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FLEET MILLS, NEAR LEEDS.
From The Leeds Intelligencer. Saturday 24 September 1842.

IMPORTANT SALE OF EXCELLENT LIVE AND DEAD FARMING STOCK. GROWING CROPS. IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY. STRONG USEFUL YOUNG DRAUGHT HORSES. WELL-BRED MILCH COWS. PIGS. STACKS OF OATS AND NEW AND OLD HAY. CAPITAL KEEL.

MESSRS. T. and W. HARDWICK beg to announce that they have received Instructions to SELL by AUCTION, on Monday the 26th Day of SEPTEMBER INST., at the Fleet Mills, near Leeds, (the Property of the late E. Wainhouse, Esq.,) ALL THE EXTENSIVE, IMPORTANT, AND VALUABLE LIVE AND DEAD STOCK AND OTHER EFFECTS, including:
 
13 STRONG USEFUL YOUNG DRAUGHT HORSES.
1 BAY MARE PONY.
1 WELL-BRED HEIFER.
1    DO.                DO.     IN CALF. (a Fat Prime Beast.)
1    DO.             MILCH COW IN CALF.
2 FINE STORE PIGS.
23 FINE LARGE BACON PIGS.
1 STACK PINE OLD HAY - about 13 Acres.
2 STACKS NEW HAY - about 30 Acres.
3 STACKS NEW OATS - about 8 Acres.
GROWING TURNIPS - about 1 Acre 1 Rood.
       Do.      POTATOES - about 1 Rood.
6 BROAD AND NARROW-WHEELED WAGGONS - (Patent Arms.)
7     Do.                   Do.               Do.      CARTS - (Patent Arms.)
1 LARGE EXCELLENT FIELD ROLLER.
13 SETS OF CAPITAL CART GEARING AND TRACES.
 
Together with a Large Quantity of Straw and Manure, Winnowing Machine, 4 Patent Weighing Machines, Stack Covers, Flour Bins, Scales and Weights, also

AN EXCELLENT KEEL. THE WHITING, 48 Feet Long, with Cabins, Hatches, Water Barrel, good Covers and Ropes, and a great Variety of other useful and most desirable Property.

Sale to commence at Eleven o'Clock In the Forenoon.
The Trains for Woodlesford start from Leeds at 6 a.m., and 7. 3a am. And Woodlesford is about half a Mile from the Fleet Mills.
N.B. The Stock and Property is all first-rate Character, and in excellent Condition.