Sales of Stock

From Lacey Green History

jan 1877.live & dead stock Joint sale Kingswood & Speen Kiln Farms

This covers sales by auction only, of live and dead stock

Inventry & valuation of live & dear stock, corn, hay,straw, seed & cultivations, etc of Speen Kiln & Kingswood Farms

IMPLEMENTS 2 strong iron arm waggons in ladders, 1 light ditto & 1 old ditto, 4 iron arm dung carts, 3 sets of iron harrows, set of seed ditto 2 iron ploughs & tackling, 1 wood beam ditto, horse hoe, a 9 line scarifying , a 22" ring rolls, wood roll, water barrell, pulper, 2 chaff machines with horse gear,, etc, Hayes patent corn mill, horse power threshing machine as fixed, sack barrow, 2 seed carts,3 corn bushels, chaff baskets, large rick cloth, Page's cake crusher, weighing machine and weights, 2 winnowing machines, turnips & corn drill, a dress box, etc, 2 8ft iron water troughs, a 2 ft iron ditto, 9 iron pig troughs, 5 wood ditto, 20 corn sacks, 2 loft ladders, 2 40-pound ladders & 6 others, turnip cutter and scuttle, 168 hurdles and stakes, 8 side stone staddles & timbers,6 stones & caps, 2 wheel barrows, zinc water tub, 3 zinc troughs, 18 wood sheep troughs, 2 cow cribs, 4 iron drag harrows, i wood ditto, 5 barn shovels, knee fan, hay knife, iron pot and furnace as fixed, 2 tressels, 3 meal and wash tubs, meal bin, 3 meal tubs, 7 buckets, 2 bowls, pair of yokes, 5 hooks, 3 iron bars, Wimble thatching cap, 2 cow chains, 4 iron shovels, 2 mattocks, 5 pitch forks, 4 dung forks, 2 drags, 3 hoes, baskets, 6 cart ropes, 2 pig nets, sundry brooms, etc, 3 dozen new plough shares, 6 skim shares, 2 plough wheels, 3 beds, 4 rises, 2 pair jaws, slide rake, sundry old stakes and others, iron rick pegs, 2 hen coops, 2 grease jacks and hammers, 6 nose bags, 5 sets shire harness, 5 sets cart chains, 7 sets plough harness, 5 pair plough reins, 7 head halters, 4 whips, sundry harness, 2 bins, hand barrow, 11 road ladder lanterns, 2 hemp halters, 300 loads of stones.

LIVE STOCK 18 fat hogs, 7 farm horses, 8 starks and steers, 139 halfbred tegs, 35 hear of poultry.

CORN, HAY & STRAW ETC The produce of 32 acres of wheat, unthreshed and threshed, 2 ricks of Waterloo oats, about 10 bushels W.J.oats, about 53 bushels ditto, threshed, 1 ditto Tartary oats, quantity Dun peas, about 13 bushels linseed cake, 2 & half sacks ground maize, 2 clamps trussed hay, 2 ricks ditto, 45 trusses of wheat straw, unthrashed wheat straw. The sewn corn, etc, at consuming price, 3 clamps of London sweepings and manure in heaps.

CULTIVATIONS

25 acres Wheat 1 plough, 4 harrows, cost of dressing & spreading, seed & dressing.

11 acres Turnips & Swedes, folded off (9 acres 1 plough)

9 acres Swedes to feed off, then plough, 4 harrows, cat dung & spreading, seed & drilling, 50 bush sweepings per acre, 1 horse hoe, hand hoeing, pulling & . .. clamping.

2 acres Tares, 1 plough, 4 harr

ows seed & sowing

32 acres Young Grass, seed and sowing

17 acres Whear Stubble, 1 plough

21 acres Wheat & Pea Stubble, 1 plough

6 acres for Peas, cart & dress

The foregoing property enumerated in the inventory is valued at the sum of £1,640 - 10 shillings (after deducting thrashing & marketing for unthreshed corn)

Ralph P Clark, Agricultural valuer, Ashwell Farm, Kingshill, Great Missenden.