The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-03 00:00:00

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Ran AND Fnetu.—The funguses gram grass
rust, the comma uredo rubigrevera, is believed to be
a woo not the commeneorn mildew. ills probably not
• whole te food for cattle. The helm, on rem leaves
is wed* iceie lemthea rose, leveille.—The substance
on beech tree, described ass fungus is mien a nivea ;
it is however really an animal preduetion.—We cannot
find the name " Tete de Mort' in auy of the French
treatises on eroulent fungi. It is probably • corruption
of Tete Noire, and if so It is boletus wrens, one of the
very best culinary runahroome—Garckners' Chronicle.
A Bee Isvasion.—A good deal of amusement haa
been afforded to the people of Oben during the last
eight days by an extraordinary exhibition of the thievish
propensities of the bees of the neighbeurhood. It
appears that recently a newly-hived flock of Dr.
Cummings blends, beaded by their queen, entered the
shop of Mr. Black, fruiterer. where they proceeded to
regale themselves on the dainties lying so temptingly
exposed. They socked the sweets of .11 that waiable, and and spoiled a good deal more than they sucked.
The art of coaxing was brought into requlltion, hut
ff
without effect. The bees defied all efforts to eject them,
and at the same time preveuted more honest customers
from entering the shop. At length, the dreaded
brimstone, mingled with chloroform, was introduced,
and the ruarauders succumbed, the quo n bravely dying
amid her devoted followers. The bees had held parses-
tion fur thirty-Ide hour-. The forenoon after the guff°.
oetion a freah relay of bees paid Mr. Black& virdt leaving
when they had filled their honey-bags. Others sue-
oeeded as soon as the first visitors left, rendering it im-
possible for people to enter the shop during s-venal
hoer' earth day. All the bees in the neighbourhood
seemed to have received the hint, and particular direc-
tions as to the locality of Mr. Black's premises, which
still continue to be the favourite resort of all the bees
about Oban. The weeps bane even discovered the scene
and have put ins moat respectable appearance' mingling,
with their wore valuable sisters as though they wet e
bees of the moat nnimpeachable character. It is doe to
the thieves, however, to state that they keep their
stings faithfully sheathed, and have never lost their
amiable temper.

DIN:ARID MILL—.We have no desire to excite un-
necessary alarm, bat it is onr duty in the intermits of
the public) to protest against the popular fallacy, that
diseasei milk cannot be obtained, because of the secre-
tion being arreeted as soon as the animal is attacked.
' Many auimals continue to give milk for some days after
the disease has commenced, some never lose the ',ora-
tion nut lely up to the moment of death; and all cases
of recovery are marked by its gradual return from the
time that amendment is peroeptible. Microscopic
examination has resulted in the discovery of morbid
elements in milk given by convalescent auimala, when
thine animals bare been yielding 4 quarts per diem.
The milk from dismosed subjects without exception con-
tains these products, soinetiines in abundance, and con-
velment animals that are yielding their full quant,ty,
nevertheless give a poor quality of fluid of low specific
gravity (1018 to 10*, the average being about 1018,
which is the specific gravity of skim milk adulterated
with 58 per cent, of water. The specific gravity of good
new milk may for the sake of comparisou be fixed at an
average of 1042. A great many specimens have been
examined, and the result* hews been uniformly the
same. Hew far this diaeased milk may be injurious
when taken as food there is no direct evidence to prove,
but there can be but little doubt of it. unwholesome-
ness, partsoalarly as an article of diet for children. In
some inateneee the cream taken from milk containing
diseased products did not appear to have retained any
of those morbid matters. The subject is still under ob-
servation, and should it prove to be the case that cream
In the ad of rising to the surface does not carry up with
it say of these elements, it will be an argument in
favour of using cream, properly diluted, for children's
food, where there is any doubt about the purity of the
, ; and there is no question that both the milk and
the meal of diacesed animals have been, and are being,
largely oinwininsd by the public.—Agricalluria Gaut le.