The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-05-16 00:00:00

THE PAST 7191-iIUXTING SEASON.

The hunting season which has meetly been brought
to • does has throughout the C.0144-I been a mo,t soooees-
liii
one—p -Hasps, lodge!, the most 'nooses( ul which hag
been ex drienced for sane years. Foxes have Oda plenti-
ful sod strOld, and have &lorded Lune ,higetal rune oftem
ending by beans. either by canning or needed or stay.
tug p /mar, both hounds and horsemen. The weather
cool, not have been more foyourable than it Ids beim and
dew • soccedion of turd or four seeds' in which meets
Wore prevented or rendered unplodant b/v frost it has de.
lighted the hearts of lovers of test:base to And themselves
dein faveared daring the buntitut •eteos with a
o Ultimate)* 0( Multiage which has affoliod them as aa
opportonit eta. they could desire of raking their neeks%
hedges and brooks. In but very few instances. agelit,
had teem been odeplatnts of • falling off in the support '
accorded to the drams hoots. liowever much lend.
owners may suffer from having lama thrown en their
hands, or from having tenants to whom is consequence of
the sericulturel depreeston ter, are obliged to remit •
psruou of their rests, and who are unable to repay the
remainder, they appear to be determined to uphold at aeg
'drake the old sport of fox-hunting, and, not witbatand-
Ing the trying timed through widish many of them have
' passed, their subdriptions to the local
_Lanka of foxhounds
m are now as liral as ever they Wee. Wtth emitting in
ite favour, then, hunting has doutiatied during tha last
hmeelloo, and though only on. scanty has been able to boast
of having an Empress beds* one or mother of its podia
of hounds nearly every day, yet the fields in other pule of
toe co miry have beau very large. Many fad hod well.
suttdued runs have been enjoyed, several of which have
been melte toed lee log all long as two boars and • kali',
and leaving the ri tors at a dusted* of SS or more mike
Irma tee starting potnt There have bees many kills, dad,
en the other hand, some of tits foxes which have afforded
to. beat runs have escaped in on honourable manner upon
the approach of evening, not to the great regret of their
inuti-taespattered and mounted pursuers, who never
grumble at havens fallel to kill if the fox die led than
gamely for any length of tante
Piessent, however, as the sport bes been daring the gee,
soa which nee Jut ende4 citedneteaces are edging 'Ala
may render it lees enjoyle ia the future, although it is not
likely that it will die out fir very many roans. lii. (ms
(dozers, however, rather than front inedlords, that moat
harm may be expected to hunting, and from them it will
some, not in a bed spirit. but as resulting from their
endeavours to indevete de ground is an improved
manner, and to produce the heaviest posible crops. •
mut& 01(01hounda. speaking at • dinner the other day,
declared that high farming condoned to anything but
sport, and went on to say that nothing tended to
out • gold run short more than trying to host
• fox over " • Geld of aerate* /Creedal manures set--
tautly seem to etcream the chimers in favour of the fox;
and as the use of these manures is becoming more general.
sad driculturista are being constantly urged to enrich
the lend in this way, be may expect to bear louder mar.
maned on the subject in the future. Fanners see
beginning to recommit, too, that. rod of land is not to be
despised in these ends, end in ploughing they leave as
lade headland as they con; whereas some years ago
they left such capitol headlands that horsemen following
hounds were able, se a rule, to gallop along the side of the
net& indeed of doming it and damaging the crops end
taring their animals.
Moreover, It is not to be hoped that there will not be
farmers, who, especially in mild dawns like the past, will
t,bject to have their crops ridden over ; and it is not an
Insignificant fad that several masers of foxhounds have
recently impressed upoo the members of their hunts the
desirability of riding round • add of wheat where It is
practicable, instead of galloping across it. But whet is
not unlikely to be the bate Mil of the members of buntsii
the ' deem digger," which is being forted upon the attest
eon of fanners, and which, II brought into general nee,
will make it not only undestrable, but ale 'biddy dangerous
both to horses and riders for cultivated Bildt to be ridden
over during St lime, o Charism p.OllOO of the hunting
'tauten. flits dider penetrates to • depth of Pin. sod
after turniog otter lb.. til leaves it in I ortnidable ridges.
INI that aoybody who rode Woe/ it would hey* to do 00 01
the hi-k oh br eking hue hord'a lege end of being heavily
thro en. More tad cos ot wilt. of hounds, while edmat.
log tne utility of the digger, has remarked upon it.
prebableeffect in regard to busting. One thing is certain,
end that is, that it there dould ever be a question as to
whettter huntaug should flourish at Me exp-nee 4 (ermine,
Or 1•11111114 at the asp :nee of hooting, the sport w mid
have to i.e sucrilboel or whet forms pert of the serious
btainese of life. for the present, however, it appears that
hooting and forming can be corned without either
In etfertng with the other to any great extent, and the
arrengemente which had been made for the next hunting
*deo a are gut. as complete and extensive aa they have
been in previous years.

WIPE MURDER AT LEIGHTON BUZZARD.
igen An %mama, • woman aged 66, died at Haab-
andmach, Leighton Susi ard, ou T.e.tke monalibweeng
the *Sects of a murderous attack made upon her h
user
hband, °sorsa Batmen;
on Saturday morning.
quarrelled sm 007 hie in hod, and the mast. Wain**
szasperated, etre' that out his arms, to* up • billisook
from the itgor, and *maul' ad his wif• in • brutal manner,
'Mho, Wydreedf at ...mods on her head, cutting through
the skull, and le out t the *sane protruding in two or •
throe places. He sio custody on • charge of murder. i