62 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



NEW YORK CATTLE MASKET. 



8TATISTIC8 FOR THE TEAR 1862. 



Solon Robinson, of tbe New York Trihune, 

 gives the following statistics of the New York Cat- 

 tle Market for the year 1802, They are exceed- 

 ingly interesting and undoubtedly reliable, and as 

 they will prove valuable for reference we transfer 

 them entire to our columns : 



There have been received at the several market- 

 places lor live stock, in the city of New York, 

 during the year 1862, the following number of 

 animals designed for slaughter: 



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Calves 80.465 1 ^ 



The milch cows are included among butchers' 

 animals because nearly all of them are fed till fat, 

 and then sold to the butcher. Included among the 

 bullocks are some hundreds of working oxen and 

 Bteerp, sold to farmers ; but to balance this, there 

 are doubtless an equal number of bullocks brought 

 direct to butchers, and not counted in the reports 

 of the market-places. This also is true of all other 

 butchers' animals. Beside this great supply of 

 meat on foot, there are, perhaps, a thousand car- 

 casses of beef, five thousand of veal, twenty-fi\'« 

 thousand of mutton, and an equal number o? pigs 

 and porkers. 



Beside the supply of New York city, this great 

 metropolitan market furnishes Brooklyn, Jersey 

 City, Hoboken, Newark, and, to some extent, all 

 the 'country forty miles around, beside a vast 

 amount of fresh meats to shipping, and some live 

 animals to the West India Islands; and, during the 

 last year, perhaps ten thousand bullocks have been 

 shipped South to the army. 



All the stock from the West comes now by rail- 

 road, and principally the last year by the New 

 York Central and Erie. The New Jersey Central 

 and Pennsylvania route has delivered a small por- 

 tion. The receipts in this city are by the Hudson 

 River road, the Erie, the Harlem, New Jersey Cen- 

 tral, Camden and Amboy, Hudson River boats, and 

 5 150 head on foot; the last, from the eastern 

 counties of New York, within sixty or seventy 

 miles of this city. 



AVK8AOE WKKKLT BKCBIPTS OF 1962, COMPABED WITH 1861. 

 1S«1 



1859 205,282 



ISfiO 226,'J83 



1361 :: aaa.fcis 



1662 239,486 



.1,790,638 



Beeves. 

 4,285 



4,518 



Cows. 

 110 



Calves. Sheep & Lambs. Swine. 

 632 U,«S 10,758 



All kinds. 

 25,637 



86,000 



101 574 9.138 21.661 



BULLOCKS FROM DIFFERENT STATES. 



Of the 239,486 bullocks reported at all the mar- 

 ket-places in tlie city, 214,769 were sold at Alleu- 

 ton's, in Forty-fourth street, averaging 4,052 per 

 week. These were reported from Coimecticut, 

 New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mich- 

 igan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, 

 West Virginia and Canada; but principally from 

 the six following States, placed in the order of 



lar^^est numbers furnished : 



Av. per week, 



nunou 1«.7« 1.95?' 



Ne* York 3«.919 



Ohio 81,575 



Indlnna Ig'^ 



Kentucky 8.M1 



Mlclilgan '.379 



The number from Illiaois undoubtedly includes 



696 

 995 

 S18 

 168 

 139 



a good many Iowa cattle, and a few from Missouri, 

 Minnesota and Wisconsin. Still it shows a re- 

 markable feature in the trade, and that more than 

 43 per cent, of our whole supply of bullocks comea 

 from Illinois, which gives more than any other 

 three States. Some thousands of those credited to 

 New York came from Western States, having been 

 fed here long enough to gain a residence. 



KTJHBEB OP BXn-LOCKS SOLD IN A 6EKIE8 OF TKABB. 



1854 169,864 



1855 13.1,564 



1856 187,057 



Iffi? 162>43 



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Add total'cowsfo'r'nine years ^•'i^^ 



Total beeves in nine years 1,879,359 



MXTMBEB OF OTHEB BUTCHBB'S ANIMALS. 



Calves. 



1854 68,584 



1855 47,969 



1856 43,081 



1857 34,218 



1858 87,675 



1859 -48,769 



1800 39,436 



i86i:::ii; 32,868 



1862 80,465 



Totals ^mfi^ 4,518,792 4,188,022 10,9e9;338 



RECEIPTS OF LIVE HOGS. 



The increase in the receipts of live hogs sur- 

 prises every one — even those who know the great 

 resources of the West. The number is more than 

 double the previous year, and is more than quad- 

 ruple th.it of nine years ago. 



When Mr. Allerton built the great market- 

 place for hogs four years ago, at the west end of 

 Fortieth street, he miide calculalions for a possible 

 want of room for 30,000 in one week. Year by 

 year he h.is had to enlarge, until now, with all the 

 accommodations for such an army, the space is in- 

 sulficient. And no wonder. Who ever anticipated 

 an arrival of 61,165 in one week, as was the case 

 the last week of the year. The receipts of the 

 nine weeks of November and December, 1862, 

 were 391,806, averaging 43,534 a week. The 

 average value at $10 a head shows the handsome 

 sum of $3,918,060 paid to the farmers and railroads 

 in two months for live hogs. 



WEIGHT AND COST OF BEEF TTSED IN 1802. 



.Including cows, there have been 244,864 head 

 of beeves sold in the city markets the last year, 

 and th£y will make an average net weight of 725 

 lbs. of beef each, making a total of 176,525,400 

 11)3. of beef, which will average, at the average 

 riiarket prices on foot. 7.68 cents a pound, making 

 the sum of $13,634,072.52 paid by the city to the 

 country for one year's supply of beef. Of this we 

 estimate $10 a head goes for transportation. 



By the rules of the New York market, all bul- 

 locks are sold by the pound, fur the net weight of 

 meat iu the quarters, not including the value of 

 hide and fat ; and £;eneraily the weigiit is estimated. 

 If a bullock will dress 1,000 poumls, and the price 

 of thjit grade of beef is 8 cents .per pound, the 

 value of the bullock is $80. 



Upon the calculations we have made of 725 lbs. 

 averaue weight, and 7.68 cents average prire per 

 pound tor the mept, '.lie whole of tlie bullocks sold 

 during the year will averairc $55.68 |>er head. The 

 range of price is from $25 to $225 each. Quo 

 drove of 32 Christmas beeves, averajred $125 a 

 head. The average of 1661 was $56.1 8|. 



