. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . e, in the year 1851, and the 24th , a public sale was held by Mr. Morris,a Shorthorn cattle breeder. Colonel JamesM. Miller was the auctioneer, who con-ducted the sale with his usua,l ability anddispatch. The sale included bulls at $50to $175, and females at $30 to $175. Theiop-i)rice bull was Logan, twenty-threemonths old, sold to Oliver Slate. iJr., ofThrogs Neck, N. Y. The top-price femalewas the four-year-old Red Lady, sold toGeneral Cadwallader, of Philadelphia. The
. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . e, in the year 1851, and the 24th , a public sale was held by Mr. Morris,a Shorthorn cattle breeder. Colonel JamesM. Miller was the auctioneer, who con-ducted the sale with his usua,l ability anddispatch. The sale included bulls at $50to $175, and females at $30 to $175. Theiop-i)rice bull was Logan, twenty-threemonths old, sold to Oliver Slate. iJr., ofThrogs Neck, N. Y. The top-price femalewas the four-year-old Red Lady, sold toGeneral Cadwallader, of Philadelphia. Thesale was reported origina,lly by the Ameri-can 1851.—A Mr. Wolfskin planted eightyacres of apricots and peaches and in the town of Winters, in YoloCounty, California, in 1851. In 1885 thefirst apricots from these trees were commercial orchard of record on thePacific Coast. 1851.—^Reaping machines (McCormicksand Husseys) first introduced in Etiglandfrom the United States. 1851.—Fire in Edinburgh, Scotland, de-stroyed all pedigrees and papers relatingto Galloway MR. W. H. SOTH.^M, early importer ofHereford cattle into the United States and agreat advocate of the breed. 1851.—^Exhibition of the Industry of AllNations at London; great help to agri-culture. HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE BY DATES. 41 1851.—In this year racing was inaugu-rated in California. A sniiall schoonerarrived at San Francisco from Sydney,Asutralia, called the Sea Witch. Amongher an Englishman namedJ. Cooper Turner, who had with him twohay htallions, a hlack mare and a grayKelding. The mare was called Black Swan,and she afterwards won a grreat ra>arco, who started favorite in the Swan led by seventy yards to thethree mile stake, where David K. Tidwellheld a bucket of water and sponged hermouth out. She was at least two behind Sar
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