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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Oct. 
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Sale of Eabl Ducie’s Short Horns. —The stock 
of the late Earl Duoie of Gloucestershire, England, has 
recently been sold at auction, at prices unprecedented 
in the record of cattle sales, excepting the recent 
Kentucky sale. The animals sold comprise some of 
the purest blood in the kingdom, and a considerable 
number were purchased by American gentlemen. 
The Short-Horn herd, consisting of sixty-two lots, 
realized close upon ten thousand pounds, making an 
average of upwards of one hundred and fifty pounds 
each animal. The direct Duchess animals stood high¬ 
est in the sale, which, it will be recollected are de¬ 
scended from the herd of the late Thomas Bates. A 
red four year old cow, (Duchess 64) was sold for six 
hundred guineas to Mr. Thorne of Duchess Co; a roan 
heifer, three years old (Duchess 66) was bought by 
Col. Morris for seven hundred guineas. A heifer calf 
of the latter, some six or seven weeks old, brought 
three hundred and ten guineas—a heifer and her calf 
selling for more than a thousand guineas. The follow¬ 
ing animals were purchased by American breeders: 
Bulls. — Duke of Glo'ster, red: calved Sept. 14, 
1850; got by Grand Duke; dam Duchess 59, for 650 
guineas to Mr. Tanqueray, Col. Morris and Mr. Becar 
of Hew York. 
Fourth Duke of York , roan, calved Dee. 22, 1846; 
got by 2d Duke of Oxford; dam Duchess 51, for 500 
guineas to Mr. Bell for Gen. Cadwallader of Phila¬ 
delphia. Thirteen bulls and bull calves brought £2,- 
494 16s. being an average of £191 18s each—$926. 
Cows and IIeifers.— Duchess 66, rich roan, calved 
Oct. 25, 1850, got by 4th Duke of York, for 700 guineas, 
to Col. Morris, Preident N. Y. S. Ag. Society. Duchess 
59, roan, calved Kov. 21, 1847, got by 2d Duke of 
Oxford, for 350 guineas to Jonathan Thorne of Dutchess 
county. Duchess 64, red, calved Aug. 10, 1849, got 
by 2d Duke of Oxford, for 600 guineas to Mr. Thorne. 
Duchess 68, red, calved Sept. 13, 1852, got by Duke of 
Glo’ster, for 300 guineas to Mr. Thorne. 
There were 49 cows and calves sold, which brought 
£6,867, making an average of £14q 2s. lOd each, up¬ 
wards of $680. 
On the following day the sale of sheep took place. 
Eighteen pure Southdown rams and ram lambs brought 
£326 10s.; 79 lots of ewes, wethers and wether lambs, 
£2,176 5s.—together, £2,502 15s. 
The Cochin Chinas followed. The 64 lots realized 
£340 4s. “ Sir Robert,” the celebrated prize bird, 
fetching 27 guineas ; Lord Ducie gave 40 guineas for 
him in February last. 
Higher Price Still. —The Mark Lane Express of 
Sept. 5, states that Mr. Thorne of Dutchess Co., has 
purchased the celebrated bull (t Grand Duke,” of Mr. 
Bolden, near Lancaster, for the large sum of $5,000. 
This bull was purchased by Mr. B. at the great Kirk- 
leavington sale of Mr. Bates’ Short Horns. He was 
the sire of the <( Duke of Glo’ster ” and “ Dutchess 66,” 
alluded to above as having been purchased by Col. 
Morris and others. - 
Sheep for Pennsylvania. —Mr. James Slocum of 
Brownsville, Pa., has recently purchased a buck and 
four ewes from the superior flock of Merinos of Stephen 
Atwood, of Watertown, Conn. Also a buck and ten 
ewes of Mr. Chapman of Brandon, Vt. These were 
descendants from Mr. Atwood's flock, which is well 
known as one of the best of the old Spanish Merinos in 
the country. The fine sheep of the Messrs. Hammond, 
to which was awarded the first prize at the Vermont 
State Fair, came originally from Mr. Atwood; and if 
those purchased by Mr. Slocum equal these, they will 
will not fail to attract attention, even in the fine wool¬ 
growing districts of Pennsylvania. 
French Merinos. —Two small lots of French Meri¬ 
nos, from the flocks of S. W. Jewett of Vermont, re¬ 
cently passed through this city, on their way to Alaba¬ 
ma and Missouri, selected by T. Vivionand E. W. Jen¬ 
kins, Esq. It would seem that the “ Sunny South” 
are about to test the value of this large race of fine 
wooled sheep. _____ 
Bars and Gates. —“A farmer in perspective,” will 
accept our thanks for his drawing and description of a 
set of bars for a fence, that shall be secure from dis¬ 
placement by the horns of cattle, although not adapted 
to the object of our paper. His contrivance will doubt¬ 
less accomplish the purpose, but it is quite complex, and 
we are satisfied that the same amount of labor and ma¬ 
terial would furnish a good cheap self-shutting and self¬ 
fastening gate, and be incomparably more convenient; 
for a gate is opened and shut with a single movement of 
the hand, in less than one-tenth of the time required 
for the removal of a set of bars for the passage of a 
wagon. There is no field of a farm that is not entered 
many times in a year, and some of them more than a 
hundred times; and if any one is not satisfied with the 
waste of time and labor which bars occasion, let him 
remove and replace them for a hundred times in imme¬ 
diate succession, instead of the usual way of distribu¬ 
ting the labor through the year, and he will probably be¬ 
come quite satisfied to resort to gates. 
A Fine Specimen of Wheat. —We were shown 
at the ware-rooms of Emery & Co., in this city, a very 
fine specimen of Soule’s White Chaff wheat, raised by 
Joseph Watson of Clyde* Wayne county. A sheaf, 
which we were assured was a fair sample of the entire 
field, showed the stalks of uniform height, and every 
head perfectly filled. The grain is plump and bright, 
entirely free from any foul substance, and weighs 63 
pounds to the bushel. Mr. Watson is already known 
as among the best farmers in the state, and we are glad 
to notice so choice an evidence of his skill in wheat- 
groiving. - 
Large Hops.—M r. D. B. King of Waterford has, 
exhibited to us two samples of hops, taken from the 
same vine, but from different branches. One sample 
was taken from a branch trained upright to a pole in 
the usnal manner—the other from a branch trained on 
a cord, at an angle of about 45 degrees. The flowers 
