The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

tart ant favbionabie Intrlligenct.
jibed awl Arthur of England are expected
dimple on the 31s1 October,
• aod Vienuntesa Palincratou arrived at
Boars, Piccadilly, ou Wednesday, from
Hall, Hart..
, Russittl., with several memberi of his family,
been for wow days sojourning at North Berwick,
be will remain until called to joiu Her Majwily
arrival at Balmoral Castle.

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Fr Is rumoured that the object of General Childini's
visit to Spain is to sound the Queen in regard to •
n,arriage between her eldest daughter and the Duke of
A. The Infanta Marie Isabella in fourteen years old.
And the Duke (Victor Ensmanuel's second son) mix years
her senior.

A nov NNNNN is on font to present the Mayor a Ports-
mouth loth ats stimonial for " the graceful, courteous,
and eMeient manner in which he represented not only
the borough of Portsmouth, but the nation at large., I
on the occasion of the visit of the French squadron
to this port."

THU Testes' Paris correspondent writes that although
the papers say the French &OMANI is in excellent health.
it is yet known that she has been much &fleeted and
shaken by the cairiage accident at Neufchatel. The
Trinoru Anna Murat had one of ter eyes injured. It
bAieve.l that the consequences will not be serious or
permanent. The auto of the Duchess de Montebello
still reqoirce the greatest attention. As to ?ddlle.
ißonvet, t e fractured rib is said to press inwards and to
produce • spitting of blood, so that she cannot yet be
removed.

THI QOIIIN'S RETURN.—On Wedneoday afternoon
the Queen, wth Prineets Helena and Prinoesa Louioe.
drove into Darmstadt, to the Greed Duke's palaee, and
ne-iived a viait from the King of Pru.sia, who remained
'boat half an hear at the palace. Queen Victoria arrived
ng
(wend incemaila at 9 o'clock on Thursday morning.
Her M. jegAy Walt received at the station by the Duke
and Duchies of Brabant, and eondacted by them to the
Royal resideaoe, where the Queen lunched with the
Belgian Royal family. The Queen was respectfully
reoei,ved opal her route through the streets. Qtven
Victoria left Ostend at 11 o'olock for Antwerp, where
Her 'Majesty embarked for England. Special agents of
the milargy eSteinistration had been sent to Coharg to
take 'ellaarg• of the train conveying the Qiieen to Belgium.
The Repel plant Alberta, followed by the Black Basle
and Yield yachts, arrived at Woolwich at a quarter
past ow o'clock ea Friday morning, the illustrious party
flasks( preeiensty re-embarked from the royal yacht
Victepta end Albert, near Greenhithe. Her Majesty
the Queer and the different members of the Royal
(amity were apparently enjoying the best of health after
their eontinental trip. The Royal party on landing
were conducted alone the pier to the special train. Hi.
Royal Highneas Prince Arthur, attended by Major
Eliblostone, met the Royal family on the pier, and re.
mained at the entrance till the train took its departure
at 10.33 a.m. for Windsor. The progress of the Royal
train was watched by throngs of spectators at the
stations of the railways over which the the train passed.
tier Majesty left Windsor for Balmoral on Monday.

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the hitrvest

Agriculture.

from Odes4a confirm the intelligence that
will be had in many dietricts of Southern

Tux arrivals of wheat and sour during the month of
July were only 2,111111,0 W ewt., against 2,821,000 cwt. is
the same month of last year.

human. —The earwig eertsinly feeds on vegetables,
and for want of other food would attack Turnips, hut
you may satisfy yourself easily if they be the real
depredator. by examining the fields after dark with a
'‘utern. —Agricultural Gazette.

IRusa ON WHIAN —We fear there in no help but •
town and vigorous crop is pi obably leu liable than
to the mischief, and so far good agriculture
may diminish the liability to rust. The works of the
Rev. M. J. Berkeley, his writings on the diseases of
plants, contain all that is known on the subject.—
Auriga/ fere Gazette.
Ouovez Doren is • misehievons parasite which
spring' from a Need capable of separation from Clover
by screening. It springs from the soil; soon lays bold
of • plant; and its conneotion with the soil then dies.
Thereafter it gnaws from plant to plant, entangling a
whole circle in its einbrdoes, sucking their juices and
destroying the whole. If the closer is for- seed, the
circles thus destroyed should be pared and burned before
the crop is liarvested..—ltid.

SMALL BIEDS.—The Memorial &Aix, protesting
against the war on blackbirdP, linnets, chaffinches,
sparrow!, Atc., as most injurious to agriculture, calm-
lats.' the oonanniptiou of grubs and caterpillars by a
single pair, with a family of four, at 120 per diem ; and
supnosiny every square league to contain 10,000 nests,
if the birds were let alone, estimates the monthly
deatruotiori at 36 millions. If agriculturists would only
compare the mischief done by birds with the mischief
they prevent, sparrow clubs would soon go out of
fashion.

BARRE& cArrLe FAIR as neonl brought together a
very largo gathering from all parts of the country. He-
reford besets realised high figures, promising weighty
young steers fetehed £lB to IE2O a head, and those of
small prowth £l4 to Elf% The droves of Devon stook
obtained sale at prices varying from £l3 to £l5. Com-
pared with previous fairs the number of cattle was very
abort; in fact, there was not one single lot of short-
horn& shown, and the Soots were not more than one-
thir,.t of the usual quantity; the Devon., Herefords, and
Welsh, though better represented, were also very ahort,.
and unlch antra were scarcely represented at all. The
quality of all the animal* was good, particularly the
Devons and Hereford,. Boyers were scarce, and it was
decidedly a slow selling fair. One buyer bought more
titian half the West Highland steers on 'how, paying
L'l6 10s. per head for the best lot, which is oon..idered
'to be about last year's prices The show of horses was
large and good.

A MARICIrr GARDEN FARM. The Agricultural
Gazette had omission some mouths ago to describe •
farm of 800 acres on the eastern aide of London, which
is cultivated 10 to 14 inches deep, manured sometimes at
the rate of 80 tons per acre in the year, and yields 30,
50, even 70 tons of cabbages and greens in two or three
weeewive mops within 12 months • producing also 12 to
J tons of carrots per acre, 10 to 14 tons of onions, and
so on. Its management involves an expenditure of
£50,000 in labour, and nearly as much in rents and
cakes, the payments altogether coming nearly up to £l5
an acre every year. This was the case of a deep light-
hod farm on gravel, naturally fertile but cultivated
with hardly any draught whatever on its natural
fartitity ; for the tenant every year brings probably a
greatar weight of fertilising stuff on to the land he
craltkvates than even his heavy crops take from it. His
term is a mere machine for converting purchased
usairures into produce for Covent Garden Market. It is
an illustration of great enterprise and energy, and
met was in cultivation. But it can hardly be called
Oka sing—it is market gardening.
ALL ENGLAND PLOUGHING MATCHIS.—On Tuesday,
asptember sth, the first prize of three pounds in the
a:Campion chum was won by James Barker, ploughman
to Bansomea and Sims, at Berkeley and Thornbury
ploughing match, at Slimbridge, in com-
petition with Messrs. Howard's man George Brown.
, At Kingeooto ploughing match, Gloucestershire, on
Thursday, September 7th, the first prise in the champion
dam was won by W. Baylis, ploughman to Colonel
Kingscote, with one of Bansomes and Sims' ploughs.
At the great Sparkenhoe Agricultural meeting, at
Lorighboro', Thursday, September 7th, ploughing match
open to All Rngland, the champion prize (a silver
medal), was won by James Barker, ploughman to
Ransoms. and Sims, in competition with George Brown
and Frederick Purser, the two celebrated ploughmen of
Messrs. Howard, the ploughman of Messrs. Hunt
and Piekstring, and two lanai Ploughmen using a
Hornsby and a local made plough. The First
prize for Straight Furrows was also won by James
Barker, with Ransomes' plough, in competition with
Messrs. Howard's men, Brown and Parser, and 14

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