The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-11-07 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

THE DEPTH OF RAIN that (ell during the month of
October was 2.88 inches, against 8.90 inches in the
corresponding month of 1875. .

ABULITION'OF ToLL.GATILS. —The three toll-gates on
the road from Dorchester to Wareham are now
abolished, and the roads will have to be kept in repair
by the highway authorities of the different parishes.
The toll-houses we understand will be submitted for
sale. The jubilation amongst the carriers, it need
hardly be said, is great.
MR. FRANCIS F. W. FINDER. a member of the Western
Circuit, was on Friday taken suddenly ill while con-
ducting a case at Westminster, and on -being removed
to his residence expired almost immediately from
paralysis. He enjoyed a large practice, and would
have been the leader of his circuit had he obtained the
silk gown, which he had applied for .nt the appoint-
ment of Mr. Lopes to the Bench.
COMMITTID TO THE DORSIT COUNTY P NIKON.
fiord Labour : John Balston, rogue and vagabond, at
Weymouth, 2 calendar mouths; James Hebditch and
Henry George Burden, stealing a fowl, at Gussage St.
Michael. and James Coombs, drunk and riotous, at
Sherborne, 1 calendar month each; John Miller and
Joseph Hardisty, vagrancy at Chardstock, 21 days
eaijh; Hannah Andrews, drunkenness at Fordington,
Thomas Cox, vagrancy at Sherborne, Charles Hughes,
damaging fence, at Dewlish, and James Malcolm,
va.runcy at Chideock, 14 days each; Joseph Turner,
vagrancy at Minterne Magna, Benjamin Matthews,
vagrancy at Lyme Regis, James Gordon, rogue and
vagabond, at Weymouth, Samuel Pearce, misbehaviour
in Dorchester Union, and Benjamin Miuxluff and
John Danover, vagrancy at Bridport, 7 days' each.
Tux WL47llllll.—The following is our meteorological
report:—

Data Num.
Oct. •
90 47
31 41
Nov. 1 37
42
3 48
4 , 51
i 50

Lowest
Point at Wind. ! Slate of Weather.
Night

•
36 N& NW Fine
NNE Cloudy, fine
26 N Fine
30 NW Fine
40 NW Cloudy
43 NW & NIC Rain, fine cloudy
44 NW Fine, cloudy

DORCHESTER FARMERS CLUB.

The first meeting of the club for the present session
was held on Saturday evening at the King's Arms
Hotel. Mr. R. Genge presided , and there were
present : -Mr. G. W. Homer, Mr. Damen, Mr. H.
W. Hawkins, Mr. F. &billion, Mr. J. A. Smith
(Bradford Peverell), Mr. Chapman Saunders, Mr.
Chick, Mr. Oakley Saunders (Forston), Mx. H.
Taylor (LoinTs Mills), Mr. Dean (Stratton), Mr. G.
K. Loader, &c.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the meeting, expressed
the pleasure it gave him to meet so g.ssi a party of
gentlemen at their first meeting .4 this session. He
regretted, however, the absence .4. their secretary, who
had met with an accident. This club had been stetted
since Veil, and he trusted this session would be as
those of the past -suoc*ssfuL This year he tl ght it
would be expedient to discontinue the prizes for roots.
He then invited subjects for discussion for the future
meetings, and the following will be introduced
Mr. IL limits consented to ask Mr. Elsworth to
write a paper on "Dairy Farming." to be brought
forward at the next meeting.
Mr. (.11ArlIAN HAI' NI)Y.HS will introduce "The
Selection of Farm Seeds, Corn, Grass, and Roots," at
the end of January.
Mr. G. W. }fount "The Prisons' Bill," as brought
forward in the last session of Parliament, in Febru.

ary."
Mr. Manson "Steam Cultivation," in March.
After a little formal busineas the meeting adjourned.

BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY

SOUTHERN COUNTIES ASSOCIATION.

At the Council Meetin f the above Society, held
at the Grand Hotel, Bristol, on Tuesday, October,
314. the chair (in the unavoidable absence of the
President) was taken by the Most Hon. the Marquis
.4' Bath There were also present Messrs. Jonathan
Gray and H. G. Moysey (Vice-Presidents); Messrs.
C. T. I). Acland, Edward Archer (Colonel), H. Bad-
cock, J. C. Best (Captain R.N.), J. T. lbacawen
(lion. and Rev.), Clement Bush, It. H. Bush, T.
Dyke, F. W. Dymond, Charles Edwards, H. Fookes,
F. Gill, C. Gordon, J. Hallett, J. I). Hancock,
H. M. Holdsworth, J. Webb King, J. E. KnoUys,
R. Lang, H. A. F. Luttrell (Colonel), S. P. Newbery,
Sir John Shelley, Bart, A. Stanford, W. H. Wal-
rond, H. Williams, It. Wippell, IL Sparkman
(official superintendent), and J. Goodwin (secretary
and editor).
. .

THE BATH CENTENARY MEETING.—The elate of the
Bath meeting wax fixed for the week commencing
June 4, 1877, The prise sheets for stock and poultry.
Planet 1 by the Council and ordered to be printed
and circulated forthwith, are on the came scale of
magnitude and completeness as at the Hereford
meeting. AN a distinctive feature of the centenary,
the society offer six champion prizes in the various
departments a stock, to consist of valuable pieces of
plate apecially designed and suitably inscribed in
commemoration of t:o3 100th anniversary of the Bath
and West of England Society's formation. In
addition to this liberal prize fist, and with a view to
the encouragement of farmers residing in the three
counties of snuerect, Glotwter, and Wilts, the Bath
Local Committee give ttiti in three classes of dairy
stock as follows :--

l'air f Dairy Cows, other than pedigree stock. let
£2O, 2nd £lO. Dairy Cow, other than pedigree
stock, let £lO, 2nd £5. Bull of any breed, the
property of the exhibitor for at least six months'
previous to the show, and that shall have served 20
cows during that time, let £lO, 2nd £5.
The Local Committee also offer the sum of £175 for
lots of Cheese and Butter, open to the United King-
dom, sad distributed into tive classes for Cheese of
various weight and ages; two classes for Butter, and
a Champion Prize of Piste, value £2O, far the beat
lot in the Cheese classes.

PRIZES FOR Hostrux Lai:it—To encourage the
manufacture of this beautiful fabric the Society again
offer L'6o for the best specimens of lappet, fan,
necktie, gvipure fichn, and turn-over fichu, worked in
Honiton Lace.
Mxtrmu OF 1878.—A Committee wal appointed to
consider the most desirable place for the Society to
hold its Exibition in 1878 in one of the Southern
Counties, and was requested to report at the January
meeting of Council._

--Eiic7Tii;N4.:l7.6u vacancies in the list of Council
caused by the death of two members, Messrs. J. 11.
Arkwright, of Hampton-court Leominster, and V. P.
Calmady, of Teteott, Holsworthy, were unanimously
elected. The following gentlemen were elected
members of the Society :—Sir William Hart Dyke,
Bart., MP, Luilingstone Castle, Eynsford, Kent ;
Captain Glyn, West Hall Sherborne ; Messrs. John
Andrew (jun.), Plymouth St. Mary, Devon ; W.
Chorley, Quorum, Donde!. ; J. C. Hembry, Edith.
mooed Farm, Highbridge ; W. Hill, Combe Hay,
Bath; W. S. Hull, Puddletown, Dorchester; Amos
S. Lovelace, Window', Dulverton ; J. A. awl T.
PidNer, Chiddesden. Basingstoke; E. S. Sainsbury,
Bathford, Bath; W. P. Vuoper. Saltram Farm,
Plympton St. Mary.