The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-15 00:00:00

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SCITON'EI PAMIR'S YEAR BoOIX Tug 1870.—We hays
received a copy of Mesmrs, &Atone' " Farmers' Year
Book" for 1870, and find it thoroughly practical and
instructive. It contains articles Oa the agricultural
I grasses, from Messrs. Buttons' own observations and
experiments. There are also prepared tables of the
nations kinds of grasses and clovers, suited to the soils
as generally known, together with complete instructions
on the improvement of grass lands' and illustrations
of the leading thole of agricultural grasses, clovers,
roots, ,kc.. This indication of its oontents will be
I sufficient to commend the Year Book of tire eminent
iseed-m«n of Heading to the notice of all interested in
the subj..ct of which it treats. At this time too, when
we are told by London merchants that reeds are going to
he unusually dear, it is sati.factory to learn that Hegira
Sutton, who are near at home, have put their priors
considerably lower than last year. However, it should
be noted that these prices are only binding till 7th
April, so that early orders should be sent to secure the
present advantageons terms.
BATNBIRD AND Co e IMIAOSITTIVB PRISM) LIST rig
G R !CUM RA L GRAMM AND YoNAGII PLANTS roll 1870.
- Messrs. Hart-third, Caldecott, Bawtres, Dowling, and
Co. (Limited), of Basingstoke, have jest issued their
annual list, in useful handy form. At the inter-
national exhibitions, 1861 aad 1882, they obtained Prize
medals for "hybrid wheat" a, d " exoellent seed corn
and geed," so that they some before the public with a
certificate of reoommendation. In the pretest list
they indicate the characteristics of the herbage plants
worthy of cultivation, with the priest and quantity best to
be sews. Experience of the high value of saofoin has
induced Item to introduce a new mixture of seeds for
permanent or for alternate cropping, suitnble for dry
soils, in which sanfoin forms the largest tort, ani they
recomm. nil it with mach confidenes. Directions ere
given for sowing grate seeds, and a list of new forage
plants is addeo, with their several ebaracteristies, all
of them being said to be "worth an experimental
venture," encouragement to this being given by tb• now
well established Belgian carrot, Italian rye gram, and
sanfoin.

MIL DISRAELI has had • somswhat savers attack of
bronchitis.

H. P. Liddon, Prebendary of Sarum and
Chaplain to the &mop of Salisbury. is appointed Cation
of St. Paul's cathedral.

Tie late Bishop of —Exeter's residence, Bishopstovre, '
near Torqnay, was on Tuesday put no at auction, and
hrootht in at the reserved price of £10,060.
AT an iniuniest held by Lankeeter, a few Ask
dance, on the of two children who died from the effects
of poisoning through sucking eome Weiler matches, the coroner
said, "Hod the matched leen Bryant and May's, the children
would not have been poidonned." It cannot he to generally
known that Bryant and May's Patent Safety Matcher are not '
r s=us and that they light only on the box.—Vide Iskspice
May th
Hanreiliee C O2 enamor:MlA—The
members of this chamber hams held $ meeting
at Alton to discuss the future maintenance of turnpike
reads and highways. Mr. G. Selater•Bootb, M.P , pre-
sided. Mr. Trot% said in eonsidering any plan for the
filters maintenance of our public roads it will be well to
bear in mind that toll gates have been a useful and oom•
paratively fair means of forcing certain parties, snob as
manufacturers, brewers, carriers, hauliers, kc., to con.
tritula. rat s ia th• •hap• of toils for the repeitine of
turnpike roads in a much larger degree than they other-
wise mould have done. To the ordinary highways of
the country, however, them same persons have paid or
conitibuted nothing whatever, but instead of saying
that those who use the roads should pay for their ;nein-
tee•noe. wee., that those who are benefited by the
, roads should contribute to there support, and if we ao
I knowledge the principle that good internal commenica.
; lion cheapens the cost of production, thereby benefittiog
every Manch of the community, will it not be
Weed that the maintenance of the roads, mitral,
of being placed on a parish rate, or on the
common fund of • highway district, should be met
by • rate on as widely extended an area as possible?
I am entirely of opinion that it will he absolutely I
necessary to devise some means by which a portion of I
the expense of maintainiog roads which were highways
between towns and ether parts of the kingdom should he
thrown upon a common .fund. In ooaelosion, Mr.
Trask moved the following resolution That the
Chamber is of opinion that no legislatioc on this subject
of turnpike trusts can be made:dory which is bailed on
the exclusive rating of reel neiPertl."—The
remarked that in the event of the roads being thrown
upon the rates, it would be, leflutiM tette that they
should be thrown on the county Irate—(hear, her).
With regard to turnpike roods, • great difficulty pre.
meted itself. If they could get a royal commission to
certify that certain roads wsre kept strictly for the
publie convenient*, they might probably be assisted by
the votes of Parliament, and he wars not without hope ,
that -onie mush rangemeet might be made, though it I
would be very dielcult to do eci, and he should not be 1
imrprimil to learn that any Government found it im-
erscticable. It would he, no doubt. just that, uoon the
expiration of tolls upon &through line of communication,
the expenses should 'ashore° by,the public at large--( h ear).
He thought the whole question of local taxation would
he conddered by the Government in the coming session.
The subject was a growing one ; and though agrioul.
turista might express their semis of the injr•Age of the
present system, they were sesroely in a pc/Mon to sag-
ged • remedy which would he perfettly satisfactory.
LI" would now suggest the expo Hem of posing /Lr.,
trek's resolution, and meeting at some future day,
ate the subject had been before Parliament, when
they might further consider the qnestioa, together with
the ;impositions submitted to Parham, nt, and arrive at
• 4•flaite resolution. In his opinion • good system of
county inspection, in connection with perish manage
moot, was the real and proper solution of the question
-(cheers.) Mr. Twit's propositioa wag then adopted