Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-06-26
NeW-York Cattle Market.

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of BEEVES, MILK COWS, VEAL CALVES
SHEEP and LAM S, and SWINE; with care
fully prepared account of the number, quality
and price of bEEF CATTLE, at the grea
"Wednesday market at Washington Drove yards
44th-st. Prepared every week, expressly for the
New-York Tribune, by Solon Robinson.
CURRENT PRICES FOR THE WEEK.
| WEDNESDAY, June Is, 1856,
BEEvEs-These are sold by the head at price
equal TO the valle perpound of the estimated weight
OF Beefin tie quarters. The hide tallow or fifth
quarter, sis counted in this market, as it is in
! Boston.
The prices TODAY per ID will average over 10ic,
| First quality, llCGllsc.; Extra, l2!, Medium.
l0sc; Poorest, I0c. The sales are mostly between
| l0iGllic.
| PRICE OF VEAL CALrEs--Calves are usually sold
through the year at to &c. lb, live weight, ex-
cept those from one to six days old, known as
Kittens which bring 81 % to S5CaS4 each In
Autumn good many Grass Calves" four TO SIX
| months old, sell for seas each. good lat Veal
| sells often as high rs S21CaS30.
MILK COWS--The price of Cows depends as
much upon fancy as the price of horses. Ordinary
| Cows, $3.50 $50; good fair Cows, S35CQS40; extra
qua lity. with calf, s45os5O.
SHEEP AND LAMBS Common Sheep, and
Lambs, So 50CaSS; extra Sheep, SlCoaSl2; Lambs
S3CaS7.
SWINE.-Western Hogs, corn fed. large, first
quality live weight 6Cd65c; dead weight IS(o I3c :;
sma II size do, live weight, 52Ca6c; dead weight
1aCa7sc.: Western smart, live weight, 5to15i
dead weigh, 7.a75c.
REMARKS UFoy BEEF CATTLE.
Our report shows the decrease oreceipts of Beeves
for the week. in the whole city, upon the week ~
average, at 227 head, and only 9 head less than
previous week. The number at market to-day,
is 1900 head, which is l22 increase on the ave-
rage, which was ,s7S for each market dav last
year, and ia decrease upon the number sold last
Wednesday and the day pervious, and just the
number sold on the one day-
1t will be seen at once that quotations TO-DAY
are about lc. 3 fb higher than this day week. BY
comparing number this week and last, it Will be
al once that there is deficiency in the sup
ply sufficient TO cause this advance. The cause
will be readily understood when We state that
there are 29 droves of hullocas in market and l9
of them in the hands of spectators. who have
bought of drovers with q view to advance the
price and :urn an honest penny. We think several
OF the other ten droveS are IN the hands oil part
owners, and several others are under the lmmedl-
ate supervision of owners. who are ready enough
to Join q combination to advance prices.
This sort Of management is pretty easily effected
at this time when only l9l head out oil over $500
are from this State. and 80 OF those have not been
six weeks in the State from Illinois, yet they are |
set down as Newly ork State Cattle. Almost she
entire supply comes over two lines OF raj way from
the West, so that buyers who are disposed to make
raise can meet the drovers at any point along
these lines and effect purchase, and when ma |
price will be pretty sure TO go up. Most OF this
kind of purchases are made at Bergen Hil or AL |
bany. At the former the speculator comes in conf
petition with the CITY butcher.
At the latter he meets both butchers and specu-
lators from Boston. Worchester, Springfield Haut- |
ford Providence etc. The sales this week Mt AL |
bany for Boston were about 220 head, and $50 for
Providence More were wanted hnt the specula-
tors for this market ouibd them. Buyers were in
market to-day for Bridgeport ami New Haven but
the price ruled to high: tn y expected grod stock
to-day at l0c, and if the cattle had remained in
first hands that would have been the price, Several
buyers were "waiting for something TO turn un."
10 enable them to buy at lnc.. when we left the
yards in the afternoon. We thing they NAV wait
until they are hungry, since those who hold the
stock in several instances paid full l0c.
The quality ofihe stock to-day is very even
there but few extra good or poor, but nearly the
whole in good, fair condition fer market retail
ing, and will average cwt., and probably full
S15. Many of the sml lest steers are fIt, and |
some ofthe leanest cattle sell at the highest price
fB. There are no Door droves, anl very few, if
any. individuals Is of the genus scaawag. We hope
we have driven that entire class from the market.
If any bold man ventures TO disgrace this market
again with such abominations as have been sold
here he must look out for the long, sharp horns of
our bull.
The weather to-day is not favorable for out door
business; n southeast "a III storm prevails
with chilly wind, and the mud is abundant -
This state of the weather. however, is in favor of
the Her to-day becouse the buyer, finding the
prices Ill stiff hurres his purchases to escape from
the storm and TO get something 10 keep out the
cold.
1t was not thought when we LEI the yards that
many .ifany hullnrks would be left over. If there
are, it will only be for one day They will sell on
Friday. The cost fpasturage is 20c. dav with
in three four miles, or l5c at nine or ten miles
out.
June 6, '55. there were | .e63 head in market, |
sellers at IOCal2ac, which was one cent lower |
than week previoeS
June I3, the number was 2.3l9 and price 9C6 lIc. |
June 30, there were 2l29 head, selling at same
price as the previous week. The date compared
wi tn to-day Except 81 head, the cattle were all
from the West
June 81, the number was 1926. and price 9C0
lllc.. and all but 3 held from Ohio, Indiana, Hi
nois, Kentucky, and Texas So that fears such as
we heard to-day that the country is without Beef
cattle, bocanse none but Western States have any
is entirely groundless. The legitimate price ofI
good Beef catte is lOc. pound for the mea,--no