The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-19 00:00:00

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"WORK FOR ENGLISH LIBERALS.

In an article entitled "Work for English Liberals,"
after urging the revival of the earnestness and energy
of former times throughout the field of politics at
large, the writer proceeds thus —" It is, however,
towards the counties that it is our desire to direct the
attention of the Übe, .1 Party. The Tories have long
claimed to he the farmers' friends, but, their advent to
power has been the signal for their abandonment of
every promise by means of which their support had
been obtained. The Malt Tax is no grievance so long
as the Tories are in power; the promised relief to the
matter of local taxation turns out to be the veriest
delusion that was ever palmed off upon confiding
supporters; the great evil, of local administration are
yet untouched; and • mockery of security has been
given for capital invested in the pursuit of agriculture,
while not the slightest attempt is made to check the
destruction of tenants' crops by landlore game. . .
. If En,,liah Libersla have tlie courage to take up
times questions In a manner worthy of the historic
fame of the party to which they are proud to belong,
we are convinced that • great future it before them,
and that they may recover their lost ascendancy in the
English constituencies." In another article, in reply
to • critic who has questioned the poseibility of
doubling our agricultural production, the same journal
says:—" The statement that the produce ef the land
might be doubled has not been made haphazard, het
in the deliberate conviction of competent authorities
up tn the question, and has been en loosed by no lees •
person than the present Earl of Derby. Has 'J. J. K,'
never heard of exten.ive waste lands yet needing
reclamation in England. Scotland, and Ireland ; of
tenants' crops nearly wholly destroyed by landlords'
gammof encumbered estates. the owners of which cannot
effect improvements themselves, and will not enable
their tenants to do no; and of vast districts in
Scotland that have been cleared of an industrious
peasantry in order to make room for deer and grows?
. . . That the application of capital to the cultiva-
tion of the soil is dricourage.l by the present monoply
cannot for a moment he doubted, for who will freely
embark his capital in any pursuit if the chief benefit
of the investment is to be enjoyed by another?
Millions have been invested in foreign loans. a very
great portion of which is lost, while the capabilities of
our own soil are imperfectly developed, the number of
people employed in its cultivation diminished, and the
growth of • steady and remunerative home market for
our manufactures is prevented. In the complete
reform of our Land Laws the manufacturing,
mercantile, and industrial community have an object
of vast importance, far more deserving of attention
than the pursuit of a specious phantom (Reciprocity),
which will only land them in mortification, disappoint-
ment, and regret."

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"BOBBY" CALVES.
Large supplies of calves, known in the trade as
"bobbies," are daily seat up to the Metropolitan
Meat Market from the Weft of England. The City
authorities, a few years since, made an order that
calves weighing leas than ten stone, and exhibited at
market for sale, should be seised and destroyed as
unwholesome food, but many "suckles," only a few
days old, are sent up to London and sold as veal daily,
and the low price* at which them "hobby " melee are
offered command for them a good sale.
A LONDON AGRI, I.ILTITRAL EXHIBITION.
One of the most influential meetings of the season
assembled at the Mansion House on Wednesday.
under the presidency f the Lord Mayor, for the
purpose of taking the preliminary steps to get up •
i great Agricultural Exhibition n the Metropolis.
Peers, squires, and clergymen united with some
prominent magnates of the City in advocating the
scheme. The Chief Magistrate. it is true, with
becoming modesty, admitted that his knowledge of
agriculture was somewhat scanty. But he felt that
the most ancient art of husbandry was to which the
nation had to look for its food supply, and therefore
he threw himself heartily into any movement that
might tend to advance the interests of the rural craft.
Many speeches were made, and rssolutions passed, the
outcome of which may be briefly eummsrlaed. It was
decided that we ought to have an Agricultural Exhibi-
tion in Lond m somewhere next year, that i should
be held under the uspiges of the Royal Agricultural
Society; that the site for the great show should be
Hyde Park; and that his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales should be asked to accept the Presidency of
the Exhibitions. It is some sixteen years since
London had a great Agricultural Exhibition of the
sort now suggested.