The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

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imroliti nr 04111dik.—The following *Min eallis
were Imported into kull In the week ending the 1111 h
ult. i—lfrion Isinete eiii. il aaalli_ll7 ealvel,4l lain*,
mil 10 pigs i from liershium Inn oxen' AO 'owe, IN
id Ype, end 7 pigs I Intel, IDA oxen, It sown, NI salves,
sii.l 11l Mgs.
INinninn finAtu.—llorlng the mast fortnight Iliel•
lowing ilidy hu loom Pain ill grill' importelli Into 1y414
•-•111146 Us. en 4,11i19 sink of wheel' islilf4: . elk ... i,„
hrs. of holey, , Cll7 Its, on 4,1161 qrs, ft til I CPI 4",
iliollreg Fri 4111k46;101411n1illaItsi. :Ili' iiiilli 16". "(14
.0 ',wt. ~, lion , 'MI Ilii Ida. on 11011 ern, of potato
eur I Mel duly, 111,11110.
thilurilat NUCalll AnIMULTIINAG ANIOVIATIONA—On
Wntlavalay last Os Annual merlin" of tide hmoslatlll
I took iilme al Aylesbury and whe well allirided by the
gentry hull thrillers of the dialrlal, The Irt aOm
wm easellent, both lei Tomtit, Stud qii
iy, AIM, to
. judge Irmo the number hnd vale. of hiejee Vim there
eanlee nu doubt be le the proeperl tif he :Melelfu
though It he bet recent in Itergigih, thaw, howeveT,
not liiiintolletely ounneetesi wlthilie Ineallty, the Miler
inlersal of the meeting wee the osneatallun ui is opinion
tram aim Uhemmllerul the HAshequor, who hisd ostuuleed
to he prevent at the tinsel dinner Arbor the show, llateling
more the *instilment§ of the right hon, gentleman were
doomed le dleeppolistineell. ton On TV0.4147 II Inalar Pal
reativial from him Meting that, being summoned to Lest.
is on peblle Winnow, he elsouhl IA be aisle to dine it
Aylesbury, subs lied originally Intended. The slimier,
however, named off with peat ifelisr, under the Intel.
ilanay of ar. T. Donau, and the Mine width might hue
lionn onnountoil ins dieserthilmi wee devoted In this ills.
auselun of the more germane Wino—agricultural Improve.
wont,

AelloOtAtinic OP One LIYaIIPOOL CONN TWO,—
fiooatierr roc Till Anortinc or Unto°MY
lirrAltalln.—M a meeting of this Asoosiotten, on
the lbth of Neplember It waa revolved that
tllgoureol effort should be made to bring about
the adoption of one unlioent stondard, bf whitli
.11 deeerlotlona of corn, flour, and mot, ould
be sold in all the inarkees of the kingdom, Thep have
hotted a elrealar In which they eoliell the eo.operstloll Of
he Wode, *ad rotor In detail to the Entirety of mod*"
la *Moll Wet are it 'mewl offoolod, First—there Is
,111•11M1111 alone 1 eutoond—welltt alone' third...-011111AUrli
1011011inuekeontsIn or be made up to a speolflod weight
It. throe anodu varying In different inarkete. Thut In
regard to wheat—

Pirot—aa to Nomura slow, M. mho VS—
Par Quartar ot I Imperial Bushels-41 Loudon and natty
tither plaota
„ Doom „ 4 Hipaohn, and othar
T. wee.
„ Load ~3 —at ihe6eld, Wow*.
tsr, and other pause.
„ Load „ 6 Quarters --at Oxford, arenas*.
ter, and other Mame.
[nod 144 Quart., —at verston.
„ Load „ 3 Imperial Bushels —at Bedford, and othar
places.
„ 801 l ~ —at Newatethi, Ply.
mouth, Darlington,
and other Moose.
„ 801 l „ 6 —at Barka*, Dunes
Kelso.
„ 801 l ~ 3 —al Oarlike.
8.001/448 to Weight atom, iAo who are—

Per Bushel er 011ba-44 Illnulughatm tilloirossaer, and other
playa
• TO —et Liverpool and Manoheetea
'Et akenmi and Wolverhampton.
15 „ —at Olnister, Shrewsbury, Market Dray.
tau, Nantwtoh, end other planes.
110 ~ —at Monmouth, Aberirevermy, and other
Plaosa.
• „ „ 04 „ Oarruerthen.
05 —at Aberystwith.
„ 116 „ Walsall.
801 l „ 1140 „ —at illasirow.
190 „ Llehrield,
„ • Ban* ~040 ~ —et Dubllo, Cork, mod ot,hor phase.
Owl, „ 111 „ $Olll,Ol, Mowry, mod othor plum,
WIO4IO „ 100 „ —al Pr 0.0,00.
liabbett,, 056,, —4l Deobviirh.
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Third—es So Woigh4 cal Alocceuro, Ow oaks we—
Per Quarter 010 imperial 114N1111111, eta conlaining or made
up to 0011e--al Witkolisid mid Pada
I ^441 Unties find other plane,
0 ~ 4441 ~ 41 flail, Newoulle, and
Loath,
Winder difterimme In the mode of selling barley, oak,
Aid other greln, hit in ell the marimba -how ossified,
The ineonvenienw Arising from tide OW of things ungt
be peteM to ell portly. engaged ht the sawn trade, To
militia At line the heterogeneous IMO l ntiotalons
111 the 11411111 'Miele in the verioui inerketa of the 11101( 414111
ingot be alumni unintelligible, end niiite
I with the spirit of the lige hi widelt welsh, fleeingtfll
weight II beginning inomonerally adopted even in 11111 I
equntry in/abets NO the elder element whereby the vane
el the mini cold hi Axed, eithough loliltlrl l It )11.
IWO 140 014 your eommiltee are opin on that
weight alone, irrimpeellve of inehure, 1,411. alinplemi end
enrait teat of 1141'130.
.tfevlng coma to tub eonelosioni
Pirs r Ir,',..";7l.2,hututrz,ozdZitieltr
e nal la lin; front este I alipisni 9 140
14
mint be Mamma NI, It would jai gimia
Beni labour in soinoutet is, Mown the 111 1111111. to
wort end narrow the fee MIN for trend, oldies it
would render peeler thy minimunieellon between VIPIII
inerkete thronghout the kingdom, and give on hiito(
gibla velue to the mitiletiona of prim now eit goner& y
through the plie prem. AN an W
tls proposed adoption a itandard o 1001 e.,
Money be iirgea the) lb. import Maim are evier by
11110Ntlftl, It living, however, generally
the mailing 'yawn of levying the duly r eorn le by no
plfill an *gullible one, and llie offjeu o I Utraftllolllll
ng to eerie the neAlon, 111, to he hope that our leglio
atom wild (uniform to any 11.01/11t1 VllOll by Oh.
eigip, At preaatit ipterttif of mein sale weighing
Mine„ worth Mc, pap the wine duty, 40114e1p, Jo. per
[porter, a quiarter of this beat Iridium or Penal'
whet, weighing itteithsi., and wort On A general
retlng of the tratie announeed to held In the thorn
sheath, Liverpool, oti the Ist of Deeember mil, and
*Methane Irvin We rhino wit oughts we invited to
attend,
Irnil thetelt CATTLN Tll4Oll Will filettlAND.-•The
i'ipperory Virpliatelor (Inionaely netional), while eon,
/rebuilding Ireland upon It. Mousing proeperity, sidle
impecial attention to one braneh of the Wide whieli haa
lately asetimed great importenee between this emintry
and kingland--mainsly, the Waite In fettle, The nudl.
value my.,—' Thanks to our Etigllsh friends and eur
mon outwork's', we hove Improved our herds to hell on
intent by the importation of tepidly teething short.
Mona, tlaat our fanners and landholders find retnenera.
ties employment for capital end labour In feeding utile
for the London market. We shall astonish most of our
metiers when we inform them WM, from elatielleal so.
wants now lying before to, It appears het durint this
mintier as inany as from 800 to 1,000 head of Iris
horned Mile, It for the butcher, have been in one week
sold .4th. metropolitan cattle market, London. The
question that now suggest. Itself to us le, whether these
large exportations give as advantageoun returns as they
might if otherwise managed. The whole trade is in the
hands of three or four dealers, who are in the liebit of
buying the °Attie from the feeders and taking them am
their own epeaulation in London. Why should not a
more legitimate, more regularly organised treffie take
Cl,, plaoe of the desultory trade that now exist, between
the two anntries in this article I Let us glanee at the
manner le which • similar trade is carried on between
Denmark SI well as other parts of the North
.of Europe and London. Well-known drovers
take . every week • ()Inuit each through a eel,
kin distriot, calling on the farmers by the way to
fateh whatever cattle they wish to send •way, thus in.
creasing their drove, throughout their route, until by
the time they arrive at the shipping ports they have
, oollected a goodly number. Ago matter of worse each
!farmer send. • letter of onntlgnment by the drover ad.
dressed to his cattle salesman in London through the
are of the broker, whose business Ills to see them
, placed on shipboard and booked on the ship's manifest,
likewise to have bills of lading made out in tlie names of
the London firms to whioh they are consigned. Would
not • trade conducted in the manner we hove ventured
to suggest be an Improvement on the plan that at pre-
sent exists? Irish farmeri would then be in continued
correspondence with respeotable English firms, who
would, in promoting their own interests, necessarily do
the but for their Irish employers ; beside., the beef.
growers of Ireland (if we may use the term) would be in
the habit of receiving the current London prioes for
their fat stook, and quick postal returns of money per
bank post bills wonld give them the means of employing
their capital surely to better advantage than the present
custom of giving the dealers • month'. credit, in order
to obtain • predetermined price, which, after all, may
be much below the London market value"

COVZBING DUNO-HEart.—" Great diversity of opinion
'till prevails regarding tho advantage of Adopting gene-
rally the practice of covering the dung-heaps. We agree
with Bowiaingault that more Is dreaded from the son
than from the rain, if due precautions are taken against
allowing more water than the rain which fella on the
surfing from entering the dep6t, and against allowing
any liquid whatever from escaping from the heap.
Many circumstances most be taken into acoount before
arriving at a definite conclusion about the benefits to be
derived from covering a dung-pit—such 1111 the locality
in which a farm is situated—the climate—the rotation—
the general ennui of management—and the kind of
stock kept, whether cattle or sheep, or both. We may
lay it down as a general rule, that, if the straw is scarce
and the climate wet, it will be found on advantage to
cover the pit. But on farms were the four, five, or
six rotation is followed, and there is an abundance of
straw, and where one half of the green crop is con-
sumed by sheep, and the other by cattle which are fed
rither in byns, boxes, or °mins, or partly in each, it
will not be any advantage to oover the ?bit during the
winter months, when the greater part of the threshing
is performed. If house-feeding is practised in summer,
the heap should be either frequently watered in dry
weather, or it should be covered to protect it from the
Inn's rays, As a very great number of the arable farina
I in Scotland may be and to be included in this latter
ditesilloation, Of managed wording to the system
sketched above, we may conclude that it will not be
found generally advantageous to cover the duv-heape,
which, however, should be properly constructed other-
wise. We have known many instance' in which the
greatest &Madly has been experienced in dry wining
to get the straw converted into manure, even though
all the cattle were fed in courts, when, of course, mod
straw is required to keep them comfortable."—Joureca
of dpripAoro.
DICATEI TO TM. Togas, FLT.—IP the list of patents
for which provisional protection has been taken out is,a
*whine of a novel and somewhat curious °homier,
brought out by Maim Priest and Wooinough, of Mob.
'fon-on-Tharnem, The specifionien, as taken from ts
list, describes the machine as a "blurt-drill," the °hint
of which is to proton the turnip arop from the ravages
of the ;i‘nd 100 sing and AM other numerous enemies,
and moors, as far so human ingenuity can accomplish,
this most valuable of all bulbous mai. The common
ImErtth.,........,l"erosewpsr".periLwith iiingmodethe.duturlllug:ll:tabttnabeigthdte,!wnydiarrownby whiledusi.titeol
w the plant. This operation is difficult, and
cloWg tids by band, the difficulty of dusting the under
~,sids of the plant, aswell as the top eide offers. go &ideation te this mode of ipplyihg hint, sbot,
, fir ant:lt treSitsd, they ImurrniprplaniS
at
son., wittv,•ler..,,,onittax I. throu.tb,r
means of blast fans upon every part of the plant, both
on the upper and under sides. The fans are put in ma

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