New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-01
THE POUL TRY TRADE.

TLeimmcnse magnitude to rh,,h - q poultry TIA.
Of this city tss grown within fer Nas FI'' Hn'
sufficient grourd Tor our frequent sfsi. to IT, ana
continually urge producers snd shippers to stndy "a
meet simple rules Of cnminCn sense befyrs tney ~nte
I very largely into TIE ba-ine--.
We are prOl pied by what We aud hear ever
/ tine we among the large dealers, some Of M ID
-@llng teo OF fifteen tuns week, 70 eIclsin a.
hsve before. IN reference 10 b,t1 proiGcers aud
psokers, % Do these people rese ?" not slonc
IHE TRIBrsg, which has cone much. ard improv.
log the trade, but nuner us other Iepers which haye
echoed the directions bow ~ dress pack and shi ,
pOuty To thi- market. Oaly day " two since sc
raw what flee lot Of turkeys "a Indiana, we'll
fed, ard dEesed 10 sood order, suj, # well pscksi,
would have COMMANDED tte frst-claS- price when they
arrived; but instead Of being thoroughly cooled of all
hsiural warmth and the heat of scaling, and then
packed 10 layers with clean straw. and nailed ~ tight.
tight they could Lot move, they were jammed into
barrels while warm, withou. particle Of straw-and
now lock at them, sweating without. anything to ab-
sorb the moisture the kin sosued, and every time the
hsTrl rolled at every shake in the csr- the skin
chafed, and elti ough not much actually Injured
their salebe valae reduced full % per cent say p
or cents pouod. This ,>s falls upon the shipper
for his sheer negligence to obey instructions or com
mon sense dictates.
At the same tine we noticed tun or two Of COM
mon fpwls transported 10 good order "a they
shipped from the Interior Of Illinois, sold t. pscker
at cents a pourd--ay, . cents pound below tue
market price. And why Because the majority Of
them hsd been killed While in condition of SENT
starvation They were literally skin ami bones. Yet
these cane from q section Of the country where
i probably not over % cents bushel Ii it had been
fed TO these fowls it would have paii 81 buslel to
tie feeder.
Another lot of well-fed, well picked, well.packei
f1e fat ducks ard fowls sold at sb1ut cents pound
les than another lot shipped at the tine, from
the distance ard both delivered to the nms,ion
merchants from the express wagon. Why
Tie first lot had been drawn, which admits the air,
and already slight mustiDeas perceptible or
faUcied. At any rate, it injured the sale, aud the
shipper only lot per pound, bat all the weight Of
the iutestines also.
Now will producers nber that poultry COR this
market must not be drawn. It does not bear long
transportation II will not keep vel after it is
packed here, and the merchant i u'ra;Ded to hurry
it's sale when it would De otLerw-e advisable TO hold
a day or two.
We noticed lot of good turkey, Saturday, sold
under the market price because dry picked the wing
end tai f athers left in. If buyers prefer them scaded
and clean picked, why should sellers stubbornly per-
sist in their own way, to their own loss
We witnessed one day last week one of the every
dey acts of careessness cf shippe-s commission
house received by express two l9ts consisting of
variety of packages, from the same place but apps
renty not from party. But Of that, the only evil
deIce they had Was an invoice Of certain qusnti'y
from ore man. bat, opening the boxes designs'ed,
and weil biug out and selling they found the quantity
largely Overrun the invoice. Ga writing to the sup
posed shipper Of the other lot this mystery We, ex
planned aud 70 his careeseue' for ne replied;
u can't tell you anything abon il, only tht after
my boxes we're .li had parcel left, and i put
in to fill up one of Smiths boxes. MY clerk did the
business and he has lost the memorandum Of weights,
if he ever made any, and has forgotten how many
boxes he sent. God Knows there was enough Of ii at
pre,eLt quotstons. So hurry i, Oh the best you can,
and make returns and let NJ know -h". tho loss H.
l. II any wonder that loss comes OF such careless
ness Loss has come to a great many poultry dealers
this year and some Of st least through their own
caolossuess aud irateuiion to very ordinary business
naxims The quantity received has been unprece-
deutedly large. II never was anything like equaled
before; aud some of it was brought without proper
for.hougit that there hal been within yesr or two
general depression If food preea, and it was but
reasonable that poultry should be low this season.
We published letter in due season, as warning,
from one Of tie largest poultry commission houses Ia
the oty-wh hose advice was not oDy reliable bat yau-
able, if hceded-that the stock in the country was
likely to be very large, and consequently prices low
Poultry largely produced the past Summer,
with d direct view to sending it hither; and we now
draw our immense SUPPLIES from ten or more sta,'',
and also from Canada We believe the quantity tna.
will be received here in the months oil November anu
December will largely overrun az average of hun'
dred tuns week-say thousand tuns for the season.
At ten couts pound, which averages to the city
consumer here is the pretty ltle sum 0. sOo 900 for
poultry. Ne'ily, it is trade worthy OF our rotice'