The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

MARRIAGE.', BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.

In the United Kingdom thebirths of 251.829 children,
sod the desths of 16i,297 persons of both sexes, were
registered IP the three months ending on December
31st The natural increase of population was thus
83,532. . .

a persons married in the quarter ending
September 30th, 1868, was 101,130.
In the third quarter of the year the marriage rate
was below the ge of the season. In the last quarter
of the year the births were slightly and the deaths eon.
aiderably in excess of the average.
In the last 92 days of the year 1660 as many as
128,146 deaths were registered. This number is 8,050
more than in same period of 1868, and 11,949 more than
in the lest quarter of 1867.

The morality was at -tie annual rate of 2316 per
1,000 living, whereas the rite in the SUMO season dur-
ing the ten previous years we. 2190 per 1,000; the
names of nearly 7,000 persons have thas been added to
the death registers of England during the last three
months of the year who would not have found a place
ttere had the ordinary rata of mortality prevailed.
11 la notioeable in the pteeent return that while the
excess In the death-rate of the previous three months,
ending 30th September, was canoed by the high mortality
In large towns. in the last quarter of the year the excess
Is shared by the small towns and tionstry parishes.
To the South-western Counties the death-rate was
2016. Seventy persons bays suffered from unall•pox
in Warminster since its first outbreak In the spring of
the year. Measles and esarlet fever prevailed In many
distriota. Exeter experienced a high death-rate, the
number of death. being 261, compared with 176 in the
correeponduig peribel of 1868. In the North Hill sub-
district of Launceston 31 of the 60 death. were from
nea-tea, whet was very fatal In the parish of Stoke
Climeland. The following are the returns for Dorset :
Inures.

11 ARRIAIIIII. MMUS.
—....-
8993 Dec. D.
.867 1868 184941867 18681 86;1 1869
—I
21 21 16 97 107 4 4 64
11 20 15 81 ea 4 60
24 18 24 116 106 1071 73 67
27 28 86 111 120 114 43 14 81
19 il9 40 134 107 111 82 7 60
n' ea es 102 139 lii 46 6 103
74 161 72 128 211 2471 141 1001 149
40 43 36 181 167!24 SA 104113
21 115 25 110 12011041 61 51 71
11 17 20 88 93 47 77
. SI 131 28 141 142 141 76
—l --
Total
Tim following registrars' notes aro added :
Wimnongs : Orardorlog —Births. 60; deaths, 33;
&owlet fever 9.

Dumucrs.

Shaftesbury
liturrnlarter
Blandford
Wlmborne
Poole

Weymouth ..
Doreheirter
Sherhorne
Be minder ..
Beidport

Waipg
: Swasagt.—Bhihm, 27; deaths, 20.
Measles 6.

WAIIHAK : Wardianc—Birtha, 42; deaths, 30.
Scarlatina 13.
Bamtugsrza : NdAeroury.—Birtha, 35; deaths 41.
Moeda, 10.

FARMLNO OPERATIONS.
SPRING WHIAT should now be got into the land
the moment • proper seed•bed is obtained, so that it
may brsied evenly and vigorously. Give to-clay no
no credit for the weather of to-morrow, but let every
day basin and finish its own work. The weather,
too, 4 generally very unequal, for there may be "fill
dyke" in one place and • tempting seed-bed in
another. The thorough drainage of the country has
greatly improved its meteorological charactenstios
twitli an improved climate and cultivation
heavier crops are grown, and these require to he
earlier Sown, in ocder to avoid lodging and lose all
harvest time.

Yocria Spoor of every kind attend to early and
late. In breeding districts many time their cows to
calve about the beginning of the month, in order
that one cow may afterwarit bring up three calves
—two from this time onward, and one after they are
weaned. Some bring up four calves, two at a time,
others only two calves, one at a time. The calves
bought in are got from small cottage farmers and
town dairymen, and very great care requires to be
taken just now, and indeed at all times not to intro-
dam contagious diseases with the young calves.
Some prefer bringing up their calves with the pail;
others putting them to the cow'. Calves generally
thrive better when fed the latter way than the
former, and on less milk, but when fed by hand many
additions are made to the milk, as oatmealgruel,
olover-hay tea, boiled turnips, tcc. There is a great
art in feeding with the hand, so as to teach the
calf to drink slowly. There is &leo no little judgment
required in feeding the oowe both ways, in order to
supply wholesome milk; fur it is swell-known fact
that rotten roots, eaten by the o iw, goes to her milk
and physics her calf, thereby producing many of
those bowel complaints and other maladies so fre-
quently experieooed. With the abundant supply of
roots and spring forage crops now grown, mulch
taws kept exclusively for breeding purposes are
timed to calve earlier than in former times, in order
that the calves may have the full advantage of the
summer graes--eo that February may now be taken
for calving time, instead of March and even April,
if we go back to the last century. Stook breeders
are alive to the importance of early calves, and caws
must be attended to accordingly. This advance in
stock management requires more and better bowie-
' hold acoommodation, foa calve' require large, well
and well vcatilated separate peas.