The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-04 00:00:00

Littraturt

The Gisrdenere Clinaitio of this week bat • careful
article on " Injurious lthects." sonatas:Sing tb• labours
of Mho larassar Ormond sad her asaciatea. Tim lady
deala_ modally with the toroth Or, and the it &Beath n of
oharlock arid forcing on ha plant with manure, are among
the rowdies recommealed.
Permanent imerinft, by Martin 11. &atop. London:
Luistirgt. nn Her, is • sound and practical treaties, not
toe but mamelleelds, being rich as the farmer may
read in the railway teals and maiter in an evening or two
at home, be might ionises. Bot flora is more study still
for the careful farmer, for • eerie. of tali. ti ach him
what proportione of grasses to sow, •sord ng not onir to
to. surface Maff, but its subsoil. Ile descriptioos and
litxtrations of natural grooms would, by their detail.
please a scientist, whits they are popular in style.
Sollon't Ikaronn' rear Book omit Oration' Amass{ for
1879. London: 11, Q son Victoria-sr:tat, I C., or Read-
ing, Royal Berkshire Sod Bittlilliiiiment. For • :Kist:deo
bad tt the lama time ithroughly practical threcnytion of
p roots and other feed or suck, commend us
it this beantilulty got op and profusely illustrated year
hook. 71ie question of layitts down land to gram IA one
ths most aerioue for Loll rd. ard tenants, and it
Li freely stated that it I. ar mere profitable to grow good
crops of bay than •••• good crop. id cores. labour Is
thus reduced to • mlnimum,ertile the product. an of genes- '
fid meat I, thus greatly litcremod.—Tho Right Hon. the
• Speaker, at his twos,' home in September last, said :
" It will be in your recollection that soots two years ago I
sami• to the labourers ea my largo a proposal, in effect to
take a sluts In the prolts of tot, faro,. When 1 made
that proposal 1 had boss fortunate mouth in making •
Profth on ths farm for Ore sr sx preceding years,
as-tinting to something like firo per cent. I thought, la
making the odor 1 was amfarring a subattnUal boon on
the labourite,. lam bony to so that since thst serial I
have not found the proms of Warty 10 gotd. As you
all know, this farm canasta of somethitig Ilko 670 acres.
About woe-fourth is dawn laid in lii n.tural data ;
another fourth is light lath under t Units on the slopes of
the downs; the resualning half is *Sobs gram land, • ilk
exceptioe of about IlkiXt) anus, retch hare hoes
under tillage from twist! to thirty years. I think my
profits for ths Lot five or *ix years have boon very much
affected by tlte small foists from three silty acres of
heavy Lod. . . 1 fiat tlrit the seasons—three out of
four or lour out of five—me of sect • character that the
I returns from that land aro ; therefore 1 propose at
once to lay all that land does in pasture. As 1 shall look
' forward to rides much moss mast and less core, 1 %Mak
the remit moat be of a or:Stahl* charm wr"—Th. Year
Boot gnat lists of truths otiisbl• for various bads—
stiff, medium Mature, light sandy, slurp gravela,rctt
upithda, stoop downs, writ*, turndown., tr., with pi
and useful "Hint. on Cuittoatioa." The high value of
Sutton's root mods le stows, tor we login, at p. that
the heaviest crops on record were grown in 1878 from
Sutton's mantel, the lost red producing 110 tons per acro,
sad the golden tankard 89 tons per acre. Their "Cham-
pion Swede, described in page 27. Itho won prises to the
amount of more than 1.5.000. Corfu' and well written
articlos on Its "Vermin of the Farm," "The Chemistry
of Farm Crops," and • espial thien or 4 farm operations,
concludii a book which will he both an ornament to the
larmer's parlour tithe and • treastre is hie library.
The Coloured plats of permaimar Orestes is pretty, gad
thitabl• for comparison of the different Ms&

&Woe's &Wow lap iiclud., England, W. 1., and
&milt Scotland, and la valuable tug raloranca, and it
shows the railway stations sad Ilagn

The Sitedey al /isms. Religious Tract Society Loadoa.
'A Thorny Path" la contiatied. and being by the author
of "Jeesiria's First Prayer,' our radon will judge it is a
story of the poor. They am right. and it may teach us to
look out for the sorrows and atingles at home, and to
relieve. "Night on • Raft" Is stirring asough for any
day'. medium while "Tour in Northern Russia" ami
ff Lith among the Afghans' are graphic. Prom the great
'misty wield!' remelts' we extract a pier*.
BOWS= 1 smonaimn.—All kinds of deception practised
upon other, for personal advantage are Si forbidden as
they are frequent. In a shopthindovr an article Is
Ucketted at a certain price. You enter the shop nod are
shown another article similar, but loferlor, which, with
many amertioas sad protestations, Is declared to be
Identical in quality. You see an advertimment of
" special barplas," in conomostom of a baokruptcy, or
Sr., or a wreck, and while the initiated par it by with •
smile, some, for whose belied It was placed there, have
no stupid= It is • It.. You purchase a piece of calico
" warranted" thirty-six reeds, which measure. thirty-one,
and • piece of tithe measuring fifteen yard., which in
warrasted" athletes. Herbert Soma, tells the More
of one manufacturer who, hesitating to follow this onekna,
had his goods returned to him and finally, as • groat
favour. be was permitted to satisfy his scrupulous 0011-
acionos by winding la blank labels It Is arathed: All
this Is understood In the trade, and price Is lowered In
camoquence, so that no harm arise." But w bat does that
mess I It means that at Arth mmts utthcrupealous
octant, reduced the length " warranted," and so made
unjust profit till he wee detented ; others, finding them-
selves unable to compete wit! Ingo, were compelled to
follow his example, the weakest nom first, the stronwsm
last, until the practice became tacitly allowed. But how
that diminishes the immorality of the practec• we fall to
sm. Examples at deception might be adduced, however,
which have not even that flimsy excite. A clever sales-
man will !sometimes, present smooths Is such au order as
to disqualify the eye, or the taste, or even the touch of
the purchaaar ; or, ammonia an air of singular honesty,
he will point out defect. in the first purchases till, having
woo the confidence of the customer, he abuse. It by
pantos off inferior good. In all ouch acts the sin lies in
Us. demptiou of the more ignorant or wmk if you sell
milk and water, or shoddy, as such, so wrongs, dons;
but if the one is soli as cigth, sol the other a. milk,
then the very sin is committed of "selling the refuse for
wheat," on account of which A 131311 threaened punish-
ment from an offended .I. Such deceit dues not prevail
only In trade trausestions. Tbe bap ricer own tui is it who
takes his lee for Me worth, does not mean to do ; or
' advances a plea in court which he knows to be invalid.
The candidate for municipal or parliamentary elections
commits it when he melon promises which will other be
fulfilled, tog do the suffra.es of the elector., The poli-
tician is gusty slit if he keeps the
_people in thematic*
till their passions and pride are suMetenUy aroused to
Impel them to an unrighteous course, irons which. false
sea.o of honour will not allow thus to draw bock. All
such offenceo stand condemned at tho bar of God, by the
great aud changeless law. "Thou shalt love thy nethithoar
as thythif."—Setriday 14 flew, for Ruch.

Sunday atlh,.w Index. The first twenty-five volumes,
hots 1851 to 187& its by this laid open for referencs. and
so doubled in vides.

The Garin Clow hag treursree of readable matter, and
if lib. pewit's to have • Manianiyouade work without
poison, this la as near that mend succrese as a
ymelanin..
"Wait a Year" is a tale that will be well reed, the
"Travels in Siberia" are the complement of its collso
horaleur (the lissadsy af Hoessis " Travels in Rase*" both
being well written. • The Ourvish Folk." on" and all, will
interest people from both Pile. of Tamar, "The gripe'',
Farmer, then and now," tells of a rare old sort who
moneyed to live free of taxis; but he wee one of those
happy men who "make selt their WACO. and water their
drink," while, although it adplut the world dors move on,
It tells sorrowfully of the e*enditore Altll.ooo,oooon
drink and tobacco. and remade us that four year' of Bit
Wllfrid Lawson s reign would pay the National Debt. But
surely the farmer' are not the lergesspendent in that way.
Of "Lwiel Anecdotes '' we mime' the following
RANDOM alltrollc.—Ths late Justice Vaughan wee.
fine maniple or cowrie. sponging of Huy kind. Of him
an anecdote has been often teld, but will bear repetition.
While addressing a jury in. most tallsownetory meaner,
ha spied. wanes+ who had nlisaloed in li.. eltnesa-box,
struggling to contain his laughter. Fixing his eye on
him, he roared out Tee, gentlemen ; Hea we had the
witness Smith to smuttier. Yok remember him—there
he la now, in the box, laughing like a crocodile, with tears
in his eye& and his hands In his breeches pocket I"
Another emisent barrister of a similar manner of
speech" was Br. Clarke, Q.C., of the Midland Circuit
'Gentlemen, said he, very solemnly, in on. of his
speeches—' gentlemen, when my learned blend said
that, I smelts rat I saw it flying in the air; but mark
you, 11l nip it in the bud.' It woe this mine Queen's
(Amami who one. addreteed • testy old farmer, who
would not be persuaded into referring hie cause to arid.
',we, pm. • Agree to able reference you horrid old
fool. If you don't 11l to hanged if I don't nee hard words
to you.' The writer one. heard LW I Brougham, in
giving Judgment in acme in the Privy Council, taie some-
thine like the rate language 'Au to the whims. Jones,
I believe Ma to be • depraved scoundrel, and I aso
satisfied that he has perjured himself up to his ears.
Had he said more, I erotic' give Mai my °mai rn of him.*
Plearant tribes are abuident In the book; but the Roy
M. Hanfrosno ,00lloolte his desple-Onnortent research..
Imo **Utopias ILtPerlakillte and do I I Pkiesarlap," and
tells of the Mildest..., [allude, and Hussite& On !could
we bat Moos our vast mita to study this great subject
with candour, we might Is saint taw happy Wee—
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