New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-05

And only sin lots Of le,s than head esch
The first market in May, although it has not devel
oped the Iic pound for beef earnestly believed by
cattle buyers to be in store for them, has de-
velopedon other fact of equal Importance and that
is, that when the market opened on Tuesday there
good to believe. from the number of cattle
yarded and expected, that there would be six
hundred head less than last week for sale, and those
hand also of lighter weight, and in consequence of
this great reduction in the supply advance of the
price could be maintained, and a strong effort
msde by the brokers 10 effect that very desir-
able result for the owners. The advance was
equal to about &c. ' ID net, aud for this the
cattle were held pretty quiet up to dinner tune, with
very few sales and the general remark of ts being the
dullet market Of the The fact 10 that the first
of May week is usually poor for retail butchers
and owing TO the vast number Of moving families this
year, appears rather than usual; and they
did not feel very sharp set for trade, and held off, We
often heard them remark that rather pay au ad.
vance upon the price Of the previous week they would
not buy at all and several went away to wait for
chances Wednesday. This state Of feeling induced
some Of the statesmen to yield little Tuesday after.
noon and of the largest of them assured US that
they did not think their sales bit better than week
ago. ard finally when the market closed at an early
proportion Of the stock to be fed for the night.
On Wednesday the market opened with somewhat
brighter prospects than it closed the prevou. even.
ing and some sales effected al al slyance equal
TO half cent pound particularly for the best class
Of cattle but toward the spirit Of dui.ness
over the market, 80 thst upon the whole do rot
feel justified in materially advancing the figures in
our table ,f quotations, but would remark that We
consider the market, the whole shade better for
drovers particularly "Wednesday as all the cattle
sold bevre nght-~he upon last Wednesday quite
nun Der were Jeff over un-cld, 6y Of which were
in this market.
The weather both day. has been all that could be
desired for outdoor busnessclear dry, and not
that Is Dot too warm for comfort IN the with light
Winter garments. For May A. the il very
ard particularly for grazrrs, in this part Of the
country. Cattle NJ pasture are not Ouy living, bat
will soon grow fat.
The quality Of the stock in market this week 10 not
good. Take ont the fat portion Of the distlery fei
beeves, and the balance If fat is very small while
the number Of coarse, poor brutes that low freighs
have brought forward, is surprising The cost Of
freight head from Chicago Is ony 81 aud from Iowa
but g. Tbs reduction Of freight while it proves sd
yanisgeous to those who had bought Western cattle
at prices based upon high rates of freight las proved
more than equally dlsadvantageous 10 of di-t
ery cattle for the freghs upon this stale stock have
not been reduced.
GAS OF WEIGHT IRON WINTER FEzDIyG.-A
reliable, experienced Illinois cstte feeder
that there IS little gain of weight in Water feeling
ordinary grassfed steers such for instance will weigh
Is cwt. in the FAN night Oh Of grass If fe hay and
meal till March viii only weigh Is cwt. then. The
gain 10 the feeder in the difference from the Autumn
prce az CRASHED steers to the price in the Spring Of
sall fed bullocks, and not in the weight and that
corn IL generally worth eighty cents busbel there is
positive lose in feeding il TO bceves- We should Ike
TO have further demonstration Of this statement 10
gard 10 the gain upon weight 10 winter feeding the
Truth viii be a great importance TO farmers in deter
mining whether 10 feed o. sell their cattle.
There is one thing that determine now, and
that IS that Il cannot be profitable To such grazing
State ss Illinois to send to market in May just grass
Il coming forward such sbomnsble lot Of scala
vagr twohirds Of the 93 head in this market from
that state.
Working oxen were in demand thi. week, bet few
for sale; though there were any number in only nod
crate working order, and come poor that decent
hsmx w@A Be sshausd 70 put thsm 10 yotA