Philadelphia than IN
NewYoEk and vet jersey contend that that 'e
best market for them The obvious II any one
with hall eye There he farmer goes 70 market and
sells bis produce from his wagon in the street directly
the consumer. Here every thing passes through the
hands Of mdlemen who mnst have their profit and Ike
atwo-cdged sword they both ways that the con-
pays and the producer gets less than where the
trade is direct. Our City affords encouragemen Of
fers no for farmers market they
do in Philadelphia but it maintains large msrke;-houses
TO lease TO City butchers for haprce rens and SELLERS
of beer and rum and chop and oyser-houses while the
countryman is fined for approaching this hucksers;ani
even with basket of garden vegetables for sole.
One Of the best farmers in Jersey tells tina, he dare
no. send his own produce TO this City in his own wagon,
notwithstanding he lives within the convenisn distance OF
ton miles because il nterferes much with the privileged
hucksers that they his harness. steal his nchpns
and otherwise so annoy his that he has had to give mp
the undertaking and sells TO those who make from
TWENTY-FIVE TO a hundred per cent. profit This to- u
the reason that we never get anything but midland
articles The dealers buy up all the vegetables that come
fresh to hand and hold them for high price till they are
vilted and half spoiled. If the facility were a.
lowed the farmers here that they have in Philadelphia,
should get better food at far less prices than we do now
To couneract the cattle spectators, the Philadelphia
butchers have adopted the right they have entered
into an agreement to buy any more beeves at the high
rates they have been lately paying In their address to
their customers they say:
We are induced 10 enter into these arrangements be-
cause ne kaoir that there not such scarcity OF cattle
in the country Justify such prices and they are
only sustained by Spectators buying them up and putting
them out to pasture in order TO keep them out OF market
They also recommend the people tn refuse to buy beet al
all until prices are lower and express the hope OF finally
breaking up the schemes OF beef spectators.
The last sentence contains the true remedy Let the
people refuse to buy beef at the present high prices
and it soon viii be lower.
Flour dear as at sl2 barrel is cheaper than beef
st IS TO 2Oc pound and the various preparations OF In
dian corn are still cheaper but we have no hope OF IN
ducng people to eat of such food and less of meat
even if it should rise to double its present value which
peases the cattle spectators may do unless the
butchers of NewYork will adopt the same course with
those of Philadelphia That they will do we have no faith
They are as ntractabe the buocks they continue to
drive through the streets to the danger of human life
The cheapest market have ever known in any large
town. was that of Cincinnati about twenty-five years ago,
when it already populous and growing place. The
people there the had pay for beef fore quarters 2c
= 10 hind au0riers q &c.; veal a3c mutton, &C.;
lamb l2Ic quarter pork, Il 2c. spare-ribs, from
the pork houses six cents for market basket full fowls,
6esc; chickens Soc dozen geese l2 elsic turkeys,
Csc; quails l2lc. dozen; eggs 9ic dozen butter
40IOc. h; lard, acc; flour, 81 2j9l 30 v cwt.;
corn meal 2O9 25c q bushel; white beans 37i soc.
bushel potatoes, l2l csc. bushel; turnps 6@lsc
bushel apples 10 csc. bushe peaches same price
dried apples and peaches, &c. bushe, and small filings
such az pigs feet plucks, heads sleeps ditto, about
as many rs you would take for nothing
Now what was the of these low pricesl Simply
this: the people almost wholly supplied bypurchases
made direct from country wagons, of which we have
counted upward Of five hundred of morning. arranged
along Fith-st backed up TO the sidewalk. True, those
prices will not occur again because cities have oyegrown
the country and railroads have brought prices nearly on
par east and But that does not affect our argument
that prices in this city unnecessarily unJusihaby
high, and made BY needless system OF ioresta-
ing" in markets, and the hindrances thrown IN the
way of those who grow produce and who should he al
lowed to bring into the city and sell II in the streets or
market places without restriction upon those who buy TO
eat and not to sell again.