The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-12-14 00:00:00

PRIM AND PRIINIUMS TOR STOCK.

earu old piece of tilat., vaia 255.. givenbnyotesn.All
Moody, Req., M.P., Mr. J. A. Smith, Bradford Nivea ;
2nd best, £l, ditto.—fl.et three dairy cows, piece of
plate, value Eb be. given by Edwin! Rodbard, Esq.,
lir. Edmund given
Coles, Stone Farm, Yeovil ; 2nd bust, Li,
Mr. Thomas Miller, filierborne.—Beet pair stook heifers,
not ex. 3 year' old, pleoe of plate, value £3 34., given by
W. Pinney, Seq., M.P., Mr. J. W. Paull, Ilmineter ;
2nd best, £l, Mr. T. Miller.—Like beet pair, not en. 2
years old, pleat of tiler*, value 4:3 35., given by J. M.
Quiditook, Esq., Mr. T. Miller ; 2nd beet, £l, Mr. E.
Coles. Herefords.—Best bull, Mime of plate, value
Lb be., given by C. A, Moody, Pam., M.P., Mr. It.
Corry, Over Compton.—Beet three dairy cow., oleos of
~date, value £5 54., given by /1. Ooodford, Esq., Mr.
'hiEhroi iAffnodrdre,
Andrew.,
, _Caadeb.utrypa;
irtitiodabek
not en. 3 yearn, £3 34. Mr. J. Andrews; 2nd best, El,
ditto.—Like best not en. 2 years old, £3 3e., Mr.
Thomas Gifford, jun. ; 2nd beet, El, ditto.—Best dairy
' now, of any pure breed, Mew of plate, value £5 be,,
' given by the tradesmen of Yeovil, Mr, Thomas
Sheep. Otouthclowne.) Best rain,
£2 24., given by T. Monitor, Esq., Mr. W. Limo.., Feat
Coker ; 2nd beet, El, Mr. 0, J. Wood, Athelhampton.
—Beat pen of stook ewe', £5 54„ given by W.
Hide, Esq. Mr. Lucas 2nd beat, Wood, Mr. 0..1. Wd,
—Host pair of ram lambs, El 24., Mr. Hobert Brooke,
Yonvil.—Beet pen of Chilver lamnbe, piece of plate, value
£3 34., given by T, kleadter, Req.. Mr. H. Brooke.--
flaineehire Downs.—liitat rain, £2 211., given nal a,
Harbin, Req., Mr, W. P. Bennett, Obiluterk I VII beet
£l, George Harbin, Rim, Bella pen of stook ewe., pieoe
of plate, audio #3 3., 101._Herbin, Req., Rod beet, 21,
Mr. W. F. liennett.—Horns,—lloot ram, 84 Be,. Mr,
F, Bond, White letokiniton I ilod boot, MI, Mr.
Templemon, Chininiak wet pen of atm* eWell, plOOO
of pieta Valoo 25 54,, given by Site Sari of Ileliester,
Mr, It, Tomplemen,--Best noir rem WOO. egg., Mr,
Touipleman I Ur, P. Bond, highly aotutitended.—Beot
imp id 011ilver loinb,i elope otplete, Vallia 83 344,deven
Gomoin W, J, Fromm, 14,N,, Mr, Jahn Pow%
Netherbitry,—llortio—Beel Wirt etsllloll, a Metro of
Otte, ogee Rd W. PS, 1), Gore Longlon, Nene,
01, roman:lomi Fololisim—lieet cart not
(mounting yearn ol , #11'94,, Henry Shute, Koch Gorey
Fite_poitio, Beet WWI colt, not Poomeling V Norm,
MY IS. no oomptilltion, but one guinea Wee eWertiod to
Mr, le Qlllllse,—Reet lisekriey, or hunter, a pine of
Idele, seine #lO Iffit„,, given by (4, D, W. Ingbyi Neg.,
liobert parry, Over lAttnettin,-11014 0011, got my Geer.
bound," a Men of plete, value 22 lii.,given by Mr,
Leese, El, Glean, ittoskwood Mouse,=Vige.---tieet
Suer, Mr' Tit take, kitnney Stoke I Mad boot, 100.,
Mewl,J fi M Ines, Goolithe Plinl/0 flls=ll brooding
*ow, MI, Me. W. mitten, Pen Mill i MO beet, Itle., Mr,
(I, Garrard Mulford,
FAS liTtien. 144 on, I,igiN of pl&to,. value #ll
W. Neel, Metl., Mr. Ft. 11. ward,
Vnil bees, NO, Mr. W. Note, Ilioninoon.=timit cow or
heifer, piece of Otte, value Ma, vivowliy Outlook,
Mr. H. J. biome 2nd beat, JN, Mr, John Olt_lneet
—Bell pen of fat homed weihor Onion, NB, Mr, John
Gummy, Gelimitor I boot pen of Ihrutittlewtt *oilier*,
dltie but it pig, NI Iffs, Mr, W, Norden,
ilir Nemo Hootte proptiled time lleaGhs of the
worthy Itopreeeittativel of the Welton lliviaion of
Plomereeti
A, Rooter, 1141,1 'll,lll is now twirl
the ad of the ineetinge held on this mailed. Airlift
Strut tneelinge have inultipllod to an orient 10 whle
leeniely ant ono entild 'nights they would arrive, an
wallow lite ads lit our list of pronoun' everything eon,
nailed wit agrieullure, even Ineluillng eseityo, The
greet eotension in theme sogietlre teems to tie lit itself
to iireve oufflcletilly their utility, Your widely, sae
by lie book of rules was Mehl-611w! ON ! In the year I,
Ito that It lie.aa now be M
been in intioteitee for a quarter at a
tientury, It wee farmed (and kept ttp) on • brooder
boils than most oilier pueletles, ineludlng and uniting
In one attain of mutual dependently and Interest, se I
see on the pleaard at the bottom of the room, " hue.
bandry,mostufattlures, and trade," Now, give me leave
to bay, I feel more at home in this than at oily other
1411110441011 I aaallol, (011110 SI. It Was in this town
that I first attended a meeting of this kind, mid yew
turod to utter a word on the subject of agrieulture.
My earliest residenee, when I termite established in life,
WRS eines le this n tow, and therefore It le that I feel
MP 00 ounneeted with It, As I said before, meetings of
this kind have multiplied very muuli Indeed I gentlemen,
therefore, attend those In their own locality, Ilut not
only Is there no decree/se, hut it amenre to ins that this
Interest la kept up remarkably. The show yards are
well attended, mid we may may with Minuet pride !het
they maintain the supply of very impeder stook i and
what I say about the exhibition here, is not only true aa
rogarilo the Meal associations, but esi regard' the Itoyal
Agrleultural likelety, and the other large suoletlee. I
wee perfectly utonielied, on looking over the amount,
t 0... how great hie been lite mama° la the Royal
Nuoluty, whit% started in 1239 with an exhibition of MO
head of cattle. In 1444 they 'slatted 71e, doubling
that of 1939, and lard yeer, at Chester, there wits 1,444,
again doubling that of 1844; I believe that at Salisbury
the number was even greater than at Cheeter. As in.
garde impleinents—they began with the number he
now 191. Then as to the people admitted to see the
'Mow yard ;hum 1844 it wee 2,432, and lest year at Chester
0,181. Tide is not all timer. 'how ' • go where we will
we see hits proof of thie, and the utility of such shows
as we have here. It we go to the market' and fairs is
it not quite manifest and very marked how greet is the
improvement of ill kinds of stook brought forward for
male? And if we look Into the stack yards there we
shall see the proof in the vast increase of protium, ;
and I moot ley, in reference to what my friend no the
left said, the thraahing machine is • wonderful oontri•
vanee, and had it not been for the ingenuity of the
implement nicker to keep pace with the great in-
orease of produce, we should not have been able
to find labourers to thresh out time corn. So far,
, therefore, from it being an injury, I believe it hae
been of vast benefit, for that to which may
friend alluded relieves the labourer of the unpleasant
work of threahing in a barn, and give' the farmer the
opportunity of enqtloying them at neeful, remunerative,
and healthful employments. In °imminence of this we
ime fewer idle fellows and more waving and golden hill
tops and hill aides. It is quite well, in my opinion, that
we have been going on, and still are going,,., inoreaming
In • wonderful way, it usod to be the retort that we
WIWI not go•a•head race ; but I think that we have
POW oompletely wiped off that stigma—we have own•
pletely refuted that calumny that was thrown upon us.
If it II true that that the manufacturers are going ahead,
we aiso ahould run the race with them, and i&id grant
that both may go on mid prosper together. (Loud
cheers.) We know full well that the manufacturere
have in taws plane. lately recovered, and in others are
idowly recovering, from one of tim mast bemire monetary
trials and diffievities through with* they ever had to
woggle, We are, I suppose, from the diminution in
prism, suffering from that also ; and it is perfeetly im•
poeoible that one largo intermit eon outer without all
the others In some 'immure partaking of it. At the
Came time I think the Ism we have of Government iii•
terferonee—(beer, hear)—and the wore we are left to
ourselves to etrtymle spinet diffieulties as they occur as
boat we may, the better it is for °unwires and the more
likely it is that the public generally will be beet pro.
vlded
or aeeltr.gonanyl curesilsof6nlattsstuth"ll liglilyedaltota Illatilykips"°°ll fourthlit
by the -Emperor of the French should hare bean pro.
mulgated, which intones upon the baker, of ths differ.
ent towns in Franco to keep In stook Sour or *urn
oulffelent for three months consumption. I think that
In tine free °wintry we shonl4 never be 'objected to
ouch interference, 'Meer, hear,) I hive alluded to the
greatly Increamed number of societies and smoolationo
now spresd over the country. Those who have done me
the honour to read what I said at Taunton on Friday
week will have observed that anionpt others thlnp I
bushed upon certain politleal question& It eerhtinly
would be & wools of limo to rover the ground again.
You will have Nen that I alluded to that proprieltlon
which wee made to me as soon as I aoloped the show.
reed at Taunton Whether It might not be better to untie
Woe or four of the large amootillone of the gouty or

rather M its Western division, into what may be termmt
guneral county moiety, whom meetings should be Iwo
lit m sueeding years at different places. I proudest( to
inglitlon it hers, and ( do It inure in order Mat any Roo,
Heinen here who may be 1104U,411111141 with the proomrtion
would be kind enough to dimse it and convey to the
coininittue their opinion. I inyeelf give no opinion, inis
way or the other. There ie one other question to which
I promised to allude. You know vury well It lo prfl.
posed to hold the meeting it Doreltmitar in MU uf the
Bath and Wool of England (Moiety. We have given the
Durelitierarpotlemeni the opportunity of competing with
us on our own ground I they now return the oomph.
moil, and I hope wu chill not he &held to meet them
on their own ground. (" Nu, no, no.") It I. not now
too early 60 select young Animals and mate preperations
fur the struggle. I am quite sure we such moot with
ample competition there.—Having acknowledged the
hospitality with wide& the deptitstion woe rewired at
Duroliester, the hon. gentleinstinan reaunied his soot
itithilet loud applause.
W. Ut/1111 ihANUTON, ZVI. M.P. also responded to
the tome. He said that he also hod lambed upoo
inllti It Taunton, and It would be seen fruin
remarka there, thel he WIN not afraid of the aubject but
he Inuit on this uommion doling the invitation held out
by the lionuumblu baronet, (Cheere,) Though lie hold
o ainall form himself, he was low on other (intim the
greeter portion of the year, and therefore Its woe nut
able to expatiate on the subject of oprioulture, yot thee
subieut hail his WarllleNt sympatny, Ile mentiohmi
hav lig seen In i distant part of the eountry a Meanie.
tine Mum plough (in Buckingliamehirel I h• thought
loins spirited manufacturer would do well to out it its
ounstruotion, RI he thought it might advantageoualy b.
inanufeotured on a large seals. (Cheers.)
D. (Immix, Esq., proposed the health' of the Dorset.
shi, exhibitors, Alluding to the cordial reception they
gave the deinttellon to Dorchester.
Mr. U. Wuuu, of Adinialon, lit returning thanks,
mid the president had been piqued to pass an emonduin
on the mcoption at Dureheater of the deputation from
the Bath 111111 West uf England docility. He thought
they ii lid but e vory shunll part of that 1111001111111 U
but he believed thM that reeeption was a genuine ex.
prevision of limpitality. It woo pledge of the kind of
reception they would give them in IWO, Ho hoped, el
they hod oomo from pormlskire to exhibit and compete
with the Iluniersetahire gentlemen, they would be M.
timed, by the programme of 1050, to send mum stook to
Dorchester I or if nut on that 00141111141, hi. htuied they
would OUIIIO out in all their form in MOO. The Duran
men meant then to lake a pretty good sham of the
prisea, but if the Bonierset men won any they would be
cordially ouno•ded. (Cheers)
Varium other toasts followed, and the oompany sopa.
toted it a late hour.