New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-02


e will erdeavor future not to be the cause or effect
of high or low prices in the cattle market.
nT,e h;eb pyiee cannot be on account OF any
.oo,,i,v If eaitle. I am sure; the country IL full
of them. says another sapent Philosopher We
nv. ;s,bst i not the cause, pray what il it
"Ib,ve been butcher in this city for forty years,
aid ono to ne few days ago, &" and have never
kroxn the pce Of beef cattle, an average 80 high
,bs, have been this Spring. | used to buy good
hs.f a. four or five cents pound Then, a. the city
outcrew the country, It began to get hsher' ilea
the great droves began to come over the mountains
from Ohio and although in consequence OF 'nree ="
four months constant travelling, the beef was not a.
good a. our homemade, il had the effect oil reducing
the general price for a while but it soon recovered
for the truth t. that this city and all other cities gre"
90 fa that we did not get the cattle fast enough on
foot, and sometimes in Winter not at all. But did
think after the railroads got to work and brought as
they now do nearly all the stock, even horses that
the great West would give Us such constant aud
large supply that beef never would be so high again
Blu, here We are with It higher than ever before,
with three or four competing railroads all bringing US
great loads Of stock, and of it, too, from beyond
the Mississippi, but it produces effect. Now, what
Is the cause =
Railroads are the cause. Railroads have built up
Eastern cities, and quadruped the number of consul
mers for beside city eaters all who are engaged IN
building railroads and operating them are Withdrawn
from the class Of producers, and added to the consul
mers Railroads have added TO the facilities of trans
portng cattle from the great prairie pastures OF the
West. and go have they every other farm product
few year. ago, when beeves were driven on foot
thousand miles TO market they were driven from corn
fields where the crop was not worth over 10 cents
| bushel and sometimes sold 10 cattle feeders "a 1t
stood in the field at halfth Then seeves sold
at price. equivalent TO or cents pound now at
| l2orl3. Then corn was drug at 10 cents; now It Is
an Article in demand at 30 TO GO in the same localities
and yet we complain that cattle are too high.
So they are for the consumer; and, unless the pro-
ducers can afford to furnish them at lower rates, the
CONSUMPTION must and will decrease; because the price
Of fresh meat is far above its value compared with
other kinds Of food. There is no other remedy for the
high price but for the country TO produce more and
the cities TO consume less That course will produce
the desired effect-nothing else.
A correspondent upOs this subject says;
| 1.-THE farmers are doing their best TO furnish the
supply the market demands, but they will fail TO do 50
long they obliged 10 fodder their cattle seven
months out of twelve; it is that that IL Illuminating
| the number Of beef cattle. have now IN my mind
farmer who is provident for his stock a. well as his
family that had on hand last Fall lot Of two'year
old seers that weighed nearly eleven hundred each,
| for which it would not pay TO buy hay and keep
through the Winter feed very scarce and he sold
| them for little over S25 head 1t is something of
rule among farmers that steers increase in value 81
month till they are four years Old and 1t is all they
will do on an average; ana il is evident when II costs
more than that to keep them they are a poor invest
meut. But be that rs 1t may, when we see wealthy
farmers stock lowing around barren fields and fence
corners in the vain pursuit Of something to eat, at
time Of year they should be reyeing in green pastures
you may depend upont that man is not going TO winter
| so many again. And many men OF my acquaintance
| are in exactly that fix; and do not believe that
Central Ohio differs very materially from other parts
| Of the country, for the better.
| Upon the subject of stopping the consumption of
fresh meat, that remedy won't answer:
No Sir Just stop eating beef and farmers will stop
raising IT, 30 instead Of the supply Increasing it would
diminish Another thing let hint TO you; does not
pay very large to keep cow year for the sake OF
calf that may possibly be worth $40 i'll the Fall, prob
ably hot more than So g, and the next Spring at a
year old, so or $l5, possibly $50 and year from
that time SS at the outside $50 II has cost all that
animal is worth to raise him, and you must throw in
the keeping Of the That, at least, is the expert
| eDcc Of one stock grower.
II believe it is the succession of hard Winters more
than anything else that causes the high price OF Oeei
Labor very high, and the expense OF putting up 80
much hay besides the large extent OF surface necessa-
~ even at two tuns TO the acre, to provide Winter
food for large stock, diminshes the the Of
pasture, that STOCK must DIMINISH ~ correspond
DYER
This last proposition corresponds exactly with the
facts we have long endeavored to impress upon both
producers and consumers; and that hence the natural
operation Of cause and effect is that the price must
rse or consumption diminish. Hence We have urged
farmers to increase the production, by using the por-
tons of land that designed by nature for pas
ture, for grazing instead of grain and at the same
time We shall continue to urge the necessity of
char ge in our diet. Not an abstaning from meat
tirrly but a economical Of it, and less waste
full modes Of cooking and substituting other kinds of
food in place Of the enormous quantities of animal
products that We do consume in all North America
But the change sufficient TO produce any decided
effect upon the price of meats is one that Will require
long time. No nation ever changed its mode Of liv-
ing in day year that the change will be almost
imperceptbe when it does take place. as take place
it must ard will; and therefore no sudden reyuson IL
likely to occur to deter farmers from increasing the
production Of all sorts of meat producing animals.
WHEAT, OATS AND FRUIT ~ THE
UESTERN STATES.