The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-01 00:00:00

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Till Gill LAI/R.—II is iotended to form at Bir-
mingham a "Gems Imw &Pail kettoMation."
COMITY (7111gmtlfS11110.—A committee of the Derby-
able* Agricultural Society have reported on the Ameriami
Factory System of Cheesemaking so tatisfartotily that
It has been resolved to establish two factorio, is that
'aunty. £l,OOO has been subscribed by the Derbyshire
landlords as a guarantee fund (to extend over three
years) against any loss that might arise in case of role-
Josnagement, or any other caws. Mr. Alderman Roe,
of Derby, has consented to lend the promoter* of Mai*
I,ew trench of induatty • large building in the town
free of charge for the Brat year, and an American ,ver•
!leer, fully acquainted with the process of chasm:lnking
,1 coder the factory system, has been already engaged.
I Thu Wmrrarcurzas or TOWN tizwzaram.—On Wed-
' nesday evening, at the Morlivt7 of Arta. Mr. Wm. Hope,
V.C., read • paper on then,. and abused town sewage.
According to the returns furnialmd by the engineers of
the Metropolitan Board of Works, the daily average
quantity of sewage pumped into tb• Thames at Cremonese
was 214,937 cubic metres, end at Barking 117,091 cubic
metres, equivalent to about so many tons by weight.
All this Mr. Rope asserted represented so much money
wasted, and adding thereto the interest at 3.1 per cent.
on the five millions invested in the pumping apparatus.
it WAS on the whole the most extravagantly wasteful
expenditure recorded in history. He estimated the
sewage of the metropolis to be worth is. Bd, per head
per annum, and considered that the waste now going on
In the country represented at • very low calophcion
400 millions of quartern loaves annually, which would
feed more than five times the number of the pauper* in
the United Kingdom. (Thia is important. Under the
water system there must always be great waste ; but the
application of the Rev. H. Moule's Dry Earth System
is not only economical, but simple, and profitable, as is
amply proved by two Pamphlet+ just published (ride
.d•c.) entitled "Th. Impomibility Overcome," and
"The Salllloo of Manure as the Food of Planta.")
How To ELIVATI Ttll AGRICULTURAL LABOURZR.
Yet another scheme is propounded for elevating the
general body of agricultural labourers from their low
estate. A number of Kentish clergymen, moved thereto
by the condition of the labourers in that county—where,
by the way, labourers are said to be better paid than in
any other shire—observing that drinking hebite tend
deplorably to impoveriahment, disease, curtailment of
indestry, crime, and irreligion, suest the formation of
an emaciation, having for its object the counteraction
of the temptations and facilities by which drinking
habits are formed. The operations of such an essocia- I
(ion would be determined by its members, but the
following will occur to many as offering themselves for '
adoption :

To watch egainet, and, where possible, to restrain the further
multiplication of drinking 110114 w, in localities where there
1., obviously, no demand for them.
To stimulate • more eflicient control by the ponce of exkting
house. In which the law is evaded.
To take measures for the establishment of wound benefit
societies tincroinected with public-houses - for the promo-
...km of vi nave flower and industrial oboes—for the extension
of the allotment garden system—and for the unistance of
parochial aorta of various kinds to win people to sobnety
and rational mounsmienta.
Such an association ought to exist in every county. It
should include landlords, farmer*, and labourers as well
as clergymen. It ought especially to eoreidtr, with
regard to thew influence on this subject, the meeting
kinds of wage and methods of payment for agricultural
labour. No one am make a Sr. inesential ciontributbm
In the welfare of the agricultural labourer in this
respect than the agricultural employer.