The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-06-13 00:00:00

FARM WORK FOR JUNE.

The following notes on farming operations. from Mrs
.f. Walker's book, "how to Farm with profit," may be
useful to our agricultural readers
Sheep should be shorn in the first week of this month
that were washed the latter end of last. Morse-hoeing
should be finished, and what is left must be done with the
hand or handhoe. Charlock and thistles are about the
only weeds that can be taken from the crops at this
advanced season. The horse-hoe ought to have left but
very few weeds, except in the rows, where of emirs., it
could not touch them. Swede-sewing now commands our
chief attention, and it is very requisite to have the seed
in before hay-making rommenres. The land must he in •
proper state. I advise sowing them on the flat rather than
wait too long to ridge. as the season is advancing. Ridging
is the best when the land is in a proper state, but a gond
seed bed on the flat will be preferable to a bad one on the
ridge. Summer (allows ought to have no rest during dry
weather, nor should those which arc not already cleaned
for swedes or white turnips. Manure-carting can be done
(not on the land) in wet weather :thistles spudded on grass
land and ant hills cut up—work for men when they cannot
get into the crops. Rick bottoms can be laid out for hay.
Breeding mares should visit the horse regulary : and as
soon as the middle of the month conies, our whole atten-
tion must be given to haymaking, as it is by far the most
troublesome work the farmer has to dual with, light
showers frequently upsetting all his planti, while a strong
staff of men are idling about doing little or nothing, and
that little perhaps mischief. We cut clever generally a
little before the beginning of the month. The time to
cut it is when in fuller flower. It requires mire making
than hay, and must be broken out of the swathe, till put
Into corks for carrying. No turning machine :mettle, used,
or the loaf will be broken off :sitnply turn it, when the ton of
the swathe is crisp, with the hand fork once or twice till it
is dry, and cart itfhorne at once.tWhile the clover is being
carried let the mowing machine cut down a field or two of
of grass, more or less, according to the season and the
number of men at hand. If the weather he pretty good
cut plenty beforehand, and if showery is little. A shower
or two when the grass is in a green state is of little detri-
ment to it Grass can be cut by the machine (except
round the edges, where it niust be cut with a scythe),
and shaken about with the making machine after it has
been cut • few hours. If over ripe then the bark action
only should be used. Each night the hay should be
brought into small rows (hackles)or cock,and the following
morning, when the tops of the hackles are dry. use the
back action of the tedding machine with all haste,
frequently changing the horses in order to lase no time;
the object being to open it to the sun 11.9 soon as possible.
The tediling machine should not 1.0 stopped even while
the men have meals. it will make the 'hay entirely,
although perhaps hand labour, to hackle or cock it at night,
may be desirable. Hay may be lit to cart home when it
breaks up in the hand or when it feels dry and crisp, and
contains little or no Rap. While the hay is being carried
the horse rake should follow, for if the raking.; are left
they are soon burnt up by the sun or spoiled perhaps by
rain. Expedition in haymaking should be the rule accord-
ing to the prevailing weather, as also in carrying and
stacking, due precaution being taken against heating. It
is nonsense to talk of cutting grass in this, that, or the
other state. Foals left at home while their mother are at
work should have some green food given to them in a cool
place, having access to their mothers once or twice during
the lay; and with what corn they can eat they will not
li,, much worse off than those that are entirely with their
mothers at grass.

MR. FRAIIK WOOD. of Recent-street, Kennington, com-
mitted suicide by throwing himself before a railway train
at Dartford Kent. lonises on the Derby are suppose to
have been t'he cause of the rash act.
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THE ( N/NDITION OF THE SOMERSETSIIIRE FARIM
LABOURERS. —The correspondent of a London morning
paler gives an account of the condition of the farm
labourers in Somerset. He says :—A marked improve-
ment has taken place 'luring the last four years in the
Somenetsbire labourers circumstances. Ile makes one
statement which proves this, and says it may be taken as
applying generally throughout the country. Four years
ago the wages of the agricultural labourers in the Vale of
Wrington were not more. on an average, than from I Is.
to I2s. a week. New they get 2.5. Id. a day, and durinp
hay and corn harvest will have 2s. a day and their food.
They are very scarce at that price, so that there it an
opportunity for many of the starved-out ironworker?' and
colliers and town labourers to return to the villages
which they left in the industrial fever of a few years ago.
Mr. R. A. Kinglake, who did not forget to support the
labourers' cause when he thought it necessary, now also
condemns Mr. Mitchell's agitation as wild and unreason-
able. Ile has, he says, chosen a very inopportune time
for calling the labourers together to abuse their masters,
the fanner., who for the last two years have sustained
severe losses through defective hay and corn harvests',
and also from the continuous potato disease.
A WOMAN BLOWING HERSELF CP win. GUNPOWDER.—
At Marlesfonl, near Wickham Market, Suffolk, about one
o'clock Last Friday morning, a woman of 15 years of age,
named :Sarah Solomon, the wife of a grocer and oil
merchant, got out of bed, and having taken a large
quantity of gunpowder free the shop, she left the house
and proceeded a short distance down the road. on
reaching Marlesford Church, some MO yards off, she
made a circle of the gunpowder, and, placing herself in
centre of it, threw a light upon it, and it at once went
off. She, however, appears to have been only slightly
injured, and VIM able to return again to the shop, where
she emptied a canister of powder into a large zinc paiL
She then proceeded to an outhouse adjoining the shop,
placed herself over the pail, threw a lighted lucifer
into the gunpowder, which went off with a loud explo-
sion, blowing the outhouse to pieces, and injuring Mrs.
Solomon most severely. Sevmal of the inhabitants,
being alarmed by the explosion, ran IMt of their houses,
and although the unfortunate woman was severely
injured, she was found at the si.le of the shattered out-
house, cutting her throat with a knife, and she succeeded
in inficting a fearful wound. Mr. C. Cockerelb surgeon,
was sent for, and was soon in attendance on the poor
woman, whose death, however, took place on Wednesday
ternoun. The deceased attempted to commit suicide IS
ths ago, when she suspended herself to the bedpost,
but was cut down in time to save her life.

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SERIOUS CHAIM!: As Oitoey.n.—At the Ilymouth
Petty Sessions, Simon slambly ColwilL grocer, carrying
on business in High-street. was charged. that he
on the 28th May, unlawfully and knowingly, and for
wicked gain sake 4 did compound a certain felony, that is
to say, that one Llizabeth Harvey stole (ruin him a loaf of
the value of rel., and that he did exact and take,and have of
her the sum of LI as a reward for compounding the felony
and desisting from the prosecution of her." On the finth of
last month the prosecutrix went to the defendant's shop
in High-street, where she purchased a small quantity of
tea and • loaf of bread. At the same time yielding to a
temptation that overcame her, she stole 11 quartern loaf
from the shop window and concealed it under her shawl.
She then went to the counter and paid for what she had
purchased and OILY about to leave the shop. when Mr.
Colwill followed her, tapped her on the shoulder, and
said, "If you don't pay for what you have taken away I
shall give you into the hands of the police." She begged
him, for the sake of her hesleuid and children, not to
prosecute, hut he said he would not make it up under a
sovereign. She told hint she had not got the money, but
taking her into an inside room he repeated his demand.
She asked him to go with her to her house, but this he
refused to de, and ultimately the defendant's servant
went to the proseeutrix's house and brought lack two
half.sovereigns, which were at once paid to Mr. Colwill.
The prosecutrix paid the sovereign on the full under-
standing that the matter wa.s to be hushed up, but she
subsequently found that it was the talk of the whole
neighbourhood, and that it had conic to the knowledge of
her husband, a hard working nom in a respectable employ,
whom she WIM naturally an x toes should know noth ng about
it. Hence the present proceedings. The defen‘lant was ix Ml-
mitted to take his trial at the coining quarter sessions,
Isoil being accepted, himself in L5O and a surety in £25.
Imeoarsar Orriciat, Brurnley-Daven-
I port's insinuation that Sir Wilfrid Lawson visited the
Derby last year, and returned "somewhat dusty. very
cheerful, and with a doll in his flat," induced Mr. Puuch
to institute an inquiry as to whether the honourable
baronet went to the Derby this year. The following is an
abstract of the evidence taken: A gentleman could
almost be positive that the honourable baronet sat
opposite to him in a train going to Epsom, but his face
was partly concealed by a newspaper, the Murithig
Ad,. raw', which he NMI intently perusing. Could not
BWeer that it was Sir Wilfrid. A purveyor of refresh-
ments said that a gentleman answering to the description
oi the member for Carlisle called for a bottle of cham-
pagne, and drank it all himself. He observed that it was
• great shame that champagne-bottles did not hold an
imperial quart. After he left, some one said it was Sir
Wilfrid Lawson or Sir William Dawson—could not
be sure which; a gipsy fortune-teller Mid she
fancied she knew the " pretty gentleman." lie
crossed her hand with silver, and was very funny.
She asked the find letter of his lirst name, and he said
"W." She then toll him that if he would be serious, Ind
there was nobody else in the world, he might some day
become A great men. This reelued to affect him greatly.
Hardly thought sixpence enough for such information.
Perhaps souls other pretty gentleman would cross her
hand. She thought she saw a gent in the chair eh° liked
to "kiss • pretty girl in a corner." (Ordered out of the
room.)-"A chemist. of Epsom, gave evidence that &gentle-
man came into his shop on the afterucon of the Derbz
Day, and asked for something to cure the "hiccups,
which he said were the result of imprudently drinking
some cold water. The gentleman multistate' quite steady
by holding on to • chair. Thought it might have been
the honourable baronet, because he fancied while he was
mixing the draught, he heard something like "Wilfrid,
my boy (tic), this is very (tic) had form."—A hansom
cab driver deposed to having driven a gentleman answer-
ing the description from Epsoru, and on arriving in town
he was told to drive to the House of Commons. The
House was closed, and the gentleman, who seemed pretty
comfortable. said "Of course. yes; I forgot. Never
mind; better luck next year." Ho was discharged at
Westminster Hall. The next day he found • pocket cork-
screw, with the. initials "W.L.," in his cab—Finally, a
person gave evidence that the honourable baronet, or
some one very like him, wound up his watch in St.
James's Perk the next day after the race, and set it by
the Horse Guards clock. Mr. Punch does not consider
the above evidence sufficient for him to COMO to a
decision upon, but mast ask the public to form their own
conclusions on this Most Important matter.—Penek.

DEATH FROM GLUTTONY AT SHEFFIELD.
An inquest was held at Sheffield Saturday en the body
of a table knife halter, named Smith, aced IT, who was
found dead in bed on Tuesday. Ile was at the fair on the
previous day, when in the space of an hour he ate a
quantity of gingerbread, sonic potato pie, five squares of
Yorkshire pudding, • plate of rice pudding, a plate of
plum pudding, and • piece of bread, and drank three
basins of soup, a pint of beer, a bottle of lemonade, and a
glass of water.