The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-10 00:00:00

Sgricultttrt.

TIII KOONIA onittA letANol.—Liverpool, 'Widnes.
dey.—The British &moire, which arrived at this port
on Monday, from Altyab,lyports having spoken Re sea
OHO brig Heloololse, from Kooria from Liver.
pool, the eseptoin of which teasel e••• • melancholy
oesident of the stale of the Islands. When lie left there
were 25 vowel' lying in the harbours, many of die crow'
were suffering from smallpox, scurvy, and fever. A
pestileutiel air pervaded We whole of the Wanda, end
whole ithipl *et, Mid up. The time templed be the
crew of the Heloololas la shipping 300 tons of guano
was 1W days.

Yonneunit Aunt:Mem eat 2:XT.—The 21a0 annual
exhibition of the Yorkshire cultural Amelialoti
' commenced at Nerthallerton on Tuesday. The total
number of entries was 1,477, and Included 211 horses.
142 settle, 102 sheep, Or, 102, poultry, 122, and im-
plemental 706, the nimainder consisting of flits, wool,
and grain. The sentries are lees in the whole thee last
year, when the aggregate number was nearly 2,000, but
the falling-off Is principally in the insplamieute and
poultry. 'The great progreu which the society has made
may be illustrated by the fact that at the third annual
meeting, shah was held In Northallertion In the year
1840, the entries' were little more than MO. The amount
of money awirtded in premiums tble'year was 002, in.
eluding !special prises offered by Lord Bolton. the
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large concourse of agriculturists, who Instituted greet
interest in the experiments. The miller of rupees
entered was 14, 11 of width tleent'aottially Jiul into
operation. In the oonstructicui of errand ef them some
»scut improvement lave' been introduced, but, un.
fortunately, tlw triel took plaos wader very disad-
vantageous eireumvtances. The rain desoended heavily
just when the trial commenced, and the _operation had
to be suspended for some time in consequence. Fowler's
steam _Ph-mak, or were worst, pasking, • ;dough
driven by a portable Sethi engine, psieforuied It( wbrk
in an admirable manner; and- was perhaps the beet
exhibadon mrthe growl of what, be‘been sesemplished
by modern science In furtherance, of egetentture. A
prise of £5O was offered for the best engine Ilaapted fee
fans juirpilis, and £l5 for the tesit reaping machine,
but the awards Of 'the iudites Will sot be known till
Thursday. The exhibition of stock opened on Wedneeday
lii two spacious thildivin lie iwaspaliom ef Mr.
;Itniii.7f. Most of the classes of cattle boning, cheep,
Stc., contained 46DM goOd.specintens. There was
numerous attendance on therehow ground, but Thursday
the visitors will be much greater; es therprioe of admit-
sin is always radioed on the last day of the show.
Among the noblemen and gentlemen prenent in the field
Tuesday and Wednesday, sere Lord Bolton, Lord
Weintook, Lord Greenock, Mr. 11. Greenwood. M.P.,
Mr. W. B. Wrightson, M.P., ke. The next year's
show will be kaki at HMI. ender the presidency of
Lord Henke. ' Thursday won the third end last' day of
the annual exhibition of the Yorkshire Agricultural
Show, at NorthaUerten. The weather was One, and
there was a numerous assembly' on the ahoy-ground.
,Upwardrof 10,000 person nersadmitted by paying the
entrance fee of N. The prineiparlntas wider the head
of iniplecuents,.£so, was awarded to Mr. John Fowler,
of Comhill, London, for'the best application of steam
power to the cultivation of the soil, and was given for
hilt steam_ plouzh, to which also was awarded a special
prise of £25 given by Lord Bolton for the beet imple-
went exhibited. A prise of £25 offered for the host
rowing machine was equally divided among the trustees
if Mr. W. Crieskill, of Beverley, for Croulrell's BAl's
improved reaper, and Mr. T. Farrington, of Normanby,
near Radar, for Burgess and Key's Improved mai:Mita.
A silver medal was awarded to Mr. Cothbut, of New-
ton•le•Willowe, Sedate, who exhibited an improved
Httesey'e reaping machine. The first prim for the best
hull wee gained by Lord Fevenliam's bull, Fifth Duke of
York, which obtained the first prise in the same class at
the recent show of the Royal Agricultural Society.
Thursday this animal seriouly injured a fernier be.
60 and 70 peen of age, named Thomas Ventriss, of Bill'
lale. While the man who had care of the bull was ab-
sent Ventrise entered the shed in which the animal was
tethered, end it Tired him with fte head against the
wood work, inflicting such serious bruises on the chest
and other parts of the body that he is in great danger.
" WITCRCR.tre AND AORICULTURI.—PIin7 has
corded the the story of an industrious and ingenious hus-
bandman, who, being in the advance of the knowledge
of his time, cultivated • small piece of ground upon an
' improved method, by which lie gathered lunch wore
' (mita, and reaped larger profits, than the neighbours
about him, though their posseesions were more stile.
His uncommon 'MOONY excited their envy, ineoniuch
that they brought this smusetion against hint—" That
by sorcery, charms, mid by witchcraft, lie bad tnins.
potted hie neighboun' fruits, fertility, and increase to
his own fields." For this lie was ordered peremptorily, by
Albinos, a Roman general skilled in agriculture, to
I answer the charge before him. Cresinus, fearing the
issue, resolved upon his best defence, brought his plough
and other rural implements. and displaying them
' openly, he sat there also his daughter, a lusty, strong
lass, big of bone; then, turning to the citizens—" My
master.," quoth be, "these are the aorceries, charms,
and all the enchautinenta that I use : I might also
allege iuy own travel and labour, my early rising and
late sitting up, and the painful sweat that I daily
endure; but I am not able to present these to your
view, nor to bring them with use into this wseuthly."
This hold and open defence captivated the people; it
proved the coup de main which turned a doubtful multi
to his entire favour; lie was pronounced "nut guilty,"
and those present took note of hie inventions. This
story, though not strictly belonging to the history of in r
own island, is derived from those who are said to have
next taught to the Britons the arta of husbandry. It
may, therefore, be fairly employed to show that the
first improvers of agriculture had their days of trial ;
that in all aged and countries, and in every i'sth of in'
quiry and invention —in the discovery of the rotation of
crops, as in that o the rotatory motion of the earth—a
Galileo hashed to answer for his daring before mine
embodiment of ignorance coustituting an Inquisition,Pkilip's Hiawry of Proyetee.