No. 8. 



Annual Sale of Stock. — Editorial JVotices. 



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Annual Sale of Stock at Worton. 



The first annual sale of Mr. James Glass' 

 stock took place on Friday last. No man in 

 this county has given more attention to the 

 improvement of stock than Mr. Glass, a cir- 

 cumstance which ensured him a large and 

 most respectable company, not only from 

 this, but from the adjoining counties. Mr. 

 Glass, alter regaling his friends, to the num- 

 ber of about three hundred, with a most sub- 

 stantial lunch, introduced the business of the 

 day by pledging himself, under a penalty of 

 100^ to the last bidder, that no lot should be 

 bought in. Tiie young bulls he would put in 

 at a nominal sum, and they were all sold at 

 the following prices: — 

 Young Prince, 



Favourite, calved 14th June, 1843, 

 Antonio, calved 20th May, 1844, 

 Hogarth, calved 7th April, 1844, 

 Commodore, calved 8th x^pril, 1844, 

 Wellington, calved 2d Feb'y, 1844, 



The dairy stock sold at from 15/. to 22/ 

 each. — Wilts Independent. 



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Excretory Duct of the feet of Sheep. 

 Chancellor Livingston, 1st President of the N. 

 Y. State Agricultural Society, says the legs 

 of sheep are furnished with a duct, which 

 terminates in the fissure of the hoof; from 

 which, when the animal is in health, is se- 

 creted a white fluid, but when sickly, these 

 ducts are stopped by the hardening of the 

 fluid. He says he has in some instances 

 found that the sheep were relieved, by 

 merely pressing out the hardened matter 

 with the finger from the orifice of the duct 

 in each foot ; it may in some cases be proper 

 to place their feet m warm water, or to use 

 a probe or hand brush lor cleansing this 

 passage. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



iLmERICiiXT IISRD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Third Month, 1845. 



Philip Reybold, of Delaware, who lias for several 

 years been so well known for his ruinarkably fine flock 

 of Bakewells, sent to this cily about two inontlis ago, 

 on their way to New York, i:i the cars, fifty of perhaps- 

 as fine ewi-s and welh:;rs, as could he shown by any 

 part of the country. They had been purchased by 

 Moses E. Arment, a victualler of New York, at the 

 price, as we understood, of seven and a half cents pet 

 pound, live weight. They were part of a lot of twi 

 hundred, 8(dd to the same person.— were two and three 

 years old, and weighed from 180 to 2^0 pounds. Fine 

 Leicesters (beEel 



A VERY spirited effort has been made at Richmond, 

 Va., to form a State Agricultural Society. They say 

 that $1,500 annually, will be needed to enable them to 

 carry out their views. It is proposed to raise this 

 amount partly by yearly subscriptions of members— by 

 a State appropriation of $10,000, to be properly in- 

 vested—and an investment of $10,000 more, to be 

 raised by private subscriptions and donations. Our 

 valued friend Edmund Ruffin, was elected President 

 andC. T. Botts, Corresponding Secretary. 



The American Rail Road Journal states, that the 

 Stockton and Darlington Railway Company has re- 

 cently carried over the great North of England rail 

 road into York, 8,000 tons of coal in tvventy-si.x hours. 

 Reckoning two and a half tons to a wagon load, that 

 would be 3,200 wagons, which, at forty wagons to a 

 train, would be eighty trains, or one train every nine- 

 teen and a half minutes. One may well ask, how did 

 they contrive to get rid of it? It is said, the same 

 company has contracted to furnish locomotive power 

 to transport coal and coke over their road, at the low 

 rate of one eighth of a penny per ton per mile. 



SALE OF FULL-BLOODED NOUMAN HORSES. 

 The subscriber having relinquished Farming, will 

 offer at Public Vendue, at his Farm in Moorestown, 

 Burlington County, N. Jersey, nine miles from Phila- 

 delphia, on Tuesday, the 20th of May next, his entire 

 Stock of NORMAN HORSES, consisting of two Im- 

 poried Stallions, " Diligence" and " Buonaparte ;" two 

 Imported Mares— three full-blooded Stud Colts, one, 

 two and four years old— two full blooded Fillies, three 

 and four years old— two Fillies by "Diligence," from 

 a half-blood Canadian Mare, three and four years old, 

 and one Filly four years old, by "Diligence," from a 

 well-bred English Mare, broke and kind to harness. 



The undersigned deems it unnecessary to speak at 

 large of the qualities of these horses, so much having 

 been said of this particular importation, (which is be- 

 lieved to be Ihe only one ever made to the United 

 States,) in all the principal Agricultural papers. In a 

 few words, they are the Canada Horse, on a larger 

 cale, combining the form, activity and hardihood of 

 that well known race, with greater size and strength. 

 "Diligence" has been a reuiatkably successful Stallion; 

 he has been exhibited at the Fairs of the Pennsylva- 

 nia and New York Agricultural Societies, where he 

 was not entitled to compete for the premiums, but re- 

 ceived the highest encomiums from the Committees. 

 At the Fair of the American Institute, in New York 

 city in October last, he received the fc?ilver Medal of 

 the Institute. 



It is expected that a large number of the Colts of 

 •■Diligence" will be on the ground on the day of 

 Sale, some of which, no doubt, may be purchased. 



EDWARD HARRIS. 

 Mioreslown, Burlington Co., N.J. ) 

 March, 15th, lt45. j 



53° 1'lie American Agriculturist, N. Y.,— Cultivator, 

 Albany,— New England Farmer, Boston,— Genesee 

 Farmer, Rochester,— Ohio Cultivator, Columbus, — 

 American Farmer, Baltimore, and Southern Agricul- 

 turist, Charleston, will please insert the above on 1st 

 of Fourth mo. (April,) and Isl of Fifth mo. (May.) and 

 send their bills to this oflice, for payment.— Ed. F. 

 jCabinet. 



