The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-01-04 00:00:00

A RESPONSIBLE MINISTRY FOR FRANCE.

The De Pores& Is Itnquetto Ministry has resigned,
and Mr. Ennio lus boen ine!ted by the Emperor to play
the part of • responsible Minister, in the following. terms :
" Sir Minister" having :fire!) me their resignation, I address
input( with confidence to your patriotism. in onler to request
you irill designate the per.... Mho Can, ill coisjunrti.n cUb
yourself, b.rin a hoinogeneous CaNutt faithfully representing
the anajority nf the 1.1.-gislatlse Bode, and molt to carry rut
In the letter as well an in the spirit. the Senates Consultum
the Bth id September. I rel) upon the des otion id the Legis-
lative Body to the great interest ig the country, u well upon
yours, to aid me In the task I has undertaken, to bring into
mamba' en:irking a constitutional my stem—Accept m sentb
menu, le., NAPULEON."
Moat 1.1 the Paris tiewsrapeni regard this letter as opening •
new era—namely, that f a Parliamentary Empirs.
MY Temps mays It Is the alxliastion of personal power.

A MOrigt. V.aoluarr.—A man aprrehended at Terporley,
Cbisbire, the other day, for begging, WU/ found to have
a bank-book, front wElich it appeared that be was in the
habit of depositing his surplus gains in the post•office
Doings banks of the towns through which he passed.
A 1111060 boy dole &crying doll in Petersburg. Va
the other day. Hiding It tinder hie coat, it "squeaked," and
bleached him white with fear at the miraculous witness
against
A MilltifitßEß, on being senteneed to be hanged in
Terra Bente, Indiana, did not catch the date, and inquired
Whoa did you my, your honour, that occurrence is to take
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AGRICULTURAL RIPORT FOR HAIIIPSHIRIL —ln taking
review of the past tear. it must be acknowledged on the
whole to have been ihvourable to agriculture, for although the
it corn has been lower, yet the maim for all agricultural
operations. Intending the harvest, has been propitious. An
excellent spring and summer for working and cleaning the land
for rano*" crops, followed by • fine autumn for cultivating in
hotedposlon of another year, and, finally, one of the beet wheat
mama. ever known, taking ell solh into consideration, which
hes enabled the fanners to tow • large breadth of wheat, now
koking. In most thetaneea, vigorous and healthy, with • full
omit_ The autumn, too, has been especially beneficial for all
uoc., whether on the pastures or arable land, the summer
having been dry; when the autumn rains came, which they did
with gre t moderation, the gram botanic most abundant, and
nearlY all kinds of grazing land has continued mailable fir the
mule until a much later periid than iinual, as evidenced by the
htuse mock of the country nhowing generally in fine condition
',tend in mac where the foot and mouth disease hasoecurrede
Ltd Amp, elm, have Inc remarkably well whilst feeding ..11
the arable, and in no 'Warm can we remember when. Wryer
tent of meat hat been made between Michaelmas and
chums's.. by fatting sheep, nor with ureter benefit to the land,
jos with very few exceptions the animals hate had a can.
Weteel,. dry and healthy laser, even on the coldest soils.
umimet id cat le haat for the coning mason is good, but
hot j.tmedve. The root crop, which at one time promised
whm.om abundance. Is not 110 w found to lie much over an
wymage. The Se climb turnips, being the chief dependence, are
wm lento, and the weighing ttf the crop, has been somewhat
disappointing li, the acreatie mulls The hay crop was a good
and secured in goal conditiin, and there in a full average
one.quhrolti for u"c left in the county ; and as feeding Anne arc
higher prices for hay Cal t lie expected. more
e:tilarly when it i. I I that on the best condo ted
Area It used in admixture edit hay to • large ex.
wet., not only for feeding bullts-k• and fano horse., put for
“heht, hem of all age.; We cannot, however, help mentioning
m horses
that it in now hamitillig a I,No practice to give far
& certain amount of root fuel during the winter tuonths lii.
admixture with chaff, the best being swedes, marigold, and
,ea The exhibitions of fat etork at Christinau have been
well attended, and the eupply if anitnalit, whstlier
chum, sheep, or mime, have been of a good average 1... th a.
march numbers and quality, the price being somewhat higher
then lest year for lath lied and mutton. The shows tont...mkt!
with mite Iv atoll. ii are attracting pinch notice in i &lions
countiee in Eingland, ponictslarly where medals to the Itr“llers
gin on, the late exhibition for priae.l twirl at Southampton
swi„, • prolitilielit uric.. And ne would here remark that there
to be 40111 C {ll/ . tiny in the holding td cattle ~hown
,car Mier )car; and although there doem hid seem to be but
hum, if any, progress nude in the vice knee of individual
hrminst.nn dock, it niust not be "smattered that these
01111lii,i.,n+ are le,tiestr, because although the elder mid more
oximut-h, cii inciiiiwrn of the valietieo are orlitinually dying off,
yet there is a larger number of your aspirants ill the agri-
cultural profession, to sr atm, as well a-s the public at large
them eshibition. offer • lesson led so middy attained in an;
other way. We are pieced to my that the honied ewes, so
easily 41 which are kept in the Southern I livisioli, hate teatied
a great timelier sd ; the early late,. ewe, hate
s,lnliiesived leashing. It is .Sti•iaetsary hitt:aim to report that
the stock flocks upen the ('balk-hill farms are in a healthy
•hk.ii, we tenet, forebodes a good fall of lambr
during toe hest few month. Rica matter .1 great importance
ellen we notice that tier) year a larger number of bullocks
are Leans In to feed the straw produce, and reeelving
rape rake, rm., hi &Whim), upon many of the hill farms, where
for many ymrn met the straw and its conversion into manure
has, it, usany hada/tees, been very much neglected It, cen•
elusion, let to limk forward to the future lit the hope
_that mine
of tire greed 1.•.121 MINI agricultural questnin• foreshadowed by
Fanners' Cluhe and chambers of Agriculture will be tarried
out mei &cid.' lie Parliament In a eatlefactory nonner
during the coming yew. —JOIIIIPe MUMMA, SoUthainpluii,
Deeeniber 17th. 1611./.

ALIN'S AND PZCILIIO.—A few days ago a gentle.
man brought in his pocket to Mr. Summers, bird-
Muller, of Azmiaater, an owl which had been killed,
it mug --nod, some hours previously. On putting
the bird, **gentleman
fingers tightly grasped
I. be not his hand oat
which after baying
Ara, bad revived, and
of soaking kaolin the

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the bird.

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wan rather —toed to find
by its beak. After tome t
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