The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

Borlculture.

BALI Or RAMIL—At the Lincoln September fair, held
on frridey week, there wee a reinarkebly Rn. show of
rents, the greater part of which were sold by auction.
A pen of 20 of the Timberland.park rams sold st So
avers,. of 210 each 1501 the Knalth.park rime cold it
prime ringing front MI to Mfg emit I 1116
sliesrlitme -fetched St each a lot of Ol 74111111, from the
took el Mr. Ciilliell, realised en average of 10 'ultimo ;
Rine 'headings, breed by Mr. Yarrow, of Barton, ever.
aged SU Nth I a floe lot of rams, from the Rook of
Thurlby.grange, realised an Aroma of £ll4. Twenty.
two lois produmd * total of WA 101. Twenty.four
ehearlings and one 241111 r ram, from the Rock of Mr.
Longstaffs, of High Toynton, sold for £1340, giving en
average of Alt eailt, Several iniseellaneou lots of reins
were Meowed of it prime ranging front lb to ND.
Wommern ONNAT ANNUAL PAIII.WONOINTIS,
September 111,—The great annual hop, ohne', end
cattle lair was well aupplied with stook of every de.
emiption, but of ohms end hope there wee rather a
falling oR. Title is called lite hop felt of the peer, but
in sousequeme of Olio crop being rather lota in tipenlim
this year the bulk of hope brought to market was much
smeller than it would hive been had the fair token
pine, fortnight liter, About 1100 poekete were brought
10 W 060611006, and, the attendance of dealers from
distance being good, the greater portion of them were
disposed of, though it low prime, beet samples not we.
alleing more than Ms, per owl. The number of pockets
that pealed the public scales wee 830, being about two.
thirds ef the quantity sold it the het annual fair.
Primo mated from 50s. to 00s, per owl. There are a
good many hope of the growth of 1887 still on bend,
which keeps down the prim, About the usual quantsly
of elteem was Oohed, and beet qualities fetched WM. to
?Os., moonds 80s., and two meals lite, per owl, Celtic
were in fair demand, *owe and salves 115 to 1290, and
fit cows Rd. to Pd. per lb. There was a large supply of
sheep, and especially of rams of good breed, for rearing,
which there appears to be • sort of mania in the distrioi.
The result wee thet the ram market was overeloaked,
and good animals of undoubted blood sold for far bus
than their value, A good deal of Ohl' claw of stook
wee disposed of by public mutton in the fair. Fat
mutton (Oohed 741. per lb. Pigs, which had been very
sheep, were a little better in price. The horses were
mostly limited to the igrisultural kind, end good strong
animals fetched rearmament& priest. The pleasure fair,
es umsal, wee liberally msWied with the oustorarg
attrootions,

Tna gunmen' 8...ce or Erre/. bed:ie.—The Doke
of Marlborough's great sale of extra desk took place at
tho Horne Pans, Blenheim-park, on Monday week, and
attractod, aa rung, • large number of farmers and breed.
.is from various parts of the country. Among the coop
piny were his Grace the Duke of Marlborough (the
President of the Royal Agricultural Society), Lord Allan
Churchill, Captain L ' ybns the High Sheriff of Oxford-
shire (Mr. H. L.' Gaakell), Mr. G. N. Barnett, of Glym-
pbon.plak, the Mayor of Woodabook, Alderman Mar.
get*, and the principal breeders of the neighbourhood.
The male caudated of 800 fat and store haf.bred South-
down sheep, which, notwithstanding the low state of
the market, and the shortness of keep indisposing
purchasers to invest money in this description of stock,
realised tolerably good prices. 460 half-bred wetter
lamb,, gooderool and in exernentionstlelon, fetehed
El l& pot broad • while 100 choice Southdown *woe (in
which' deaserpekin of sheep his Grace's flock Is partial.
fatly rich) realised El 17a. 100. per head. The sale also
inoluded 100 Oxfordshire. down 'heading rams, des-
*ended froin the celebrated sheep of Mr. Smith, of
Bibury„ 11t Game, of Aldsworth, and Mr. Gillett, of
Minster Lovell, the average prioe being £22.. 6d. The
total prooesde of the sale amounted to £l,lBO.
gi.olol ,PAGILN (I ON RUMS IN YARN YARDS—The
following oorrespondence appeared in the Times • day or
two ago, and teems to be deserving of attention ;
"Your impression of Saturday week contains another
report of extensive loas of corn by fire. This Ices to the
country sturcally, to say nothing of the loss to farmers
and to ineurance ofiioes, is something enormous; yet
ouch often repeated calamities do not appear to suggest
any improvement in the building of stockyards. Year
after year the ricks are placed on the farmstead as closely
as itia poodle% to build them, so that if one fire the
destruction of the whole is inevitable. A few days
liilloll in this bounty a large quantity of farm produce
which had just been garnered, including 11 ricks of
wheat, was in two hours reduced to a few bushels of
ashes, and with it all the farm buildings. At Wilbrigh.
ton, in Stafford, as reported in the Times "the home-
stead was crowded with gigantic steaks of grain . . .
the firs spread from stack to stack with fearful rapidity,
and the extensive yard was NOOR enveloped in one large
sheet of fire which raged so fiercely that no one could
appromth it./' How much of this property, estimated in
thee. two cues alone at £7,510 would have been
destroyed had the farmer in each inotance made three or
four small instead of one large stockyard, or, better
still, have placed the stacks quite apart in the fields as
some farmers invariably do? But for this "crowding"
the late rise of 25 per cent, in the premium on fanning
stook, which ham been adopted by nearly every insurance
°Moe In the kingdom, would never have been heard of.
The terapeatiou to the incendiary is also immured in the
same ratio as the destruction of property. 20 or 80
etacks in a heap is too tempting to the revengeful
labourer who may have been dlarniesed for some fault,
or whose wages may have been reduced • 11111111ns a
week. Two or three would not be worth risking trans-
portation for. Perhaps coins of your able agrioultural
oorreapondente will enlighten us as to the real benefit
the farmers derive from peeking their rick, as they
would herrings If they will not obey the dictates of
common prudence in such an important matter, haw
ranee companies should refuse to protect any farmstead
when the risks are not II given number otyardir apart.
I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, J W.—Winch.
field, Hoak, Sept. 90,"

A BuIIaTITUTII POR BARU YARD MAMORU, —Ws say
s subetittite, though we are not certain that it is a full
equivalent. It will, however, angwor nearly is well,
and should be used by farmers to make up the leak of
ordinary manure. It is this I i compoet of muck and
Urn,, or of musk end mhos. Dimly, a bushel of wit in
weter enough to slake Ave stein bushels of fresh lime to
Ans, dry powder. It is not well to slake the lime
faster than it ii wanted for use, biome it is mush more
elthaelous if applied while hot, and severed at ones
with a layer of mull. The Wit rule for preparing the
waived heap le—c, booing of lime to one load of musk,
intimately mixed j though three buthels to Ave loads
make. e very good manure, In laying up the heap, let
the holm of musk and lime be thin, so that the eour
nese of the musk may be neutralteed, and decomposition
be more rapid and eamplete. After the heap Is finished,
and has lain a month or six weeks, it should be over.
lieuled,_and shoveled Into a promliouous mug, reedy for
the. Where HMO Is 'spongy', or diffieult to oommand,
unhitched mites may be need, id the rate of three or
four bushels to a cord of muck. After laying a month
or two it should be turned over and wised ageln, ai re.
commended in the other OM, Lime or whin mixed
with 'ode and weeds and other refit.' will make a good
bank for the farmer to draw upon, when the institution
under the pert-hole of the bath hag sealed to make any-
thing like setishotory dividends,
Tug ALLIDIND lUTOMTIOR AT rn ATI OATTLN
111 Now.-lit the cue of Jamie Paton, shined at the Ayr
Circuit Court on Widnes* with imposition by putting
horns on bulls by artificial unease, end exhibiting the
nimbi at the Ayr Apieultural flooletyie Show, a ver
diet of "Mat proven" was returned.
ROTAL BUCKS AGRICULTURAL Assootsttow.—The
Annual ploughing match end imbibition of flock and
root crops el this esseelatian was held on Thursday lest
at Aylesbury. The show of stook wee by no means nu.
memos, neither did he quality germ to earn pnersl air
probation. The threseyear•oW bulli and theist heifers,
however, had many admirers, and the show of sheep,
particularly of Bouth-dovm shearhop and half-brecl
rams, wee very fair. The show of hornet was scarcely
mph,' to that of fonder years. Five mines, varying
from £3 to 81 101., were 'warded to the breeding and
store stook, two of and two of £2 for homes, seven Of
22 end two of El for Amp, end three of 22 and one
prim of 21 for pip. Colonel Hanmer gave • prise of
£5 for OM best fat heifer, though many persons seemed
to think that hit heifers are mareely the description of
stock which requires encouragement et this period of the
year. The ploughing match took place in a field of clover
hay, belonging to Mi. Morris, of R' edgrove. There were 27
entries, and 25 teams mmeared on the ground at 9
o'clock, the hour appointed for starting work. Half
an sore was allotted to each competitor, which was to be
completed within four hours Four prises, varying
train £2 to 10s., were awarded both to three-horse and
four-horse teams, and premiums in proportion to the
drivers also. Owing to the long drought, however, the
ground was much too hard to give room for the dis-
play of first-rate skill, There were also hedge-
cutting and tile-dreining competitions, in each of
which branches of egricultural art four prizes were
awarded, varying from £1 to Be.; and tie prises
of £2 and El each were awarded to the most skil•
ful and successful shepherd. Lastly, there were
the miusl premiums, about which so much difference of
opinion exists, for the male and female farm servant*
wlio had lived the longest period with the lams master.
In the department of agricultural mote only two prizes
were given-83 for Swedes and £2 for mangold-wursel.
The county of Bucks boasts of two agricultural societies
—the Royal Bucks, which detes from some time back,
and the Central Bunks, a new society, which holds its
annual meeting in the course of the next fortnight,
There is • talk of amalgamating the two, and as nit
worse would be the best for the agricultural interests
of the county, it would most probably meet with the ap-
probation of the stoutest supporters of both. After the
show the usual dinner, which was deprived of its attrac-
tion by the unavoidable absence of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, took place at the George Inn, Mr. W,
Lowndes in the chair. More than 100 of the members
and friends of the society were present.
How THE CHINESE MAKI MANURES. —lt has
often been the Wonder of farmers in this part of the
world, how the Chinese, with but few domestic animals,
have been able to keep their lands in • high state of
fertility, and to sustain such an immense population.
We do not now wonder so much, when we know what
pains they take in the saving and manufacture of
manures. Having very few horsee or cattle, and there-
fore little barn yard manure, they save all the human
excrements. And not only the solid parts, but the
liquid, which, being dilated with water, they apply to
the roots of all growing plank!. The oountry people
visit the cities ancl large towns regularly, and carry off
the content' of privies and urinals at a stipulated prim,
which they make into proudette. The publicity of
" necessariee," and the unblushing display of chamber
vessels everywhere, at first shook Occidental sensibilitiee •
but custom and the usefulness of the tertilicuaterial;
thus saved, soon reconcile one to the si image.
Oil-sake is soother of their minium, made rem a bean.
This been is crushed, then steamed, and an oil preened
from it, and the cake which remains became an exoellent
fertilizer. It ill often used in a liquid form, having been
broken up, and steeped and then reduced by the addition
of considerable water. The Chinese use the sediment
collected from the bottom of their cantle, for manure.
They dig large pits, into which they throw successive
layers of anal mud, weeds, straw, garbage and all tor
ruptable matters. When • pit bee become fall, it is
' deemed out, and filled actin in the mime way, so that,
in the °puree of • year &large quantity of compost lose-
cured. Nuns this all. Ague of all kinds are preserved,
and used with the greatest economy.. The heir Ikea the
lumbers 'bow is saved, and sold at so insehispiand.
&qv go about the *nets, with sake asfibeekiksailter-
i=4everything-wisiaktoan'be
dadiogrodp ode ter *of •

11AMITIla IT MACITIIIIRY,—We hall gladly the intro.
denims of every good labuur•savlng suaehine lad we
rejoin to see that the prejudiee against such implemenn
I. disappeaming from the public mind. It is booming
plain to every one, that the substitution of nasehanteal
forms for mere 'unsolder strength lends to eleven mint
kind, :den are eitanged by it from machines to oaken
and controllers of machines, Instead of going the same
round of hard, wearing labour' from generation to gene.
Potion like a blind horse in the treadmill, they tug
now throw very much bunionstoor toil upon machinery,
may subject the powerful but blind turns of nature to
the control of the human will, if wood aid iron ean
do touch of the drudgery of life, just AO WOll AM human
sinewe, surely it is better that they whoulti do It if by
the aid of a horn and a cultivator, one man eon till ea
much land ats tell men with ten hoes could do their work,
Cutely there is a post gain. Ito with all etabelitnites for
lite expenditure of human strength. To us, the gnat
ATlVlntint fur uteoltinery In agrieulture is not in cheep
ening often, but the relief it gives time farmer from wait.
lug toil, and tile opportunity it afforde him for selftlimm•
provement. It. tendency is to elevate, as well to tu
utak. him rich, It. tendency Is to mike farming ettraet
tire, nu less Than profitable, Well hes a writer ob.
served I " biaohinery regarded so a means to banish
man's elavery to toilltsjubetitimting brain work for the
labour of the laud, is high road to that fuller and
more perfeet development a-society whieli poet. have
painted, philosophers predicted, and revelation it is
believed loy many, supremely prediated,"—AntiriOnn
AprOmdiurial.

NODING AOUICULTU UAL ASSOCIATION.
Nome gm, Sept, IS.
The annual ploughing match of the Moding.Labotirers'
Friend ad Agrioultural Awe!Alan wee hold yesterday
mi Mild on the outdo of Mr. &widen, MX, of nkreen
Park, Raise, and after the match the annual dielribution
of labourers' prises took place in a tent in eke park.
The mooting wee very largely attended, and the allow of
cottage garden produce Was very fine.
Mr, PI-remit:on, NI., in dietributing the prises, which
were for all kinds of agricultural services, merle an im•
ordain address to the labourer. primate, pointing out
that a uniform Donne of goad centime is sure, sooner or
1N.,, to meet with Its mead.
In the evening a lags party of gentry and farmer',
principally from the &inlet of the Roothings, which
imbrues eight perishes, dined together at the National
Bohool.rooms, Rozwell, Mr. Brunton, M.P., in the
absence of the Earl of Rodenr who was prevented at.
tending by Innen, °coupled the chair, and was sup-
ported by Mr. Beresford, M.P., the Bee. Mr. Hearn,
and other gentlemen. Mr. Shepherd filled the °Moe of
Vice-President. About 160 gentlemen and farmers sat
down to an excellent dinner, prtvided by Mr. Duran,
of the White Hart, Chskrisford.
The cloth haying been removed,
The Chairman gave "The health of the Queen," ob.
leering that it was a tout which ought to be drunk first
in every assembly of Her Majesty's subjects; and he
very much regretted that in one portion of the kingdom
It was considered a noonday toast. (Hear, hear.) He
was quite sure that it would ever be the first toast in
every respectable suiety in England, whatever might be
i the case n Ireland, (Hers, hear.) Roth in her private
and public; capacity, the Queen was worthy of all admi-
ration, and therefore he called upon them, aa loyal sub-
jects, to drink her health. (Cheers.)
The other loyal and patriotic touts having been
drunk,
The Chairmen gave "The health of the Bishop and
Clergy of the Diocese," observing that there was no body
of men to whom the peasantry, the landed proprietor, or
the magistruy were more indebted than the rural
clergy, and that the society owed much of its prosperity,
and was deepl7 indebted to the Clew of the various
parishes to wMoh its members belonged. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. Hearn, viola of Roxwell, in returning
thanks, said he could bear witness to the wonderful
' effects the association had produced in ameliorating the
condition of the labouring Olasica. It not only raised in
' their minds a spirit of emulation, but improved their
whole morel tone.
_ _ _ _ . . .

I;a—mpe—tOn., M.P., in proposing "Prosperity to
the Boding Labourers Friend and Agricultural Associa-
tion," said, that it was now twenty years since that
toast was lint proposed by the President of the Associa-
tion at the anniversary dinner. It was a matter of great
gratifaction to Min to propose it to the numerous and
highly respectable company by whom he was surroun-
ded, and he could not do so without referring for a
moment to the wonderful success it had met with, and
the enormous influence which agricultural societies gene-
rally had exercised in what might be termed agricultu-
ral progress. They had heard from various gentlemen
throughout this great and important district of the bene-
ficial influence, moral and material, of this mutation.
As a landed proprietor, and also as • magistrate,
could bear testimony to the fact, and lie believed that if
they consulted the annals of orline for the last 20 years
they would find the name of no inan who had been en-
unwed and rewarded by this society in the miming
calendar—(cheers)—not one of them had been exposed
to the animadversion of the judge upon the bench for
misconduct. They very well knew that those who took
upon themselves the vast burden of carrying into effect
all the details of the association had no peat induce-
tnent held out tot them. There was no show of stook,
and politics at their annual dinner" were most carefully
excluded, In spits, however, of these drawbacks, as
they inight be termed, the society had flourished for the
last 20 years. Those who went into the taut to.riey
must, he thought, have been extremely surprised that
with go limited a means for the application of manure
as the labourers possessed they should have succeeded
In growing such extraordinary vegetable.. (Hear,
hear,) He had observed that a gentleman who was
well known to fanners by his advocacy of high farming
—Mr, Alderman Moohl—bad lately been starring it in
h. provinoes, and had told the agrioulturists whom he
had Addressed that it wax absolutely mammary thst they
should plough their soil two or three feet deep, end he
looked forward to that wonderful and happy time when
no land should be lot under 11l an term If ill
the lend were cultivated in the saute manner as that of
the labourers who had taken prises at the meet-
ing they might see the rent rising to the rale of market
garden grounds, and Mr. Meghl'a wattle would be re
-
larded as prophotioal, though lie rather thought they
were at present poetical. (Leughter.) For he did not
me how the lend could be made to 'tarry white crops
that 'would enable the fernier. to pay gush a rent.
(Hoer, hear.) If Mr. Meek( were present OM dey lie
would me that, without any very extraordinary efforts,
them effects had been produced which he, by an goon
moue outlay, produted upon hi. own term, and whieli lie
said others ought to produee. They werti living in a
manly whichlt had been very mush the fashion to on.
Agreeing and dimples, He bellowed that societies like
them hael done a great deal to bring the agrioulturAl
111111114111 before the world. They had called general 'Men-
tion to the question of (arising, and, although there
might be lonic ground of complaint, still nu one could
deny that a net deal had been done of late years to mi.
prove the mMhod of tanning. When he looked at the
meths with* had been taken to lessen the eapenditure,
not only of production but in Ii Inv and bringing
the crops to market, every one mot be 'Welted that
great program had been made by the farmer§ of dila
country. (Ciliegre.) When they found the agency of
gleam being introduold, eitA there were among the
farmers stone who not only ploughed their own land by
steam but were able to let out their storm-engine to
their neighbours, to their inenifold edvantap, then, he
said, they might *onside that farmers were soaking
great progress in this oountry, and although they had
not yet fulfilled the expeetatimut which such enthusiasts
la Mr. Wahl might entertain, yet, with the practical
knowledge the enterprise, and the experience which
distinguish'ed the elm. In that diatriet, they ought to be
proud of the high position which the occupying farmers
now held. (Ohms.)
Mr. Shepherd, the Moe-president of the association,
in reeponding to the tout, observed that their worthy
chairman had taken a right view in mo bo rd to the ne.
fits conferred by these "metes. No doubt a very
material improvement had been made in the agrioultu.
ral community, and though they were only called
labourer's friend society, they might be Galled a tenant-
farmers' club with equal propriety. In all social im-
provements the movetnent, whether it came from above
or below, produced the same effede in ameliorating
the condition of the whole body. (Hear, hear.) It
will become them, therefore, to be gratified, not only at
the intellectual and scientific, improvement manifested
in the cultivation of the soil by the occupiers, but the
vast moral improvement which had taken place in the
labouring classes through the agency of such societies
as thia Twenty years ago that district was, to say the
best but semi-cultivated, now it was in • high state of
oultivation, and nowhere was bettor ploughing to be
seen than in the once much ealuminatid Roothinp.
They were now in the 20th year of their existence as an
agricultural association, and such had been their con-
tinued prosperity that whereas they started by giving
46 prises they now offered no lees than 165. They had
not been asleep to the progress of events. When they
had found an improvement might be effected, they forth-
with made it; when they found • reform was nen"-
sexy, they, as conservatives of the peasantry, effected
it; in tut, they were always a step in advance of re-
form, and thus it was that they had gone on from year
to year improving. (Cheers.) He believed they had
indeed entered upon a new era of civilization, and that
the spirit of improvement was not confined to the
agricultural labourers, but that it was permeating
throughout the vast nut's of our working population.
The national statistics showed no less than 2,000,000 of
the adult male population of time country were members
of friendly sooities, •fact which spoke volutnes, for when
so large a number as that had a stake in the prosperity
and solidity of the empire it went very far to insure its
safety, at least from all internal dangers. (Cheers.)
He was glad to see that by far the greatest number of
candidates for prizes that day and all the successful com-
petitors, where members of benefit societies. (Cheers.)
Every one of the points he had touched on was matter
for congratulation, and afforded a striking proof of the
great benefit' conferred by this and similar asociations.
(Cheers.)
The health of the Earl of Roden, that of Mr. Brans-
ton, and several other toasts having been drunk, the
proceedings terminated.

FASHION IN THE DUBLIN POOH-HOUSE. Some of
the refractory females were lately seen in the full bloom
of the present mode. Inquiry wits made, and it was
found they had abstracted the wire fences of the garden
end formed hoops, which they attached to their dress
to ape the aboard and unsightly fashion which now
AWKWARD WlTNEBBEB.—Sergeant Cookie, who was
• rough bluetering fellow, once got from • witness more
than he gave. In a trial of • right of fishery, he asked
the witness, "Dust thou love fish r " Ay," replied the
witness, with a grin, "but I donna like cockle sauce
with it." The roar of laughter which echoed through
the court tether disturbed the learned sergeant. There
is an anecdote something similar related of Sergeant
Davy, • great lawyer of the last age. A gentleman
once appeared in the Court of King's Benoh to give bail
in tics num of £3,000. Sergeant Davy wanting to display
his wit, said to him sternly, " And pray, air, how do
you make out that on are worth 23,000 r The gentle.
man stated the pertioulars of his properly up to 23,940.
"That's all very good," said the serpent, "bet you
went MO more to be worth £3,000." For that sum,"
replied the gentleman, in no way deseonoerted, "I have
• now of hand of one Sergeant Davy, and I hop he
will have the honesty soon to settle it." The laughter
that this reply excited ettended even to the bench the
e t looked abashed, and Lord Mansfield observed,
milctftnusual urbane tons, "Well, brother Davy, I think
we may wept the bail."—Law Gad Lawyers, by ArcAer
Petal*. '