Greenhill House, Kingsteignton: About a mile from the Newton Abbot Station of the south Devon Railway: Mr. John Hooper has been favoured with instructions to sell by auction, on the premises, on Tuesday, the 19th day of December instant; the following neat and valuable livestock: Of about 40 pure thorough-bred, short-horn, and half-bred young cows, heifers, and steers (including two celebrated short-horn bulls, and one very superior short-horn heifer, in calf), several farm horses and colts, pigs, implements, mangold worzel, Swedes and common turnips, and other effects, the property of T. Pinsent, Esq., (about to relinquish farming):comprising 12 young short-horn Guernsey and Devon heifers, forward in calf; 10 short-horn and half Devon heifers and steers, from 2 to 3 years old; 4 feeding short-horn and Devon heifers; 7 yearling short-horn and half Devon heifers; 3 short-horn and half Devon calves; 2 short-horn bulls; 3 farm horses, 4 colts of different ages; 1 handsome Berkshire boar; 1 ditto and farrow of six ditto; 2 store pigs, 9 slip ditto. The implements consist of a Crosskill’s clod crusher, and Gardener’s turnip cutter (nearly new), two other turnip cutters, linseed mill, ditto cake crusher, three-knife chaff cutter for horse or hand power, one hand ditto, corn drill, turnip ditto, seed machine, Newington’s hand dibble, 3 one-horse carts and lades, a harvest ditto, three wheel barrows, 2 stone rollers, earth butt, and various other effects: About 200 tons of prime globe and long red mangold worel, and about 70 tons of Swedes and common turnips. Printed catalogues may be obtained on application to the auctioneer on the day of sale. The auctioneer, having inspected the stock, has no hesitation in pronouncing it the best he has for a long time seen, and can strongly recommend the same to graziers, and those who are desirous of improving their breed of cattle, and he is confident those gentlemen who may favour him with their company on the day of sale will not be disappointed. Refreshment on the table at 11 o’clock – sale to commence punctually at 12 o’clock: Dated Withecombe, Chagford December 5th 1854.
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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872