The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-03-13 00:00:00

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Till ORSAR ROOD ecrssrlos.
To Ms Miter.
("0 fortaisatt jssiusaft, see an bona whist Agricola, 11
81r,—At a morthatoui crisis like the present in the
agricultural history of this oiuntry, when every day it
bee Nam more sad more apparent that unless effectual
aod speedy remedy be devised for m instrously culp-
able neglect and indifference in the past, tthe of
thousands of our pauperise.l p ,pulatioo, who are never
far off from it, must soon be in a state of actual
starvation. At such an anxious moment, most especi-
ally, all earnest 000tributore towards the solving of
the problem--how to disc iver and apply such remedy
most be worthy of the most serious ounsideration.
his too obvious to need to be pointed out that the
heavy rains of the post few weeks, • tried to other
camas of agricultural depression, will, in the nature
of the case, bring heavy loseel to all fanners and
agriculturists, terrible guff-ring and hardship to the
working classes, more especially the agricultural
labourers. Beery day the newtpapers announce some
further outbreak Lad spread of disarms, of one kind at
other, asnoug the various victims of the slaughter.
bouse—ditease te which they are now more arid more
subject, in proportim, in fact., to toe vastly Increased
said increasing demands upon the hutchips by all
dames of the population I say in prop irtion to the
Increasing demand for fietkorisesis, for It I. clear that
no longer now can those sanitery conditions, which
alone oould preveat or rather mitigate disease, be
effectually observed. Or.; crowding of the transport
eat,. sewage iin the "cattle" trade, over-crowding on
the railways, with • ,ueirnit•at hat eanit y provirinne,
bad treatment of the victims on the part of the &ovens
and those In charge, premature breeding in order
to meet the enormous demands of the population,
Insufficient or unwholesome ft 4, and expo,ure to
Inclement weather, such are sum of the many causes
which sufficiently account for rinderissets, foot.siod-
mouth dissolve, pleuro-pneutothie, tuberculosis, Web-
inoWs, and all the rest of "damsels dlr." among a oirs,
oxen, sheep, and others. Privy Council orlerr,
magisterial and police interveution, lag powerless aid
futile in Orelidosst of the ovor-grow n sells
In spite of all the importations from America and
Australia, prisms continue to to up, ev•ir in -pile of
all the somewhat to a Haut pr .phecie. of tse Pre*,
and other pooh.: guides. But this is far from tieing
the wh de co tog matter. noire as , be no the sigh set
doubt f ir anyone who has studio I the subject, that an
uuka two but very largo [imp ,rtion of epoietnic neaten
die-see is spread—Dot lodged among the rich or richer
Mmes., who can give bleb prices, but—among the
countless myriads of the immense populeti•ms of the
cities and towns. During time 1.5 or more vat' past
various scieotifio authorities have proclaimed this fact
over and over again—unhappily to unwilling ears. As
for Government inspection, however smions it might
be—sad that at prompt it is very far from being
effectual is quite certain—it can Dever, in the nature
of the meg, curer the enormous area of alaaghteri,.g.
=ever increasing. Besides. what as t • private
ries, which ham no sort of impectlon, I believe?
When, Mr, these mid many other concomitant
mischlets—which it is impossible now to refer to—of
the moment Math of things la regard to the ford of the
people are oonsidered, it seems to me that it is more
than bleb time for Machete and guides to pooder over
well and deeply whether there may not be goal reason
for an entire change of front se to the all-import mat
matter k,f the Nat, oat Diet? It is, surely, incumbenL
up in them at length to throw off old prejudices and
trelitious, la face of the abundant testimmy of scieu-
tific a:perm of Mtn nit all Esropean countries sod—
what it, perhaps, mill more to the purpom—in farm of
the etipsr-Mmudatit sip rionce auionot alto et ell
ranks a society, as to the nothaeo wearies of fl-sh-
footle for the moot manoe of full vigour, physical au
mentel, and to set to the work in sternest of teething
what shall be more in oomoname with toe truth of
national en mom, of domestic thrift, of hygiene; with
the beet intermit of society and social well-being, and
lastly, not least, with the truths of litunaneamie and
iostithi.—Very faithfully yours,
A Normal. (Nor PoLITIOAL) &OJNOXIST.