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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 97, 26 April 1877, Page 4

One of the foollshast things that a man can do is to breed scrubs of any class of animalß because be can't afford to buy better. It costs just as much to raise a scrub horse, a scrub cow, a scrub sheep, a scrub hog, as it does to raise the best thoroughbred,and while the one has but the little value and is never sought for, the other commands a good price and purchase a are always at hand to buy it. Better raise one good horse or one good cow than half-a-dozen poor ones. For if you have one good animal it is some credit to its owner, and it will not be in danger of eating its head off, while if the farm is stocked with poor animals, they will eat all that can be produced upon it and will return uo profit or satisfaction. No one over got rich by raising poor efcock, while men who have made a competency by raising good stock are at hand ail around ua. — kan Francisco Chronicle,

We take from the Lyttelton Times of Saturday the following particulars respecting the sale of Mr Griffiths' thoroughbred stock at Spreydon. The attendance was very numerous, comprising all the breeders of note in Canterbury and other partsof New Zealand. The sires did not come up in price to the expectation of either the owner or the public. Albany was the first offered, and was started at 400 guineas. The bids advanced till 500 was reached, when he waa knocked down to Mr Noswortby. Blue Boy next came out, and Mr Delamain secured him for 150 guineas. When Traduoer came into the ring he was greeted with three cheers from the spectators as the king of all New Zealand sires, and Mr Newton, after recounting to the audience the names of all the winners of whom he was the sire, JJasked them to bid freely for him, as be would be knocked down to the highest bidder, Mr Griffiths having instructed him to dispose of the horse without the slightest reserve. The first offer was 500 (guineas, and he gradually rose fifty guineas at a bid until 750 was attaiued, when there was a long pause. After about a quarter of an hour's breathing time, fifty more was bid, and this grand horse was knocked down to the Middle Park Company. Of the imported English mares, Maria Theresa was first pnt up, and was the nicest mare of the lot. She was started at 200 guinea?, and gradually went up to 550 guineas, when the hammer fell to the Middle Park Company's bid. Hammock, mare, of a fine color, fell to the Middlepark Company's bid of 325. Aurifera was the last of the English thoroughbred mares Mr Newton had to submit. She is a very nice mare, and is by Diophantus, the fastest pile horse ever known in England, a&d combines tLa blood of Orville, Orlando, Emilius, and Sir Peter. For this mare there was not much competition, and Mr Noaworthy, after bidding well for all the marea, secured this for 275 guineas. All these mares are stinted to Traducer. Among those of the colonial-bred mares that fetched a high price may be mentioned Ethelred, the dam of Nectar and Bribery, now. in her 18th year, who fetched 110 guineas, going to the stable of Mr R. Richardson. Twitter, also a colonial-bred mare with English pedigree, fetched 160 guineai, Mr Stead being the purchaser. The foals out of the English mares by Traducer, were sold at very paying prices, the first being a filly out of Idalia. She was secured by Mr Lance for 100. The next was a. filly foal out of Aurifera by Traducer, which Mr Mallock got for the same money. The filly foal out of Maria Theresa was the best of the whole lot, and after some spirited bidding fell to Mr Lance's bid of 300 guineas. The bidding for the two-year-old filly Tell Tale, by Traducer out of Brunette, who ran third for the Champagne Stakes at the Autumn Meeting, was commenced at 100 guineas, and she eventually went to Mr Nosworthy for the sum of 300 guineas.