The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-26 00:00:00

Agriculture.

RIXIIIIII MOM of cattle plague occurred in the week
endiag limb 16.
Coin AVICII4O.II for the week ending March 16:—
Wheal, 57,584 qr., at 59.. 41.; barley, 29,920 gra, at
41a. 51; oat., 8,741 qrs„ at 24e. N.

Tlir weather in Herefordshire and South Wales is be
coming really serious. Lambs Sr. dying at • distressing
yak. and, without a speedy change, the losses to sheep
fanners will be very heavy.
DZATII OF AN Lome A 0111013141:111.T.—ON ths
131 h inst., at Landport, near Lewes., died. used 80, Mr.
John Elbrus, • well•known and highly esteemed agri-
culturist. Mr. Palmas was this sm of the introducer of
Om improved South-down sheep, and was himself an
authority on agricultural awn He was highly
respeMed, and was for many years a magistrate and
deputplieatosant of the county.

A Nom Exedtats oi Tut LONDON Coax
Riondiox.—Tbe Globe of Thursday evening contains
*As following :—"kr. Brandon, of Swindon, Wiltshire,
a dealer of the highest rsepeetability, parchamd at
Bristol fair, bald on the la., from one of the so-called
'eminent London firms,' a large quantity of red clover
seed, represented to be genuine new French, but which,
on delivery, proved to be. datum of clover and old
doctored trefoils Failing toed redress by earreirpoodemon,
Kr. Brunsdon came to London himself, and publicly on
the market exposed the fraud, when the member of one
of the so-celled 'eminent firms' wee glad to best s hasty
retreat. Samples of this seed are in the hands of
Professor Buckrran, as well as of the Board of Trade,
for examination, with a view to further madden"
A Fagan Oomairrao roa Banrlrrikuno.-0o
Tuesday, at the North Riding Petty Sessions, at Sear-
borough, Mr. Jonathan Smith, a farmer at Allezion,
was charged with stealing a sheep, the property of Mr.
John Thompson, also a farmer. The prosecutor and
prisoner were tenants under Mr. Loyd, of Linordt,
ciecepying adjoining farms at Croft Cliff, Alleretoe, and
between October last and the sth of March inst, prose
motor had loot no less then 28 sheep, which induced him
to keep • sharp look•out. Something mused him to
bad suspicion of lib neighbour Smith, and on the last
named day he saw him' happiest" sonsethins up is his
fold-yard, and immediately called in the police, who on
eonmining his premises found the bead and skin of a
sheep, which by its marks was proved to belong I 7
Thompson. Two other heads of sheep, whioh had been
slaughtered some time, were also found, but, the ears
bar.aa been eat off, they could not be identified. nil
prisoner was committed to she his trial at the ensuing
assizes at York.

Eircoetox or Le itoueuVrtmoL Efrulttn.—On
Tuesday morning • *hooking aricident ooeurred at a
stockyard, within a few hundred yards of the Wat-
lington Station on the Lynn and Ely Railway, upon a
farm In the occupation of lir. Sauter. Fifteen or 16
men were engaged in threshing out a wheat stack, and
when they had left off work for the purpose of taking
dinner the engine-660er buret, by which five men were
Instantaneously killed, two have einem died, and seven
others were more or lase injured. The boiler of the engine
was thrown a great distance. It alighted first at about
40 yards into the road, and then bounded • further
distance of 17 yards over a hedge and diteb into an
adjoining field. The remains of the killed were
scattered In all directions. The snips was one of
Clayton and fibuttleworth's, No. 1927, and dated 1856,
and imosequently was twelve years old. The safety
valve was tied down as tee o'elocile in the morning. An
Inquest bu eines been bald, awl a verdict that the
deceased were aaeldentally killed by the explosion cif a
etatun-engisie boiler, tallied by the ini*opirly tying
down of the Witty valve, the jury withing to mill the
attention of pereous in °barge of steam engines to the
extreme danger of tying down safety valves.