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year old Clydesdale mare " Darling Third," by imported 2*Jetberby, to 

 William Moffat, of Strong ville, Ohio, for $1,000 gold. 



Colonel J. J. De Forest, of Duanesburgh, i[ew York, has recently sold 

 twelve pigs, the produce of one improved Ohesiiire sow for one year, for 

 $163. The prices ranged from $15 for a pair of pigs, to $30 for a boar. 



Joseph Harris, of Eochester, New York, has sold to J. S. Hardin, 

 Louisville, Kentucky, two Essex sows for $350. Mr. Hardin has also 

 purchased three Jersey cows at $316 each. 



Mr. M. H. Cochrane, Comi)ton, Canada, shipped, November 2, eight 

 head of short-horns — Duchesses, Oxfords, and Cambridge Eoses — to 

 Earl Dunmore, in Scotland. The Mark Lane Express says that the two 

 Duchess heifers are the produce of Duchess 101st and Duchess 103d, 

 which Mr. Cochrane bought in calf last summer for 2,500 guineas, and 

 the same piiee is now paid for their calves. The calves are considered 

 superior to their dams. The Oxford cows were bred by Mr. Sheldon. 



Messrs. Wolcott & Campbell, New York Mills, l^e\i York, have sold 

 to Mr. Cheney, of Gaddisby, England, five head of short-horns, which 

 were shipped to Southampton. One of the five, the Ninth Maid, of Ox- 

 ford, although landed safely, died a few days after arrival at Southamp- 

 ton, during the quarantine to which all stock is subjected, and in this 

 case with very few of the comforts to which such animals are accustomed. 



One of the largest public sales of horses and cattle which ever took 

 place in California was held at Bellevue ranche, belonging to the estate 

 of the late E. J. Walsh, Colusa County. The horses, 148 head, were 

 all unbroken. They were bred from the best American mares by supe- 

 rior horses. The first, second, third, and fourth choice, one pair each, 

 sold for $120, $120, $80, and $67, respectively. The remainder were 

 sold in a single lot at $24 each. The bulls were sold as follows : first, 

 second, and thii-d choice, $100 each ; fourth choice, $52 50; fifth, $40 ; 

 and the four remaining bulls for $155. The general horned stock sold, 

 first choice, 5 head, $100 each ; second choice, 10 head, $70 each ; third 

 choice, 10 head, $59 each ; and so on down to the eighteenth choice, 

 comiHising the remaining 380 head, which sold for $18 25 i^er head 

 — altogether, 1,145 were sold under this head. The Bellevue ranche 

 contains 20,000 acres, extending along the Sacramento Eiver for eight 

 miles, and mostly valley land. For the past five years the ranche 

 has been managed by the executor of Mr. Walsh, who died in 1806, 

 leaving a debt of $80,000 on the property. There were then 1,200 head 

 of stock on the ranch. In the five years the total sales of stock and 

 grain have amounted to over $250,000. The $80,000 debt has been 

 paid ; over forty miles of fence have been built ; there is now as much 

 stock on hand as there was five years ago, and the executor has in hand 

 $40,000, the proceeds of the stock sale. 



FAEM MANAGEMENT IN ENGLAND. 



A heavy clay farm of 133 acres, in Claveriug, Essex, abandoned to 

 weeds and neglect, and clover sick, producing but 24 to 32 bushels of 

 wheat, was rented in 1862 by Mr. W. Savill, a schoolmaster of the vil- 

 lage, for a period of seventeen years. He put in drains three feet 

 deep, and kept the surface clear of weeds. Commencing with 85 acres 

 of arable land, he has increased his annual tillage since 1867 to one 

 hundred acres, and has steam-plowed an average of 35 acres annually 



