The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

Country faiscellan2.

Wargit Sgw•cm.—Profrissor Anderson. in • report to
the Glaagow magistrates, states the dosage of that
eity (under the voter system) to be worth two-thirds of
• penny per ton!
POIDONI NI;) THM TH AIM. —The Thames Oonservators
intend apvlying to Parliament neat .esision for power
to prohibit the discharge of Londonsewage into the river
unless it be deodorised.

SOUTH MOLTON has adopte4 an irrigation scheme, and
the Mayor says "We are about to carry out a water
supply for the town, which will doubtless dilute the
soo.go, and make it more valuable mi • manure for
pasture land." Indeed
WLT Bawzaios DIPOSIT.—Dr. Antlaell, reporting
upon the value of the sewage &pewit of the eity of
Washington in the canal, says that from ofte ton
fertilising materials to the valued 118 mints may be had,
" to obtain which the farmer would hereto haul 1,3001ba.
of water and 800th. of useless sandy clay."
Tows Couscinzaa Danusa BzwAaa Warn.—
idderminstar Town Council bare visited the Leamington
ABC *soap deodorizing works, and men the promos
of oonverting town sewage into its component parts of
guano, dried mud, and clear water. A goblet full of
the olarified sewage water was quaffed by the visitors
Ugh
TEM RLIL LLED-TA.X.—It is common for astocish•
mint to be arrested that so few persons employ their
capital in the Improvement or reclamation of land, bet
the answer is em.y. There is this impediment—directly
land increases in value the aseeeement is raised, and no
breathing time is given to the farmer to roarer
himself.

COUNTY 01113112-11 LETS° FAOTORT.—Tho Derbyshire
Agricultural Society has appointed a committee to
organise a cheese factory upon the tame principle as
;ballet, anwhpiroch ha..
been
nt in thte
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noedit'aitninAntgluefih s
Amine..
The result of • fairory is uniformity of sample beyond
what can bo obtsined in small dairies, especially in the
ease of small farm., whore the apparatus end acemnitio•
dation is 'duvet necessarily imperfect. [lsn't this a
hint for Dorset ?ji
F 1113161111 AND THE GAVE LAWB.-19ben farmers
compt.in of th.ir grievanees from the operations of the
Gems Laws, they are often taunted in this manner—
" Hot yes go and sign leases in which you bnd your-
selves to preserve the game, and you have yourselves to
blame for that." This is only apparently true. Farmers
a.ea't really 'Delp themselves. They must have land to
"nn OP:eme terms, and the reservation of game lien
I.'ner'.l that they must either agree to it, turn to some
°P...‘er means of livelihood, or go to the colonies. It is
..nerefore nersesaary that the Government should aid
I them in preventing the waste of food for libe people by
vermin in the shape of hares and rabbits.
Daltaelt To Cann Br Hhass.--To ascertain the
damege farmers suffer from bane, ..00 evening in the
middle of June pass through • field of wheat where
hares abound, observe bow in five minutes one hare
will clip off twenty heads of wheat to obtain the small
quantity of seatoherine matter above the top joint ; and
remember this may be done, and is done, by say given
quantity of hares twenty time. In a night, and twenty
nights in the ripening season. Ascertain the maltiple
or cube of the first twenty ears, and then say if hares,
as they overrun hundreds of English farms, are not
" peritilenee walking to darkness, and • dee.
traction wasting at noonday."
hig.stA POTATOL—Hnee's early Coldstream, round.
mid Rivers' royal &shied, kidney, will meet "the most
mealy" requirements at starting: then Daintree's
seedling, veldts, round; Peterson's Scotch blue, round ;
Wheeler's milky white, and Dean's (a Ealing) Waterloo
kidney, m second earlys, followed by Gryffe castle
wain& Walker's second early—the first excellent, and
the latter following it up for the winter months. Then
Hattat's 'gobbler's lepton., pebble white alias crystal
palms, kidney. or Edgeoute second early: all of the lap-
stonefamily are excellent mealy late keepers Veitsh's
improved *shiest ; reoior of Woodstock, round; and
Thomas Almond's Yorkshire hero, are potato; of the
future to keep in memory—possibly the Veitah's and
Almond's might now be got.
THE PH aNTOM 07 THE SEWER.— A correspondent of
The Baader calls attention to the steam which any one
may sometimes Bee, especially in November, issuing
from many of our str.et gullies, and sake, what is thi,
steam? whome comes it? and whither does it go? He
says it is nothing lees titan relapsing and other fevers,
vapoury forms, seldom men because the state of the
&WIGS pbere rarely ia fevourable to its appearance, but still
always hovering about tin. This pnantom fever rims
pp unease (though not unsinelt) among us, spreading
Infection disease, and de.th. There is little doubt
whence it 1:0111•4. 11.1',Ct frqUl onr 6.•••• rl and drains
this ooneentrated menace of disease arises, polluting
the air with it. poison, end freely entering the hings
mad blood of its Thant,