The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

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BIRMINORAM OATTLN AND POULTRY
SHOW,
The luxurlotle an of cattle-feeding hog broom en eon-
genial to the tone of muleteer and professional agriaulto-
riste, Ilia we have to characterise the exliibitione, year
utter year, as being find-clam throughout. Indeed,
thank', to the wonderful hicreese of refined breeds of
stook, viol to the multiplied marksmen for grindleg,
erushlng, pulping, and preparing all sorts of corn, fodder,
oileekes, and imported or manufactured fonds, every
forum, can HOW pride himself on 0 heavy ox of rue
Christina. quality, (51111114114 SS beadle umy those spud
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mime that we Nee duly fed, tended, And washed till the
gold uiedal honours the beef which (wording no physi-
cians) is forced into unnetural and diseased develop-
ment. The rage is for a " feast of fat Wolter and we
must secant such marvellotte unondrositiee of protube-
rent flush and colloped folds of fat, disfiguring the sym-
metry and hiding the graceful contour of an ox or pig,
as examples in extreinus of the improved capability of
our live stook to amiumulate a maximum of prime meet
upon • fine frame, with • minimum of course meat and
offal, while at the IMO time uniting strength of Donal-
teflon with the necessary delicacy. Economical they
are not ; if you wish to learn how the business grazier
Is progressing, visit the great nettle markets : but there
you will find improvement in Mee, in quality, and early
mAturity advancing in the same proportion that is ex-
emplified in the show yard. Hence the value of these
exhibitions as studies of the progress or decline of the
breeding and grazing art ; the increased number of first-
class sample aelmile, though In • state of overfed
butcher-meat; denoting a multiplied pioduotion of good
animals throughout the oomitry.
The Midland Clounties Exhibition was Mime preeml-
nent for its magnithent duos of Herefords, peculisr fer
the premium of antique long-horns, and unequalled for
its display of pigs ; but title year the sheep form one of
the chief features of the show. There are 131 entries of
cattle, four lees than loot year ;. fill of sheep, 12 snore
than last year ; and 89 of pip, a decrease of 14.
The Hereford oxen and steers are a better show than
ever; In number they surpass any former year, and
comprite only a few animale below • first-oleu stan-
dard of perfection. The gold medal for the best ox or
steer is won thin year by • Hereford indeed of • short-
horn, as at last meeting ' • while the gold medal for the
best cow or heifer is, of course, earned off by a short-
horn. Mr. blAylor'e ox wins the gold medal, the pies-
dent's cup, the find prise in his MIAs, an extra prise,
and a silver medal—altogether A value of about £75.
At Maker-street, last year, this ox took the third mese,
and will, doubtless, be a victor of high honours mat
week. Now and than, in the were, of a few yearn, wp
have animals stepping out fa beyond all others in merit,
molt as Colonel Tuenieley's cow was hut year ; Mr. Nay.
lees ox, three years and nine mouth' old, bred and fed
by Minigolf is such an animal, and we question if eri
superb a Moreton! was ever befure seen, His form ie
almost perfect, the depth and expansion of frame wow
(Joyful, liewl very hanthenne, guilty utiourpAsetel, end
study him long as you may, his weok and faulty pointe
Are hardly ilieouveralilo. Mr. Inwinnerton'm mond prize
on is & lung way behind Mr. NAylor'e, raid yet it Is re.
niarkebly well-formed and well-fed, of somewhat greater
length, but not so wonderfully furnielied this round
and - flank, back, Willie, and rib. Then exe the 411114$
two MIIIIIIIII Wlllllll WA the dui and wooed prime last
ynar, His Royal Iliglitiese exhibits two very good
Herefords, the Our pining a lemma price in his chile,
though requiring *wither year's feeding to develop hie
pulitte properly. Lord Lierwick'e are good Iloilo, Mr,
Heaeh'e, we Are Gerry to say, Imp not arrived at the
yard. The dlfferenue in else awl substance between
young Item uf equal age is very great ; and tulle 11111111111
whieli is dated to liens bad wheat word and olleake unly
for a few menthe duo not show well builds its neigh.
hour+) which IlAve helm devouring rieli porn awl mike All
their lives. The Hereford emu auth heifers Are mimed.
lusty meritorloue—ell good, Mr. Vauglian'e first .prise
eow 11114 hail *even earvet' anti Is tutu ISO than 11 peers
old, Mr. Modulen'e heifer le particularise liantleume, and
Mr. Prim's eilinirable, as Isle stook always Am There
are 49 tintriee of this breed of cattle, e far larger number
then ever known before, . . .

icwuig ti;i—iii7oo:lVtir;s, of withal there ere fill entrium,
Mr. Stratton'm young deur ii the great object of Write.
Olen, It lekuu the first prise, and wine a eweepotake
against Colonel Pommes lieeutiful mond (IA le steer,
the form being shoot perfectly the ideal of what a
elturt-hurn should be, —Die bask inarvellintaly level, thine
arching out, ribe 'modeled and covered in every part
with a splendid (plenty of fleet, the hips wide, the tell
sot on wetly In that shape delineeted by agricultural
draughtemen, the lireast.eini full, the head very lion&
some, This animist premium to broom one of the noblest
eliort•horns ever 11111111. Mr, Root's prise ex Is very fine ;
but the beet Hereford le so for superior to the best
short.horn, that no one will for a liniment grudge Mr.
Naylor his triumph. The iliort•liorn cows form a better
elan then thy hitherto brought together In Ringley•liall
though Mr. Swinnerton'e gold medal cow cannot be own.
pared with Colonel Towneley's of lent year. nil beau•
taut cow wag coconut I'o year, and has alio been the
winner at both the Itparkenhos and Lielitiold shows.
In the inaguifieent short-horn heifer class everybody
meet admire the wonderful breadth and eplendid quality
of Mt. Brown's helfer.—lior short beautiful head and
fine eye render her peculiarly licnilsoine.
There he but ci small chow of Devons ; but the theme•
her of all is extremely good. His Royal Higlinese earriee
off the first prise for • beautiful steer, and a seound prise
for an ox,—yielding in the latter clans, only to Mr.
Turner, and it is no discredit to follow this eminent
breeder so closely.
The other pure-breed and orosa-bred animals made a
good show. The Duke of Beaufort's prise ox is remark-
ably greet and good; one or two enlinals tiers are very
gaunt and plain. The fat cow and heifer classes contain
sums good meat. Mr. Farquaripion's Devon and High.
land cross is It wonderfully fine animal, small in
size, but of most beautiful symmetry and quelity.
In the extra oboe Mr. Smith's prise short-horn heifer Is
extremely beautiful, gaining • gold medal given for the
bust cow or heifer in the show. Sir Robert Peel, also,
shows a short-horn cow, which has been highly com-
mended. Viscount Hill, the Duke of Beaufort, and Mr.
Corbel shows some very good "Went Highlands."
It will be remembered that last year there was cond.
derable murmuring at Borne of the awards; but, allow-
ing for differences of opinion, and the neoeuarily iinper-
fact mewls the public have of judging while the animals
are tied up by the head, the breeders and other
critics agree pretty well with the decisions of Satur-
day.
There is but • small show of Leicester sheep, but they
have not fallen backward in quality. Mr. Foljambe
takes both prises for shouting wethers ; in the (liege of
older sheep there are no entries. A few pens of hand-
some long wools are shown. ' In the Down classes Lord
Walaingham gains a first prise and two high commend-
ation& ; the Earl of Leioester, a second prize ; and Sir
R. Throokniorton, • second prize. A. great improve-
ment is observable in the general character of these
sheep,—not a single pen of extremely delicate and
sinall-sized animals being shown. Mr. Sohn Overman's
prize wethers are exceedingly beautiful sheep. In the
short-wool classes, Mr. Smith's Shropshire Downs are
beauties, having Mee as well as excellence of form. Mr.
Foster's are extraordinarily good and fairly shorn. One
pen of sheep had four inches length of open wool, and
yet were allowed to compete in the short-wool class.
Of cruise-breed sheep there never has been a collodion so
well-bred and tie euperior in quality ; each pen looking
like • pieture from the For»iers' Moyazine, The Earl
of Leiceater, Mr. Morland, Mr. Howard, Mr. Wooleton,
are great in this class ; and Mr. Walthell first and second
prize sheep are perhaps the most remarkable crows-bred.
yet produced, of wonderful else, breadth, and beauty,
with good fleeces and splendid mutton. Can the sort be
perpetuated without degenerating?
We have always to report the show of pig. "lit. beet
yet Nonni" and here we have another of the 1111110 rare
merit. The grant point of the present exhibition is that
there is a business-like and useful uharaeter about
moot every pig ellown, and lase of thet extrevagent
" doubleoltin" condition of fetuses hitherto so preiloini•
nant and (Hepatitis, and breeders seem to have pro.
doped a lase tender, yet sufilinently delicate amuse of
onality, indicated by a medium between hair 111111
liristles. This year the Berkshiree have had a class to
theologies', and a 111111111111 d 0111411 it 11,—Ellum giving the
other breed.' a change cif prism Nome are entered in
the catalogue with a whole pedigree, No Diet we Nllllll
loon be looking for a ropier pig "
the other clime for other breeds, bulb the prise.
were taken by a new competitor, Mr. teale, The ulnas,
of breeding pigs are grand, ac usual, Mr. Wiley taking
a good plass. With flit pigs the Counttiaii of Cheetur•
bid figures lionourebly. Mr. Wllllllllllll'l 111111111111111
sow, thllt wee 'inkling a litter at (limiter meeting, hue
gut a price; she 'mutably weighs 110 or 110 wore ;minds,
Of rook, mengold, turnip, cabbage, ha., there iire 114
entries, One lioig red inengold iiniontred ti
feet In length end N Inaba diameter, The average
bulk and nine clothe of thee. specimen" of ferin (or
garden?) produce ehow a greet 1111V111101/ 111 tllll art of
developing new and old varietiee, and forcing them into
extraordinary perfeetion,
The Poultry tiumnw IN the greet Were of the Ithigloy•
hell esiubltiuumi, aninitituting, so it does, theatooleici
petition and mule for the entire poultry world. Moine
provitiebil woleties holed' "ming bird*" in their pro.
grinning , here the additionel novel %Direction he the
collection of pigeono, which opeolelly 'minim on the
present oceelluti. No attreetive is the feathered depart.
limit of the 'Mow thet the long Islet between the cues
were crowded the Aril iicy with molt and fouillion —Gloried
looking gentlemen importing the well-drumseil beentiso,
who vie with the brillient plumage they ore Admiring,
In ell the glowing gremlins' of wise and blue. T 6
various alum en well filled, and the whole of the vast
show he equal to any former one in merit. The 'Wok.,
Dorkinge, aud gam fowl", 111111 1111191111 111110 of the
breeds, being more entonithing than ever lit weight,
condition, and perfection of marking", There are three
geese, only "ix inunthe old weighing no hues then 70114
We limo no NOM fur allusion to the minima sumo.
fel exhibitor', merely adding that Mr. lirundrit, Mr.
Fowler, Contain Hanby, lir. Dixon, ha, are prom'.
nent among the winners. Captain Horby's euperb
gamecock, the hero of many shown, lies won in Ills time
Mut PM worth of prices.
Yroin 10 up to I o'clock 100 pens lied been 'old,
which foretells a thriving trade throughout the week
but the faney pries" of the poultry 111A11111 have entirely
cooled down to practical mallet figure., though thew
appear exorbitant indeed to unenthusiastic observer...
The show of live Nook may be summed up as the
must sueouieful yet Whored in the Hall i there are fewer
°mettlec and nospappearanoes than here been known
before, and not very many of the 'wine 04041011 d front
the miestateinent dap by the inhibitors. /
The °annum at Birtninghem was target on the kit
or So. day Muth It was last ',sari and it is expiated that,
as on former oeusions, such. 16,000 workpeople will be
admitted at a liberal *harp.
'The society, we are glad to say, is In a prosperous and
proinleing condition, ite friends in the Midland counties
and lii/nuinghaiu Itself tiering come forward to relieve
the threatening repeat of It, exchequer.

TUB CULTIVATIOW Or MANGHL WunerL.—About
Noventber, or earlier in the autumn if weather and
work permit, the whoet stubble is double tattered. This
operation is performed by a pair of hones and • anal-
mpn iron plough, taking a furrow and throwing it on a
portion of unploughed ground returning on the other
side, • miinilar furrow Is thrown up &dolma it."" w"li"""
two furrows throre together on en undisturbed intr.
faoe and deep dri I between, the drills Will in°"4
apart A pair o strong horses will get over nether
more then One sore & d&y, the furrow being 8 Indies
deep. The outlays romans in this stile lain winb

ler aril dutliqutha bet hard frost; a subsoil plough
(we eitipley tue butiolen plough Without the Wing) Is
pet up, the drills disturbing the subsoil at 7 inches,
and leaving lb lii rough pines more or lees raised, 19
that the drills are partially Ailed up. Into this loosened
rtharitiolitifrrirgrffils arete;urvie?ircifrottiittntiinidetiTig
the subeelL InMarsh, when the surface Is perfectly
dry, well rotted manure is carted on at the rate of 12
tone pet asse—ihe NA tailing three furrows at a time.
—The manure being carefully spread, is covered in by •
amnion plough splitting the ridges end performing at
twice what the deubleinould plough'elfeets at one opera.
tion by • little management the horses can be made to
walk on the rid s, and thus no pressure is put moon the
subsoil gave that which is inevitable when the dung is
being hauled on, The anytime of the ridge. which has
been completely pulverised by the trod, kn., Is turned
over on the manure, whilst the land that has not
hitherto been disturbed forms the surface of tbo new
ridges ; as might be expected, this turns up. little raw
and sticky, though less so than might be suppmed,
owing to the penetrating influenoe of frost,
which often goes nearly through the moil,
and only an inch or two at most remains to be
pulverised. Between the middle of Dfarob end the Ist
of May the aotion of the air powders this down, and we
have a most perfect seed heel ready for the plant without
any further trouble, save sending the women over before
the drill, to pull out any large weeds, stew of which are
generally visible. A light rolling precedes end follows
the drill—Garrett'e Universal 7-feet drill—taking three
ridges at a time and depositing 30 bushel* of ashes, 2
opt:rt.scoref
.BLlpeifritougapbhtated,warindbittbsto. of yebiloillowpw.glogbeh seed
be run up the drills between the ridges after the sowing
is complete ; but I have never done this considering
that the land might be sundered too dry, alad that deep
and frequent horse hoeing will be sure to keep the soil
sufficiently open. From seven to eight anfell OM be put
In in the day. Baltiseawn. broadcast At the rate of 4
cwt. per acre, after the seed is SCOWL The soil is rather
"'trona nutit 000thitilili a good dui delay I should
think from 00 to 70 7 I think this Pim et eul'
tivation presents man advantages over that of ordinery
ploughinq and subso Ihtg. We secure a mesa of per
fectir Pulverised 'oil over the =entre, ant we have a
subsoil not 014 bookie up hntawitatened rad reduced
by the frost into • comparatively fine state. If this
subsoil oontains any tertiUsing inpodlents th. taut be
made available as food for the hungry crop we want to
produce. Three equal plots or land were selected ed.
joining each other anehreite middle of the field, each
oontaining 14 poles, and having 4 rows of maagels on it.
Per acre.
Teas owl, qr. lb. Tons owl, qr. lb.
No. 1. Plot produce 2 8 0 18 w 27 8 2
2. 6 0 7 a 96 0 912
~3. 910 9 18 28 18 919
--Jaine °lmam, Prqfliosor p 1 Actiolagm.., aa.o.,
Oirincester.

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Trie 111.11THrlithD CLVD OrrTLII SHOW, DSO. &
Yes rda AN yit W arrffil thet hie Itoyal Higu the
ne
Prince Consort, pro a y acoompenied by the Duke of
Oambridge, will visit the Cattle Show ot the dmithaold
Club thls (Maturday) afternoon. In oonsequanoe,
plaearde were issµe4 calling upon all exhibitors of
implements to hive their stands oompleted end in
perfect order by 19 o'clock to day, and the exhibitors of
stook have also been requested to hare their specimens
lq the show yard as WWI iner that hour I. poulble.
The ?rine° and the Riiyal party era expected to arrive
at the Baker.strest !Wear hetwen 6 and 6 o'clusk, The
judges will naafi their award* on Monday, In the
evening there will be a private view, and on Tneaday
next the show will open to the public, continuing open
till Friday, daily.