The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-29 00:00:00

COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. TUESDAY. JANUARY 29. 1878.

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Atm: duet. the Rev. J. & neona sclea. 'Nora's Ountaltip," Watson, Mn. man; old ',him'
ballad, "The Lus of Richmond iinr Mr. W. Turner :
tee, ' Three Chains," rreta song. Shy Robin." Rids
L." 101.. • : solo Mute) 'Scotch Airs." J. ilarrioilunt rmlogn
8m C. ficudamore ; dest (comic), "Mien. Riot.-
Bertheid ; Mr. W. Torn and Mr. C .J. R. Scudansore:
ifir4 "Shun. sentleLeredy, &alum " God Save the
Queen."
On the following evening, the 23n1 inst., the annual
cancert at Forston to ik place, and, as usual, gave
swath pleasure to all present, and it le only fair to add
that great credit is due to all the allows, nurses, and
attendants residing there for grittier up so creditable
and amusing an entertainment. Glees, Kilos, and
landings followed in qui* succusion • the interval,
Many 00. at most concerts of wurinei and silence,
was here filled up in perishing of wine, biscuits, h.c.,
which all enj )yed, and taus the time rapidly pared
until the second part of lins concert began. Nowhere
is loyalty more shown than at the two County
Asylums, and the gloriosa old anthem "God Rave the
Queen," finished, as it &brays does, every entertain
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must given here.

and. Possibly, from less horses being bred a few nem
ago, under this belief that other dock paid better for mar-
ine counted with the uncertainty as to whet wet of
animal you might get, and the Little convenience many
farmers have for breeding homes. It is • serious item in
the farmers' capital to coneider that a good cart bone
cannot be ',embalmed at much leas than AKO, and that its
cost of keep for one year is equal to about half its ...it of
value, whilst some lass useful cost more than their value
In yearly keeping. This points out the advantage of
keeping good rather than inferior mime's. Steam power
has rendered great service to agriculture, but will poseibly
, do still more should its relative cost become lessened. on
: its principle and application be better understood
altogether than at present. I have heard something
Lately of all thra.hing engines being made traetion so as to
wore themselves with machinery attached from place to
place. I hope to see this carried into effect, as I believe
in general it would be an advantage, although sometimes
attended with slight inconvenience, and some little
danger occasionally. As I ham before pointed not the
use of .oachinery will increase as • substitute for manual
labour, and it will also become necessary that the know-
ledge in the usage of each most also inCraMe. By the as.
of more machinery we may be enabled somewhat better
to asset the time* and some of the increased exempts
and the asoessity will thus arise for proper sheds for the
acomunodatkin of such machinery more than we And on
farm at present, and to which I feel sure that you will
agree, very insafficest attention has been paid, U
we could estimate the loss in this country alone, arising
from the depreciation in the value of agricultural imple-
ments. cart; ploughs, èo,, and machinery, as owing to
the unavoidable but unnecessary exposure to the weather
It would amount • large sum. This could be much
leesened by convenient sad oftentimes inexpensive shed.
tug. The whole arrangement of (arm buildium in general.
I may reenact, needs more attention than it has received.
but not nearly so mote as It dem= if tending to
reduce some of the waste of ag tural modulo.
I do not expect fogad, nor do! advocate any great radical
chinos in the system of .tas land as at present
pursued, in what is understood either as the iour.field
system the five-field system, or the six-field system. how-
ever, some modification may be beneficial. As • rule on
the average of good land, nearly, if not quite one half, the
Mad will, I think. be sown to earn as heretofore, be the
price of corn what it may. I think some of the secondary
qualities of land poor and badly drained, and the like
will be lass of ten brought under the plough than in years
naaa. some cheese will adviseably be wade in the kind
;i4min grown, and, no doubt the growth of wheat
annually in acres will become lees, with more barley and
am min The greater and more distant the change of
crep the better, and where new mope or new varieties of
any sorts can be introduced there is certain to be an ideas
rage derived therefrom. The greater increased growth
of intermediate green crops will more and own
mend itself, itself, which, with the more extended use of
eaanu and greater consumption of oil-rakes and
ether feeding stuff, will tend to the production of more
‘aaat, annoany —greeter stimulus and greater -
uor. in We different chimes el' farm lames ag
proper security for capital is seeded and notice here.
With, as I have Wine stated, the increased use of
manures, and greatly increased consumption of feeding
stuffs, and the altered relative value of the farm, greater
freedom in the growth and WO of crops of the farm must
be advocated, the landlord being duly but not unfairly
protected. I will only quote a short extract from another
paper read by Kr. Lewes before the society of arts a abort
timango,and which is puldiabed on this 'ablest. He says:—
At the present day con is damper than it wee formerly,
while hay and straw are dearer; in addition to this him-
much as the supply cf the three essential elements of
manure, nitrogen. Phosphoric acid, and potash is almost
unlimited, the necemsy for fixed rotation and restrictive
covenants no longer ernst.. The question whether two or
more white straw mete may be grown in cu-cession, or
where hay, straw, or roots day be more profitably soli or
is one that should be decided, not by fixed
rules, but by , .nleulations depending upon the
...Sing price a the different articles, and the
cost of the manses required to grow them" In the
neighbourhood of towns and in lemons of scarcity,
hay and straw may be disposed of with advantage, other
articles being returned to the land instead, tomn all thinsh
we must move with the times in which we live. I feel, '
I very inadequetly dealt with subject
CsictilerluZ have th th
ria. is any, and what shale of system
rendered dea ulti rafie in the cvation of lan by reason of
Its increased cat of management, But, I think I have
said sufficient to raise • discussion. Our meat object
on three nouns which I have not noticed that you will
supply the omission.
Mr. Homan led off the discussion, and said at the
present time one half of the total consumption of
wheat in this country wee grown in England and the
other in foreign countries. He thought it might be
true that a very few years would enable the foreigner
to produce toe whole supply, hut at • cost of three or
four times over what it was now costing. The in.
creased costs of production were due to two chief
causes—the increase in the price of manual and horse
labour. Horns cost double what they did—and this
county was not a horse breeding district; also they
had had to pay a largely increased price for labour.
It was evident these expensa fell with especial
severity on poor land. Titir the increased cost of
labour per acre—arable at 6a and of horse 2e.—on
land rented at 40a, that would give an Increase of 20
per cent., and on poor land, rented at 10s., it would
be M. Good lands were let now at a higher rate; but
it was found difficult to let poor lands at a decrease.
Fanner" must look to some different management to
meet this, To sum up his own observations upon the
matter, he would suggest the poor lands should not
be fanned as high as fcrmerly, but the good at a
greater cost
Mr. Harems recommended the more general
adoption of oxen to supply the place of home.
With one pair of oxen he had ploughed 4.3 acres in
41 days. They received about Gibe of cake and gram.
Mr. DAY/21 thought they could hardly hope for an
Improvement in the agricultural interest of the country,
until they had a minister of agriculture. It was a
most important office in France, and the more he
thought of it the more thoroughly he was convinced
they ought to be directly represented, (Hear, hear.)
It was an unfortunate fact that of bite years they had
had worse crops and had had to pay higher wages,
but he did not see how it warn to be combated.
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Mr. A. Pore cionaidered—theTelMl keep before
them the fact that if machinery became more
generally Introduced, the education of the labourer
must be ralfted.

CIiAIIUIAN reviewed the remarks of previous
speakers at considerable length, and argued the only
way by which increased expenses could be met, would
be by securing Increased returns. Comparing a
farmers tirofit with a tradesman's, he put one as
turning his capital oacc at 10 percent., the other three
times at 5 per cent., equal to 15 per cent. On the year.
A farmer does well if he mace 10 per cent., and out
of that his personal and domestic expenses have to be
deductei

ms believed they would have to come to
steam power.
The reader of the paper having replied, on the
motion of the Vtcs•CHAIIIIAIf. seconded by Mr.
Damn, a cordial vote of thanks was paased to him for
his able lecture.

Halt on the Pith last, Waft the Ent altes=e=r-
mai% aad Mr. William Montagne wager
MoDoooll. outto7ot to the Inland Lwow Dspartf
moat, and Yr. FiUitor, Clerk to the Comadoolnalen The
business was soon disposed of, there being 01/1711•111111.1)911i
besides a few formal matters. It is a great admetag• to
this District to hare Commlnioaers of this stamp and
character to transact its public business.

Com= BALL—The annual re-union of the Wad of the
neighbourhood took place on Thaineday evening, in the
Town HAI, Sherborne. There was • distinguished
emenably for whom Mr. Minis Clarke, of the Digby
Hotel, provided refreshments. Targets quadrille band
from Saliebury supplied the music. Among the company
were the following :—The Counter. Lindsay, Laly Marl
Bartle, Gensr.l Wardlaw. 81r Richard Glyn. Bart. Lad.,
Glyn and party, Mr. (7th Fusiliers),
Mrs. E lward Meillycott. lira Hobbouse, Mi. liobbouse,
Mrs. Goldsmith, Kr. Audio. Wm Price, Mies Mary Price.
Mr. Diered Seephene, Captain J. R. P. Go olden, Mr.
Co olden, Mrs. ek.ii.len. Mu" H. B. Samuelson, Mr. C
Boultima, Mr. A. Goodden, Mr It. Grantlialton, Mr. N.
Grant• Dalton, Mr. C. Grant. Dalton, Mr. W. Woodford.,
Mr. .J. Dandy. Him B. Dandy. Mies K C. Dandy, Mies
Doody. Mier H. Fox, Mrs. Fox, Mrs. Sale, Mr. nottray,
Maa Fox, Mr. Bontinck, Mr. H. Modlycott, Miss Fanny
Glyn, Mr.. Bowden, Mr. F. M. Nadine., Mrs. Ifendenent,
Mies Foley Mr. Clreuver, Miss Groover, Mr. F. W.
Walton, Major and Mrs. Bogle. Mr. Kra and Mies
Liettrel Rev. F. and Mrs. rsi, Mr. and Mn. Senior.
Mimes tor OR Mr. and Mrs Oarrickatoore, the Rev.
Wilirid Boxby. Mr. and Mn. Wills-Sanford, Mimes
Wille-Senford (2). Mr. F. R. Sutton, Mr. Herbert &ram,
Mr. R. Foot, Mr. A. L.v.tt, Mr. J. A. Ffooks. Mr. B. A.
Rooks, Lieutenant IL R. Clerre. &N., Mr. W. L Berner,
Mr. Barbick Captain Can Glyn, Mrs. Can Glyn. Kim
Dunmore, it B. 8.. Mn, AO Was Ashford, Captain
and Mr.. Biddle, Mies Glorybrook. Captain Carte, Captain
Bras., Mr. G. B. Ranworthy Brow.. moth Regiment),
Mies Lanworthy Browne. Mr. & Heat, Mr. and Was
Maine, Major McAdam, Mr..McAdam, Kr. Smith, Mn.
& Goden. Miss Cole. Mr. Penrose, Colonel Hall, Mr.
Walton. During the evening an accident happened out-
side the Town Hall. A home and trap driven by a man,
evidently the worm for liquor, ran against • Pair of bonds
drawing a gentleman'. carriage. The latter were not hurt,
but the horse and trap that caned the mischief were con.
siderably damaged.
Rsenistrio TO Some. Paiderra —A young man named
wataani, (remedy of Leigh, was on Thursday evening
apprehended on a warrant, at Sherborne, for refusing to
comply with an order of the Magistrates, requiring him to
contribute towards the support of his parents, who are in
receipt of pereohisPrelief. There are several pounds arrears
to Pa,. and es las young fellow declined to advance it, he
was on Friday !removed to Dorchester for a month's hard
labour.