The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-18 00:00:00

Sgriculture.

The Halesworth Farmer's Club have passed the follow
lug resolutions : —"That autumn cultivation is one of the
greatest improvements in modern agriculture; and that
with it the increased growth of roots on heavy land will
ultimately, in the opinion of this club, put an end to the
system of bare fallowing."

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COUNTRY MEETING OF 18-59--The report of the In.
spection Committee have been read, and deputations
received from Coventry, Reading, Warwick, and Ox-
ford, the Council decided that the country meeting
should be held at Warwick next year, on consideration
that the Mayor of that city entered into the usual
agreement with the Secretary of the society by the next
monthly council on the 2nd of June.

MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SO-
CIETY.—A highly influential meeting of gentlemen in-
terested in this society was held on Tuesday in the
Mayor's parlour, Manchester, Mr. Ivie Mackie, Mayor,
in the chair, at which it was proposed that £l,OOO should
be raised to distribute in local prizes, at the meeting in
September, for Scotch and Irish SS well as English stock.
Before the meeting separated names were put down for
MO towards the proposed sum.

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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—At the Monthly
Council on the sth inst., on the motion of Mr. Torr,
seconded by Mr. Thompson, the Council decided unani-
mously :—" That in future, if any dinner be held at the
country meetings under the patronage of the society,
the entire management shall be vested in the local com-
mittee ; but the Council shall have the option and
power of reserving and taking ouch a number of tickets
as it shall think fit; and this Society shall nominate
the Chairman, and supply the list of toasts, but shall
have no other liability connected with it."
QUICK-LINE A TEST FOR GUANO.—A. teaspoonful' of a
sample of good guano, mixed with an equal quantity of
cream of lime, will develop a powerful ammoniscal
odour, similar to that of Bengal or smelling belts. The
pungnency of the odour willbe proportionate to the amount
of ammonia in the sample. The success of this test de-
pends upon the quality of the quick-hose employed.
It ought to be of recent burning, or to have been pre-
served in a close vessel, as on exposure to the air it ab-
sorbs carbonic acid, and passes into the state of carbo-
nate, in which condition it is no test for ammonia.

IMPORTANT TO FARMERS—A few months since we
were enabled (says the Bristol Times) to give our readers
a remedy for the disease in cattle called blain, which
we are happy to say has been tried by many with great
success. We have now the gratification of giving to our
agricultural readers • cure for cattle inflated or blown
by over-eating clover. By this disease farmers often
lose many of their cattle. The old, and we believe, the
only mode generally known of curing cattle that have
over-fed on clover, was by inserting a knife or
lance into the abdomen, then preming the skin adjacent,
forcing out the wind, in many cases causing the viscera
to protrude, and frequently the metal of the blade
caused festering between the skin and the flesh of the
animal. The following mode has recently come to light,
and has been found to answer, and being attended with
less danger to the cattle, is a far better method
solve one drachm of chloride of lime in a quart of water,
and when any of the stock is affected with the above
disorder, give it this dose. The chloride of lime will
convert the gas on the stomach to a liquid which is soon
naturally dispelled. A stock of the mixture can be con-
veniently kept at hand in quart bottles, and enable the
farmer to treat the disorder immediately. In a country
where such rapid strides are making in agriculture, this
recipe ought to be generally known.
THE MEAT TRADE.—The effect of railway transit, at
certain times and upon certain days, gluts the meat
markets of the metropolis ; and without the production
of a single pound more in the kingdom at large, meat
sometimes falls from sixpence to eightpcnoe per stone,
and even more. Such a depression is, in the course of
twenty-four hours, transmitted by the newspapers to
every local market in the kingdom. These at once
adopt the reduction without the slightest alteration in
the supply having taken place in such quarters. The
prices at once become the selling prices of fat stock
throughout the entire kingdom. Meat, being of a perish-
able nature, upon reaching its destination must of
necessity be sold at the best price that can be obtained,
unless the market become glutted to such an extent
that the sale cannot be effected. It is than a matter of
expediency, as well as of necessity, to return it at once
to the original consignee ; to whom, upon its return, it
in probably almost entirely worthless. These effects are
so frequently recurring that the grazier has suffered,
and is still liable to suffer, to an unprecedented extent ;
nor can we, in the present state of things, see how it is
possible to prevent this oocurrin,;. It is not, as we have
before stated, to be attributed to any increased pro-
duction ; but to an over contribution to the same
market at the BMUS time. The pi,ce of wheat at the
present moment is affected by any over-foreign supply,
especially of flour and wheat, the deo.snd remaining the
saine.—Mart Lane &press.

BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY—The forthcoming annual exhibition of this
society, as our readers are aware, will take place in the
month of June next, at Cardiff; and judging from the
number of entries and the immense preparations in pro.
grass, it is likely to he one of the best and most suc-
cessful the society has yet held. The site selected for
the meeting is part of the princel7 domain belonging to
Cardiff Castle, known as Cathay Park. The ground
devoted to the purpose of exhibition (about sixteen urea
in extent) was readily granted by the Marchioness of
Bute, and is in every respect eligible for the great
gathering which will take place about live weeks hence.
The park is centrally 'situated, within a few minutes
walk of the Taff Vale, Routh Wales, and Rhymney rail-
way stations. The locality is extremely_p_ictureique.
On the north-week is a pretty view of the Welsh moon-
Caine from whose sidles vast quintitiee of mineral
treasures And their way seaboard to every part of the
world, The south side conimmula a view of Cardiff
Castle a stronghold rich in historical amelationli, with
the walks and grounds around what is now the baronial
ball of the youthful Marquis of Bute, The show-yard
to approaehed from Park-platm, about half-a-mile from
centre ntre of the town, through the fashionable suburb
of Crookherbtown. The contractor of the buildings--
Mr, George Pollard, Taunton—has already commenced
tmaretione, and considerable progress has been mode.
The ground lies been enclosed with the requisite board-
ing, and the dikes and principal entrances have been
Invigilated, On the right of the enclosure are situated
the settle sheds, six in number, Ave of which are in
forward state, the whole space or stook being upwards
of g,OOO feet run. Tito morgue. for the poultry chow
will probably occupy an angle behind wine stately suite,
at the north corner of the ground, go great is the an-
Retorted influx of visitors, that the various railway com-
panies have 0011DIHM0441enlarging the sidings and pass
*singer rooommodation at their respeetive stations, The
Mouth Wale, Railway refreeltment rooms have been re-
moved to the Newport aide, to afford spree for the per-
manent enlargement of the passenger and luggage
departments at the Cardiff station.

CrMI or Omistfurriox xv DR, LOOOOII.II Pvigrotto
—"(llndlontlin,-1 Oro twill speak of your Widen with the
Matted confidenoe, having mootnmended them In many mum
of pulmonary arming/Don, And theLdhave alwaye afforded
relief when everything oho hes fa ; and the patients
having been eurreited with tn.dioitos am delighted to MOO
with to efficient a remedy, having stash an agreeable WNW. J.
MAWilog, IX Moelayndreet, Neweeetimon,Tyne."—Dr. Loeock's
Puinfonic Wotan give inetant Miff, and o raOld ours of
asthma, ooughe, and all disorders of the breath and lunge. To
gingers and public epeakem they an invaluable, for ;gearing
mid strengthening the volt*, They have a snout plessatit teste,
Price Is, led„ gd„ and Ile. per -box. Sold by all ohenilets.
IMPONTAIIT 00011011,—It ham boon discovered that many
Medieine Vendors, when asked for any of Dr. tycoon's MIDI.
MN, attempt to page off instead some counterfeit, bemuse
they hare a greater profit in doing so than by selling the
pnuine medielne--the public Is cautioned against loch dim
honest practioes, which may be detected by observing that
every box of the easoura medicine has the *olds "Da.
Lesson's WArldie In who. lettere On a rod ground in the
Ooramment staling, and without vrhluti words Ail au
cocetatirgrri LID Al

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, LONDON MARKETS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

MARK-LANE, MONDAY, MAY 17.

We had a moderate supply of wheat at our
market to-day, which brought one shilling more
money.

Barley was firm, and rather dearer.
Oats sixpence dearer.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

MONDAY, MAY 17.

Our market was supplied to-day with three
thousand eight hundred beasts, and twenty-two
thousand sheep.
Trade lower.

Beef, beat quality 4 4

Mutton, ditto