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XEW YORK CATTLE MARKET. 



The following tables Lave mucli interest, as they exhibit the pi-ogress of this 

 great cattle or fresh meat market, sustained bj the west, and giving so much 

 employment to railroads. 



The following table exhibits the number of cattle sold at Allerton's yards 

 being a principal one for New York, and the States from which they same. 



Yearly average prices. 



Beeves per pound . . 



Cows and calves per head . . 



Veals per pound . . 



Sheep and lambs per head . . 



Hogs, live per pound . . 



1860. 



80 08 

 38 50 



5i 

 4 21 



64 



1861. 



$0 07| 

 34 77 



4i 

 4 54 



5J 



1862. 



$0 07| 

 34 50 



5* 

 4 43 



5 



1863. 



80 09i 

 41 O'J 

 6 

 5 89 



On the above tables Hunt's ^lerchants' ]Magazine, from which we take them, 

 has these remarks : " The receipts from Illinois are larger than those of last 

 year, and she is far ahead of any other State in the list of contributors. The 

 decline in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, is owing in part to the direct con- 

 tributions of those States to the army of the Cumberland." Illinois is less 



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