The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-12 00:00:00

Poet Conntri exintoo.

DORCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 12th, 1882.

Liverpool shows more than London the oommer.
dal oonesquences of the Egypttan Wei. The cotton
broilers who supply Bolton and the other Lancashire
towns which spin F.gyptien cotton, are doing nothing.
At the beginning of the war it was never dreamed in
the newly•made city that the Interference with the
*Atop supply would be of any considerable duration.
and nowhere in the kingdom is the delay in Sir Garnet
WoLesley's opersUons regarded with as little approba•
flan.

A coroner's inquest which was hold In Whigeohapel
00 Friday, revealed some lament•ble features in low
London life. The inject of inquiry wee the body of
• chikl two years of age, with • fracture of the skull
and various other injuries which the evidence showed
°add only have been inflicted by malicious and
repeated acts of violence. It appears to have been •
mystery, however, how the violence who indicted.
The mother of the deceased came home drunk, took
the child from a fellow-lodger who had been "minding'
It, and retired to her room with it. The woman'
husband was either already in the apartment stretched
on the floor in • drunken stupor, or be after.
wards came in and sank into that position.
At all events, his brother, who " lodged " in the mime
room, bpsad-bye came home half-drunk to find
kis little pion dead on the floor, while the father lay
In drunken unconsciousness beside the body, and the
mother in • similar condition on the bed. A more
painful picture of serial degradation can hardly be
Imagined, nor one in which justice should be snore
confounded by the effects ef sheer brutal stupidity.

The hop mop is • failure. Even reckoning the
Importations likely to came from the Continent and
Awake, there will bee dsidency of at last half the
quantity generally used in this country. The growth
of bops is difficult, and the mop precarious, but in the
present season Nut plant seams to have suffered from
two of its worst evils—insert attack and mildew. Ths
hop crop is subject to various vicissitudes ; it of ten,
Indeed, falls altogether, and the inevitable reflation
bras half upon us sa to what the world would do if
a chronic disease were to set in with hops, as is the
uses of certain countries with the vine. Shall we be
dslan by-and-bye to the exchudve use of non-intal-
oasts! There is something peculiarly faint at the pre-
mint InOrnint in the grape crop, and one of the chief in-
thistrios of our neighbours is imperilled. A disease,
which balsa the skill both of scientists and expert-
mooed growers, seems very likely to become per-
manent In its effects on the plant. This failure
of special crops becomes an interesting question,
and one wonders whether it is only new to the world
bemuse of the absence of pest records. It is possible
that grape culture has had its difficulties in olden
times as it is having now. It is just as likely that
the weakness and want of gamins we now discern in
the hop plant may have evinced itself In times past,
and we can tell, by the decline of the potato in our own
day, that debilitation may occur without apparent muss.
die out, and give place to renewed growth. One of
the lessons to be learnt from the f act is that the soil,
after a certain time, seams to brooms exhausted. Un-
doubtedly the stamina in the ciao of the potato was
restored through the free use of foreign seed; for,
although the sort we grow and prefer is essentially
British in its character, it most not be forgotten that
It came originally from abroad, and flourishes, as far
as abundance is concerned, better in Europe and Asia
than in this country.