The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-02-19 00:00:00

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual meeting of this Board was held in
the Board Room, yesterday. Mr. G. Granger
the chair. There were also present :—Messrs.
Rollinson, H. Billingham, Hall, Thompson,
Price, Higgs, Guest, Haskew, Wood, Homer,
Rhodes, Fiddian, Brooks, Pearsal, Giles,
Hingley, and Raybould. Admitted into the
house 8; discharged 5; born 0; dead 2;
remaining 322 ; corresponding week last year
317. Out-door relief, Kingswinford district
£22 Os Od ; Stonrbridge district £l5 7s 2d;
Halesowen district, £l6 8s 7d; non-resident
paupers, £1 Os 8d ; total £55 2s id; against
£57 18s Od last year.
The Master and Matron applied for an increase
of salary. The Board did not see the necessity
of increasing the salaries although admitting
their efficiency.
The Clerk reported that he had received from
the Treasury £l,llO 12s by the Parliamentary
grant for the support of lunatics.

MESSRS. EDWARD WEBB AND SONS'
ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF FARM SEEDS.

The Catalogue which is sent out year by year
from the well-known Wordsley firm, Messrs.
Edward Webb and Sons', Saadi:nen to Her Ma-
jesty and H. R. H. The Prince of Wales, is one of
those goblications which challenge attention no
loss on account of intrinsic merits as an authority
upon the various matters on which it treats, than
for the true taste and:elegance of design displayed
in the getting up of its pages. Accustomed, as we
are, in this age of free and unrestricted competition,
to much mere meretricious decoration in what may
be called the" ad captandum vidgus" style,
.it iv'
refreshing to find so, high an authority as the •
Messrs. Webb combining in their trade Catalogue'
for 1876, all. the handsome features of the most re
fined artistic publication of the day, with the use-
ful and practical information
,ythiett ,ie ever, sought
for by the agriculturist who,
.as a 'nada business,
, necessarily -farms his holding on the best cbramer-
cial principle—that of getting the best poSiible re-
turn in the cinickeit and most legitimate manner
from the capital ho employs in the cultivation Of
his farm: The book now before us contains much
mere than we can conveniently summarise: it
would indeed be difficult to say what it does not
co ntain, since every farmer may hero seek infor-
mation of the most reliable character, as from a
portable encyclopmdia, and everything to his hand
as if it had been written with a special view to his
own particular case. It is, for example, much
! fuller and more varied as regards contents than
! most seed calalogues. From ninety to a hundred
pages are devoted to sectional descriptions, in
many cases aided by splendid engravings, of the
most prolific and popular kinds of agricultural
roots, &c. in cultivation. The cover itself is a mas-
terpiece of design, executed in chrome-lithography
and the aid of the artist has been worthily em-
ployed in depicting, in their natural colours, the
different products in swedes, mangolds, potatoes,
&AL, for which numerous prizes have been awarded
to Messrs. Webb, or their customers at the various
cattle and:root shows. The more prominent of these
coloured illustrations show up well in Webb's far-
famed Imperial Swede, an enormous cropper, which
has been truly designated "the best swede in culti-
vation"; in the productive new variety of mangold
--Webb'e Sinveritellow Globe—which promises to
become the leading mangold of the day, hem its
distinctive features in size, shape, and colour ; and
the- handsome potatoe, Webb's "Surprise" which,
U a tontative experiment, was so successfully
grown last season by His Grace the Duke of Port-
land. Much space is of necessity devoted to Cereal
Seeds. In this department the firm ,of Edward
Webb end Sons,:have no rivals Worthy of the name,
since they are seedifarmers, having all the faciliti4 s
and appliances for making experiments at their
Own 'haul and trig grounds with various. seeds,
cereals and manures, and can .thus offer to their
customers the special advantages of buying the
beat article in the market direct from the grower
without involving the several degrees of profit
usual where the produce passes through numerenc
intermediate agencies before it reaches the farmer-
who has to Use The illustrOtions of Webbs,
Cheirsilier Barley, "Challenge" Wheat, and the in,'
creasingly popular strain of Webbs' Prolific Black;
Tortarian Oat,' one of the finest cropping Oat'
varieties known, are splendid specimens of the:
drau ghtsman's pencil.. Like terms,of appreciation:
if not of eulogy must be given to the seriess of ag4 •
ricultural grasses, for whieh thii firm has an excel,
lent reputation, especially for their mixtures of
permanent grass and clover 'teed& for, laying down •
land to meadow or pasture, which are judici-
ously arranged to suit the various soils according
to their geological formation. Last year, as our
readers will remember, the largest show, of roots
ever held in the United; Kingdom tooktslaefe at.
Wordsley, under the auspices of Messrs: E. Webb
and Sons, when a large stun in silver cups, and
money prizes was awarded to growers Or prize
roots, etc. who had used seed supplied by, the firm.
This year etc., who
schedule has .becii.
Augmented in the classes for rOot. crops, specimen
roots, cereals, eco., no less than £206 being 'offered
in premiums for competition at the Royal Root
Show at Wordsley in November next. Garden
seeds this year occupy a place in the catalogue, in
obedience to the expressed wishes of many influ-
ential customers, and this supplemental branch
will probably be found.a,Conlenience to Many who
may choose to get supplied with the best classes of
seeds,—for farm and garden alike,—from one
establishment whose reputation for quality is un-
doubted. Altaispther this is what may be truly
termed a grand book, worthy
,of its authort, the
farming world, on whose special behalf it has been
compiled, and the intelligence of the age to which
it is addressed.

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HAqLEY.

HAOLIT STOCK SALL—As has been the ease at the
previous weekly sales of this year, there was an excellent
supply on Monday, which met wan ready sale at full
market rates. Mutton, made 81(1 to 11.4 per lb.; Beef,
71 to 11 pee lb.; Pigsj were partisularly dear. ?bore
vas strong compotitioa for Cows and Calves, and Cows
in "milk.

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liotjsu Bassitum.—On Sultan aught last lil. house of
Mr. *Simnel Brazier was brokin open, by spine person or
porta:4li. , The house is si.thisted, near, the. I.roit:.rian
Chapel. " The lock was forced Open. The dt,eiyers and
beds, have all been opened and and the turni,
tura literally 'Upside down, but ;ortunakiky.a box, con-
taining Alo in gold was overlooked, also the. Nits's-
dress which hung behind the door ,and containing 10.
in Silver. The parties appeared to have been hungry
and took away some meat. The funeral sermon of Mr.
Brazier's father was being preached at the same time, in
the Wesley Chapel.

ANOTHER CIIRE—OF- DIPEASF. DF THE Lutius OF 10
YEARS' STANDING BY Du. Locpcx's PDIZI9NIC
_WAFERS.
—Mr. D. Verrent, Coast Guard, /ifountcharles, Danegal
writes: •‘ They are they are represented to be. 1 have a
child who was affected in the lungs (for ten years), and
they are the only thing that have done him any good."
In asthma, consumptiod, bronchitis, coughs, colds, rheu-
matism, and all hysterical and nervous pains, instant re-
lief is given. They taste pleasantly. Sold by all Drug.
gists at is l per box.