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Dorset, and other counties, but Hampshire of course contri- 

 buted the largest number. About one o'clock the company 

 assembled in a spacious marquee, and partook of luncheon. M. 

 Portal, Esq., occupied the chair, and Mr. Edney and Mr. 

 Ferris were the vice-chairmen. The auctioneer enumerated 

 some of the leading prizes awarded to Mr. Neate's stock, and 

 the sale commenced with the rams. Three rams were to be 

 let, aud ten to be sold. The highest priced ram was knocked 

 down to Mr. Ferris at 28 guineas. Twelve ram lambs were 

 to be let, and 88 sold. In this class 15 guineas were realized 

 for the hire of one ram for a month, and several others made 

 near that amount. Pairs of ram lambs reached 25 guineas ; 

 and the average of the whole was highly satisfactory. The 

 ewes, 120 in number, were full-mouthed, and excited con- 

 siderable competition, the biddings reaching as high as 68s. 

 per head. 



SALE OF SHORTHORNS, &c., 



AT BUSHEY FARM. 



This pleasant stronghold of the Hertfordshire Short- 

 horns was on Wednesday, July 18, the scene of a fourth 

 sale. It is upwards of three years since Mr. Wetherell's 

 Bushey labours were rewarded by that average of 

 j£90 2s. 5d., which still holds its proud iourth ])lace in 

 herd annals. The present time was most auspiciously 

 chosen. In 1857 we saw Great Mogul bought-in for 

 400 gs., with Royal and Yorkshire honours in store for 

 him; and not only has prophecy become fulfilment 

 four times over in this respect, but out of the four of 

 his stock which went to Canterbury, Harkaway had 

 just returned with the first bull-calf prize, and Lady 

 Butterfly and Joyful with high commendations in the 

 yearling heifer and calf classes. Vesta — the highly com- 

 mended cow — was a greatfuature, along with Lady But- 

 terfly, Queen of the South, and Diadem, the second year- 

 ling heifer at Dublin Spring, in a close adjoining the 

 one where the young bulls were on parade, in front of 

 Harkaway's and Young Mogul's box. Many extended 

 their visits from them to Great Mogul, and his son 

 Tally ho, a calf of January 27th, and, as our guide ob- 

 served, " the very moral of him." Lovesome, from 

 Lucy— another of his get — stood side by side with that 

 most exquisite handler Joyful ; and those who marked 

 her beautiful top almost wished that the well-known 

 fancy in judges' minds for roan over white had induced 

 Mr. Marjoribanks to send her, with her half-sister, on 

 the off chance. Among the July calves were a red 

 heifer from Rosa Bonheur, a roan heifer from The 

 Bride, and a roan bull from Myrtle (half sister to Mr. 

 Eastwood's Rosette), all by Great Mogul, so that Mr. 

 Marjoribanks bids fair to have a tolerably wide choice 

 for his Leeds prize- fighters. 



About two hundred visitors were present, including 

 General Lord Rokeby, Sir A. de Rothschild, Hon. W. 

 Cavendish, M.P. ; Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, Bart.; 

 Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P. ; Major Wood, and 

 Messrs. Tanqueray, Jonas Webb, Noakes, J;)s. Currie, 

 Thursby, King, C. A. Barnes, Whittingstall, Trehon- 

 nais, Cobb, Fryer, Snewing, Claydon, Taylor, Jno. 

 lies, W. T. Copeland, Abbey, &c. After an excel- 

 lent lunch had been discussed, under Mr. Wetherell's 

 presidency, in the barn, the veteran led the way to the 

 ■well-remembered spot. The dairy heifers and their 

 calves were all grazing in the sale meadow, where pens 

 had been put up for the sheep and pigs ; and as the 

 bulls were marshalled in Indian file, the whole of the 

 lots were remarkably handy for inspection, and came 

 up, not exactly with " the goose step,'' but with a pre- 

 cision and regularity worthy of rifle volunteers. The 

 eclipse was visible just after the biddings began, and 

 unloosed the tongues of the idlers so much, that Mr. 

 Wetherell was obliged to request them to leave it alone. 



The fourteen bulls and bull-calve.'?, five of which 



were boru this side Christmas, made 549 guineas, and 

 the eight by Great Mogul averaged £50 128. 8d. ; so that 

 Mr. Wetherell's energetic " Come aioay!" proved to have 

 lost none of its potency. Bulls alone will not tempt great 

 herd owners to a sale ; and hence they were parted with 

 decidedly under their value. Corporal Trim, a very nice 

 level young bull, with a remarkably sweet open head, 

 went to the Duke of Sutherland for 61 guineas. Kirkman, 

 a dark roan, with a good back, capital substance, and 

 long quarters, but not a very nice head and horn, was 

 knocked down for 66 guineas to Mr. Armstrong, after 

 some strong bidding from the Rev. F. Thursby. Rory 

 O'More, 70 guineas, became Lord Chesham's, and 

 after a spirited set-to between Mr. Noakes and Mr. Peter, 

 for Crony, the "Kentish fire" was silenced, and the Aus- 

 tralian market triumphed. This was far away the cle- 

 verest young bull on the ground, nicely packed in his 

 quarters, and well filled in behind the shoulder, a point 

 in which some of the Great Moguls, like their beau- 

 tiful-quartered sire, are a trifle deficient. Beyond a 

 rather sunken eye, there was very little for fastidious 

 cynics to urge against him ; and the fact of his not 

 having been even commended in his class at Canterbury, 

 makes us fancy it a stronger one than it seemed to be 

 as they stood in line. Amongst the other bull pur- 

 chasers were Messrs. Crisp, Barnard, Ellis, Duckworth, 

 Woodward, Sisman, Wetherell, Thursby, Barnes, and 

 Botham. Cock of the Walk, to whom Vesta and Ele- 

 gance are in calf, was put up afterwards for 200 guineas, 

 but did not elicit a bid. The top price for shorthorn 

 dairy heifers, only three of which were bred by Mr. 

 Marjoribanks, was £23 10s., and for fat polled Scots 

 £22. 



The Southdown sheep were principally by tups from 

 the Duke of Richmond's and Mr. Jonas Webb's. The 

 Duke of Sutherland and Sir A. de Rothschild were pur- 

 chasers, and the highest prices were £9 10s. for a 

 shearling ram, 61s. a piece for fat wethers, and 59s. 

 for ewes. Six boars of the small white Bushey 

 breed averaged £b 13s. 4d., and the total proceeds of 

 the sale were £1,688 198. Every head of stock in the 

 catalogue was sold. The weather was delightfully fine, 

 and the general arrangements, and the bloom in which 

 the stock was brought out by Mr. Tallant, combined to 

 make it a very pleasant appendix to " the great fact" 

 of 'fifty-seven. 



SALE OF MR. PAWLETT'S LEICESTER FLOCK, AT 

 BEESTON, BY MR. STRAFFORD, ON JULY 13th.— 

 The Friday in the Royal Society's Show week was not the 

 most eligible day for a sale on the other side of the Metro- 

 polis, and the attendance at Beeston was consequently but 

 small. Amongst the purchasers, however, who either bid in 

 person, or through their agents, were Lord Spencer, and 

 Messrs. Gell, G. Smith, Smart, Happer, A. A. Young, Smyth, 

 Bruce, Jeffersou, Lindsell, Allington, Woodward, Crouch, 

 Bennett, Northey, Trotter, Serjeant, Bodger, Wright, Gould, 

 J. Young, F. Jordan, R. Fisher, R. Woods (agent for G. S. 

 Foljambe, Esq.), Davis, Pope, Hassell, Cresswell, Gibbons, 

 Wootton, Bulmore, Armstrong, Watkins, S. Spencer, Burdett, 

 Borton, Mead, Hopper, Shaw, F. Fowler, Marris, and the 

 Rev. S. Stopford. 



The 30 shearling rams realized £49S 2s. Cd., an average of 

 ;616 198. 9d. The highest price of 47 gs. was given by Mr. R. 

 Fisher for lot 27 ; sire the Chester prize sheep, dam Z, 



The 12 two-shears brought £193 143. ed., an average of 

 £\6 2s. lOJd. The highest price was 50 gs., for lit 37; sire a 

 sheep of Mr. Sandny's, dam Gloucester prize shepp. Mr. Cress- 

 well was the buyer. 



The 13 three, four, and five shear rams made £163 5s. Cd , an 

 average of £12 lis. 2d. 



The general average of the 55 rams was £15 10s. 3d. The 

 total £858 2s. 6d. 



The 150 ewes and theave? brought £720 28. 6d., an average of 

 £4 16s. The total results of the sale, £I..573 5s. 



