The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-01 00:00:00

11SET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZEITE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1870
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" I bought the meat at Mr. Hayward's, and gave him ler
It In the afteroooe he apprehended Leg when abs rid "I
told you this morning 1 pve Mr Hayward ML. for it"
Legg was convictM in August illl4 for steallo2 potatnea. and
mut to prison for 14 days, and Vais has been three ii m
convicted at quarter Seasiona.
A %Una...ad she could prove Foes was not out of her house
all the Saturday.
Mr. Symonds mid in that case Voss mum be charged re •
receiver, and go for trial.
I The Bench decided to .end both for trial at the prima
For Lear'a appearance the Bench offered to accept bail, and
I wattles in L2O each. Vos. was committed for trial.

rating b. revleed. no as to throw the eburres mote equitably
and evenly on the general proper') of the coun'rl.-
ion% Pore. Chairman.
[We undemand that the C.,uneil voted ale to, Mr. J.
Demo., , thc assi.tant secretary, for hi+ valuable :en Head
Lord AstiLlT moved the adoption of the report,
which, he thought, was molt satisfactory couridering
the short time the Chamber of Agriculture had been
established. He regretted, however, the paucity of
attendance, which be attributed to the suspicion always
attsching to new movements, but hoped that by-and-
bye more and more would be attracted to the Society,
and that these meeting's might be larger.
General MIOUL seconded, and it was carried.
Messrs. G. Keynes, S. Symes, T. B. Legg, H. J `4taith,
elelfe.dr. Ft
oho:
rve in the
Councilthat
wing me
ensuing
o be—
J. H. Mitchell, J. Vincent, W. Mayo, W. 11.
Dugdale, J. Coate, J. Symonds, and the Bev. H.
Dean.
Mr. WILD seconded, and it was carried.
Professor Boorman then addressed the meeting.
He said it was somewhat& mistake to suppose hews's going
to read 'paper. He had been called upon to do something
much more modest, for he had been salted to introduce
• subject before them for discussion. When he was
first invited to speak on the conditlen of the Dorset
agricultural labourer before Dorset farmers, they might
naturally suppose that he felt some reluotanoe,
because anything connected with the Dorset labourer
moat as • matter of course be best understood
by Dorset men. At the name time, it ooeurrei to him
that perhaps after all, Dorset farmers speaking about
' their own doings and their labourers would not be be.
, hewed much before he should; and be, therefor., con-
cluded, that though somewhat of a stranger he might
introduce this subject in all:nut as good • manner—et
any rata for discussion—as • Dorset man himself
(applause.) Besides, he had been in this er nutty nearly
I seven years, and did not feel quite • stranger amongst
them, for he had always been well received wherever he
had gone, and, he was happy to say, that so far as his
feelings were concerned, they were very much with the
Dorset farmer -(hear, hear.) The subject he should
introduce would not be so much—as perhaps
might he generally suposed—the taking up of those
blue books (the Hon. E. Stanhope's report as
• commissioner on the employment of women
and children in agriculture in Dorset), quoting
paragraphs
refuting
phsfro
thetmhe, ma; thu:dbo
r the observations of himself—a man from • distant
iiii either
baorsseeentthien to
mg
of
0..7 -upon the labourer and the labour question as
affect iig Dorset. He would treat of the subject in
I' five upeota—lst, Look at the labourer himself; 2nd,
have • few words with regard to his family; 3rd, as
to his home • 4. his wages ; sth, his food. Thus
were subjects; which might have been taken separately,
each one being quite sufficient for an afternoon's dis-
, mission ; they would therefore, expect him to be
eur-edingly short upon each point. First, as to the
labourer of Dorset. From what he had seen of him
after observing labourers in a great number of counties
, of England, and regarding him intimately, both as •
student of natural history and of medicine, and
altogether as • labourer—he believed be had some
apprehension of the general physique, appearance,
' structure and habits of the Dorset 'labourer; and he
had never ...on a better-looking labourer, or a better
; labourer in all th• avocations in which his labour was
required, than he had in Dorset—(hear, hear.) He
, believed that the Dorset labourer was as well.built •
man and had as much muscle as almost any labourer in
. any county in England, that be had as great an aptitude
for labour as almoetany man they would find, and was as
well-drused as almostany other man. He would there.
fore ask them, as a preliminary question, was it possible
he could do all this on • shilling • day 2---( hear, hear). So
far as labourers were concerned in this county --his
I observations. of course, referred more to the Sherbome
side of it—they were well up in their work, unlike
what labourers are in some parts only capable of doing
one single thing ; ins Dorset he found them exceedingly
, handy and generally very willing to do all that was re-
; qaired of them. As to his general character he believed
the Dorset labourer was as honest—if not more so—
than the labourer in almost any other county he had
observed—(hear, hear). It was quite true they found
• sours petty pilfering—they all knew better than he
I could tell them of such things in their villages—but be
really believed there was no better labourer as regarded
the man and no more honest labourer so far as he had
seen than in Dorset. If asked to indieate any general
fault in the labonrer of Dorset, be should bring before
them one which all would recognise as not peculiar to
this county—it was jealousy of each other. H. caper.
ienee of labourers in this and other parts was that all
' wanted exactly the same wage., had amongst them
' something like Trades Union notions, did all they
I could to enhance the general mica of labour, but
resisted the best man getting the best price.
There was another fanit,an utter carelessness as regards
fences. He did not think he had ever seen fermi
bounded by worse fences—labourers broke through
them in every direction, and carelessness in petty
tSings led to similar conduit in others of greater mo.
ment For there was carelessness in regard to moral
' fences. This subject led him to the second part of
his address—the labourer's family. The carelessness
• he had referred to as leading to the breaking down of
• moral formes was • very important subject. It led the
Dorset labourers—and other labourers too he was
sorry to say—to marry very consider ibly earlier than
they otherwise would. They often began by
marryisg themselves, and then went to the
clergyman to get absolution for having done so.
Whether that state of things was increasing he would
not pretend to say, but unless it were checked the
Dorset labourer would very much depreoiate. On
amount of the circumstance. in which he was placed
tha man married very early. He got • home and some
boys and girls. They ought to go to school. He was
c ,nvinced that there was • general desire amongst
Lamers and amongat equ'res that the children should
be properly educated. In educaling them he con-
sidered there should be two objects kept in view
he was speaking his own opinions and
must not be mut posed to he stating the
views of the Chamber. But first he would say that
they were not kept at school a sufficient length of time.
Boys began work at about nine. lie did not believe
Mr. Stenhope's report was correct in stating that in
Dorset more boys were employed in agriculture than in
any other, and he spoke of men biri•keeping because
boys weld not be got. At schools they only got an im•
tr-rfoot knowledge of reeding, writing, and arithmetic.
These matters he considered they should be taught
better, and that they should also be instructed as to the
things around them in nature.. For now they talked of
"snakes stinging them," of "horse stingers"—that two
or three dragon flies were suffiiient to sting • horse to
death, and that if • mouse crept over • sow it must be
the cause of • very great number of maladies. Is no
county was there a greater amount of superstition with
regard to such matters, and in uo county ass less pains
taken to remove such notions. In this county he was
astonished to find on coming to it, there is no society
devoted to examining into its natural history, or anti.
quarian matters. The superstition which so generally
prevailed must be corrected by teaching as to the things
by which they were ever) day surrounded. Next with
regard to the laboar of his children. He was
worry to say that • great deal had been said about the
immorality of the boys and girls mixing together in
farm labour, and some preferred that girls should do
"gloving." Now from what he had sun he believed that
"gloving" and all manufacturing pursuits had led to as
much, if noVniore, immorality than any other °woos-
tion, and he di,l not at all believe, having taken • wide
range of observation—that farm work for women or
girls - moderate farm work, such as they did—was of
that prejudicial ohmmeter to them either as young
women afterwards to become wives, or to married
women—(hear, hear.) They began work abont eight
o'clock, and usually ended about six, having hours be-
tween for meals. They did not do that amount of hard
work which soma people supposed, and as far as he
knew they were very well paid. If they were to
believe what they were told as guardians by persons
employed at gloving, via., that they only got by that
work at the utmost 2s. • week, he did not think
women employed in agriculture would at all be better
off by changing to that description of work. He should
say he did not behave the story about only earning 24. a
week at gloving any more than he did that the genial-
total labourer only had Os. a week. He could state
that "gloving" lad to • very great amount of irrego-
larity. The girls engaged were fit for very little else,
they went into the towns in the day-time with
their work, got acquainted with town tallowy, and
there was a great deal of " gloving " without
the g—(laughter)—leading to • vast amount of mischief.
There was this to be said—if anything like an honest
attachment—call it honest if you like—sprung up
between • country boy and • country girl, and she, as
a matter of couple, bosuns soorind.so, it usually ended
In their getting married ; but if a similar thing
happened to • gloving girl through acquaintance with
• town man, railway porter, or so forth, he very seldom
made her an honest woman. He believed thus were
points they would all bear him out in. With
regard to the early work of boys, it was quite true
that boys in the country as • general rule must get to
work earlier than they would if they bad a
better education, but they now had the advantage of
Sunday schools • little "liberalised," and embracing
the tewohing of writing and otherr secular subjects, and
night abhools which were highly beneficial. As to the
statement that boys of eight or nine years walked 20
miles • day after the plough, and therefore they could
not be expected to go to • night school, the first thing
to be proved was that they did walk such • distance—
(hear, hear). He had never yet seen it. His observation
at the Dorset boys led him to conclude they were a
jolly, hearty set, and as well as they could possibly be.
He bad seen none of the indications of that excess of
hard work —that extreme lassitude, which would pre-
vent their going to • night school. He found that after
le
got
all
r oat, sec Itrde tnhdeema-rdr
nte
:hhidtbisaadh,
ithhedoool
diuid.aidk •
dh andt,
re,f
the day's work if not given some employment at hones
he
room
no
or at the night school they would be up to some lark or
other in the nerish—(bear, hear.) Now as to the
labourer's home. This was a very serious matter not
only in Dorset but in every other county. But why
should we be t old we had the worst cottages in
England' He was of • different opinion. We had not
so many slates; they were usually thatched, and more
song cosy &staggers a general rule he had not yet seen;
but he oomplained that there was a want of general
tidiness and helpfulness in both the labourer and his
thienloabnoeuoref
wthwtwhiu..eheeiynil which
hi
cottagetna coAng :wehdtyh goingiwhr'
he
sa
eav 000e'r saiddn „1:0, been
opnwnuitho.ontenbtoiuld yhan
ed ti atthg.vaavery
bed
condition,
He
he (the master) would pay him for it. That was their
but would not be at the trouble to lay down the flag-
stones from the yard. In other counties this helpless-
oess in making their cottages comfortable and tidy was
not found, and he especially referred to the whitewash-
ing no generally done by them in Gloucestershire and
on the borders of Wales. Ho urged the importance of
encouragiog a helpful spirit in the labourers. It l
was not altogether • bad thing that the windows were
broken, for they had no ventilation in the room?, and
no fresh air. and very often the first thing • medical
man did on entering one of thou rooms, was, notwith-
standing that some of the windows were broken, to put
ir was
of fni his
hfii cottages,Pthrough° rtq
us
:InA
question
f with
n eh r e ir
regard
not—b&rdug kt:
greater togtietthgrt dee
boostmthempTrimprovement
couldhven be
beat."'"
upon
hilnea.:.hitnuagestrutoth; gitovellehpilsksee6b°thuerleanbougrVre
it
did not wlianwtasg4oodgr
often the ease that they most not take thou let with
the farm Farmers Imputed these cottages to he bud.
at &cost of somewhere about KlOO emelt, and yet they

heit•ll At TaTLOR y JOHN M•llllR.—Thls wae an application
for an affiliation order. lie. Weston for defendant. Order
ref used.
llounrr Parry SESSIONS. &atria,. —nature R.
William., N., (chairman). R.q., R. 0. F. Steward,
Esq., J. Brrinet, Frt.. and R. W. Brymer, Eq.
Joerpa 8. 04 Milborne St. Andrew, was summoned for
ill-treating donkey., of which he was the owner, by working
them in an unfit elate. The defendant did not appear. It Menu
he cane 13 or 14 donkey.. and goes about dishing.
P.C. Bishop on the 00th inst.. found defendant chalking
with for donkey.. When witne.. asked to lotat at them,
defendant said, "perks;.. tAle el two of them might he
touched." 011 taking .4 the hods. and examinnur the donkey.,
win... found mores as larige a. crown Ph.", on their hacks.
The donkey. had not proper pads upon them. but only pi-ices
of rough guano hags. At Ileington farm the same 'lnc liniwn
was chalking with five donkeys. Two f them had running
rime on their lacks. Seseral .Ahers were in a wretched date,
and not at work, Brown saying they were not it, and witness
believed one had since died,. . .

P.C. Balaton went with Bishop, and generally corroborated.
It seemed that 1.41 Octolibr defendant was fined and
cr., or two months' in default. Next time, the chairman
sad, defendant would be sant to yoison without the option of
fine.
. .

Henry Grows sad Jaws &Wits>, overseers ni Winterbourrie
Steepleten. were summoned for non-payment of 19t. *l_
• contribution due to the Dorchester Union. Mr. Slade, of
Yeovil, &travel on behalf of. the pew lAw Board: . •

Thisqn;iistrates' clerk (T. Coombs, Esq.), iZin-terl out that
this summons rould not he hoard to-day, but that • special
isesslons mug be summoned for the purixak Led the MIS no.
asßiourned.
It scents that the case arise. out of • dispute between Mr.
Shlttler and the Incoming tenant to the farm huh... just loft as
to the sum due front each.
The en 4. of heating the case are likely to he C 7 or CA. and •
settlement without the intervention of the Bench, is likely to be
made.

LORD POLTIMORE'S HUNT.

The excellent nobleman who has so long and so
thoroughly hunted the C.attistnok country at his sole
expense, 013 Saturday afternoon last met his friends of
the hunt at the Rings' Arms Hotel, to explain tl
them a proposal be wished to make with reference
to • limitation of the days during which be will
hunt tbe country. There met his lordship C. J.
Raiolyffe, Esq., H. R. Middleton, Fag.. Messrs. T.
Pope, White, Bevies, H. Mayo, Homer, W. H.
Dawkins, Swatridge, Andrews (Wraxall), J. Hodges,
Jun., (Dorchester), J. Lovelace, Palmer, W. Manley,
H. Derenish, .1. Chick, James Atkinson, Smith
(Exeter), Dr. Randall, Ac.
. .

His LOrdship said that an there seemed to be more
than one meeting to be attended at this time, be
should not detain them very long, but at once
proceed to make his proposal with respoot to the
hunting in the Cattistock country. He had hunted
this country for ten seasons, on four days a week;
but from various canoes, the principal one of which
was that he wished to be more in Devonshire than
he had hitherto been, he wished to hunt
two days, and sometimee three days a week
whenever they could manage the third day.
In other respects he hoped to hunt as he had
hitherto done—(hear). Should this meet the
approval o the meeting, he should be most happy to
continue to hunt the ootintry—(appisuse)—but sta.uld
it not be approved of, if any other gentleman was
willing to take the country, he (his lordship) should
be most happy to resign it into his bands—(no, no).
The hounds would do the whole of their cub-huoting
in thin oonntry—(applause)—and while he could only
thank them for meeting him in such a kindly spirit,
and preserving foxes for him, so es to enable him to
hunt four days a week, if they should swept his pro-
posal, he begged they would not relax their exertions
in preserving foxes, because, with the extra cub-
hunting, he did not think there would be very much
difference in the need for their kind exertions. He
had given them his views on the subject, and should
like to hear what theirs might be--(hoar, hear).
No one being forward to erpre, e any opinion, C.
J. Rarocurrirs, P.N., called upon times .gentlemen
who wished Lord Poltimore to continue to hunt the
Cattistock country, to bold up their hands. The
show of hands in favour was quite unanimous. Mr.
Radolyfle then said that the meeting having accepted
Lord Poltimore'e proposal, his Lordship would con•
tinue to hunt the Cattistock country in the very
satisfactory way in which he bad hitherto dons so—
(applause). He was sure there was no man who had
preserved foxes for his Lordship before, who would
not most gladly continue so to do—(applause).
LOW (PoLniloßs said he most heartily
thanked the meeting for this mark of their
approval, and he also moat heartily thanked
Mr. Radolyffe for the way in which he, as a brother
master, had come forward to support him on this
occasion. He trusted their sport would not diminish,
and he was quite sure for himself that be should be
most happy to show them all the sport he possibly
could—(spplaime).. . . . . .

Mr. FCRIISIX:I begged leave to move that the
meeting offer to Lord Poltimore its best thank. for
hie neat services.

Mr. Bayles, of Sydling, begged to seoond the
motion. They must suppose fore time that Lord
Poltimore was not present, and he (Mr. Bevies) had
• word to say to the meeting that must originate
somewhere or other. They had met Lord Poltimore
for many years, and had found him always • noble-
man that was proud to bring here a splendid pack
of hounds for their amusement, and who was
always most oourteous in the field—(applause).
Whether he was right or wrong in the proposil he
was about to make he oould not say, but he had con-
sulted Lord Digby on the subject, and considering
the very courteous and handsome manner in which
Lord Poltimore had always met them, he thought
they should form • committee after this meeting for
another purpose, the object of which he would
leave them to judge, He had also consulted his
friend, Mr, William Bridge, who was one of the
oldest sportsmen in the county, and when Lord
Poltimore had left the room—he did not wish him
to leave, but when he had thought proper to do so—
they would have soother matter to consider, which
he felt would he in accordance with their wishes.

The vote a thanks to his lordship was cordially
voted, and his lordship left the room amid the
acclamation. of the meeting.
Mr. BZVISS said he hid taken upon himself to
mike • proposal with which they would all agree.
Lord Poltimore bad hunted the country for ten
successive years, to the satisfaction of every sports-
man who meets him. His lordship's cordiality and
kindness were unbounded, he met them not only as
a nobleman but as one of themselves, and the
least thing they could do was to pay him some
compliment by way of testimonial—(applaust). He
would propose, if it agreed with their wishes, that a
committee be formed for the purpose of getting up a
handsome testimonial as some little acknowledgment
of the kindness of their worthy master, and to show
him how much he was respected in the Cattistook
hunt.—Seconded by Mr. W. BRIM,.
Some conversation passed on the subject, it being
suggested that it might be bettor to have a special
meeting for the purpose, and ultimately it was
decided that • deputation consisting of Major Sykes,
H. B. Middleton, Eeg., and other gentlemen should
be requested to wait on Lord Digby and request
him to arrange for calling the meeting to get up the
testimonial proposed.

was happy to say he occePlor.4
talked about Is. a week rent for them. Was It possible position
now. There • Sento
h. (the
prde.or)tation to them to trust Prins:
that the landlord would mare shoot improvise the °pa% to the potato
ry
cottages with only such a return ? If they reek°. ed
is 'hi" wore "44 " the
Ihreme-retliOtirt:tethel
with the labouret at such • prion.they must also reckon there Do
and then after a meal of potatoes
with the landlord, and what ledneeinent was there for
- and
the landlord to spend his money upon o"tkffie. ? With
hr
thus stimulated, and weenie during err they
a
to do their woryhk. arhiey are
cider to stimulate them
pooh a rent they must admit there was no margin f .
towards the sod of the day, when hey re
• good number
interest upon the money spent - (hear) Supposing the especially .
landlord has money in the funds, be pan no poor rate pretty much intoxicatothde.ythaerey with: pitchbra bravest men in the
times get through im
world. It is true they will some
upon that; but immediately he telt,' out perhaps 1:1000 of loads, they fancy
and invests it in cottages, he bee to pay somewhere
about CIO per cent for poor rates and if them rates
enormous
quantity of eider they base drunk
if had net
were properly arranged, so that property should bear enormous quantity
I he would ap,41.1 to his brother farmers suet y
of work at such tine, but
isd. Let
othtye.
did not find
due proportion of the rates, and so they were reduce
from about 12 per cent, on pottage property to per
tho.o
moo
....0
well
after
harvest
s. 1 t
rod.o,
1, 8. or 9 per cent., there would be sine
f.e,pcolues,a....!:i
perhaps genemlly better have no men altogett er Th.,
were
b0y...,
d and they again want a lot of stiniuletiont_ oe.lri
wive.
mint to build cottages ; but Dowy h
proprietor built such improved habitations, theactohandia-
get away from them goes to t P . , _rig
and an what MOnhe,Y
Hens and circunistances are such that he _mu eetheeierernsual spirit..
in stimalatt
t short,
d jest when work is beginning to get . .
lOW by the trip section. As far as the pees. nt Thus it is that more money is Tont ibilbiliehouse.
not altogether comfort-
pottage' are coneerned, be believed the price charged
ant with their home* perhaps n
drink, an j
la mush lower in this country thin in any other- a
and
(bear). Therefore it is quite evident that it does no , . t able away they go to the publichouse and spend what
pay to have riettaccs impri eel. If hi(the pr,fessor) were extra money they may have earned during harvest,
i-airner of one of these villages which he found were
eweh n
which
And here he would say that the greater ought to have been saved for the time
of
eossessed by country gentlemen in Dorsetshire, he rd
he facilities given in country villages to .peud
would at once double the rent of every cottage-(senaa.
tion). But he would take rare that they were doubly tth • money in beer,
foundeu. ready to make use of them -Blear, hear)--
as good as they are at the present time-(hear)the In re the men were
hollered that they then would have better labourer', ail
drinke li , as much .. they possibly could-Hoar.
and now he believed it woold be worth while and would s oi is
he urged them to r. duos the publidrooses soil
gen. rally foiled %11" r • is a,
be better, to add another shilling a week to the hear, and applause). They
labourer's wages, in order to pay the landlord fee is,
gardens-they had plots for potatoes. sr il generelty very
great amount of liberality wi•h regard to lebour n
proved cottages, and then they would, he believed,
have less poor-rates, less sickest's. and fewer bee..-.A-
-
rood and large plots are bestowed on them, and beside.
children, among their labourers. The matter of th se they
.i.
flot there is on- pica. of ah,rtsighteilne-s on
the advantage of taking •Ilotinent
cottages was one of the most serious affecting grotto
the country. To have • house with only three On' Part of the I •ndlords oceinsionidly wi h regard to
do not allow them:to make a change, snd
rooms was bad enough ; but if there wan no this matter. They Ii .'t ouly allowed ',Ammer' to grow
door to separate between those rooms, they might potatoes, they . They grow the pet.toes
e for instant's grow wheats i
oldniethel,t ash
e well
believed,.. tetogebetheargei %cereal lasrucepervreel room. There
el( htehre year after yetaravtea gryroceheat plleya,ewtiittyhdliftledmiaanuprerod, an„oadd it.
pariah with regard to sanitary matter". They knew won' i ^oem h
what generally occurred; a man has • garden abut-
But they all knew what takes place if they grew nothing
ting on the road, and if he collects a heap of stones, sI ig but potatoes continually upon the same •oot of
into the road he throws them, and if he t.kes up • a
heap of cabbage dumps, he throws them into the road
?
H. wished
The result would Joe poor crops and disease-.
ished to know how it was they could natio° some.
also, and if this habitts allowed to spread matters grow thing eI a in their cottager"' gardens besides potatoes
continually wore.. Nothing begets tidiness so much as
If they were to make a change, it would be highly
continually insisting upon and enforcing it, while un- beneficial -to the soil. He hail got his men to grow
tidiness spreads from one thing to another. How were besides potatoes, peas and beans, parsuiPe. carrots.
sanitary matters managed in the cottages? Let them andotbert
vegetables, lie had been very
go to the beck premises, and ask "Is your drainage all fortunate
perfect?" The answer would be probably "Oh yes, h
sir, we have nothing at all the matter with the drain, brand";node: gettingseed kind friends to give
s for this purpose; his old
Messrs.of
Sutton and Sons had recently set aside
age!" "But then what is the meaning of this on. for him twenty pockets of seeds, containing twelve sorts
pleasant smell 2 " An old woman to whom of
pains. He wanted to know why our
vegetables and he believed that, generally speaking
h
he put this question told him
" We sometimes other seedamen would do the same, w ere people would
to
havepoke it up with a stick"-(laughter.) So they take any wort of
_.
would often find that things were really altogether out country people
11 an tod not troTn ,among other things, more
he.a were the standing food
i
of order, and the drainage was never cared about. RR•d haricot bean
What brings the various sorts of sickness in country of the people n parts of France, and let them see
villages? The detains are made to empty at the back what they were oornrnf. Take
of water,harloot arte
and
or..
of the house, because they shall not empty into the instance, they contained 14
per cent,
street, so they run under the floor of the living room, the other ingredients are just the muscle-making matter
and nothleg at all separates them from' it but the flew required for the labourer s frame. This the Dorset.
stones between. So there was very often a smell per. *hire labourer had been in t
another article of food, and he was sorry to hear that be habit of 'applying by
aerobia in the cottages, especially when there bad been
no rain, and illness is frequently present on this account. Doreetshire "blue billy" (query "blue vine ?") had
IT. now came to the "abject of wages. it was a subject beeome so dear. In Dorsetahire *been the found the
dit had supplied
of which they had heard a great deal, and the more very elements of muscle required,
and
for theira ra
they came to discuss it, the lees they seemed to know the Dorsetshire labourers
about it. He recollected that be was once called upon and legs. It was a great with
that the labourer coral;
1,--y fel,. ath grits of " blue
to give evidence respecting the wages of • poor man, not now gel so mush of it . eteleT.
whose wife had been killed on the railway, and who
had brought an action against the company for compen-
!
tuition. His wages had been stated to be 9s. a week,
but when he (the professor) was asked as his employed hilly" had become so much appreciated in other places
that larr quantities of it are mint away to other counties
and for other people that it has became difficult for the
labourer to obtain. In that cheese we have the very
what they had been, he replied "Mu. Gd. per week " chemical elements denied in the potatoe, and it is the
"Well, but" the barrister eald "He has told us his cheese that has given to the labourer the same elements
wages are 9.. a week, and don't you suppose he knows?" for his body that people better off have in meat. To
The professor replied "I paid them, and don't you the cheese the Professor attributedthe better physical
suppose I know?" The banister did not wish to porous appearance that the Donetabire labourer presented
I the matter, otherwise they migh have hsd the case of over those of some other plus., because in it he 'had
! the Doreetshire lebonrer over again in that court, as the unnelemakins required for continuous hard work.
I they had heard it often before. The London Press He was exceedingly sorry to find that it is getting
' seemed to h.ve cut thelmatter rather short. The case dearer, for it is as important that the Donet.hire man
of John Cross had ber n the occasion for a good deal of should have his sheets as another his meat-(hear,hear.)
sensational writing, as he nee] not remind the gentlemen In summingup his remarks the lecturer said there were
of the Press, for they remembered the sensational seine things required in the country, and foremost
articles which gentlemen of the Press knew so well among them he placed better cottages, better schools,
how to write, and they knew too, some of them, who and parish supervision. As regarded better cottages
wrote those artieles--(lauxhter). One of the London he had already spoken, bus he felt that if they all had
pepers put the matter very shortly, for it argued better cottages and better schools to-morrow, unless
that John Cross had only Its, per week to support there was something like parish supervision-a looking
his family, which said they, was only a shilling inlay, into sanitary matters and geese.' economy, all
This was the way in which gentlemen of the Pres, would be in vain. The better cottages would be filled
could easily get up sensational article., by means of with lodgers-often irsons of exceptional character,
such arithmetic as this. Bat they all knew that Crom broken windows would out be mended, and there would
had a great deal more than that. The professor referred be general ruin. It would pay any man who had a
to the case of a man who came before the Board of parish In his estate to have a man constantly employed
Guardians at Sherburne. A young man marries some. to see things were kept in order. He then urged them
what too °rely, and he comes before the Board of to give up payment partly in kind and to give mon-y
Guardians very soon after his marriage, as is too often wages only. He believed it would be chi aper for them
the ease, and asks for a doctor to sttend his wife with end better for the labourers. He advised them to
her first child. As far As Rig medical knowledge was discontinue the allow/oncea of drink, and remarked
coneerne I, be thought he should bee imewhat more that the use of so much in h t although it stimulated
particular in giving substance for the first child than the labourers ti pitch • great number of loads one day,
afterwards, because they knew that there were often was followed by • proportionsts list'scaness the 'text
a crest number of difficulties in the matter. But, moroing, and stimulation must be resorted to very early
however, this men came to ask for a doctor, he if anything like ordinary work is to be done. But this
wad a very good looking young man, and was practice we* making their men prematurely old-men
well dressed. He (the professor) believed that the who drank the quantity of cider customary in this part
best snit of clothe. was not always put on to come of the w..rld were very early affected with rheeinatani
before the Board of Guardians ; but in this came the end unable to work. There wan a notion -as Mr.
man was well dressed, lie was asked "Wow much have Stanhope crrotpotialy !dated in his report-that cider
you per week? "and he *replied "95." But he (the cost the farmers nothing :it was forgotten that if they
professor) asked him about his employment, and he had orchards they had to pay extra rent for them, and
replied that he drove a thrashing machine. On hearing that during the mthing of • hogshead of cider nearlj
this the professor wag quite certain there waesomething half that quantity was con.urned by those doing it -
behind. (is questioning him he also found that he (laughter.) With regard to the agricultural labourer, if
also had • bushel of wheat per week, and .t that very , farmers would think of them not only as working
time the professor was paying Is, per week extra to his I machines but as intelligent beings, try to reason with
lahonren bemuse I wheat was ad dear. Then he hail them avid do them all the possible good they could, put
a cottage end garden rent free, a few Ingo if poteto • forth efforts to get their-children properly taught, see
ground, and la • day for food and 41., • night for that the boysemployed on the farm were trained rightly,
she ping when ho went out with the engine, and besides taking especial care that they were not taught by the
all this drink. Now that man could never have had lees other labonrers to swear and be saucy, and exercising
than 20, a week, and he was certain he sometimes got general kindness and supervision, a great deal of good
Wk. or 40t • week. He would appeal to them, and might be done -(hman hear.) He did not know that on
especially to thom who eat on Board.. of Gueriliana his (the Professor's) farm, there was a man who would
whether • Dersetahire labeurer, ever confessed to more use had language-they all -knew that if they did he
Sim 9., per week, soil when they were remind. d of should instantly discharge them. Returned • boy away
their extras, the answer would be, "Ah! we sometimes for it once, and that settled the matter. Bat if they
get that, and sometimes we don't I" He would be desired the improvement of their labourers, they mast
willing to give more than 9s. a week to some of his men; begin it. If they said they would not allow a man or
but h • dared not ilo it, for if he gave to one he must. boy to swear and used bat language themselves they
five to all, and as soon as he same to give more wages, might be sure there would be something wrong. They
the labourers would suppose that they were perfectly must see that their own doings were right, insist that
inilispens.ble, for they would always think that you they would have good labourers, and spare no pains to
were acting from some sinister purnose. If he wield make them so-(applause.)
get good h meat labonr-rs, he would be tiers happy to The CHAIRMAN said he was sure they were all very
give more. for he would rather see them paid more, and mush obliged to Professor Buckman for his able, lucid,
behave a little better than they do at present. With and erratical address. If anything were wanting to
regard to the wo:k the farm labourer does as taakwork, show the benefit of societies such as this it was given
he had been to several counties In England, and had by its enabling them to meet and hear remarks by •
looked over the general tariff for labour in the different brother agriculturist on a report as to the stele of the
counties, which had been published in the very nice agricultural labourer in Dorset, and to show the mac.
little book by Mr. Morton, and he was certain that for enemy in a great measure of some of the allusions in
anything like totivork, more is paid in Dorset than in that report He quite agreed with the professor as to
any other oounty-(hear.) With retard to the cider the advantage of money payments instead of allowances,
tariff of the comity, he believed that one of the greatest and he approved the suggestion of parish supervision,
Bourses of mischief that the farmer Lae to contend with and thought a kind of regimental organization should
is that everlasting cider question. He found that by be established for ensuring the proper sanitary condition
the cider-drinking customs, he was reduced to the pan. of their villages.
tien of a retailer of cider. Nothing could be done Mr. FLOTIR said he would much rather be • listener
without an extra halfpint, and what • Dorsetahlre half. than • speaker, for he was but a small employer of
pint was most of them knew. They gave three gallons agricultural labour compared with the majority of those
of cider an acre for what is calling yoing (hewing) wheat, present, and therefore his acquaintance with the poei.
cutting grass • gallon and • half, for hoeing and giantism tion, needs, and qualities (good or bad) of the labourer
roots, a gallon an acre. That was the lowest tariff of was necessarily more limited than that of many around
elder they had, and being curious to know the reason him. Still he could not Wass to say • few words, and
why an little was drunk at such work in the heat of to express the pleasure pl, felt in common with them
summer, he asked this foreman about it, sad the answer all in hearing the very interesting and, he might say,
he gave was because at that work a man's heed was very original line of observation with which they had
down all day long, and he could not stand so much been favoured by his good friend (if he would
drink. Professor Backman went on to give other allow him to call him so) Professor Bnokman,
examples of the eider tariff, ineluding-for making (Hear, hear.) Their noble chairman had shown
straw thateh, reed, Ico., barn work three or four that peculiar quality which he (Mr. Florae) had known
pinta a day; haymaking, three quarts a day; in him for some years and them Uno-it broke out every
carrying, two or three gallons • day ; harvesting peal now and then-his military turn of miod. He waswell
and beans, a gallon and a half an sere. Sheepshearing known-next to their gallant and respected friend
appeared to be terrible hard work, for the only answer Colonel Bingham-et the headed the Dorset militia, and
he would get from hia labourers about sheep-shearing his suggestion that they should have regimental man
age-
cider was "As much as we can get" -(laughter.) As ment in their parishes was quite characteristic of his
to this question of labourers' wages, he thought Dorset- noble friend-(laughter and hear). It showed what a
shim farmers were somewhat behind farmers in general, lover he was of good order, and method, and discipline
for they allowed thinn to be talked about all over the -(hear, hear). But the fact was the sanitary arrange.
°wintry to their discredit. simply because they manta of their parishes-as Professor Buckman was
persisted in paying their erases so much in kind instead aware --were in some measure under the control of
I of.money. Let them, as Canon Girdlestone says, pay Board of Guardians, and tie fancied they had deputed
; their men honestly 12.. a week, and he believed they certain members of their body to look into thus.
' would be gainers-(hmr and applause.) He himself matters ; and he could testify of his own experience
found that he spent £5O in one year for cider, and if the and knowledge that in Dorchester Union very consider.
labourers had that extra £5O would they not be better able advantages had acenred and been derived from their
off! While if they could get them to take the money, superrision and attention in the different parishes.
I he as,, quite sure farmers would not have to spend it Very considerable evils had been remedied, and great
! for that which did their labourers harm rather improvements effected in the villages wherecompete t
1 than Rood. Yet this eider was considered to cost them persona had taken an interest in much matters. One:r
nothing, and the London press wrote as if farmer" two other topics on which Professor Buckman spoke
, insisted upon their labourers taking it as an much brought strongly to his recollection the invaluable
I wages. But they would rather sell their eider honestly; services of • man who had lived amount them-who
I they would rather tee their labnurers have Miele cider adopted this county as his own-and whose good works
I with their meals. Now the labourers were drinking like those of all good men had survived him-their
several times in the day, and at their meads lamented friend Mr. Percher - (hear, hear).
went without it altogether. But this oonsumptioo Professor Buckman spoke of the ;tate of
.of eider did not really do them good. If • man the labourers' cottages. They would •It re-
. has any very hard work to do, he had to be member that the Labourers' Friend Society gave
' very careful what he drank. If • man in training for • special prizes for the ti dest kept cottages, and he
boat-race he is obliged to be kept from drink ; but the believed the society had been very instrumental in im-
labourer seems to drink after each load. It is not only proving the condition of the cottages through the
, the money spent for the drink that must be considered district-(hear, hear). From lois own experience he
I but the delay for the time consumed in drinking' Y agree and must say he could hardly with Professor Buckman
' he believed that there is a nuncheon, a mutlC h eon, and when bespoke of the general want of tidiness in the
a luncheon every day between breakfast and dinner. • labourer's cottage It might be tilt: cu often
e too n in
He would beg his brother fanners to consider whether I some large parishes,.
but in this neig bourhoorl ha must
1 they should not not unite against this system of paying I say that many of the 0 ttnitetswere kept in a state of
lin kind. As • general rule, they paid in Dorsetahire as tidiness which was hi lir yocreditables
h it
wiee he w
rth.o arhdad
to the poor people
men's wives
ut the
much as anywhere else ; but he believed the world in , and especi illy to the ° poor
general does not know it, for even gentlemen who were , care of them-(heer, hoar),
in the habit of sitting on Itsar Is of Guardians did not j tion. No doubt Pr'ofessor Buckman spoke from living
seem to understand th , video of payments in kind. If lin more Populous parishes than those with which he
I li' sent hi. carter to t isee with • load he had a ehillin (Mr FloY er) was acquainted, and he p iinted to a higher
! extra, and then they awned to lie always carrying coal!' kind of edontion-teaohing the children as to the
I for some ias or other iipr•cr, loath Ile willed upon works of nature, and giving that., an elementary know-
his brother farmers to insist upon their labourers' ledge of things which they all
saw must require a
enttsgsa being better, to my they shall be kent in higher
class
of
proper 'wise, and to engage fairly to give their !abeam r he wasafraitl, tsheehroocohnuladsterxpeolc.tetlOwpimroividres'in than,thei llds. or Ile per week, and he believed they would be small parishes. All they could sea general rule expect
niness theepielve. at nem), and in the end have better I ti teach children was • competent knowledge of read-
jlaastboneref ratheanladhomhorarerawotorarkidohnee.ramDaorahlien.ei
that
he h the suits i 2, writing, and arithiLett.., and their duty to God and
sorry that it hail not got better within the last wiew s man-to give them the toc•ns and to promote in them
• taste and desire to increase their knowledge them-
Tears. With roaPeot to one article he was lad
the labourer could get better bread, for ourf bread that
'wisea -theist, hear). That he thought was fur as they
HOW probably almost cheaper than ever It is
• could
go,
Something in the way the l'eoleour had
t was. That indicated might be done by elementary books
wee an exNtillont thing, for he fully coincided with one or natant history, and so far as they eould carry it out
°onion of that fine old Englishman Mr. Cobbett 'lt wasa eiguebte suirmstiou.
(thougn he did not a with all his political Opinions) I.: Natural history sacs subject .4
tared to those able to ("Ibis., it and if they could so
that potatoes are not any boon to agricultural labourer'., """tolil it t i their p.a. r neightioun..'it would be adding an
' Acoording to analytical °herniate, they contain element of hapoinc., to their enures .4 life. With n.sganl to
cent of water, and they Might guess th t i0...75 Per the employment of hoys, he believed Profeseor Buckman was . 4
very good for the man who has animal f‘oedpne.vai.7.lare , ex Mon that Mr. Stzukhope had rather iireystatod the areoent
3 3. ' and he (Mr. Fl iv I onclonclossl
for they served to dilute hi* animal fool ; b - day, theirt"w"resPsi:l;eirnlrCarladb-fechling. throughout.. th(e" ".
maa comes to take the potatoes as the Treat atsewshaenhias haye boy. to labour In the Gelds. under 10 ttars':fittin.%!,th'st litt.
general food, he could seam), - • m--- ,a. a Keneral role desirable -(hear, Mar). %%nether It would be
got tne ow:muter
ise.ible or right that a law ah..uld to enacted prohibiting all
amount of flesh forming food int •
. o his frame. The , labour by boy• under ten year. of age Ann, no) - would be
undue use of the potato, is lowering, and if persisted en other ruin°. There were times and circumstanoul and
in will be ultimately found to have greatly lowered it might said, occasionally families, in which it vrou'ld he
tho labourer's system 1 turd to prohilsit the employment of Use boys under that age'
the ni" stamina altogether. Let ,
m consider the quantity that a man has to take of but he thought, ass genera) rule, th ^et 1010 an almost universal
potato.s in
order
to
repair
she,
...se
of
...la
___. , a.sciliescensw in that view of the we that boys should not g
"tinily going•". ! to add lalecur tinder ten yews of age, and that up to that
on is sometng enorutous. It is a eery time the ail isi he ie.
good thing that bread i' ' s cheaper, and that our airrt- ia• at that age is fitting for them and MI be provided, in such
y ou a.- to revels, such an amount of edu,stion
*nit:teal labourers can get the beet instead of being I • largo field for conaidemtion there were UMW other topics
obliged to eat barley and other bread, as in former I "no might wish t., touch upon. With regard to cottages la, ,thi
ii it think lie -.mid ao with Pmfeasor Buctrivan in chinking it
timesn "ILI itbawoaren, nuiotiforveuthamt,ucthhelolwairbourtheranwotuld he i ...Lit., ,arama,
ca
an
t„,
aaaara a bettor
cia,
of
wfsete...

_
that the moderate rent. now generally paid by farm 1•1..0n.e,
aboiiki be Incr.:amid. No doubt a landlord mint regard con, ,
a* part of the ordinary hum bufldhLa necumary to he pr0.,,,,1ie ~
halieveal that sva, now aimed nniveraily
that It wa. only • queonlott of nnte, and of ntamii.. to
in a general thing that the ue tares upon farm. throop,,,,
county shall he more adequate and more fitting for the a„„
nr.lati.m el the labourer.. In • ClPlTV.plllillUllre with ,111 , f
the Commiationer. he bad certainly exprroul •644.
moot at the way In which the cottage mamiansodatiou .41,, 2,
WM -Token of. li.' knew what a greet deal had beet, Moo
It. Improvement : It would lee invidiou. to mention
on the part of nuely, litany he woold not fay all 'tilt a
part of the land°. Mr. of Donee. hi, knew bow inaoli 1..1 i...,
done .4 late year. Ili Imirroa-ing the cottage are. 411111.4 .
their iodates. and he had no tlntibt. that would K.,
collat.," would gradually, he lepal rapidly hope...,
at no di.Unt day they might have the laboorer m era , •
h0ta...1 a+ he might to be in cottage* in which decent-) ,
ntorality, and reismalde comfort ...old bat pro ideal 1.1
(applaum.)
Mr. it. W. EARRSI tutored a vote of thanks to i•eore,„,„
Buckman, and mid that though they !night not agru. an„.
eaerything he hat! stated, he way, sum they ha'! .t
much f.14...111 hot that they let) largely coneumul 2,11,•,
Profe--eor Pi the slewt he had et:pre...al. A. to cotta,:._
l thot It ante a great IlliNtake n,Wall., 1.11rii••••,
for many of the mi.e.able itt the ls, hut
• than were put up I,y atwitter,. Ile knew of one p,
claw ercetad nithin the last three year., whieli a,.•• •
fit fora decent pig to live in Ine hc refarnd to
, difficulty ..1 getilll2' rid 1:14,01 of cottages.
Mr lirmit au/taloa the motion.
i+rofewer Ilacatta• seknoialulgul the contilliment,
II
wiahed to be enrolled& nionlier of the ('hawker (+pilau-
tieneral Mictlah propowed, and the Mayor of Iturei+
(Mr J. F. /lodges) aeonded, • vote of thanks to
Chairtnan.
6.rd ASUIAT laid he was happy to me he anu.t. retract
he 'dated at the buritining ae to the attendance. Than .•
bot a amall 'orating when they legun, hut 4,ther.
came In, till they had • very re.pectabie gat erjng a,ol ..i,;•
whh-h refia.cted great crulit on them. ft woo tie, la.hi
P6Onn, !WU 1.11 oppioe them C'hatnbur., Intl he could
no po weielY 111,,re likely, if properly aundia•tod. t., work tt
d. 1.1 good and particularly in agricultural diMnct.
aft.. theta an opp .rtunity of audit iting their ,
and welting people xtraight. For a log tithe farmer. loot.
•1/11.01 right and left all over the place, and partaniarh
!Nowt, and till lately, they had remained like d ttttt
hearing it most patiently- (lau(hter and hoar.) N"Ili loi.:
lie' oil their day had come- (hear.) He aittearely tru+ta+l
meeting would be well retained, an that it might la.
DolNet MAX niA witch • heal county after all a+ it had 1.-rn .
mented t-. be- -(aindalue.) Ile travelled alawat a gm, •I•
In many place,. found labourer.' wages nominally high, .
here. 12., 13w. and even 15‘. a week, but Ir. •11.1 •
hes them an well howood, no well out up. No ogtilf in the 1.,
110 broad ahoulderawl a. the labourer. in Ihmett (applan.•• ,
ame very glad to have beenwant at the tueeting--(appla•a.
The proceeding. then ended.