Cambridge Chronicle 3 Aug 1861: Bennett final sheep sale

SALE OF MR. BENNETT’S LONG-WOOLLED RAMS.

We have for many years annually recorded the lettings of Mr. Bennett’s long-woolled rams, at the Trinity College Farm, and now it becomes our duty – as was the case with regard to Mr. Jonas Webb’s flock – to do so for the last time. Mr. Bennett is about to leave his farm, hence between fifty and sixty of his famous animals were submitted to the hammer of Mr. J. R. Mann on Wednesday last. These rams have been long commended by agriculturalists for their size, symmetry, wool, and mutton, and therefore it would be absurd to comment at any length upon their merits, which have been sufficiently attested by the success Mr Bennett has met with since his residence in the county. At the sale on Wednesday, the attendance was not quite so large as we have seen on former occasions, but we believe, on the whole, Mr. Bennett had reason to be satisfied with the result. Among those on the ground we observed, C. R. Pemberton, Esq.; . . . Mr. Cawcutt, Trumpington; . . . Mr. Maris, Trumpington; Mr. Lyon, Cambridge, &c., &c.