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An English Vendue. — Sale of Crops. — Horticulture. Vol. XII' 



An Unglish Yendne. 



It may be entertaining to many of our readers, to 

 know what is sold on an English farm on the breaking 

 up of the establishment. As a sample, a friend has cut 

 from a late paper the following, which will give us a 

 favorable idea of stock, implements, &c. — Ed. 



Messrs. Morris & Son have received in- 

 structions from the Executors of the late 

 Mr. Huntley, to sell by auction, without the 

 slightest reserve, on the premises, at Lan- 

 sannor Farm, situate about two miles distant 

 from the town of Cowbridge, on Thursday 

 and Friday, the 20th and 21st of January, 

 1848, 



The whole of the undermentioned Stock, 

 &c. : comprising 19 very excellent milch 

 cows, either with calves at their sides or ex 

 pected to calve in good season ; one fat cow, 

 two four-year-old in-calf heifers, three three-] 

 year-old ditto, four two-year-old ditto, six 

 five-year-old oxen, in prime condition; four 

 ditto ditto, four two-year-old steers, a remar- 

 kably handsome two-year-old Hereford bull, 

 259 very prime Southdown ewes, in lamb; 

 30 Leicester ditto, ditto; 55 Southdown we- 

 thers, 223 ewe and wether lambs, four rams 

 and two yearling ditto. The sheep, which 

 have been selected with the greatest care 

 from the very best stocks, are perfectly 

 Bound and in good condition. Nine valuable 

 draught horses, of great power and good 

 constitution; a six-year-old black gelding, of 

 great beauty, and tractable in harness; a bay 

 hackney, 15 hands high ; two two-year-old 

 colts, by " Railway," out of well-bred mares ; 

 an active five-year-old pony, quiet to ride or 

 drive, and excellent in its paces; five sows 

 in farrow, a sow and litter of pigs, and one 

 boar pig ; two ricks of very prime barley, 

 which will produce good malting samples; 

 two ricks of wheat, one ditto seed clover, 

 and two ditto of barley straw; a large quan- 

 tity of very excellent and well harvested 

 hay, about 10 tons of mangold wurzel, the 

 crop of 15 acres of Swedish turnips, five 

 well constructed wagons, four broad-wheel 

 carts, one narrow-wheel ditto; a four horse- 

 power threshing machine, by Cambridge, of 

 Market Lavington ; an easy running cobourg, 

 gig and harness, scarifier, iron roller, oak 

 ditto, six iron ploughs, thee pair harrows, 

 two pair of drags, turnip drill, winnowing 

 machine, chaft'cutter, 10 cattle cribs, sheep- 

 washing apparatus, sheep cratches, corn 

 screen, winnowing fan and stock, ox yokes 

 and chains, several dozen hurdles, 30 sets of 

 fore, shaft, and plough harness; six dozen 

 sacks, two wheelbarrows, an assortment of 

 smith's tools, ladders, hay-knives, pikes, 

 rakes, &.c. ; a general and useful variety of 

 substantial household furniture, in excellent 



preservation, barrel churn, cheese stand, 

 double and single cheese presses, milk pails, 

 leads, and tubs, cheese vats, butter trendies, 

 &c. ; eight hogsheads of very prime cider; 

 cider press and mill, several various sized 

 casks, and other valuable articles too numer- 

 ous to particularise. 



Sale of Crops in Scotland. 



Above is given a specimen of the Stock, Imple- 

 ments, &c. sold at an English Vendue — below is given 

 from the Mark Lane Express an account of a sale of 

 crops at Ayr. When shall our mode of farming be 

 such as to give an average of $55, for wheat, and $200 

 for potatoes ?— Ed. 



The sales of crop this year in our neigh- 

 bourhood, have been well attended, and 

 brought excellent prices. At Macnairston, 

 wheat averaged £11 per Scotch acre, tur- 

 nips j£16; and at Friarland, beans from £10 

 to £12 15s. At Thornbrock, parish of May- 

 bole, middling oats brought from £6 to £9; 

 at Broadshean, £5 to £7 ; at West Enoch, 

 £6 to £8; and, at Mackailston, potatoes 

 brought upward of £40. Hay, in general, 

 has also sold well, especially meadow, which 

 is sought after for winter fodder. The above 

 quotations are from a few of the last of the 

 numerous sales conducted by Mr. Mitchell, 

 auctioneer, Maybole, this year. 



Horticulture. 



There is probably no employment or 

 recreation which has a stronger tendency 

 to purify tlie heart, improve the taste, or 

 strengthen the physical constitution, than a 

 love of horticulture. If a man would truly 

 enjoy his garden, take delight in his flowers, 

 and appreciate his fruits, he must be his 

 own gardener, prune his own trees, gravel 

 his own walks, and cultivate his soil. It is 

 related by Cicero, that when Lysander visit- 

 ed Cyrus of Persia, a prince equally distin- 

 guished for his empire and his genius, Cyrus 

 showed him a piece of ground loell enclosed 

 and completely planted. After the visiter 

 had admired the tall and straight trees, and 

 the rows regularly formed, and the ground 

 clear of weeds and well cultivated, and the 

 sweetness of the odors w hich exhaled from 

 the flowers, he could not help expressing his 

 admiration, not only of the diligence, but of 

 the skill of him by whom all this was mea- 

 sured and marked out; upon which Cyrus 

 answered, " It was myself who measured 

 everything, the rows of trees are of my dis- 

 posing, the plan is mine, and many of the 

 trees were planted with my own hand." 



A truly kingly recreation and a noble ex- 

 ample. — Boston Journal. 



