The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-01-24 00:00:00

PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND.
To the Editor.

fink—llay we hope that some of your readera, when
arranging their lists of subscriptions for the year, will
renumber the alums of the Mediae Exploration
Fund? Wa are quite aware that this is a time of peel-
sus on liberahty,bot there mast surely be some -teem
must be many--who are both &Ulm end willing, ta aid
the owe of Palestio• Exploration, and only want a
rememWancer..

The object of the fund (to explore the Holy Land,
and especially Jerusalem, as thoroughly as possible,
with a openial aim to illustrate the Scriptures), would
have commanded ample support, one would have hoped.
But the opposite is the cue. The income for the last
financial you was not I:6,000; and—to illustrate this
slackness from our own experience—we find that an
appeal to Dorchester and the neighbourhood, which
you kindly inserted a year lined, has met with no
response at all.
Meanwhile the exploration of Jerusal.m itself is
almost at • standstill. Surely it must not continuo so.
no explorers ars thoroughly able, scientific, and Prat,-
tiara MIR ; and the result even of their limited efforts
hitherto has been a mans of testimonies to the truth of
Sariptere even in the minutest matters of detail.
Contributions trill be gratefully received at the Old
Batik, Dorchester, or by sir, your obedient servants,
EDWARD CIINNINGTON, 1 Hon. Secretaries.
HANDLEY C. G. 11.013L8,
Dorchester, January, 1871.

FARMING In HANTS.—The severity of the weather
severely taws the resourcel slid ingenuity or those fermers
wk.' bare Urge breeding fleck,,., to the host in ,de of • opply-
Ing
the deficiency of the root and fodder crop.. It has, how-
ever, teen for some years pm,' we much the custom to ree
straw chaff in mixture with other feeding sliaffri thet alern
nearly all the bed massaged farms the economical feeding of
both ewes, and cattle is well understood, end is adopted a..
regeler system, ruTing only In proportion to the plenty or
awkrekt7 of rex produce. Tt. land during the lets frost has
bess s.& peed .tsie for the laying out manure, chalk, hc., on
"
easa ww. /enures Much of this work has bona done.
Musts' se. " lellin• are In want of chalk more or kw, and
111. wanks/ or no,. LILL there is an increasing dance on the
part of both landlords sod teasels to arrange for IL.
U.. by charging the unexhausted •alue from tenant to Inning.
W the Lubin of roses there are not many burn e. el ew
kept in the South Maine distend this year ; in facto then: were
very few offered at the fairs, many thousands being sold off
for mottos'.. instead of being bald on to breed lambi, as usual.
This district, including the hie Wight being famed for the
production of eariy lam* it is very satisfactory to know that
the fall has been good, with a fair Number of twins. The
health, too, of Web tlll,lll end lambs is reported as favourable.
although the ewes warm about a fortlgbl later iu lambing
thee lady.,. The west country Down ewes are Susi now
=with en the whole very lair luck, and th 6 may be
them being law disease sasonsmi the ewes time, for
men: years; owing to We eaverlty of the weather, however,
waft awe is needed to sive the Lillian when young.
Meingeldre Down lochs upoe the chalk hill tarnu hese scarcely
begun to 1•=11 yet, February being Use chisgperiod for thew
Wei through the Inhere ef reels and We great acerend" oj
kaider, awe thee weal m's WI be Decewary In the manage-
met or tie tialem b ewes, as their health and that of the lambs
side depend much upon the terafrawit mad fewleg of the ewes
apt** prognarly. we WU farms for the meet pert
ire grown, and three are eawidend the Wafted fir
oggs, NIA/ WM bare had • ovinnUtg pleated &wisp the
poet egitemell, but they will require eeriest care In ravers
wuther to prevent larks end wood pigeons hem einieg vat
44. bags el Qs pleals.,—Jesua bixassa