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ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1803 
1 WHOLE NO. 714 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AX ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
not pastured, and all weeds utterly exterminated, 
root and branch. W here there are no obstruc¬ 
tions, the labor of mowing is not so serious, and 
the hay will perhaps pay the labor. In future, 
no man can *• take land” of me, without attend¬ 
ing to the fence corners, as well as the field, in a 
“good and workmanlike manner.” If I can 
bring myself up to that standard, I shall think 
myself fortunate. 
Lotus hope that we may get rid of fences as 
far as may bo, and I think many farms might 
just as well be fenced into twenty and thirty acre 
lots as ton; let us make them of durable mate¬ 
rials, in a neat and orderly manner, and under 
any and all circumstances, keep them clean. 
In regard to the prices at which the sheep 
were sold we present below a complete list, and 
may remark that although not extravagantly 
high, they compare very favorably with any sale 
of the kind we have any knowledge of in this 
country. The yearling '\ves went low, partly 
because the lateness of the down train detained 
some who would have been buyers, and because 
the auctioneer was instructed not to dwell, and 
the buyers actually present had not learned that 
they must speak quick to get their bids in at all. 
At Mr. Taylor’s sale at Holmdel just a year 
ago, the whole number sold and rented was 50, 
am-aging about $38; total at Mr. Tborne’s 100, 
averaging about $46. 
Thus the result speaks well for the interests of 
the breed, and shows that at no previous time 
have our farmers been more generally awake to 
the improvement of their sheep. When “ Arch¬ 
bishop ” came Into the ring, it was pleasant to 
note the running fire of bids, which kept Mr. 
Page constantly on the alert—starting at $100 
and mounting quickly by successive steps to 
$125 -150—ICO slight pause—175—200—250— 
200—2C5—275—280—300—Mr. I’agk tries to catch 
his breath, but 325—350—355-360—365—come 
along too quick, and there ho hardly ventures a 
“ once— lwire,'' when 375—380—886—390—400— 
425— 150—500 interrupt him, in less time than it 
takes to write the figures—and then “ three times 
— gone ” seals the fate of the Canterbury primate 
to the meadows of “ Millbrook.” The rams that 
followed next were good bargains, all of them ; 
No. 4 was low at $125, and when No. 9 made his 
bow to the company, the starling bid was $50, 
followed at once by $75, us if to bluff off compe¬ 
tition, and then by $85 and $100, and still half a 
dozen undismayed competitors remained, who 
quickly ran him up to $131, the final notch. 
As to the quality of the sheep, little need be 
said. The yearling ewes Were rather late lambs, 
and hence were not as showy in size as would 
otherwise have been the case, but the two and 
three-shear ewes were generally admirable, and 
the rams certainly went below what their merits 
ought to havo brought for them—the only advan¬ 
tage possessed by “Archbishop” over two or 
three of Mr. Thorne's own breeding, being ap¬ 
parently his prestige as a prize-winner in Eng¬ 
land. 
Here follow the details of the sale, including 
pedigree, purchaser and price of each sheep : 
YEARUXO EWB3. 
No. Sire. Dam's Sire. Purchaser. Price. 
1. Archbishop, No. 6 P. U. Jones, Am¬ 
herst, N. H.$25.00 
2. do No, 112 J. C. Tatum, Wood¬ 
bury, N. J.,.22,00 
3. do No. 6 Hon. E. Cornell, 
Ithaca,. 20.00 
4- do Young Salisbury, George II. Brown, 
Millbrook, Wash, 
Hollow, Dutch. Co. 26.00 
5. do No. 6 Hon. E. Cornel], 
Ithaca,. 21 00 
6. do No. 6 Hill A; Jones, Dela¬ 
ware, Ohio. 37.00 
7. do No. 6 Geo. H. Brown.41.00 
3. do No. 19 E. Cornell.. 28.00 
9. do No. 6 Hill & Jones.,.40.00 
10. do No. 112 R. A. Alexander, 
Woodford Co,, Ky , 4L00 
11. do No. 0 E. Cornell.37.00 
12. do No. 6 Geo. H. Brown.41.00 
13. do Young Salisbury, J. S. Homans, New 
York.31.00 
14. do No. 19 E. Cornell.33.00 
15. do Young Salisbury, J. C. Tatum.30.00 
Id. do Reserve. Wm. Hurst. Albany 50.00 
17. do Young Norwich, R. A. Alexander... 51.00 
18. do Hen. Webb’s Pet, do ...51.00 
!9. Imp. No. 14 Young Salisbury, E. Cornell. 38.00 
20. do No. 6 do .43.00 
21. do No. 6 do .37-00 
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MR. THORNES SALE OF SOUTH DOWNS 
k-UOiC&Z-CrtC. 
Mr. Samuel Thorne’s first public sale of 
South Down sheep, took place at his residence, 
Thorndale, Dutchess Co., N. Y., on the 2d 
instant, as previonsly announced in the Rural 
and other journals. We were unable to attend 
tiie sale, but learn from gentlemen wbo were 
present, and our exchanges, that the occasion 
was alike interesting, pleasant and profitable. 
The sale was attended by a large number of 
prominent breeders, 'editors and others, and the 
reports we have heard or read speak in high 
terms of the arrangements and result. The 
most complete report of the sale which we have 
seen is given in the Country Gentleman, and 
737~ For Terms and other particulars, see last page, 
JGISrGLLISTrS STUMP EXTRACTOR 
The above cut represents a machine which 
has long been needed, and is said to meet the 
wishes of farmers by its superior advantages and 
value. It is believed by those who have wit¬ 
nessed its operation, to be by far the. best Stump 
Extractor known. Its recommendations are, 
simplicity of construction, lightness, durability, 
cheapness, and great rapidity of execution. It 
is manufactured by English & Alexander, at 
Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y., of whom particu¬ 
lars may be obtained. We are not informed as 
to the price of the machine, but presume Messrs. 
E. & A. will ere long advise the public on that 
important point. 
IN AND ABOUT FENCES 
The real “Pandora Box,” in my opinion, is a 
fence. All the depravity of the human, animal 
and vegetable kingdoms clusters about fences. 
An oppressive burden, outweighing all govern¬ 
mental taxes—patrons of every noxious thing— 
charts of deformity, (a complete series,) they 
have fastened themselves on mankind, and 
though forever going down , are never gone. 
Grand Juries cannot “abate” them, and “Re¬ 
form,” so anxious to measure swords with Evil 
Spirits, prudently lets them alone. 
We’ll suppose a case. A village of two thou¬ 
sand inhabitants, less or more — streets hand¬ 
somely graded, and graveled, encroached upon 
by no bold Rouses, but lined on either side by 
trees of diverse varieties, promiscuously placed, 
and far enough apart to allow of a handsome, 
healthy development,, and the growth of green 
grass beneath— and never a fence in all its 
borders! Such a village, such a city, would 
be, as I veriiy think, a degree nearer heaven 
than the deformed abodes of men generally are. 
“ All this dread order break—for whom? for thee? 
Vile ‘coto/’—Oh madnessl pride! impiety!” 
Will you do me the favor to calculate the 
expense of supporting those costly deformities, 
—deformities, no matter how costly—called 
“door-yard fences,” for a village of two thou¬ 
sand inhabitants? Will you do me the further 
favor to calculate how much profit the owners 
realize from the hogs, horses and cattle pastured 
in the streets, and which render these fences 
necessary? If you shall find the fences costing 
ten times as much as the 11 freedom of the city ” 
is worth to the swine, &o., will you then do 
what you can to u abate these nuisances,”—swine, 
fences and all? 
So much for towns. The case is not so clear 
in the country. “Soiling,” or keeping live 
stock in yards and stables the year round, while 
it has not, to be sure, had a fair trial by farmers, 
is obviously unsulted to our new countries. 
Were it not for the necessity which exists for 
adopting a rotation of crops, sufficient land 
might be inclosed for pasture, and the remainder 
go unfenced. As it is, farmers who keep stock, 
and all farmers should keep stock unless close 
to a town where manure can be bought, will find 
it necessary to permanently inclose so many of 
their fields as they may want for grazing pur¬ 
poses, unless they succeed with hurdle fences, 
which are worthy of a trial. 
Allowing all this, the burden of fences might 
be greatly lightened were it not for the few ani¬ 
mals that persist in running at large, in spite of 
the “Constitution and the laws.” I have said 
that fences were “patrons of every noxious 
thing,”—they are the home of all uucleanness. 
I have spent weeks the present season in efforts, 
not wholly successful, to rid my fences of weeds 
and incumbrances, and I have resolved to avoid, 
in the future, the error of throwing loose stones 
into the fence corners—throwing old stamps and 
brush there is too gross to require censure, but I 
have done even that “just for the present,” (say 
from that journal we copy the following remarks 
and enumeration of aniwuls disposed of: 
The list of purchasers will show a considera¬ 
ble attendance from a distance, including repre¬ 
sentatives from Ohio, Kentucky, New Hamp¬ 
shire, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New 
Jersey. Col. B. P. Johnson bid for Hon. E. 
Cornell, whose recent illness rendered him 
unable to be present; Sanford Howard, of 
Boston, filled the orders of several purchasers in 
that State; William Brewster, manager to 
R. A. Alexander, Esq., bought for Mr. A. 
and another Kentucky gentleman, but, with 
these exceptions, the bidders were all present, 
we believe, in person. Geo. H. Brown, Esq., 
who was the largest purchaser, is laying the 
foundation for a flock in Mr. Thorne’s imme¬ 
diate neighborhood, and will have samples, we 
trust, at the State Fair, for exhibition. Among 
others present, were Hon. Wm. Kelly and Wm. 
Chamberlain, Esq., of Dutchess, Geo. Vail, 
Esq,, of Rensselaer, Col. Morris and Messrs. 
Fails and Bailey of Westchester, Mr. Shel¬ 
don of Geneva, Jona. Thorne and John 
Haven of New York, J. C. Taylor of New 
Jersey, Mr. Saxton of the Stock Journal , Mr. 
Comstock of the Argus, Mr. Cuming of the 
Observer, and a goodly list of prominent farmers 
in the immediate neighborhood might be named, 
rendering the occasion equally pleasant as a 
gathering of agriculturists and breeders, and 
THREE YEAR OLD BYTES. , 
41. Young Salisbury,Imp. Prize Ewe, R. A. Alexander$ 52.50 
' 12 - do Imp Webb Kwe, Geo. H Brown. 43.00 
I 3 - d<) By 112. Sanford Howard 45.00 
44. do Imp.WebbEwe, R. A. Alexander 45.00 
46. do By 113 do 40.00 
• |li - do By 112 Wm. Haret.40,00 
47. do Imp. LugarEwe, J. C. Tatum.... 32,U) 
48- do By No. 19 Geo. H. Brown. 38.00 
I 9 - do Imp.LugarEwe, J. C. Tatum.... 30.00 
60. do Imp. WebbEwe,Geo. H. Brown 95.00 
51. do By 112 Edwin Thorne, 
Poughkeepsie,. 25.00 
62. do Imp. Webb Ewe, J.S. Homans.. 37.00 
I 53 - do do Geo. II. Brown. 37.00 
15. 1 yr. by Archbishop, <|am by 112, Edwin Thorne, 
16. do do do p. W Jones,.. 
17- do do dam by No. 6, Wm. Hurst, 
> 8 - do do dam by Reserve. .Sanford 
Howard,. 
19. Oyrs. by No, 112, F. P. Kincaid, Woodford Co., 
Kentucky,. 
AGGREGATE RESULT. 
21 Yearling Ewes. Average $35.39.' 
19 Two-Year old Ewes, do 51.05. 
13 Three-Year old Ewes, do 43.00. 
9 Four-Year old Ewes, do 59.00. 
19 Aged Ewes, do 25 50. 
81 Ewes average $39.00, total,. 
19 Rams, different ages, average $73.20, total, 
100 Average $45.07, total,. 
POUR YEAR OLD EWES. 
5i. No. 6, Imp. Lugar Ewe, Edwin Thorne.i 
55. do Imp. Prize Ewe, S. W. Robins. 
50. do Imp.WebbEwe, F. I', Kincaid, Woodford 
Co., Ky.. 
67. do do J. S. Homans.. 
58. do do Wm. Hurst. 
LAYING DOWN GRASS LANDS 
The following valuable and Reasonable sugges¬ 
tions are extracted from an article in the Ger¬ 
mantown Telegraph. Though not entirely ap¬ 
propriate to all kinds of soils and locations, the 
suggestions are in the main good, and will bo 
read with interest if not profit bymaDyofour 
readers: 
“ When a farmer wishes to derive profit from 
his grass lands, the finer the condition in which 
they are laid down the better. No 
61. do 
62. do 
63. [Dead.] 
Edwin Thome 
Wm. Hurst_ 
PULL*MOUTHED EWES OP OTHER AGES. 
64. No. 112, Imp. LugarEwe, P. R. Close, Greenwich, 
Ct.$35.00 
65. No. 6, Dam by 112, (Dead.). 
66. do do J. W. Aisop.. 29.00 
67. do Imp. Webb Ewe, R. A. Alexander.28.00 
68. No. 112, imp. Lugar Ewe, J. W. Aisop.26.00 
69. No. 6, Dam by 113, do . 23.00 
70. do Imp. Prize Ewe. S T. Angel, Salt Point_26.00 
71. No. 112, Imp. Webb Ewe. Wm. Hurst. 42 00 
72. do Imp. prize Ewe, R. A. Alexander. 48.00 
73. do do J. W Aisop.30.00 
74. do Imp. Richmond Kwe, E. Gridin, Clinton 
Corners.29.00 
75. do Imp. Webb Ewe, J. S. Homans.23.00 
70. A ewe imported from Webb, do . . 20-00 
77. do do Lugar, J. W. Aisop.22.00 
78. do do do J. H. Allen, Pleasant 
Valley,. 20.00 
79. By 112 from imp. Webb ewe, do do 20 On 
80. do imp. Lugar ewe, D. Haywood, Copake, 25.00 
81 do imp. prize ewe, J. H. Allen. 20 00 
82. An imported prize ewe, Wm. HurBt.13.00 
83. do do J. S. Homans,. 14.60 
sapping—no 
extraordinary demands upon Iheir productive 
energies—no emasculating manipulations should 
precede the crop to which it is ultimately devot¬ 
ed, but rather the reverse. In some localities 
we find that the practice of laying lands to grass 
immediately after removing a weeded crop, pre¬ 
vails; and this usage is, in our opinion, the only 
true one. After the potato or turnip crop is 
drawn, spread on from one to two cords of old, 
thoroughly decomposed compost or stable ma¬ 
nure-care being taken to spread it as evenly as 
practicable—and work the land with the large 
cultivator or heavy harrow till it is reduced to a 
lino tilth, and sow your seed. 
“When the grass seed is sown in the spring 
with small grains, it is perhaps well known to 
most of your readers who baVe had any expe¬ 
rience in the business, that not more than one- 
third or one-half ever germinates, even where 
the seed is good. This results from the seed 
being ho small that it does not get covered to a 
sufficient depth to insure its germination, or if it 
grows, to aflbrd a regular and sufficient supply 
of moisture to suataia the embryo plants. 
“ By sowing in the tali, this difficulty is wholly 
obviated. After the seed is sown, cover it with 
a brush or light harrow, and finish otf with the 
roll. In the spring, immediately after the disso¬ 
lution of snow, sow on one barrel of poudrette, 
or guano, to the acre. A less quantity will do if 
the land is very rich. Managed in this way, you 
are certain of a good crop of grass for several 
years, or until circumstances may render it ex¬ 
pedient to vary the culture. Where corn pre¬ 
cedes the sowing of grass seed, it is available, in 
harvesting the crop, to jndl the stalks from the 
ground. This can easily be accomplished; and 
the roots, if taken to the hog-yards, will more 
than pay the expense; and the ground will be 
successful in a business point of view. 
The arrangements of the Sale, for which Mr. 
Thorne assigns the credit to Thomas Gal¬ 
braith, herdsman in charge, we have never 
seen surpassed, if equaled, for tho promptness 
with which each lot on on the Catalogue was in 
me company, in one ot t.ne out-buildings,—were 
commenced; but we reached the ground at about 
wenty minutes before three o'clock, and by four 
the whole list, numbering in all one hundred 
had been disposed otj the'thanks of the auction¬ 
eer returned, and the hundred or two of teams 
in waiting were preparing for departure. Thus 
the time consumed in the bidding off of each 
sheep may have been about one minute and a 
quarter —a degree of expedition which could not 
have been attained, as those who are in the habit 
of being present on such occasions will admit, 
from the slow experiences of the past, without 
all the machinery in the smoothest working 
order, a wide-awake auctioneer on the stand, 
and a wide-awake company of bidders around 
him. 
Mr. Page, as auctioneer, is making himself a 
reputation which will render his services as 
indispensable to breeders on sale days, as they 
already are in the exercise of the pencil for 
sketches and portraits—both requiring a knowl¬ 
edge of the improved breeds, and the former an 
acquaintance in agricultural circles, in which 
most artists and auctioneers are deficient. 
RAMS. 
1. Imp'd Frize Ram Archbishop, Geo. H. Brown,.. 
2 - 3 y rs. by Young Salisbury, dam irnp. prize ewe, 
John Bard, Barrytown,. 
3. 2 yrs. by No. 6, dam by No. 6, Oovemenr Arm¬ 
strong, Newburgh. 
4. do by No, 88, dam by Reserve, K4w. Thorne, 
5. do do do Josiah Kirk, 
Sag Harbor. 
6 1 yr. by No. It, dam by Young Salisbury, J. C. 
Tatnm. 
7. do by Archbishop, dam by Reserve, Thomas 
George. Newburgh,.. 
8. do do (himby Young Norwich, I’. 
\Y. Jones,... 
9. do do dam by Reserve, G. G. 
Hammond. 
0. do do dam by Young Salisbury, 
J. Robinson, Clinton Cors, 
11* do do dam by No. 6, A, W. Storm, 
Dutchess Co. 
2. do do dam by No. 6, Jaa. O. Shel¬ 
don, Geneva,. 
3. do do dam by Y-Salisbury, E. M. 
Botsford, Newtown, Ct... 
4 do do dam by 112, Albert Fearing, 
Boston,. 
TWO YEAR OLD EWES. 
Sire. Dam. 
22. No. 5Dam by No. 6 Hon. E. Cornell... 
23. do Dam imported, R. A. Alexander.. 
24. do do - Geo.H. Brown.... 
25. do do E. Cornell. 
26. do Dam by No. 6 do . 
27- do do J. W. Aisop, Mid 
dletown, Ct. 
28. do do E. Cornell..... 
2 ». do Dam by No. 19 Geo. H. Brown.... 
30, do Dam an Imp. Webb Ewe, G. G. Hammond 
Boston. 
31. do do do do 
32 do do do R. A. Alexander.. 
33 do do do G. G. Hammond.. 
34. do Dam by No. 6 E. Cornell. 
35. No. 31 Dam by 112 do . 
36. do do do . 
37. do do G. G. Hammond.. 
38. do Dam Imp. Webb Ewe, S.W.Robins, Weth 
ertfieid, Ct. 
39. do Dam by No. 6, Geo. H. Brown 
40. do Dam by 112, do 
till the grasg is killed, and the dock and thistle 
spring up.) This is to bear witness that, if the 
fence nuisance rn/nst remain , the ground where 
every fence is pul should be perfectly free from 
rubbish, and should be well seeded to grass, and 
he carefully mowed once or twice a year, when 
