The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

Morsetsiitrt.

Tint VOLCIITM . —lt is definitely •r
ranged to hold the Dorset Rifle Volunteer encsnipn ISt
this year at Milton Abbey.
Baar.gr.—A farmer in this county, we are told, has
received over £l,OOO for one year's yield of barley, the
produce of 80 acres. Happy man I
ArrOirriimers. —The folloWing promotions appear in
last Friday's London Gasete : —Queen's Own Yeomanry
Cavalry, Cornet 1111_ J. Guest to be Lieutenant, vice
Sir 1. EL Guest Bart, resigned ;0. Bond Gent, to be
Cornet, vice Guest, promoted. Bth R. V. IL
Spooner, Gent, to be Honorary Asaistent Strgeon.
TN! Iruot CHOWN.- la the division, in the House
of Commons, on air ..1n Gray's motion, for a coin.
[nitrogen: the whole House on the temporalities and
of the Irish Church, the minority included—.
C. 0.0. Glyn, Capt. H. G. firidleyoind Mr. VT=i,
and the majority—Mr. J. H. t. Sturt,

J. 1,_14N.:4r.
Lieut. -Col.. , and Mr. J. W. Treir.
DORSET VOLONTRInt annual reins
shoot* will take place on Wednesday, the BM June.
will comprise all the prime offered last year,
Iwt an addition of twenty guineas by the High Sheriff
of Dorset (J. H. Caleraft, .), and 100 gulneas instead
of the 80 guineas the seociaion providsa in 1806. It Is
intended to oomplete the ooenp.tltion in one day.
Tan ADORE Sit.L.—ln Thursday night's division,
the majority In favour of the Government ineluded—
Mr. R. Brooke, Mr. J. Phone Mr. EL a fleymair(!).
Mr. IL G. Strut Lieut.-10fL Bait, end Mr. I. W__.
=tiand the Opposition liihority—Mr. H.
CaPtala Oddity, Mr. K. D. Hodgson, Mr. T.
4. 111 11, end the Hon. W. H. B. Portman. Yr.
&pane n.r. for Poole, was One of the 58 members of
Ike Opposition who eupported the Government ; the
other representative of Poole, Kr. Waring, did not
vote. Not • single Ooneerratire voted
_vont the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and of the 58 seceders
from the Option ranks 17 had voted in previous
Reform divisions with Mr. Gladstone. Mr. 11. B.
Sheridan, member for Dorchester, was absent.
Donal? 1101810 SHER:P.—Under the signature" B."
we find the following in lioturtry's Aorinslierel
Gazette —ln the West of in
parts of Dorset and floor/rest rtitened cfP:Abluic;lariPnwalis
which is remarkable for the earthier of its lambs,
whirl begin tit come as early as November; and in
'ordlitary MUMS for this part of England the winter
Is not usually too severe for the lambs, but during
the Ramat year many hundreds ware loot by the
seventy of the weather at yeaniag time, and the late
frosts made it neeessory to delay mush °peal%
as tailing end cutting; and we have now to r
a deplorable disaster in consequence, connected with
the latter process. A Doratehire man, possessing
line book of early well-fed horn lambs, had them
operated Ton as late as April, when they were a good
sue, old e consequence has been the lose of 50 out
of 250, an these for the most part consisting of the
finest mad best-fieehed individuals. Of course such
ettastrophe has aimed considerable discussion a to
Its cause. In the first place it wee considered to have
arisen from the admixture of sulphate of copper with
the verdigris which Is employed as a stimulant old
detergent ointment to the part operated on. There
OM be no doubt that sulphate of copper,—blue-stone--
in powder, is frequently used by the dishonest druggist
to dilute the acetate of copper—verdigris—an Met
the former is cold at 6d. per lb., and the latter for 13s.
per in the motive an only be too apparent. Now,
whether such a mixture would be prejudicial in these
eases we are not aware, but the present case clan soareely
be attributable to this cause; for there is sufficient to
account for the state of things we have adverted to in
the forward and highly fed condition of the stock,
which is a had peapsiatlon for a severe operation.
" The ointment," to use the words of Professor Brown
" might have added to the mischief, but they were left
too long before they wcre operated upon." Emollient
bat/neat, warm bathing to the affected part, and the
use ef • little weak solution of chloride of one, one
part of the disinfecting Avid to 50 of water, were
prescribed with reference to the survivors. Our
own lambs were operated upon still later than our
neighbour's, and we were anxious to avoid aor
neighbour's experience. The plan was Widen
adopted of putting the lambs into a dry but not
Ash posture, flying to each 6 drachms 4.1
in
salts mad 11) drachm of sweet spirits of nitre ut half
a pint of water. This perhaps, and the fact that our
ruhg 'took had not been kept in too high condition,
ha so far carted us ably over this important crisis
without a dodo kw'.