MARKET PEICE. 303 



Corn Beef Pork Butter Cheese 



per bushel. perlb. perlb. perlb. perlb. 



$1.16 11 cts. 12 cts. 40 cts. 16 cts. 



The following table, from the New York Tribune, 

 gives the average price of beef cattle per pound each 

 year for the last twelve years : 



1854, per Ib. 9 c. full. 



1855, lOc. 



1856, 9c. nearly. 



1857, 10$c. nearly. 



1858, 8-Jc. nearly. 



1859, 9c. 



1860, per Ib. 8e. full. 



1861, 7|c. 



1862, 7|c. 



1863,. 9ic. 



1864, 14c. 



1865, 16o. 



The Tribune estimates the average weight of cattle 

 marketed at seven hundred pounds per head ; and, 

 adding the milch cows to the beeves, as they nearly 

 all eventually go to the shambles, the total number 

 is two hundred and seventy-nine thousand, four hun- 

 dred and thirty-five head of cattle, representing an 

 aggregate of one hundred and ninety-five million, 

 six hundred and four thousand, five hundred pounds 

 of meat, and thirty-one million, two hundred and 

 ninety-six thousand, seven hundred and twenty dol- 

 lars in money value. According to its estimate as to 

 sheep (average eighty pounds each, at eight cents per 

 pound), the total of mutton is sixty-six million, nine 

 hundred and thirty-eight thousand, six hundred and 

 forty pounds, costing five million, three hundred and 

 fifty-five thousand, and ninety-one dollars. 



For the first two months of the present year the 



