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NEW YORK, MAY 19, 1883. 
Vol XLIL No 1738 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1SSS, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
SKETCHES FROM THE LATE SALE OF 
JERSEYS AT. THE AMERICAN 
HORSE EXCHANGE. 
owners contribute selections from their herds; 
others include only selections from the stock 
of a single person. We shall not attempt to 
point out the humorous and other features of 
the scenes depicted in the cut: we prefer to 
leave the explanation to the penetration and 
judgment of our readers. 
the recent great auction sale of Jerseys at the 
American Hox-se Exchange, this city. Auction 
sales of fine stock have lately become quite 
common here—more so even than in other 
pails of the country, as this is becoming the 
principal point at which imported stock are 
disposed of. In other parts of the country 
large auction sales of live stock are confined 
almost exclusively to Spring and Fall; but 
during the past couple of years they have oc¬ 
curred here at all seasons, though perhaps 
there is somewhat more of them at those times 
than at others. Some of them are of the 
“ combination ” order, in which a number of 
The free engraving below “explains itself.” 
The different scenes here grouped together, 
were sketched by our artist on the spot during 
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AUCTION CATTLE SKETCHES.—FROM LIFE.— Fig. 198 
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