AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
ill 
POULTRY SALE AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM. 
The “rare fotvlsj” noticed last week, wer 
sold at auction on Saturday. We learn that 
the prices obtained were far below the origi 
nal cost. The fowls sold as follows: 
One pair of Mandarin ducks, $150 ! one 
pair of White swans, $100 ; one White fe 
male swan, $50 ; one Black Female swan 
$60 ; one pair of Black swans, $90 ; one pair 
Japanese peacocks, $100 ; one pair of Bar 
nacle geese, $40 ; three pair of Hoop-bill 
ducks, $75 ; one pair of Golden pheasants 
$18; four pair of English phesants at $10 
$11, $15 per pair; three male Golden phea 
sants at $5, $8 50, $12 50, each; three 
male Silver pheasants at-$10, $10 50, and 
$16 each ; one pair of Call ducks $12 ; one 
Sheldrake duck, $10 ; three Spoon-bill ducks 
$13; one pair of Pintail ducks, $5; one 
pair of Widgeon ducks, $12 ; one pair of 
Widgeon ducks, $7 ; 3 Widgeon ducks, $9 
one pair of Gray Dorkings, $10 ; 3 do., $15 
six Seabright Bantams, in two lots, $5 each 
two do., hens, $2 each; three Golden do. 
$1 87 each; three English bantams, $1 25 
each; three do., $2 37 each; four Bramah 
Pootras, one cock and three hens, $2 50 
each ; one Poland hen, $1 25 ; one Bolton 
Gray hen, $1 25 ; one pair of Golden Ham- 
burgs, $2 25 ; one pair of Black Spanish 
fowls, $10; one pair of do., $5 50; two 
Black Shanghai hens, $3. 
Turkeys.— one pair of beautiful White 
turkeys, $5. 
Geese. —Two pair of Barnacle geese, $12 
and $14; two pair of Egyptian geese, ! 
and $16. 
Bringing up Chickens Without a Mother. 
—When they are hatched, they must be 
placed in a box six or seven feet long, and 
covered with a hurdle, in order to learn the 
use of their feet and wings. We give this 
box the name of chicken nursery ; it should 
be placed in the middle of a dung-heap to 
give them warmth, and small vessels placed 
in it with suitable food. To supply the chick¬ 
ens with the warmth they would find from 
couching under the lien, we place in the box 
a sort of desk, like a reading-desk to stand 
on a table, and we cover the interior,with a 
lamb’s skin, (I should say make only the 
sides and back of wood like this, and nail an 
artificial mother, of lamb’s skin or wool, on 
the top.) They soon learn to run under, and 
thus keep their backs warm, a thing which 
is very essential. When the chickens begin 
to grow large, they are admitted to the poul¬ 
try-yard. [Poultry Chronicle. 
Remarks. — Flour remains unchanged.— 
Corn has advanced from 5 to 6 cts. per bush. 
Pork has fallen about 50 cents per barrel. 
Beef is a little lower. 
Cotton is & to [c. per lb. lower. Sugar is 
ic. per lb. higher. 
The weather continues favorable, though 
so cold as to make ice for two nights past. 
PRODUCE MARKET. 
Saturday, November 4, 1854. 
The prices given in our reports from week to week, are the 
average wholesale prices obtained, by producers, and not those 
at which produce is sold from the market. The variations in 
prices refer chiefly to the quality of the articles. 
There has been a very sensible change in the weather 
since the last rain, and this morning it is quite cold. The 
effect is very apparent on the market, which is crowded 
with produce and purchasers of all kinds. 
We quote the prices to-day about the same, with a 
slig ht falling off in the lighter kinds of produce. Turnips 
begin to come in quite plentifully, and are lower. We 
aw some of the genuine vegetable Marrow squash, so 
highly prized in Boston. The wholesale price is about $3 
p lOOlbs. 
The market is well supplied with apples, and the pros¬ 
pect is that they will continue abundant. The most com¬ 
mon kinds are Gilliflowers, Spitzenbcrgs, Baldwins, and 
Greenings. 
Eggs are a shade higher. Butter and cheese, same as 
last week. 
Vegetables. —Potatoes, Mercers, $3®$3 50 p bbl. 
White, $2 50®$2 75; Sweet, Philadelphia, $2 75®®3 25 
Virginia, $2 50®$3 ; Turnips, White, $1 22; Russia 
$125®1 50; Beets, $3 75!S)$4 p hundred bunches ; Car 
rots, $3; Parsnips, same ; Cabbages, $5®$7 p hundred 
Celery, $1 ip dozen. 
Fruits.— Apples, $1 50®$1 75 p bbls. Cranberries 
$ 6 ®$ 8 . 
Butter, State 22c.®24c. p lb.; Western, 18c.®19c 
Eggs, 21c. p doz.; Cheese, 10c.®llc. p lb. 
NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. 
Monday, Nov. 6,1854. 
There is to-day an advance of about 5c. p lb. over the 
previous week, owing, no doubt, to the favorable change 
in the weather. The market, though somewhat more 
lively, is yet dull, the brokers finding it difficult to bring 
the butchers to terms ; and, considering the quality of 
their stock, it argued no little presumption to ask the pri¬ 
ces they did. Many of the animals, in fact, were quite 
spare, and looked as forlorn and rough as though they had 
done nothing all summer but brouse. 
Best quality is selling at .91®10e. p lb. 
Fair do. do. .8}®9}c. do. 
Inferior do. do. .7}®8}c. do. 
Some of the brokers claimed they were getting, for the 
best, 10}c.; they meant, we suppose, that they were ask¬ 
ing it. 
We notice to-day 71 Chester County, Pa. steers, be 
longing to H. Underwood, and soldby C. G. Teed. These 
were fair cattle, of uniform size, and selling from 9c.® 
10c. pib. 
One hundred and twenty-two cattle, from Clarke Co., 
Ky., and owned by Castleman & Humphreys. These 
werefine Western cattle, and selling at 9c.®10e. p lb. 
Estimated to weigh 700. 
Eighty-four Chester Co. cattle, owned by Ivillough & 
Harlan and sold by John Merritt. Good quality, and 
wanted but a little more leeding to make them right. 
They were selling from 9c.®10c. p lb, and weighed about 
800 lbs. 
Messrs. White and Ulery had 250 Chester Co. cattle, in 
different yards. Of these, some were in excellent condi¬ 
tion, and selling for about 10c. 
Ninety-eight Kentucky cattle, fiorn Montgomery Co. 
owned by F. Ferguson, and sold by Geo. Toffey. Estima¬ 
ted to weigh about 750 lbs., and selling at 8}®9e. A few 
sold for 105c., weighing 950. 
Sixty-four Chester Co. steers, owned by Daniel Barnes, 
of the same place, and selling at 9®10c. Weight about 
'5 lbs. 
The following are about the highest and lowest prices : 
Beeves . ,_7Jc.®10c. 
Cows and Calves . $30®$60. 
Sheep. $2®$7. 
Lambs.$1 50®$5. 
Veals. 4c.®6c. 
Swine . 4c.® 45c. 
Mr. Chamberlain reports beeves, 7e.®10e.; cows and 
calves,$20®$60; veals, 5®6jc. ; sheep, $2®$G50; lambs 
$2®$4 50 
Mr. Browning reports beeves,'i7c.®9}c. ; cows and 
calves, $25®$50 ; veals, 51c.®6}c. ; sheep $2®$8 ; 
lambs, $1 50®$4 50. 
Mr. O’Brien reports beeves, 7c.®9c.; cows and calves 
$25®$45, veals, 5c.®61c. 
Washington Yards, Forty-fourth-street. 
A. M. Allerton, Proprietor. 
RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK. IN MARKET TO-DAY. 
Beeves, . . 2685 2554 
Cows, . 18 - 
Calves,. — —— 
Sheep and lambs, . 1128 - 
Swine,.... . 547 - 
New-York State furnished, by cars, 217 ; on foot, 114; 
Ohio, 443 ; Kentucky, 379; Illinois, 296 , Pennsylvania, 
4; Virginia, 17. 
RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK. 
Chamberlin’s. Browning’ 
O’Brien’s. 
Sixth-st. 
217 
43 
Robinson-st. Sixth-st. 
Beeves, . 416 551 
Cows and calves,. .. 94 41 
Sheep and lambs. . . .7562 4866 — 
Veals. 95 71 25 
The sheep market has greatly improved the last week, 
and promises to be much better for the future. 
Mr. Samuel McGraw, Sheep Broker at Browning’s, re¬ 
ports sales of 1010 sheep and lambs, sold during the past 
week for $4,867 01, in the following lots and prices . 
104 Sheep and Lambs. .$227 50 
83 Sheep. 187 00 
340 “ 1086 74 
113 Sheep and Lambs. 339 24 
10 Lambs.. 30 50 
107 Sheep. 329 00 
138 “ .*. 353 37 
131 Lambs. 239 55 
197 Sheep. 656 99 
156 <• . .... 165 62 
150 “ 600 00 
178 “ 601 50 
Sales of Sheep and Lambs, at Chamberlain’s by 
John Mortimore. 
No. of Sheep. Average p head. Price p lb. 
2K>.$3 75 .8 cts 
126. 3 50 .8 
120. 3 75 .84 
236. 2 70 . 8' 
197. 2 75 .8 
100. 4 25 .9 
140. 3 50 .8! 
342. 3 371.8' 
100. 4 37}. 9 
190. 3 62} 81 
100. 4 75 . 9 
77. 2 50 .8 
100 taken tor Demarara market 
50 Lambs. $2 25 . 10 
25 «• . 3 37}.11 
The market the early part of the week was very dull, 
but on Friday there was a decided Improvement in both 
price and demand, and the prospect at present is flatter 
ing. The week closes wito a limited supply on hand, and 
the demand fair. Mutton sold, by the carcass, in Wash¬ 
ington Market, the early part of the week, from 2!c. to 7c. 
P lb; on and since Friday prices have advanced from lc. 
to 2c. p lb, as in quality. Lambs from 5c. to 10c. p. lb. 
PRICES CURRENT 
Produce, Groceries, Provisions, Jr., 4 r 
Ashes- 
Pot, 1st sort, 1853.p 100 lb,- (a) 7 — 
Pearl, 1st sort, 1852. 6 25®- 
Beeswax— 
American Yellow. — 28®— 30 
Bristles— 
American, Gray and White . — 40®— 45 
Coal— 
Liverpool Oriel.pehaldron-®11 50 
Scotch.... (a) _ 
Sidney. 8 — ® 7 50 
Pictou. 8 — (S>_ _ 
Anthracite.p 2,000 tb. 7 — ® 7 50 
Cotton- 
Ordinary . 
Upland. 
Florida. 
Mobile. 
7 1 
7} 
71 
8 
Middling. 
9 § 
91 
9} 
1U 
Middling Fair. 
10} 
10} 
10} 
11} 
Fair . 
11 
11} 
1H 
11} 
Cotton Bagging- 
Gunny Cloth . Pyard — 12}®— 13 
Amencan Kentucky .. ® _ 
Dundee . . fg) — 
Coffee- 
Java. . p lb.— 12 ®— 13} 
Mocha. :...— 14 ®— 14} 
Brazil .. 9 ®_ 11 
Maracaibo. . 10 ® 11 
St. Domingo.(cash). — 9 ®— 10} 
Flax- 
Jersey . 
. P lb. — 8®— 9 
Flour and Meal- 
State, common brands . 8 25 ® 8 50 
State, straight brands.. 8 62}®- - 
State, favorite brands. 8 81® 9 _ 
Western, mixed do. 8 62}® 8 75 
Michigan and Indiana, straight do. 9 25 ® 9 37} 
Michigan, fancy brands. 9 50 ® - 
Ohio, common to good brands. 9 12}® 9 371 
Ohio, fancy brands. 9 31}® 9 50 
Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, extra do . - - ® 9 50 
Genesee, fancy brands. 9 25 ® 9 50 
Genesee, extra brands . 9 75 ®10 50 
Canada, (in bond,) . 8 62 ® 8 75 
Brandywine . 9 55 ® 9 50 
Georgetown. 9 25 ® 9 50 
Petersburg City . 9 25 ®— — 
Richmond Country . . ® 9 25 
Alexandria . 9 — ® 9 25 
Baltimore, Howard-Street. 9 — ® 9 25 
Rye Flour. .. 6 50 O- - 
Corn Meal, Jersey . 4 50 ®— — 
Com Meal, Brandywine. 4 75 ® - 
Com Meal, Brandywine.p punch - ®19 50 
Grain- 
Wheat, White Genesee.p bush. 2 43 ® 2 50 
Wheat, do. Canada, (in bond, .. (S> 2 10 
Wheat,Southern, White . 2 — ® 2 20 
Wheat, Ohio, White .. ( 5 > -- 
Wheat, Michigan, While . 2 25 ® 2 40 
Wheat, Western and Mixed.. . 1 90 ® 2 08 
Rye, Northern . 1 21 ®— — 
Corn, Round Yellow' .. ®— 84 
Com, Round White.. . ®— 85 
Com, Southern White. . ® — 86 
Com,Southern Yellow.. . — 83 ®— 85 
Com, Southern Mixed. . ®— — 
Com, Western Mixed . — 81 (a) - 
