The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-07-10 00:00:00

THE SOCIETY OF THE HOLY CROSS.

Tl;e-iii-uh—oi; of preaching at St. Jemee',
denied the atatement that he was con.
nected with the Society of the Holy Craw.

THE !NFLEXIBLE.

The Governmentwsi refer the of the ma-
worthinese of the Inflexible to a committee of gentle-
men, well qualified to deal with it.

MR. STANLEY AND THE ENGLISH
FLAG.
Remnnatrances have been seat to Mr. Stanley against
his nee of the English nag in Africa.

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
GETTING TO MATTE!?.

Suppose a man of energy and capital takes a farm
in the midst of a good district, and one well suited for
hie purpose, and proceeds to invest a heavy sum of
money upon it in the purchase of first-rate Shorthorns,
in the erection of stalls, employment of skilled labour,
and buying machinery and manure. He speedily
finds that if there be not fairly good railway com-
munication within easy reach of his place, that a great
deal of that expenditure has been in vain. If he
produces beef or mutton it coats him an appreciable
percentage off his profit to get that meat into the
market; for although the purchaser may come to his
door he will not forget before the bargain is concluded
to point out that certain allowance. must be made to
him on account of difficult transit. If he grows corn,
he generally has to deliver it at the nearest railway
depot; if that deptit be seven, eight, or ten miles
distant the coat of cartage becomes a serious item.
Whatever is done, this much is certain; that stock-
breeding, arable farming, lairy-farming, all kinds of
agriculture, day by day cry ont for easier transit and
quicker communication, and have it they must in
sense form. The competition of American meat is a
case in point—this meat can get to the London,
market all the way from New York more easily in
comparison than beef from our own outlying districts.
As to horse-breeding. look at the milk trade to London,
which depends whollyon the railways and steam. The
dairy-farmers in a district which rends milk to London
keep more than double the number of horses now—a
double relay to take the milk to the station—to what
they used to do. In the western district this very
fact hae caused an appreciable increase in the import
of horses from Ireland to be employed in this work,
which is another proof that steam is not of necessity
an enemy to the breeding of horses. —Prost the ''line
sock Journal."

CHICIIIIN 10E9.

Those who live in woodland districts may often have
lest chickens without knowing what kind of vermin
killed them. Let me warn them against sqnirrels and
hedgehogs. A squirrel has been seen by four people
to take three of my chickens lately, and we have also
found the body of another treated in the same way,
✓iegtly picked, without any bones broken, the brains
gone, but the legs and entrails loft. Squirrels will
take chickens large enough to Rafe he from a cat. Hedge.
he
are terrible noctund visitor.; they can pass
bdweim the bars of a coop, and the most plucky hen
can make but little impression on them, and they will
destroy birds as large as themselves. Fortunately
they are easily destroyed, either by a trap baited with
carrion, or bylistening for them-on still a night; one
good blow with a stick being sufficient. Squirrels can
only,* shot; at least, I never had one in a trap. —C.
J. NAYLOR. —Prow' the "Lire Stuck Journal."

1171. CLARI SEWELL RE %II ON CATTLE PLAGCL
Mr. Clore Sewell Read, M.P., was examined before
the Select Committee on Cattle Plague Wednesday.
Hs saki that aa Act of Parliament ehould be pawed
rendering it corapulsory, in all cases of outbreak of
est& plague, for the Privy Council at once to imper-
illed' the local authority, to slaughter all cattle brought
Into contact with diseased minis's, and to pay full
compensation out of the Consolidated Funds to the
owners. In his opinion, fourteen days quarantine
would be sufficient to prevent the introduction of
cattle plague and foot-and mouth disease.

IZ-ROTAL AORICM.TrRAL 50CICTO1 SHOW.
A meeting of the council of this society was held on
Wednesday, under the presidency of Lord Skelmers-
dale, at Hanover-square, London, when the final
ents were made for next week's show at
;-Tre= Park, Liverpool, and a variety of other
business was traicted. Sixty four new members
were elected. Lord Chesham, as chairman of the
General Liverpool Committee, reported their recom-
mendations All follows :—That the arrangements made
by the local committee to enable members of the
society to view the sights of Liverpool be accepted
with thanks That sheep he admitted for the purpose
of exhibiting the operations of the shearing machines
Is suob part et the yard and at such times as the
steward of the general arrangements may appoint.
Tbigs Legg Horn Society be allowed to hold a
aloft Ix Mr members' club in the showyard en
WAWA", IMO, at three pm.—Mr. Aveling, on
behalf of Iha Mbnryard Cootracta Committee, repor-
ted their nooserendation that the contractor be paid
the era at 101.,M00 on account of showyard works, as
duly realled by the surveyor—The Hon. W. Eger.
fray p, parested a report which Professor Brown
bail drown up for the Cattle Plague Committee. In
this raper it wee stated that in England altogether 46
warm& have occurred among 1,089 cattle, of which
tais wars slaughtered healthy, 1 escaped, 25,3 were
sitlarired with the direr, of which 216 killed and were
34 mad.

Emotairo vensus Fusee. For generations
Chocolate has been imported in large quantities into
this nanny from France. We are glad to had the
Min Mimi at lad, and that Cadburys the Makers of
as irellititown f,ocas &mum have opened elegant
I=liat 90, Yebourg. St. Restore, Paris. Their
onass nig perfectly amine is a beverage
in hair smind to warm ele,Ma. than the thick
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