The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

LITEAARY ExTßicTs.

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MODIEN AGRlCULMYll2.—Agriaulture is Rhinos*
entitled to • place among the learned professions, for,
as practised now a days, it.denaands a knowledge of
geology, chninistry, botaey and physiology, ethnology,
and goodness knows what other ologiea besides. The
application of steam to agricultural purposes, which,
by the way, was first attempted by General Btilwer,
the father of the novelist, has been attended with
siesones, and is being quickly extended. The ingenuity
of our best engineers ii taxed to improve the implements
of husbandry, and no experee is spared. in procuring
the best weapous with which to subdae the soil. The
annual produation of the British implement trade-,
which exports largely—is stated to be not leas than
two millions sterling. Much science and experience is
also expended in devising cattle-foods that will prodnce
good wholesome flesh, and not coarse, oily fat, The
farmer, tgo, has undergone a transformation along with
his occupation. Arthur Young has portrayed one of
the foremost agriculturists of his day reeeiving
his games, in one huge chimney corner at
a loog kitchen, bung around with dried joints of hie
best acme, and, clad in a loom coat, scarlet waistcoat,
leather breethes, and top boots. As late os 1836, the.
farmers at Tainworth, to.whoin he presented a couple
of patent iron ploughs, Mused to ass them, because
'they were all o' one mind that the iron made the weeds
grow.' and so stuck to the primitive wooden Implement.
But the modern British Agriculturist is of • vert
different stamp. There ere no more dashing fine gentle-
men in the coantry than the 'high farmers,' many of
them men with -a wilco education, who have several
languages. and so and .of &Meow at their finger ends,
who have travelled and seen the world; and even
among the lower reri4o4 the profeseion, there ig a Basisfectory disposition to observe and reflect, and to avail
tbamsolvea of every nbw invention which can be turned
,to seeount. Prom BM &Whit and least intelligent, the
British farmer premilses to become one of the most
ferprising, enlightened, and scientific workers in our
lethten,—Ciliaralierg Journal for January.— Article,
t Fold aid SA. &ail."
Tin Ansamen Ole. Bentsies....lbrinnirs Ina WOILD.
—An instance of the offset of the prcepect of sadden
weallfr *OD a fanner's daughtee is told with great
undid. ;To lb. The father of the girl lived
ilt &Peer cable by tfaft , side of Oil Creek, and because be
was not so piespes as his neighbours,
W was not con-
'ere! of the- best rink country society. An oil-
well hed been sulk on the opposite side of the Creek,
apdhaiiproved to be most 'weskit's!, and had induced
• speedster to offer the lamer a lair sail of money
and a large sham of the oil for the privilege of boring
on his lend. The bargain was made and the week in
. The daughter and her sister . had not been
.11:ermireated by the country swains, when they
happened to meet at singinggchool or meetinghouse,
and the prospect of being as rich as their neighbours
trek of course, most agreeable to them. After the well
hadiasen begun, one young fellow who seems to have an
eye*. Widnes!, became more attentive to our heroine,
and dim "meeting" was over; would offer his arm, or
tender mere other polite attention. These little evi-
dences of interest were graciously received by the
itherto negleeted girl; sod the people of the Pk" at
mice *et the pair; down es, "fiseeptia' oompony,"—the
,Anterican for ,!`enipkvadi" One &may morning OA she
came oitt of the meeting-house door, the young man
stepped forward, as usual, to offer his attentions, but,
(hewing herself up with the most mamba air in the
-wdrld, she out him dead with the. word, "No
air-re.; tied hits Mesa ger-which waethelapt Dot,
as she termed her father., had struck oil thiiiviceort
40111talirosehl was new
and Id the
tedsagbter
only with come of her
IVMOtf set . ameers' Jertrenf for Jattlegri•
" • PIN Idouxx. —When pins wore first invented and
'tin:night into use about the beginning of the sixteenth
century, they were a New year's gift very Went-
eble to the ladles, and money given for the purchase
of them was called "pin-money," an exi.ression which
las teen extended to a sum of money secured by •
husband on his marriage for the private expenses of his
wife. Pins made of metal, in their present form, must
have been in use sometime previous to 1543, in stir&
y, ear a dates was pealed (36 Han. VIII. 8), entitled
Aa Ae4 for the true mama of Pynnee." in which
it was emitted that the prim pinned should not exceed
fe. 84. • thous/ad. Pins were previously made of box-
wood, bone, end silver, for the richer climes ; Xhose
.nced by the poor were of ' ocnamon wood—in fact,
skewere—Prent Clianderes Boa of Bage—Article
!Vireo Years gift."

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—' Bad • lap, Eid Eteawa, ted . Inceirtre trettitneut
the
le.
lillet rth -4- ... ~,, is ....4...., ft
hik tater oottreor o• the, out ehrbere with
t •rn rwtdMi an before. olloway's
Ointm 4 ent pnr, •
however, ant fit Junction,
kale sop Iptemally and the other externally. and by the eon-
aullyoll these,two inceti within tpeoidoe, hll, .4elyttPlitolPl
dinette ire eWdlly and'indiWrinored, even
when all other mean. fall.

Cull or ArraMarc Covens IT Da. Looect'a FOLAIONIC
WATIIIIS.—From Ur. Ince Gamis Medicine Warehouse. Yeovil.
—"A lady purchased to. 9d: box, and observed that ahe
had entered for years Iran an magmatic 'mush, sod spent
many pounds on other medicines to no purpose. Weeks
after the semi lady celled again, wben • she had been coin-
Oddly' cured by tbem'—merely one to N. box. Other
Melanoma are from Mau So Slabs occurring., which prove the
value di Mame Wafers above other mediainas for pulmonary
dimes" mug*, cold., dic.—,lnce (lambi "
Da LOoocalt Pt/Monde Wanes tire Instant relief and a
rapid 'ewe of JIMMY, ocassomptforl, toughs imd iii (Reorders
of the breath arid lungs. All throat alfeations are Immediately
relieved by elbowing one occasionally to &solve in the mouth.
elnigeitiod public meeker* they are invaluable for clicring
and a thehint the ',Olen They have a pleasant taste.
Price Is: ded. to. 9d., and Ila per bor. Sold by all medicine
vendoM. Oao:rioll.—Y•rdry box of lb. Maxon* medicine bas
tar; withgrvirblvorda

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