The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-13

10 not too great TO say that two. hundred tons OF
birds and game get to this market every winter

M Sdslp. pigeon per dozen S% ss 20
ROBINS, per pail ......t ". "
II is not too great say that two hundred tons of
birds and game get TO this market every winter.
CATCH II.
The Goldfish, introduced into this latitude by tho poo
pie Of Brooklyn, Is the mansay OF the American board
ing house Ii has been estimated that during Lent half
. million Goldfish balls day devoured in New York
these supplied five cents apiece In reasonable res
that exists the BoWery side. You the cod.
fish into ten million parts. but each Of them will drink
Cod sell for 81 Is hundred and 1t nine
the pound RETAIL wnile the cod is tho boarding house
soace the herring is the apprentices reward and the
mackere 10 the Widows stay herring. scaled, bring
forty cents box Wholesale and No. l mackerel are
quoted $40 Is impossible these articles Of
csssi,y shall ever fall In 1851 the total Of fishes
shipped out Of the British provinces alone was
1900 900 barrels more than barrel for every
man, woman and child Ia the raiius OF Nov York
TIE buehsh the daily trite article Of consumption
here. 1t is caught of the Jersey and Long Island
beaches aud In the Sound, with bass In good fishing
season ton day comes up to town. The shad Ia
rivers north OF the James The Connecticut shad are
esteemed the beet They have yielded many thirty
sand barrels Of shad annually caught The Potomac
10 perhaps the most prolific rivr for th6 shad 1t
1850 seven thousand fresh shad and four thousand
barrels Of shad for sailing. This Dab is esteemed the
noblest in rivers since the salmon LEFT them Efforts
now being made 10 arrange the Connecticut RIVER
that the salmon can ascend II, ~ they used TO do II
has stocked this year with sufficient spawn for half
q million shad and salmon. We get fresh salmon
from st. Lawrence aud its tributaries quan
ties OF pckerei cheap article Of food, popular with
colored people, the sturgeon. It rstas - four
cents pounds.
TRADE II sHHLIyrsm AxD orsrrRs
1t 10 probable that the oyster passes through moro
hands and demands the employ ment Of greater num-
Der OF people than any single article OF food Its con-
sumption Is great In this CITY that have very
small for transportation inland and tho city Of
Baltimore has therefore become tho main packer and
shipper OF this delicate food which can bs eaten
almost ~ fresh at Saginaw. S. Paul and Omaha a. In
hundred oyster boats SsIonginx 20 THIS port Tho mass
OF them cen,rsbcsrd aloops and schooners Of light
draught sad expense: They make q feet almost rs
large tho celebrated Ne~castle collier feet Of Eng
land rwo-thirds Of these boats plant and take
the North, East Rartan and shrewsbury rivers In the
From Providence to BIackwcl's leland tho sound is
vast oyster preserve. Little pans are taken
with the clans; nature plants and npens them SO.
The other third Of the oyster fleet enters the Delaware
and the Chesapeake cossting beyond Cape May whore
and their heavily fined for dredging in Maryland
waters The dredge isa great rake that tears up the
oyster beds ana spols what IL does not clasp. The
Chesapeake oysters are smaller than ours because less
pains taken TO faten them but they altogether
sweeier and more edible oyster Those OF York river
Chncoseague and Kent Island are preferred Il takes
sloop with four bands board OF her about week
load With oysters. These boats lie OF the North river,
the foot Of Canal street, where the dealers keep
their Offices amphibous arks. Fulton market Is the
retail for the best New York oysters and
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are caught, 10 the most active part Of the trade
Fully twothirds OF the united csrgocs TO restaurants
etSo4patiun -
ing whiskey. Good average oyster eaters win take
three dozen raw, dozen stewed, dozen broisd and
close up with dozen scoloped. Some Of the oyster
houses "a this city will give to thrss hundred per-
at One Broadway place sells two hundred
euses Gay IN md m,nsef me oyster trade ,a " reality
tho hot months II employs here Altogether. as many
thousand persons and twelve hundred thousand
bushels are alleged 70 be eaton here every year 60
great the repue Of oysters that nve thousand OF
thsm carried to coasts Of Normandy last year. 10
be planted In French waters. Unless stringent
means are taken TO protect these noble molusks during
part Of the year their day Of extinction will come
aud New York lose the best Of its homogeneous hab
tans. Already the best oysters have commanded g .
hundred At wholesale CLANS make even more necss-
ssry article Of food than oysten dozen Of them will
We can never BE- starved 70 death IN New York By any
blockade 50 long - We can scrsps our river bonoma
WHAT TIE COW oIvSs Us
Had the COW been forgotten In the work Of creation
We should have been anything rather than milk and
water people. II In curious TO think that her uddsr
her over The great source Of table butter fer New
York IL Orange county. Goshen it, capital. II
tributes % our markets. about sIty thousand pound: Of
butter year, the best that We know Most Of this 10
price Is now from ,blry.dvs 70 forty cents pound.
ter registered a. arriving here. One-haIf Of this
came from the Western States and onshan the re-
ma ss .oS = ss o1 aes
manding no more shan eight or nine cents pound.
city. missionary informs us that thers are hun
York who DO NOS eat butter but by accident
the year round. Cheese comes from Hsrkmsr, ONEIDA
and the interior countless and II u sold abroad for the
best English brands Forfy-hve thousand boxes came
20 the city last week part Of this In for shipment
MIX comes down all the railways q New York by spe
cia trains. The poorer classes goats milk and this
explains the great number 0f goats around suburbs
About sixty thousand quarts Of milk day como 70 New
York. some Of even from Albany and Rensselaer, coun
To this added about bali water ~ the city
Offices. NJ k has commanded since the war began
ten cents quart 1T retail There upwards OF two
hundred mix vagoners; they never quit their wagons
to serve customers, but make peculiar cry - they
drive up 10 the doors 70 compel the servant girls 70 como
out Eggs sand 81 thirty cents pcr dozen consumers
last week two thousand Inc hundred aud twentypine
barrels arrived here. These forwarded BY produce
merchants from all parts Of the Union and often sold
Change before arrival
Apples come from the Mohawk and Hudson valleys,
and from all parts OF the UniQn. From dollar bar
rel here nine years they now command from three
to six dollars Berries raised In New Jersey and
Long Island vegetables are, plant setngs The
Of cranberries come from swamp lands that de-
rnand Irrigation; the cranberry plant 10 small vine,
and the berries gathered by the boatoad they
mand from dollars and half dollars bushei.
About twelve thousand bushels OF cranberres
sumed here yearly
rLouR AND IT. nAvrrLlToRs
With -four, the stat OF life as beef Is is strength
we shall have exhausted the outline part OF this article
Beef 10 the Great bear among the consultations Flour
10 the pole STAR Il steadies and determines all things:
when is magazines were empty, down went the rebel
lion. The power and glory Of the North Ia wheat nh