The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-08-05 00:00:00

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BARNSTAPLE.—Rascua FROM DROWNING BY
Doo.—A remarkable instance of the sagacity of
the brute creation occurred at this place on Wed-
nesday morning. It appears that a man named
Bushell, footman to Mr. J. Marshall, of the Barn-
staple Old Bank, was bathing in the river Taw.
when, going out beyond his depth, he was carried
away by the force of the tide, and would probably
have been drowned had not a large Newfound's*
dog, belonging to his muter, come to the remit,
and brought him safely to land.

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WI:STERN FIBITZEMS. —The Hon. Mark
Rolle, of Stevenstone, North Devon, has subecribed
£4O towards the feud being raised for the preserva-
tion of salmon in the rivers Taw and Torridge.

THI HARVEST. —The fine weather we have had
during the last fortnight will soon make the grain
crops ready for the sickle. A field of oats has been
out thie week at Pill Farm, Tawstook, near Barn-
staple, and the yield pronounced to be above the
,average of loot roan atop. ,
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SOUTHAMPTON. -.-The Federia war-ship, the
Tuaearora, whose presersof at Southampton' for
some time past has occasioned considerable specu-
lation, left the above port during Tuesday night.

Sitr' icutture.
place on Wednesday, in the New Public Park, at
Gloucester, which was then formally opened by the
Corporation authorities to the public. The two
societies of the oounty, one at Cirencester, the metropolis
'of-the Outteswold.• imd -the-ether at Olomeistee-the
metropolis of the Vale, were united. The meetings
were held alternately at Cirencester and Gloucester,
and the shows have gradually infuriated in importance.
Last year It Was resolved that Instead of. limiting the
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cossisting of the Mayor and
Corporation, the principal inhabitants of the city, and
the leading agriculturists of the district have rendered
invaluable services. Preminnia amounting to nearly
£6,000 were placed at the disposal of the society, and
the show was in every respect the best that has yet
been held in the neighbourhood, and would not have
compared unworthily with the Bath and West of Eng-
land in quality, but not quite in extent, except,
perhaps, as to Devons. The horticultural show which
by the way was enriched by some superb plants of Mr.
John Nelson's, of St. Michael's Hill, was most attrac-
tive, especially to the ladies. The hands of the Grena-
dier Guards, the Gloucester City Rifles; and the
Artillery and Engineers, materially enlivened the pro-
eeedirga. The weather was delightful, the scene
presented on both grounds most interesting, and the
attendance was la' rge beyond the most sanguine expec-
tations. During the day the fine now park was
dedicated to the public, and congratulatory speeches
were delivered by the Mayor and Mr. Holland, M.P.
for Evershasn. The public park consists of the old Spa
grounds, which the majority of the proprietors gave up
' to the public on condition that twelve acres of corporate
property adjoining was added, and the whole dedicated
to the publics for ever, as a pleasure ground for the
people. The grounds have been laid out and partially
planted.
COMIESIICKNEWr or Haavesr.—Wheat-eutting has
been commenced in the neighbourhood of Bury St.
Edmund's and Newmarket A letter from the latter
town last week says: "Harvest work will become
general by the end of the last week or the beginning of
the neat, if the weather becomes favourable." The
writer adds, "The last few days have done wonders in
ripening every description of earn, and we are pleased
44 be able to report that that which looked gloomily a
ort time since has now assumed a more pleasing
a peat Certainly the red gum has very generally
affected the Talavera wheat, but that grown for the ,
most part in this district—viz., red wheat, is but
slightly injured. Barley and oats, as well as toe wheats,
are ripening gradually and satisfactorily, and are an
alinndant crop." The wheat harvest commenced in the
'Pendring Hundred of Essex on Friday the 28th, and is
''now becoming pretty genera/. Contrary to precedent
in wet seasons the heavy lands have this year the finest
crops. On the light hinds there ie a very inferior crop. ,
Some of the Talavera is described by some farmers as
"hardly worth the cutting." In the blooming time •
heavy winds prevailed, end mildew and blight hate`
done much harm to the ears. Prematurely ripe they.
contaiu very few grains. Allowing for disappointed
feelings and a little eszaggeratidn, It may safely be
asserted that in this, one of the finest districts in this
binnty, the wheat swop is far below the average. In the,
barleys there is a good deal of black mad, but with si
fortnight's fine weather there will beisategether a geed
and fine crop. Oats also look well, and large yields are
spoked of. Peas are making up in good order and
;heavily podded. Turnips are late, and not free from
el. fly. The mangold is the boat crop ever remem-
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The last tel fine days have caused more encouraging
accounts to reach Paris about the harvest. With the
exeeption of the district of the Loire and Angers, the
no mints of the swops are such as to promise a moni
than average harvest on the whole. Those best able
to estimate the results of the harvest through
France say that the mops of rye and oats are n7;14
full, whilst. in many. districts wheat will be e
for the foreige markets. The last week of warns samay:
weather has brought about them geed nieults.4,
also learn that the coin crops are veiry fine in Hungary
sqd many parts of Germany • in fact, it i beti...4.
that the harvest throughout 'trope *AI be Satisfae-'
try.
.The present advises from New York report a rise In
grain, and say very little about the Northern harvetaL
It is probably good, but far short of that of last year
in quantity, and after the waste for the army shall
have been provided for the outride' for exportation :ow
prove moderate. Even, however, if it were hrgiN
there would be reason to doubt if it could be impplied -
to Europe on terms such as have heretofore overborne
the competition ef Russia ani other eraiu-produoing ,
("entries on this side, since the rise in the rates of
labour and freight consequent upon the introduction of
of the prohibitory tariff will make a serious difference
in,that respect. Meanwhile it is admitted that what.
ever may be the result in the North there is no danger
of starvation in the South, and that the tales hitherto
circulated by the Washington Itleians of impending
scarcity throughout the ' rate States have been,
wholly false. The New York Joutierd if Commerce, on
the authority ()netters (rout Federalists on board the
of
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" puzzle as to what will be dope with it." "The
banks of the Mississippi
It is added "are waving fields of it."
The letters from Frankfort state that in that dis-
trict and the whole south of Germany the harvest
has been got in, and that the yield •proves to be
dxoellent, both in quality and quantity. Prioes, never-
theless, Lave been well maintained in. the serious own-
markets—a eircumstenee which is attributed to the
feet that cultivators in recant years have always found
that they Obtained better prices by holding back than
by selling at once. Hops look well, ma also the
vines, but these will yet depend on the weather,
which thus far remained unsettled. At the Frankfort
Exchange money is abundant, and the prices of stooks
firm, the Russian loae being a favourite investment,
white there was also a demand foe the various kinds of
Italian preference abares. , „ , ,

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The SAipping Gazette, is a leader on the state of the
corn harvest, says :—" With a great abundance of
money, ands range in the value of dime:runt acoonimo•
dation from 11 to 2 per cent., the importing houses
will not be disposed to press sales, consequently we
may anticipate steady currencies for wheat and most
kinds of spring corn between this and the close of the
harvest work."
A field of wheat belonging to Mr. John Miles, firths
neighbourhood of Bea kfills, Somerset, was out on
Wetnesday. The splendid weather of the last week
has had a very marked effect on the crops, and inc
short time the baxweit is dui Ueighbourkood will be
general.