The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-09-28 00:00:00

I BECOME. AN AGRICULTURIST.

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In toy note-book I read
Peoi.le about here often make a matter of £.21) by
their hay.
Afem.—Make hay awl f. 31.
Tie, greet thing in tannins to the rotation of crops.
(ist ry. —How do crepe rotate.
An acre of land plantcd with potatoes will feed a
tonsil;.
()wry. —Why not feed Hose Anna on a qoarter of an
Aare, ma an experiment?
some boos by tgse all the year round—otbers don't.
Mcm.Aeoorti.tii particulars.
A large income way be mild° out of pigs.
floury.— Flew ?
Mt.t.—V. Ty important. Ask price of steam thr.sh-
jug machios.
Su you ace, surely, though slowly, I an acquiring
knowledge, and working toward. my =WWII.
Farther time this, I am making loquiriey at every
opportunity, of native araleultuiste ; though, I feast •ey,
up b. the west ot time, the replies I have received to toy
que-tiona ham, not bout altogetliet satialaetory. Tbie
it It •peetuten : --I step an litklltgent farm labourer,
who is ploteing or reaping, or doing something Iti the
agiicuitural line. I say—
Pine morning." (lea always best to open a COUTO'
satin politely. and in a friendly spirit.)
"I. a," said the agriculturist.
'• ..I laud about here?'
"At.d what might you le doing?"
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" What are you doing r
"eel. oi thin ferret" o'er the doggan."
.• What r
ot dein farrow o' the dogmas."
(I write his ape. eh exactly es it sounds to me, In my
patent pocketobook, with my metallic pencil.)
"It. a:ly, toy °eel follow," I continue. in • tune of
gsnion-tionen, iteilluntier,tand you."
lle rettius, as nearly as I can make lb out all in 900
WOW--
Oithewarntiduggan."
Awl I really thinks ho means it, and believes ho is
talkiir;
in.. 0.0 a nolo in me ok—" IYuggan—Qatry mean-
ing •;• —.see lketionery."
It is UN40.11,11 trying to :tract information from a
know like this, so I wish) , Goodolay."
A. I leave him be gives utteraucy to tie only
giblo *orb I have heard fall from his lip..
• DrOp o' beer," as plai,ly as I could
topta.
I .10i.'t take tho bol, litld I hello,o the horny handed
Dun d toil mica bad language as Ig.. down the tale.
This nacreous° with the lower or')' ret. not in moor-
amt.: with my tastes. The lanfusgu 11.1 MS...Je of
the pvaaabtry, "their country s pride," or not tte
,fined as I would wish. Still, when ono make •up
Utle. 4110 to acquire knowledge, one must put up with
a certain atimunt of unpleasantness.
weath. r irmis one into many diffleultiea I fini
tho farmers about here are hard to please— that him.
alw.ya too wet or too dry, or too soinuthing for them;
el agriculturists b, vs taken offence because. one
morning. when the sun was shining in a clear sky. I
told them it woe a fine morning in my pleasant jaunty
It appears they wanted rain for their wheat, or man-
go I- win' .Cel, cr sheep, or monittlaug ; but how wee I to
km,. that?
How well is the farmer's discontent described in a
touching little poen. C mposad by Ito. Anna:—
Is. it.,se. ii., tanner. I la•ar him e.implain,.
roe, the .0,110 "in

I am afraid I am wandering from my point la drocrib.
Inc tur sitperiotices„ My boort io sot upon apiculture.
U I said boron.; but how about itwo Armes heart, .o 4
U..io,rt 01 itosu Ann.'s papa, who will bun to Cud
the caot ti to ',tart Its 1.

I put it to Rose Anna, in the cool af the evening,
that it weuld be wiry rime if we bad docks sod herds,
lowing Elm, h:e..ting .beep, and ea .a.
SI, jumps at the notion.
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Bhe ;ups, "Oh, lit's keep tines l"
li• astimi-hieg hoe told liVies sliest Goers in Metres
and pettiy, and hew ihty tun &ray Isom them in fields

And sheep!'
"lib. ye'." el e re"' nee% "end hmhe —you know
we cuul.l,t.,w the u.sn: in the hock elation."

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" And pigs r
" Yes—y,u could look after the pip, Henry. Oh,
awl I shouhl so dearly love to be • didrysitiald r
11 PO you shall, dear."
" Yes—anii weal a short quilted dress. iv lib the mid.
throunla the ion'iels, you twos, sad • little stew hat,
awl at ensk, sisal oho. • with buekles. mei —oh I usury.
you will seal to Liudon to-morrow fur tho dress, wou't
yi u
ilad'ut we better g.t the cows first r

" there or.. hlt:ol 13,01,7.—b;;;-;ere, you know.
Vu ran so and buy won • aa 44.0:, as the dna. come..
Oh, limey, I aMitil I so like to 1b.•13 Toy photograph
taken sitting on • three-legged milking-stool churn.
, —or- vl% t nz of th., you know!"
1 t.ll h. r, with a fond smile, that I'll see about it,
and slie i, ilenionatretivi.ly affectionate.
She 1111.011.1 w. to wr.te, by the first post, to her paps,
for money to siert as in the agneultural line ; and all
the evening die win du nothing but talk of the dolights
of farming. I sui very glad she enters so warmly into
' my scheme; but I am afraid her notions are nitb•r
lonic, and will cost • good dosl of money ; but than she
'say., "Jam' look at the profits ; but 1 ocinfoas 1 bare
seine mulivillign about then,.
"11.,Wever. I'll begin with a pig.
It,an Anna has *et ber mind on pig.geating.
Wu ate to buy • pig, and keep a pig, and fatten • pig
kill • pig, and cure • pig, an I eat • pig, broiled, or
boiled, or roastad, as our fancy wills it.
With regard to buying him, iu the first place, how
much is he likely limit! I put it to old Burke. That
is the old women, whose mune is not Burke, but Benson;
ouly Bioko is my fun, because of her &a new, as there
was a deal Burke ones, who dad something or other I
doit at this moment remember.

I say. in a casual sort of way, • What does a pig
usually run to" .

slit, say. "Ik,snu 111C40 • 111211gTy piicr

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What the deuoe.lirci that got to cro.w.itli it, I wonder
"Well. yr.," I rel.ly,"• huugry one, if you like."
"I should say," says Mrs. Burke, "h 0 runs to his
This is either Ignorance or impudence. Perhaps,
how! var. on rail etiou, it may be wit and humour. _

I ti II 'Rosa Anna I h'ave been making ing—i;i;ies,--and I
fini tltit Burke knows nothing about the matter. Ruse
Anna says .14.11 kereelL In the meanwhile, I go
into the iimei.tion of food.
I wonder what a Of eats.
Haw Anna Lty., • Alnsodt anything.' But suppose
ert laid in • large stock of the almost, and he wouldn't
tough it?

Shall I inquire? I don't like taekling Burke. There
ought to be some books, though, on the subject. What
books hare I got "The Railway Library—' Lady
Audloy's Secret.'" No; her secret was not bow to
Istteu pigs. But there's " Walker's Dictionary." Let's
look at that.

It's surprising bow bard it is to end anything In
dictionary, which is perhaps owing to on. always looking
ever no long under the wrong voweL However, here
It is :

pig. a."
So far no good. And now for the meaning,—" A
young oxosr or boar." What the dickens do they call the
old ones then? ibis most be look-od into—" a separated
I *am oof untorged metaL" Hum! ha ! I don't want that.
What'. this? "The compounoos are, Pig•tout,"—that's
may affair, evidently, only there is no further explana-
tion, -" Pig-heovhia (l.rue-hea4e4 stupid). Pig-stye
(plan, for nigs),"—l shall have to lore to that,—" Pig-
tail (the hair toed with • ribbon so as to resemble • pigs
tad also tobacco twisted so aa to have a similar
toseuohlsuce),—Pig-witisison (a (aity)," Sm.
This is rather unsitistaetory, though the informa-
tion, (must admit, la boob varied and amusiuiL What
du pigs eat ? Good gracious me! why, acorns. Turn
up 4.0111111.
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'The °lily question is how many efi One, of course.
Acorn a.Lurn, e., ihe eeed or hail of the onk.”
It ftenia ahno-t ridiculous. but I really waist quite
e,rt.in what the an aeono grew spin. I always thought
it hail something to do with a udatletoe bough. Turn
ui Iniallot.• bough. No, on eeimtid thought., turn up
Wale.-r althg.ther. and go out and make inquiries.
tin• ti,st piece. ohy not struil mound too Cion4oW
—tto 11W1,1.1oolis meadow, not tile Wild Cow ditto—and
bOC how many hemp. are to he h.nl. I strolled aoeutd-
illhfle, but don't find any. Perhaps they aro out of
fit 5400.

Kurniig hone, I boar Row Anna has made In.
gm: vs. awl •ay:, triuniphiuttly, if I will give her O.
bhu .811 L. sble to get we • pig and herself • new drew
out of it. 1 coal eve why lbws should be this connec-
tion between pork and iollos.ry • I say, theraers,
" • ithout the dress. how much would it cost?'
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'Cs; rion• sus, WlLit would you think cheap r
I reply, "Teti shillings ;" at which she flies into •
rugs, said says sl.e c.n't thmk why I should always
wish to us •ke a mountebank of myself.
Pettee rt *Wei, sle thforins we that for £3 I can get
• really tine young growiug ing, which will fatten
beautifully.
I say, "Suppose we bought one toady fattened r,
U.. Anna says. "Nonsense?'
I spk, " wee r
She " Because it Is."

I bay. wouldn't it come cheaper?"
Slut sap, "01 nourso not.'
I ask. "Why
HIP Rai " it. mg: be rylmoly...ay. it wouldn't."
I wit, ••Wh. veil!. ?"

Site .tys. " Bettson. junior, tho non of old Burke."
Liter on I int...nog:oe Benno's, junior, stud we go to'
ratter to look at the pig in question. What strikes me
ifitat is that he tin. ils tinph loistitly -1 131,,11 the pig
-does. I tueti,yiuti this ta junior, acid be says,
" it e 1.% him, it's Vothers."
This in Wore satiifactor!. Iten.ored fr m his present
evil a..euoiat...s. our, Way hre.,Ule • leagr•lit and &met.
able .ic, and iathor an i.iivarstage, if anything, to our
baek•yard.
The .econd t 1 jug that strikes me is that the pig I am
to buy is an uuconituonly thin one. Benson, junior,
however. think. he nail till out. I rather wish he had
been a bilk ruler to begin with; but p..rhaps it will be
till the iiiufe bawdy iug to look beck and think what he
suis and Wi,At he i•, *hen he it titled out properly.

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When I have paid my 1.1, theism). junior, ties • strina
to the jrg•A leg. sod begins to dams Lim. Ile don't
suelti to WINh to collie our way. Perhaps he knows be
is going to be tilled out, and 00$0tet like the notion.
Ben.. n, junior, and 1 h.ve a deal of trouble getting
bine out a the lane he used to live in. When we have
got him out lie breaks his string end runs back.
Affectionate creature! He has returnkl to the home
el his happy childhood—to the youeg brothers who fed
with and fondled him !
On going back, though, we find he I.as done no such
thing ; on the e,ntraty. he has run part, and is half •
mile the other rile. We fetch him back, and get kiln
to my pottage with infinite laborer.
Arrived heir. Ituise Anna and Burke earns out to
welcome Ca. Rosie Atom says, "Come in, all the three
of you."
It is very foolish of Roan Anna to make that sort of
joke before servants.
When we get into the back-yard, Burke hays, "Where
are you going to keep him?'
• I say, "in the stye. I suppose."
. Burke says, "There ain't none."
I I don't know much about stye's, and have mistaken a
I place where ducks were kept for one. But, then, why
• didn't Ben-on, junior, tell 134 Burke says Beason,
junior, is a fool, and I agree with her.
We, anyhow, for the present, shut the pig up in the
duck-Loose. He begins to squeal, or, more properly
speaking, goes on doing so.
Burke suggests that he is hungry. I forgot to ask
about the food. Benson, junior, 101u/este apple.. I ask
doubtfully, "Raw one, rand Roo. Anne bur Ats out
hushing, though she knows nothing about it, and Barn
abe ruppores 1 wart to feed hien on ape's pie.
I feel a little indignant at this, and leave them to do
what they like, and go la-doors myself. Afterwards I
hear a deal of squeal:lg; and than • tertes of greets.
1 ruppeee Ile is filling out, but am too proud-spirited to
go •14 see.
Prekutly Rose Anna conies in to say he has had his
oupper. Ste also adds, '• Ile is sleeping no prettily. He
is such a dear "•'
1 cith•t metal this; 1 must go and hers a look. Rose
Anna says, "Don't, you will wake him."
1 say, "I won't," but secretly resolve to do so, under
the prek nee of taking a stroll. 1 ikon In the garden,
and am stunned by • sight that meet. toy eyes.
The ig Lou broken loose, and is rooting up our choicest
pawier.
I About at him i end give chem. If. rushes wildly • I
follow. We go., over everything. What he doesn't lel.
troy I do. Ruin and &soled in mark our coterse ! I
gine things in wild fury, and nothing hits him.
Ituui Anna ounuk out and 'korai it rne. Burke
cii i;enson juuiur follow her, and roar with laughter.
It 1,41..1.61y • humorous right to see a besotted
quedruped pursued by an indignant human being, but
I own I cannot Geese teach fru in its.. some p.ople do.
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Ind ;;;; is; 01; -b-toTtee-61;-10 ry iii-ou-g-b the jets.

Whop. Is he gone
Istq the meadow whem the wild eow

111-y .he tuna him?
Al auy rale, alio is trying to, and follows him at fall
gallop iota our garden for that purpuim—Jalb

Tint COST or Mecesontrt—The "Contras' al Pu"
end Liberty," with% reeetely sat et Lenience, do.
uounowl, waosong4 other thing,, the espentirenese of
of monarchic. ltio3alty In Ituaani pieta £1:700.000
year ; in Francs. £1,400.000 ; and in Turkey, a 11,320,000.
Among the Ices expeniivre ciao., Austria heads the hot,
proviiing for the maintenance of the Ilersburne,
beellelo a year. Italy mute heat, with £610,000 then
rituals, with 1:4-10100; while Eed.nd provides some-
thing like t:47o.tlutt for ita Royal family. Among the
cheaper eiterreimities thy dear. ot Is Haverla, which sere
apart for lloyaltr about £25+1.000. Portugal follow.
with tin. inoiirrati• Flint 1:11:.014. Helloed is content
with an i•apiniditure uI 1:100.000 ; Norway and Sweden
wlth ; Denmark with £4tho(l9; WUrtenlbnri
with £11.00); and Rowe with 1:110111.1. The mouarche
id Enrols:, then, cost their subjects something like
!NJ 410,1110 a yeir, awl thin sum, it should be remain-
' bored, is paid to Iheto for their own private use.

Tllt COLLIIIIT DINANTIR IN PHILADfLPHIA.—The
dirrstelies from the nese of the Arundel° oalamity
indicate that the match for the bodies of the tuiners is
discontinued, the belief prevailing among those who
have Implored the mine that all have been removed.
The whole unnihor brought to the curiae. is 10d. It
was hoped that Mr. Hughes, the imide foreman, might
ileVe made Some record et the events in the mine before
death. but be. compass end niemorauda were found in
hie coat. 690 feet from where hia body was !yin with
nothing to throw light directly on the bersible scenes.
The ine,inures for the relief of the families of the un-
fortunate miners nro aetivnlY Progressing, and estend
over a large portion of the neun.ry. It In ...cam,'
„ and i too: id/ colhloo. si• 1.74,051 y
4USSI4, •eht,etiee

MMUS.IiiOI.IIII MABBACRE OF A WIFE AND
FIVI3 CHILDICKN.
' An extraordinary crime INS 4190 C MIA on Tuesday
or. Ili tang at Paotin, near Piing. A cultivator, on
entxiiiig MI field, di.t‘git about Igo yg.da from th, rail-
way station, outsets 'I part of a blood-stained pocket.
hatalkerehief issuing from the ground, which in that
plum had evidently been disturbed, and was all around
reddened. The man at mice gave information VI the
police, and the earth hay-n 6 been removed waa found
to conceal the bodies of six persona, all of whim had
been murdered only a few hours ha fore. They connoted
of a woman about -15. respectably dressed and weaving
geld ear-rings and watch and chain, beaides having a
sum of about ten franca in her pocket; a young unman
of 18, • youth of Jul. and three children, sagest about 12,
10, and 5 relmetively. The eounds which had ores.
atoned the death of the woman, who blll.ppOled to be
the mother of the others, hod been inflicted with •
hatchet or come similar heavy cutting inatrument, while
the iest had been s.slibiot tepratedly with a knifs. The
younger children still co, vulaively clspnd in their Mut Is
tulle and sausagret which they had been eating when
attacked. The young msn was literally piernd allover
with wounds, and Lad evidently struggled hard to
di feud the family. Tue bodies were removal to the
Morgue.
It ems that about eisht days ago • young man

alighted at thy N.,, them Kaffir"; hot% lie gave his
name es Jean Kick, and said he win an eugineer just
arrived hem Ronbail, col that he w•Aked on the rail.
way dueling the night. The proprietor of the hotel had
his suspicions about his new lodger, but is he paid hie
bill regularly every day he thought no more about him
until the discovery of the present crime. On Sondes
rutting a lady, aceumpaiiied by live children, promoted
herself at the hotel and harslet-4 after Klink, brit as the
latter was not at house she left, saying she would call
again in two hours. About eight o'clock the Inly re-
turned, and Kinek being rill absent she engaged two
rooms. On being asked whetter she would take any re-
freshment. she replied, "No; I have promised to dine
with M. Kinck. but I don't know where he is goiug to
take roe." After waiting a short time she left the
hotel with her children, and nothing inure was set n of
them. On Monday morning Kinck made his snow,
epee at the hotel, end titer hmitily changing his ciothes,
paid hi. bill and departe,L Ou Tuesday, on search
being mule in the TOO,II he occupied, • pair of trowers
covered with blood and earth, was found hidden in •
bole in the cupboard, and also a necktie, with which it
ie supposed the eldeet of the victims wu strangled.
On Monday afternoon a telegram arrived from Roubaix,
addressed to Kinck. It ftlYi in these .onion, words :
" Wait we are not yet ready." The culpability of
Jo in Knock would Rent am from all this to be ntarly
evideur. When Lock returned to the hotel on Monday
he was *mom panted by another young can. Moreover,
the ticket officer at the railway status remembers
having given lca tickets for l'antin to a lady, ac:oin•
peeled by revere' children. A wineshop-krepor at
knitter, where the family dined, obaetved that three
mysterious charade:a vo re eating in the came room at
the next table, Anti W1,4:12 th. family left one of them
undertook to show the deceased lady her way, and the
other two quitted a abort time after, before the return
of their oinupahion. That the victims intended to
return to Paris the IMMO night is evident from their
having takeu raturu tickets, but it is presumed that the
murder or murderers made them miss the last train by
taking them out of their way. On itinday evening a young
man entered a second-heed ironmonger's and asked for
a pickaxe and spade. He appeared greatly agitated.
He said he wanted them immediately, that be was going
to leave Paris by the nine o'clock train, and that be
would require them to work with the neat morning in
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his garden et Pandit. From the description given of
the %ming man. tho authorities have no doubt that he
was jean Mack.
The motive tor the murder wool.' be accounted for if
It be tin., a• one of tlat paper. states, that the victims

in. amouchement the Primers of Wales is ex.
treated to take plow the latter ea& of November or the
beginning of Deoember.
TIM BYRON NGANDAL —The Geordies hears, on
what it do. ms relict, at authority, that • statement in
Lord Byron a bandwrltmg will shortly be pabh-hpy,
which will settle for ever the nolappy rinestion chub
ham tatolr been ratted in the paper* relative to Lordaad
Laity Byrom
NUNDRROUR ASSAI'LT ON 4 OAK KK FF FR.—OR
or. Matillove Harlon, s gamckceper In
the employ of Mr. Mario:lL of Pennybridgn Hall, near
lrleer•toeo, war, while, wstchieg the H home,e
oresoremt, mt noon ir six I...chore, who heat him on
the toned with a stone toll it fiicted other loped , lour-
ing him for drat' in ti • ground. The &wilco enbm-
lot 'illy apitrolo nelgtl four newton.
Avrrft Mtn Nuarata.—Thomai George Davis, ayed
21. has boon &traded at Itroolloy on • charge of loevidg
.ot,nored to noirdor hi• mtootio are Freemen Sarah
Whitosuan, aged 17, by firing e loaded inn ether. The
girl and tte prim 'nor tool been keening company for
some time past. ; but rear idly, owing to • quarrel
lororcen the prisoner and the father of the girl, they
had not be.. together.
A SINGULAR oftediftft of insubordination in a work
house was lanyl before the mraistrates at Hortford. A

paup-r who hail entered the Ilona., an a Diseenter. bat
wto had not 'on that n-ecunt objected ti attend the
prayers read by the nia.t; r, suildetily declined to do so
on the ground that the muter was asp I, tyrannous.
and vii.ebriatianlike, !wean, ho had refused the man
.inne little (*your. The bench held that Dila was not •
valid ground of ohj.rtion to obey the regulations, and
infitcPd a small penalty-
A Ragmen chemist has Invented • method of render-
ing the numbere of lomu a and mimeo of shops an easily
eiibo by ni:ht es by day. It consists In rubbing the
letters and figures with • curtain phosphoric pasta,
which, though not dive rnab'e in the daylight, grid in
the dark albino with perfect distinotneu. The applica-
tion would require renewing about once • month, and
involves a very trilling expense.
Tug Commerriql Adrertiser of Honolulu, Hawaii
lal•n.ls, give. the Nil iwing list of preunts
given to the Duke of Edinburgh : "As near a
we can learn, there were 750 fowls of all kinds. 100
pig., two tons of tarn, two tona of sugar cane, one ton
of melon., one ton of sweet potatoes, b. aides fruit, such
as coooa-nuta. mangoes, nine apples, with specimens of
mats, native taps cloth, tc,. the wh..le making eight
or ten ton• of frieglit, which wan .out on board on
Friday mornini in two large mows."
A 1111110 RIAL to the Premier ii being ;lived on the
subject of a division of the ilionese of Exeter. The
memorialist.; urge the restoration of the bishopric of
Cornwall, no the ground that the most oopulon. and
,noort ant distri .t of Corn wall i• more than one hundred
mile. distant from the city of Exeter, and that the
populations of the two exuntica are ethnologically
distinct.
1110RDZR By A SoLntra.—William Taylor, a private
of the 57th Regiment, was tried at the Central Crimina
Court for the murder of Arthur Skullin, a corporal in
the same rPtriment. The pri•oner had to undergo poMO
Punishment for &serious infraction of military discipline.
The deoeued was entrusted with the duty of suing
that the sentence was carried out, and the prisoner
fancied that it was ton rigorously enforced, and on the
morning of the 314 July he shot the dumbed through
the bead, killing him instantly. He vu found guilty,
and sentenced to death.
RIEMOURVII CRUMBS II TIM FARMING SYRTIII op

RUTHERLAWDBHIII6 —A report prevails in the North
that the Duke of Sutherland he. it In onntemplatioo
to make an entire ehenge In the letting of his larger
elas. of Drum hv bleaking thew down into smaller
holdings, all eonibining rable with paeture anon&
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