The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

THE DISEASES OF CATTUS BILL.

(Paoli OUR Loin Ms Conine°MOUT.)
It must be apparent to all who are in any way inte-
rested in agricultural pursuits that • marked change bee
Of late years taken ploys in the method of culture oo
bth lair and sniall farms. In former years the wheat
lierve.t in this country was looked goon almost ex-
elmieely as the season to "repay the farmer's toil"
but in the very face of the 'Mole s.rticie of food—
the cheapness of which now proves such an inestimable
bles-ing to the labouring classes—it is becoming every
year more stet mot, unremunerative to cultivate cereals.
At our agrieultural meetinp it has become the custom
of those most experienced in profitable farming to lay
down the axiom that lend must now be kept "gram
• up,"—thet the production of beef and mottos,
butter and cher,, will pay better than the lowing of
weed —in the market for which they hare so largely to
contend with the forei,rii article.
Under these iircumstances any legielative enactment
bearing on addle most bare • speciel interest to agriculi
turi.te. A Bill has been prepared and introduced into
the Hones of Commons, by Sir G. Grey and lir. Bruce,
"to, make further provisions for the prevention of in-
fectious dieemes amoopt cattle." The general objects
of this Biller, to provide oath quarantine and nisi ket
replettoos as sh.ll prevent eommerciol dealings in
animals suffering from disorders of a contagious nature'
and further, to prevent the sale of such diseaaed animal
food in the public market,.
The traffic and sale of unwisnlosome food is
now carried on to a very serious extent, not only
in the useiropelitan markets, but also in the shambles,
ficnithfields, and fails of almost storey town in England.
The exactitude of the epicurean is often thwarted, and
the appetite of a hungry costermoneer would instastly
recoil If he knew the pedigree of the London savelmor
throne he is about to devour. Notwithstanding, how-
ever, the artifices of unprincipled dealers and butchers,
the tricks of sham slaughtering, gathering, be. us
often detected, the font stuff seized, destroyed, and the
off-nders brought to justice by sanitary inspectors.
The Bill referred to above is calculated to pot 1401, to
them nefarious prectioes. The evidence taken before
the Parliamentary committee was MOll4 voluminous.
The witnesses examined during 14 day.' sitting ineleded
the leading mientille men of the day, dealers both of
this and foreign I:smithies and the fraternity known as
"row Jobbers.' The evidence wag of • conflicting
nature. The chief difficulty, however, was the settle-
ment of the question what molly ore "oontagious
dieesses," the original Bill, including those known OW
aphtha, apthous fever, murrain, foot end mouth disease,
sad measles. These have now been struck out, and the
proposed legislation will apply to glanders, sheep pox,
steppe murrain, pluero-poeumoida (consumption), and
the scab iu sheep.
In the general- clauses of the Bill iii. bid down that
any person turning out upon any uoinclosied lead, a:-
posing for sale in any market, he., or placing in any
stable or building—knowing the existence of
disease in any animal to which the above apemen.
then applies—shall be liable to a firie not exceeding 1720 •
and offizials are empowered to remove any such animal
In a summary manner at the expense of the owner. It
is provided, however, that there shell be a portion of
ground set apart at markets and fairs where such cattle
or sheep may be publicly offered for sale, so that the
purehmer, if disposed for a "Great Saturday" lot, mac
at least have no excuse for not knowing what bet.
about. Osumi 7 affects butchers and others having
getbage at their disposal. It enacta that if any person
gives uncooked flesh for food to mine, or allow ,wine
to be fed on meth food, shall be liable to. penalty not
exceeding 40.. The second part of the Bill contains
special provisions to prevent the spread of epidemic
disorder.; giving power to Her Majesty by an order in
Council to provide for the removal of any cattle, meat,
skins, hides, horn, hoofs, or other parte of cattle ; and
hay, straw, fodder, and otherartielea, likely to propagate
iefecition ; for the examination of such animals and
productioo ; for the purification of premises wherein
anything is supposed to contain contagious elementa •
and also for the destruction of cattle, ho., so affected
Any person wilfully obstructing or impeding those
empowered to act under the order in Conseil is to his
subjected to a penalty of kb, or two months' im-
prisonment
Part IIL of the Bill refers to the carriage of cattle,
making provirion for the proper cleansing of trucks,
for the watering of animate, ker., but empowering
carriers to refuels to carry cattle toeless oertilied to be
sound.

Next are the regulations to be enforced at markets
and fairs, which are probably the most important
features of the Bill, so far as the majority of country
reader. are ooncerned. Local authonties may appoint
cattle inspectors, 11110110 duties it aball be to examine
the stock expoved for 'ale, and to exclude from market
or fair any of them be may deem to be affected with
the direness to which the proposed enactment refers ;
and also, in theca. of cattle wie.l for human food, with
any other disease rendering theni unfit for consumption.
There are • great nuniber of clauses in the Bill of •
technical but necessary character, but the above are its
leading feature.. The Bill has been withdrawn from
dimusaion ; hut as the whet committee have amended
the clauses of the original scheme, and, as in such •
case, • Bill rarely fails to become law ; should agrictd-
turista or cattle dealer. be of opinion that any of the
operations proposed are mischievous, they must take
immediate action for redreva, and convey, on the re-
production of the Bill before the whole House, through
their representative., an exposition of such niodiacep
lions as they deem desirable.

ODDS AND ENDS. —A "yokel" paming through a lane
in Hampshire met with • swiU, and inquired of hiss "if
he hmi seen n man pa. r " repl•eal rowag naglana,
but he might have seen me."
When neighbour Jones went into dinner the other
day, he found one of his apprentiest in the kitchen,
quietly rolling up hi. sleeves. " What are you going
to do?' mid Jones. "Oh," quietly responded the boy,
" I am going to dive down into shot pot, to lee if I can
find the pea the soup wthinad,..frorn.."

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CII•11011 TO • JUR?. —An able and learned judge was
once obliged to deliver the following charge to • jury.
—Gentlemen of the jury, in this case the counsel
on both sides are unintelligible, the witnesses are
Incredible, and both the plaintiff and defendant are
such bad characters that it is indifferent which way you
give your verdict.
Egotism is defined as putting the private I too much
before the public eye.
A HIADACHIL —" I Say, Sansbo, were you ever in.
"No. Caesar, neber ; wee you "Well, I
was, Samba." "Didn't it make you feel good, (scour
"Yab I but de next morning I thought my head was a
wood-shed, and ell de Diggers in Christendom were
splitting wood in it."
A Bis ART DODOIL —A smart Yankee managed to raise
the wind by advertising to exhibit "two boys with
four beads, two anus, and legs." Of course everybody
sent to sae the show, and found them according to the
programme—two boys with foreheads, mos, kc.—same
as other boys. It woo a good play upon words—or
figures rather.
drurrome or VANTTT.—To go to Paris, return nut
day, and afterward, talk of a continental tour. To ti;
into a tavern, ask in a loud voitie it the champagne
good, and in an extremely low tone order • bottle of
ginger beer.
Mrs. Smith, hearing strange sounds, Inquired of her
new servant if Gm snored in her sleep. "I don't know,
marm," replied flukey, quite innocently, "I lay
awake long enough to diskiver."
A lady leaving home was thus addressed by her little
boy. "Mamma, will you remember and buy me • penny
whistle? and lot it be a religious one, that I can use it
on Sunday."

Pernsca. —Waiting in n country shop whilst they
send out to get change for a sovereign.

ALL Aim gr.—The landlord of • -certain hotel hired
• green Irishmen in the capacity of waiter, and the
first day he attended upon the table, a gentlemen
asked for • napkin. Now this area an artier be had
met with in all bid life, and he could not for
the world tell what the gentleman meant. His Irish
blood forbade him displaying his ignorance, and what
to do he could not tell. He wandered about the hall,
closely observing the movements of his fellow servants,
but could not observe anything which came up to his
notions of a napkin. Almost in despair, he came to
the conclusion, as the beat way of getting oat of the
dilemma, to tell a falsehood. Approaching the gentle-
man (who had already been welted upon by another
servant) he said, "Fain, sir, in' will ye be pleased to
take something Hie, li napkins be all ate up!"
&urn —Woman's Lorg.—To • MUD th• disappoint-
ment of love may occasion some bitter pang.—it woanda
some feelings a tenderness—it blasts some prospects of
felicity, but he is an active berg, be may dissipate his
thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may
plunge h irn into the tide of plea-ore, or, if the scene of d
appointment be too fell of painful earciationa, he or
shift his abode at will, and taking, as it eere, the wings
of the morning, can 'fl. to the uttermost port. of the
earth, and be at rest." But woman's is comperatively •
fixed, • secluded, &ad • meditative life. She is more
the companion of her own thought. and feelings, and if
they are t-irned to mini,ters of sorrow, where shall she
look for consolation? Her lot is to be wooed and won,
and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some
(wirer that has been captured, end sacked, and
abandoned, and left desol•ta. How nary bright eyes
grow dim, how many soft cheeks grow pre, bow many
the tomb, and we
ir loveliness As.thcendot.4ve
lA. arrow that is preying on its vitels, so is it the
I.ll;ivellecalelyesufin'tihtse"fw"blineiggashredtolitsihneside, and caner, and conceal
nature of woman to hide from the world the pangs of
wounded MT ctioe. The love of a delicate female is
awe,e shy and silent. Even when fortunate, she
seareely breathes it to herself; but when otbereri-e, she
• it in re recess. of her bosom, and there lets it
cower snil brood among the ruins of ber peace. With
her the desire of hoe Is. art 1.. failed —the peat ehren
of esistence is at an end. She neglects all the chi caul
exercisea which aladJeu the spirits, quichen the phie..e,
and send the tide of life in healthful terrors through
the ries Hoe rest is Worm, the sweet refreshment of
sleep is poisoned hy melancholy throne, "dry sorrow
drinks her blood," until her enfeebled freer sinks wader
the slightest external injury. Look for her alter a
little, and you will find friendship weeping over her
untimely grave, and wondering that one who bat lately
glowed with all the a ',banes of health and beauty should
se sorily be brought down to "darkness and the
come," You will he told of some wintry chill, some
casual indisposition, that laid bet low ; but no one knows
the mental malady that previonaly sapped lase streegth,
and made her so easy • prey to the spoiler. She like
three tender tree, the pride and beauty of the grove.
graceful in its form, right in its fairs, but with the
worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly
• withering, when it should be most trash and lazariaet.
We see it drooping its branches to the ear* and
shedding leaf by lee!, unlit wasted and perished away.
it falls even in the utiliser of the fewer, and, as we
muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to
recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could lases
smitten it with daisy.
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A DVINTVII WITH • BENGAL Tlol2.—rii t.II et
bit of adventor• I once had near Calcutta ; it was not
very pleasant sport at Um time, I amore you. One
miming- a lighter came alospidiv, mannvid by halfu-
isen native.. The eaptain of our ship had mimed her
to bring /mob waist. About ten mike from Hoogbley
—and I don't know it might be raoro—there was •
stream of fresh water, and Um» We were going, Intend.
Mg to be gone over one night Our trst mate was to
take Aare* and Tom Con, Will Jackson and myself
went to accompany him. We got OW gene and
pistols aboard the lighter, for you aeo
W likely to be robben about wherever Americana,