The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-16 00:00:00

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A ToinsiA Amitotic§ has ocowsod at Slokis,
Jellf. NIMISTO•11 lino were loot

the younger members a tklal
tisslig:giltr Deaths for Osborne onte
ateromm.

Tin Tiebborne ears will come on in Michaelmas
wrm, almaitaneonaly at Lincoln's lab sod at W.
m.

Tag Wroatinos MuerSo. The International
Enfield Challenge Trophy, value 1,000 guineas.
Tam wee 0.1 Wimbledon, ou Tna.d.y bj iloot•
ka. The moms were :—Scotland. 1,01111; England,
Loa ; and Ireland, WM The velour of the St.
owner's Vue a sold jewel spli £lO, wu Sergeant
fa* lith with 17 pant.. The BON
Pus. Wile br Corporal Rieke 711% (Leeds), West
York. with 90 points. CaØtta Itoo, of Cambridge
=lt' woo the Oxford aid Cambridge Bras,.
th a more 0142 marks. The eompetitioe for
the Priam of Wales's prise malted in Corporal
Hippleetme, of • taneashire corps, train the prise
with •seore of 42. Mr. Bees's prise, whieh la given to
eneourage bectneers, and is confined to volunteers who
have never woe • prise at a Wimbledon or county prise
eter•lnc, rem was by Corporal Hicks, of the 7th West
York, who made the highest possible more, nomMY. eve
Iralle' eyes at 500 yards. Ensign Spratt, with • wore of
nimsesen marks in five shoe. at 100, redo the first prise
In the fourth series of extra priers. The Daily Teluropir
Cup was was by Sergeant Major Cook, 3rd West York,
who merle as Wednesday the higher* possible more of
90 points. Captain Wright, 30th Cheshire, is winner of
the enter medal and beige el the M.B.A. with a Doors
of 52. The principal event of Saturday was the match
botweria the lords and Commas.. At 900 yards the
Lords beat the Commons by five, whilst at 500 yards the
Commies beat the Lords by eleven. thus giving the
Commons • total majority of all over their opponents.

ROYAL A 01160LT171at, 80CMT.—The enamel meeting
of the Royal Agricultend Society of &Wand, is now
being held at Bury St. Edmund's. But it is for another
year bereft of one of its principal intuitions. The
cattle aliases are prudently omitted from its prise lists;
and:neither the enthusiastic advocates of the local breed,
nor the "world" o/ Shorthorn breeders, will be repro.
mated. The hone show, however, is anuseally good,
there is an unrivalled exhibition in the sheep sinning, •
good show of pip, and • (spitsl display of poultry.
Two hundred and sizty entries of horses, of which 35
represent the Suffolk pouch; about 300 pees of sheep,
SO Leiceekra and nearly as many Cotswolds, 60 or 70
Soutbdowns, and nearly as many Shropshires, with fair
chases of Oxford Downs and Hampshires, tiontribute •
capita display in these main sections of the live steak
show. There are shout 130 entries of pigs, and 340 of
poultry. It must not be forgotten, too, that among the
chief attractions of the week are those offered by the
Royal Horticultural Society. The implasentyard Wee
opened on Wednesday last. The interest hitherto has
been congaed to the trials of steam engines and barn
machinery, which commended on Thursday. The close
competition of rival firms in the production of • steam-
engine which shall satisfy the nice an I narrow taste to
which they u• here subjected, tends, perhaps, to the
manufacture rather of • showy racer than of a lasting
end useful worker. Them are, however, certain features
needed by the latter, as well as by the former, which are
thus secured; and the main test of quality relied on—
namely, the quantity of work accomplished by a gives
quantity of coal -is one which is especially useful In
countries and in districts of expensive feel, where such
Aids are especially valuable, and larviseehle. In bare
machinery, whose trial has been proimeding much more
satid.etoraly than that of any other alas', there is no
leek of competition. In partmular, a great variety of
corn screens, many of them new and Promising, are
being put through their trial paces. Mr. Crowe, of
King's Lynn, exhibits engine and threshing machine,
packed in one. on the Rune four wheels on which he has
came by steam power along the highway all the way
from Lynn to illustrate to his customers his ',stint iodm
pendence of the farmer's horses, both by his journey
hither and his performance at its termination. Among
other useful novelties is the application of the sewing
machine on the great seals to the weaving a web of
pulled straw which shall serve as thatch. We may also
refer, as • feature of the yard, to the number of straw
and hay elevators on the plan of Hr. Hayes' welLknown
mashies. It is a labour-saving tool, which livery much
wanted during harvest time, both in tress eoentier and
on plough land; and a cheaper tool than any which has
yet been seen ought to be provided, whit& shall be
workable efficiently by horse.power. As • whole, we
believe we may congratulate the society upon the show.
yard of 1867, as being at ones • faller and a more
strictly agricultural display than any which it has
hitherto exhibited.