| DzgoEMBER 17, 1864} 
year, there were 1 10,370 last year, 8430 the year before, 
and 8840 the year before that. "e ow, in the face of 
ber of PT 
ssi d "Xind, but 
f 
persons more My Mediol wit 
agricltare me the supply of meat is, and coated be so 
short, that the demand will nat 
edi! 
Besides, if the influential columns o 
Press be employed to induce the “country interest" 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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size. One was sold yee” 
Southall, Middl 
g 
. Radcliff, a butcher 
or 50; and owing to their 
had 30 
| GREAT CHRISTMAS SALE OF FAT STOCK a’ 
Messrs. -— & © Harding auctioneers at e pres . 
e all the which has — cae enter- 
irrespective 
| ete he best arranged ana por lo Sn i 
similar purpose in in the kingdom, their en energetic 
exelent Herefor 
pe Rests, Mr. James Steward had 56 cattle of 
Mr. Mac Combie, of Tillyfour, - prx 
y qnis for which he is justly 
pe s 
after from 
from the corn they: cannot sell at remunerative figures | 
ions and 
are founded on false opin hopes, the consumers 
of London and other pe towns will be greater 
panaga before 
the next Grass beef can be Aeee 
than might otherwise haye been. 
jean orm have neg i y been pitched in in E 
There were a few big old Gloucetershire beasts 
had — worked and some of them were well fed up. 
ane Mr. 
pe dee one 
near Aylesbury, had 23 a 
p each. 
" 501. Mr. Ludbrook, 
c gg T R two making 
t| There w 
have — — for ^ eg time, 
fine har 
ere, also, more good Welsh rants than we 
pital | 
of | 2°. 
An 
cote de = ert 
indeed, it is a we 
i d for 
disposing of stock ri 
ns of this hardy but much mà ed, 
The dte were much about the 
special Rn cii 
many of them were 
many more were half "fat, end what f ‘ew prime Dutch 
ould not make thi A avd 
of the market above satisfactory comments, 
| without anything calling for 
how 
instance, er, of the el acahintane — - 
improving ng their Boelie, ao of the pes breeds, or 
ren from Hol land s sold: s 78s. en 
ted bre 
ual —€— | 
PUES 
and “ legging * which ften occurs when ocior 
dealers butchers tony to get, and succeed by fair 
| arr a in getting, the price of animals at home or 
| in a public mar 
therefore, editorial extravagances to remarks which are) The trade, it place, The 
certainly quite up to t est point, if not ovet- e active, although the eet done was nerve | sh ko» hurdles, with asphalted 
drawn, uA io e way to produce and add to the mischief | hig occasionally fine Scot made 6s. per | fi the ee oon hem being brick-paved. The 
in q while future n" will be diminished by | 8 l -— 5s. 10d. d, the general top figure | bullock pens are equally m venient and ample, and the 
the same means, for b 5s. 8d. per 8 Ib. fopa s price for Down | “ring,” covered as it is with glass roo! 
the, pesas taste meaty ani tton was 66. and prime half-breds 5s. 10d., the| with complete waiti ds and entrance and exit 
enter bill into pario on pure white faces making 5s. 4d. and 5s. 6d. per 81b., | gates, make the whole a thorough business-like 
t occasion undonb both as | according to size and quality. and sii. To show that these matters 
regards size and the condition to which they have been| The following facts are - the vn usual interest :— full ted, only mention that this 
the stands of ere extra-| The total imports of fo! stock into Lon ton Jast sale included 98 oxen and heifers, many of them being 
ordinary ; Mr. James Walton, of Stratford-on-Avon, had | week, amounted to 18, 
d large ones belonging to Mr. Bicknell, week in 1863 we received 8040; in 1862, 4496; in | were above an average ve size and condition ; also 10 
of M in the same neighbourhood, for which he 1861, uL ae PA 4415; in ^1859, 4364; and in | A 8 chap aan 73 
was 40 guineas each. Butchers, however, early | 1858, 5734 s and Fond were sold first, and made 
in the day were not disposed to give the prices which t w Poy x , some of the latter, in lots of five, 
demanded, on the strength of their con d making as much as 75s, and 80s, each, Mr, Long's 10 
dence in the limited supply in the country, In this ib]! “from whenos. I m Sheep. ep. | Lambs. | Calves. | Pigs averaged 88s. 6d. each, These were Hants and Wilte 
will be seen their judgment was correct, for high | and half-breds. Some peni good yard-fed sheep 
ices stone have since been made at provincial ~oa A z ee s of the same breed, and crosses between Hants ewes and 
mark and particularly at the Auction Mar Cena : s } " "' | Lincoln and Cots rams, were sold singly. Mr. Richa: 
at Hitchin the following day, am account Calais | 13 | 84 | Oakley, of Lawrence n had six sold at an average, 
which will be found elsewhere. Mr. Ellis Dean, of | Dorit | "—— all ,but a trifle, of 5 guineas fio ny M John Shaw 
by Hall, € D sald four o Short- GAINS igh, of Luton Hoo, ad 18 Hants and half-bred, 
or 491. each, for one of whieh SL were | 
Another [pone peine Mr. eiat f| 
Kirkby, near Sleaford, had 35 extraordinary an 
beasts for full er MARS We i and t| 
were expeeted, as m airly avera; 
452. each. Mr. Broodnal had seven others ben zr 
that w e perfection of feed 
"Me. 
y amd ones, fed by | ow ‘Atten- 
P 
re that pm vas. bas Wee 
d 
ns recontiy a sense could 
animal from 
iters w 
i 
treated in f 
Kirkham, 4 RE "in 
m his animals. Fifteen l 
mee Prime 
Zone as | Eae 
d. 
Second quality ditto S . o Spenden), mene, made d 1 
+, * è Vs] 
x — HÀ ipi " ‘| sent aj beautiful but t not ede Q year-old H, T 
To" CI o Meere mn s| which made 417, 10s. Mr. Fossey, o 9f Qumberlow Green, 
Second quality ditto qni . 4% 2 AM two prime ing 5s, and 
Prime coarse-woolled ditto rete Bye 3 | other 46/. 10s. Me. T "d had two Sh 
pem ^ n^ nts poised j : horns sold respectively at 45. and 43/. 5e. Mr. R.. 
Prime «mall prd y p \ 7 
Larg maa vita : which e 10s The climax of this 
— Gu o. | Spirited competition, er, very properly took place 
eos er Calvet, 186, to 2%; and raid stone Pigs, r the last four lots of two Highlanders and two 
polled Scots, sent by Mr. Leigh, of Lu Hoo, We. 
| l or better fed oxen, The first of 
Per 8lbs. to sink the ROE EE fi de 431. 10s, to Mr. Harris, of Hertford. 
| Dec. 14, 1363. | Dee. 12, 1964 | The second . Brown, o gei d. 
| P | Galloway made ‘BOL. to “Mr, » Crawley, o Luto 
; | Coarse and inferior Beasts. | 8 8104 4 | do 400. 1 bag ts Walker of Hitchin, 
Second 4 6 50 kd thi 
y ea 59 54 | Aur toe e do naris 
&e. 5 s $4 skill of their feeder... Their owner’ 
nmm i 
(1 519 6 0. 
Hi 4 Hi 
iMd. 
sie Ie 
a6 4 
ze and quality fom. good foeders 
in Ai pant d nd 
Aylesbary, 
a some of them of 
North Devons, and 
| Dec. 15,1862. | Dee, 16, 188i. 
Beasts 4 T b. 8,430 Ba eee 
Sheep oe in ue | 20,900 26,300 
ses in oli ced 178 202 
«ife av wr IT 420 4060 
buy from week e greatly i 
character of Messrs, Page & uote nde show od 
Tuesday last, compared with previous sales, M 
Loon A these views. The sale altogether realised 
nearly 50007. 
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