The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-01 00:00:00

THE FAT OX.

Mr. Mason's fat Oa; of 1908, of which there has
balm so many portreita distributed, had 12 inches of
fat on th. rump and Pinches on the rib; and for fine
bone and other qautities, it has not been exceeded.
But he stanhe now still higher ae a breeder by the
production of the wonderful white ox of flanghton-le-
hpsing, now treeeiliew tic south the country as a show,
whom size and qualities 'Mike every beholder with
seteelehmeet This ox wee shown at all the great
towns from Thrhatn to London. in the months of
October, November, and December. of 1813. and in
Loudon until the May following. and then proceeded
to Rochester. where, by something unaccountable, It
fell ill and languished for three weeks, and when
slaughtered, weighed 168 stone. sinking the offal. He
was 5 feet 5 inches wide at the hindquarter*. 5 feet 39
inches at the shoulder. 1 foot 3 inch., to the knee, 2
fest high to the hock, 18 latches from the ground under
the brisket, 19f inches from the ground at the cheat.
His lengsh was 3 feet 2 inches from rump to hip bone:
1f... 1 in..rh from poll to tail. He weal° feet 5 inches
round 6y chest, 3 feet 9 inches' round tie neck; Ms
face was s't inches wide aeons the eyes ;Me bask 3 feet
6 inches wtle acmes the hipe. He waa white.

SCIENCN IN FANNING.
rt. Musa* Is convinced of the value of
Were to the fairer, and is unwilling to throw are
rstuts ...id at after long experience. "Turnips.' it
as,.. "marring 90 vet rent of crater, it... at tha taat.
wrath,. of lea I. err and rattle. in lams quantities, as
so supiy ebassed• as a frosty morning. erre neirssad
itself to commies sense. To ware arm in large yards
whoa it can coursed £4 per tom In the market, or can he
converted into food almost as autritious as try, swab abb
equally foolish arra Kr. Grnian Inform, no that
pool, ran he eori,4 .55. per square yard. and that. as •
tenet nal, wrests 191 feet superficial, LS par hear will
give a remanent roof. re ardor of which can hardly
The hi. herr meant to bore the corn
In the straw, of the rite* farm. have It their eminence
sr that we stack sad thrash fa the field. Tire are
covered yards ready to brit and should he at ones treed
to account as such. In them may he eternal lb* MO
-
crier sad the pulper. The mom eutwrilling me, ',ea
Moot &holler, and with the saisiance of their retrainee!"
fabricate mixer's of the most itisinir daription.
Tat as mart epee the pretical bs.sty of the sera
Cattle 10.1 at are with • roe( over them. Improving at
the rate possiliv of 'CI per ...k' (N.. Coleman'. speech).
err worried, manure doubted in value, and the
pherre of far. lag error as it Is brought into bai.
gnor with the Weft bit seleees."
TILACTICAL HOS= ILILNAGIYINT. •
rhe horrs hoof, Peerherle to imolai, mot b.
Fn.." b, mom the tee sis the sole side of the foot,
4resZimg at the rim thus "the eons;
ocing the hods to a lewd fr.& ..a
ylEgtsg lb. gumbos lab"
_alemiskt
eels to tibt curve no gstignes• Veva Cilis

the sole Is to be removed, so as to SIMI* Ito natural
Prosenvlty, for Dmiderla has seen many hones lamed by
smiths In attempting to apply to the hones hoot the
meddled French shoe, by Oscine the shoe '' Bet op= the
sole." Any pressure on the role is cure to injure I. and.
no staled in previcnio letters, the shoe ohould he nailed an
no other part of the foot sae, on the outside ernot, es
corn. and most of this dimness occming to the •••••• f•••
originate froin bad shooing, and prinmpslly from inlimim
to the sole. The frog. if Om and even on its ream. will
not ',quire attention. hut if rough end uneven the semis
detached 1111,1 superfluous parts are to he removed. The
shoe in ill cases should tie 1111.14 full—Jo.. must he
" shout onsimighth of an inch wider than the blot at the
bd•••-•••• • intl., longer than the termination of tn.
born,
in order to prevent the pesthilitv of the A*,
"l.iiag Itself within 'he must between the Periods
'of d." 41; —Pr"' " Lim Stock Jemnsa."
The Iv tl (101 l kiew,t g 1073,) of ND. William
Hublierd. late of Lyulholmt Lslgo, White Horwinee.
South Noommxi, and of N. 51 Borough lilithetreet. hop
utereuant, who did on the II alt. woo Proved on ••• I°••
hut by Mra. also Hubbard, the widow, the sole
exemitilit. the persona! e.now being sworn under £50,000.
Tbe testator gives to his daughter. Anne Doreus Welch.
1411,0010 and the that of everything else be possums to his
wife. _

BEER AS FOOD.
Mr. Addis Jackson minis ea follows in the Times :
As • large farmer. I will just write to you my experience
ea to beer being essential to eye to No mat lo.hoYou sod
harvesting. In the first place, I mod dabs my bailiff ie •
teetotaller, and he rebated me en try the experiment of
giving my men money instead of beer, and we tried it, and
the result wee the men would neither buy bear nor work,
and what little labour I got them to do coot me doable,
and my teetotal bailiff and self had to go back the old
plan. We custard beer in tube from a oeighhouring
'Teeer as usual, and gave the non their usual &Dolmens,
and we get twice the work eel of them, aad the men are
more eati4loci. The fact Is, hear trio on a labouring men
just ea oil bee on • niaohine. and anv one can prove this
lett by trying. N other drink will do this, vie., water,
tea, dee. cocoa, or rinser herr. These drink, only
tiocnch men's thirst for the time, bat give them noenergy
fur their work.
Now. I will euppoise the Perriletrve Bill I. passed, end
my parish keg adopted it, and all the mihim.bnuan are
shut up. This would make no difference to me, furl get
my hoer straight from the brewer, and this would most
certeinly he the case with the lehourer when he wanted
leer. hrewer would come thiough the village loaded
with small tubs of beer, bolding nett. µ galls., and would
icon.a tub at every cottage in the parish. and would trust
the labourer to pay for it every week, one under the
other, no that the beer).. was d rinking would not be paid for
tall he had drunk it along with his wife and children ;
whereas, if this Permissive Bill had not been adopted in
our parieb he would have gone to the pablic-hortre, as
before, .d got hie beer, and his wife and children would
haye to cone vrithout _ . _

liohlOa.-ro-pii.e7:7.ll.frocaithire Farmer" as followsj—
Swing • letter front Mr. Addis Jackson describing his
lasbility to get men to work in hia honest-fields, and
&Junius that such results in his ease prove to detormetrs-
non that the Permissive Bill would alas be • failure, I ani
induced by a sena* of public duty to answer the same. I
also farm • consideraMe extent of land, and have been
connected with it more or lees for 44 Team !have mem
loft i Wyoming with beer and hervesting without beer,
and I mar inform you that I would not allow either hew
or any kind of int-xicating drink to come on my premises,
for if I did so I should not only he injuring the health of
the workpeople, but I should have more insubordination
and Ices work than I have at preeent Allow me to
deacri be the way we have managed our ref reahments fur.
number of years on my fan. When I stopped the tap as
far w beer • as concerned, I pet on the kettle, and allowed
the haymakers to have tea, coffee, cocoa lemonade, or an
infusion of raspberrim or any fruit we have ripening in
the garden at the time. The principal article toed, how.
ever, is tea, with a large quantity of milk in it; we aMo
give once or twice a day, according to circumstance.. •
little bread and butter or chem We get In our hay
quite se well aa our neighbours, and we think we do
better than Irma whose haymakers ace "on the soros"
sometimes on the finest days for making hay. During
last ha) time I purchawd slot of hay grew from • farmer
near my place, whose men had entirely dwerted him,
alter behaving very badly to him in the matter of
drinking a great quantity of hew, and rendering a pro-
rsetionately email amount of cork. On the nude that I
farm there is a village in which is • cotton mill, and
cittagss occupied by farm labourers and factory opera-
tives. It is now many year, since ricorieded in
stopping the sale of beer in this village, and I never either
we or heard of a barrel of beer being brought into the
village for the use of the inhabitant,. There is neither
tobaccoo nor drink sold in the village, and youwill ne.ef
see a boy ova youth belonging to the place with *DiPe in
his mouth. I should wish to wy, further, that the people
seem perfectly satisfied with the meant Wats of thins.;
and I unsure, if the inhabitants had the power to introduce
the sale of beer, they would ttemot it.
SUTTON'S AMATEURS GUIDE
We have received this work, which this year is more
comprehensive and tastefully got up than any we have
seen howtofore—which is saying • great deal. It is illus-
trated with three beautiful chrome, moat faithful, and
MO wood engravings, while the text embraces the follow-
ing articles which have been written especialy for this
work, and the following *abject/ treated on 'A Yeer's
Work in the Kitchen Garden—January to Mmerhme
"The Rotation of Crops in the Kitchen Garden," "The
Cultivation of Vegetable.," " The Cultivation of
Flowers." "The Cultivation of Bullion Flower Roots,"
-The Cultivation of the Po.ato," "The Eradication of
Garden Nita" and "The laying down and improvement
of Garden Lawns, Croquet Grounds, inc." Included In
the Guide is a complete denertptive list of all the hiset
varieties of vegetable seeds, sower weds. potatoes. Mc.,
so that every reader can have no difficulty in selecting
Ores aorta beat milted to his requirements, We can
recommend it with confidence to our readers, and we
think It fully boars out the opinion of an eminent critic,
that "it deserves • place in every sitting or drawing.
room. It gloss with beauty, sad I. a perfect work of
high art."

PERILS OF THE SEA,
A Paymaster in the Navy writes to the Tiaies—Stories
of adventure by sea end lend abound at (ffirletanaietide
but imagination never pictured so moving a tale as 000 I
Just narrated to me in simple laaguag• by the actor and
sole survivor. John Ireerthr, one of a crew of twenty,
all told, left Penarth Ronda on the Mth alt., in the Mar-
garet steamer, bound for Malta with coals. On the dark
moonless night of Thursday, the IPth, a heavy sea struck
the ship ; the cargo shifted, and the •00801 was thrown I
non bar beam ends, the sea making • clean breach over
her. The lifeboat was cot loose, hut catieiged, and 11 of the
mew were swept away for ever. The remaining nine
regained the boat and succeeded in righting her. A few
minutes and tbe ship seek; and tho-• poor fellows were
adrift on the waste of waters in a disabled boat—the howe
had been eters in—without nave, without provisions,
out water. Helpless they drifted, and at daylight two of
the number were lying dead in the water with which the
the boat we. half filed. Friday 00/0011; Saturday; no
risme. One by one the sufferers died, dropping quietly,
3ffliarthy says, without any raring, and were thrown
overboard. On Rowley morning the nal/ living occupant
of the boat was Weartby. Kul by hie si • rested tbe body
of a sailoc. which he bad no rtrength to move. Than the
seaman fell asleep, and in that sleep of exhaustion he, too,
would doubtless have been passed any: but • noise of
about; ng &mugs' him. I..oking up he saw a large steamer
alousaide. Ralf daeed, lie neat hituaelf into the sea: •
friendly wave washed him against the quarterdeck railsas
the .hip rolled. An engineer leaning over grained hie arm
and he was saved. The Teasel preyed to he the Spaniel:
atetiner Rivera. The English sail, met with the greatest
of kindnem on board, and eras eventually landed at Lisbon,
wlaamce the British COOSUI sent him to England. Bach was
the story told by the y.ning sailor, originally a destitute
' boy, one of the many tholmanda rewind by the Marine
Sariety. Sent to lea from the %Pulpits in NOR be had
thanks, as he said, to the training he received on board
that bine, already reached the rating of " A B " I need
warmly mention that the Marine Societe gave him want
needful assietance. The owners of the Margaret, Menem
Spartan, have also been most generous.

The death is =noosed of a centenarian at Wychlini.
Vary Butler lived to the ami of 103 years, and sti• is said
to hare retained the full possestion of her mental facul-
ties up to the loot. Her huahand, Guru Butler, died.
aced shout shout 10 years um Kra Butlees children
are thneneelsee old wen and old yeomen.
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SCARLET PIT= MT POST —Dr. Cornelius Fox writes in
the Soldiery &mord :—There can he no question in the
mind of anyone who has taken an interest in sanitary
subjects that scarlet fever poison is diesernimited by
lettere for proofs of this evidence have been repeatedly
afforded. The outbreak of this disease in a village t-
ram ha. presented Gael( to my notice on two oCcaisios,
ond in both cares the disease lies spread.
Miss IDOLS Fernitiett intraiuce several new and
important features of interest into the Viotoria Make
during the coining year. In the January number • series
of portratt• and biographical sketehes of eminent we.
will minimise. The West Loadolt Soprees, started by
Miss Faithfull in Septeinher. has already proved such •
soccer that she has been obliged to introduce eteam
machinery into her office, and increase her staff of female
corn cosi toes —The A mdm.
ENIOILLTION To Now ZW‘LAND.—The following vemela
.lespetched by Sir Julie Vogel the Agent General for New
Zealand. an reported to have &mired safely at their
destinations: "Illtvitera.' which sailed from Plymouth
for Nelson on the 24th Auguet, arrived at Nelson on tba
list November. " Waips," which sa.led front Plymouth
on 28th August, arrived at Port Chalmers on the Est
November. " Haronni," which nailed from Pliniollih
the 16th September, arrived at Wellington on the Bth of
Dwerobev "Ralialo," which sailed from Glasgow cm
the 7th September. arrived 4 Canterbury on the 10th of
December.
TIOIOAT lILIUTATTOW --SWOONS and dryness, tickling
and irritation. inducing cough sad affecting the voice,
ror these symptoms use Espies Glycerine Jujubea
Only in boxes 6d. and la , labelled "Jam. ICm and
CO., lionsceopethic Chemirle. 48, Threadneedieetreet,
and 170, Piccadilly, Loadon."—Eppe's Hoinceocathie
Medicines are mold by MIMES, WATT*, sad How,
Dorchester.

ETKIIIIO —Epps, Caakoine (Quint-
et/OMM a Peak), is equally liquid and refreshing es
Ma, affording moreover a Merlins support to the
Tretrut. Unsweetened Eash packet (6d.) is labelled
Jsum Ern and Co., Homceopathio Chemists,
London."

Frrs. !el 'Arno TITS on FALUN(' &COMM •
pertain method of core ho• been di/mewled for this dim.
tressme complaint by. pisyrician, who is desirous that
all eafferers may temmilt from this providential discovery
It la never known to fail, and will cure the most hopeless
mei after all other mesas haws been tried. Full particulars
erill Iwseat limed to any pence free of charge—Address :
Kr. Wausess, 1", Oxford Terrace. Hide Park. London
Toasters AND Taamu.ane, Ladies rinking, rieltiag
the 'amide, or otherwise exposed to the scorching
rays of the um and heated particle" of dust, will find
ROISLA)TD'S ICALTDOt mast cooling and refreshing for
the face, hands and arms ; it ersAoatee sunbunt, tan.
freckle. Lc, allays the pain and irritation caused by
mosquito and mat bites, and produces a beautiful
sad dation* completion. Price I. 6d and Ps 6d per
bottle. Rowt.antes biacAsua On. prevents the hair
falling off during hot weather. ROWLAND'S ODONTO
whitens the teeth. Sold by chemists, perfumers, and
hairdressers. Buy only itowLairo's articles.
Racurr's Pays MAIL —lb* marked superiority of
this Laundry Blue over all others, and the quick ap-
preciation of its merits by the public, has been
Mended by the usual riming—wit.. a Mood of imita-
tions : the merit of the latter mainly coosista to the
Ingenuity exerted, not deeply in Imliatisag UN 69img•
shape, but making the of the
wrappen resemble that or :ire ng=cle. The
Manufacturers beg theesfor• to motion all begyen to
" Reckitys Paris Blair on each Dackst.. _

HoLIO--;17;7e- OtWitar.Tag; PULL —Chest Pnetervs•
lima —At all easeter of the yew the rate d modality
from dinars of the low la YerT Mat aelkwar
Giultidi will rubbed opos re rest, sided by his
arrests ail mischief. These eleandag megicantente
dares. the wet salutary ad reetaratim i 111110,14111 over
dr satire mature of the Fedora' deity. Air-tand
"MS. hinedreseele, gad all other theme fed their
7.huisorldlY Potent pouter. mom particulaity in their
tarred nil Purifying both venous sad arterial blood, by
prosodic/ free circulation of ad. Matthew Ointment nor
Pith rodeo any 1/01100. tardiest whatever but their
bard& eerie Doori•bes rather than imitates the
syrans, sod kindly ardor untoward motronurall ad is
well sacs more . .

-111 ACT 073,-;oe- or &town Yenrrecroth —lt la Ow
isit to dad that &Ward holds Mr own against the Mee
aompctiton of femme"' is them articles. the demand
tor whielh at thie time of year is *sermon. We are told
that Wharf's, the maws at the Celebrated Cocoa
le.mm. have met oat nearly two minima at their
ezettimite tittle home at Ohecolaie also' Jena, wed they
wla term a velem@ Ite slams of owr &Nees
"ft the