The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-17 00:00:00

PRODUCE MARKET.

LIVERPOOL, Friday.—Tbe sugar market keeps steady,
and the business reported 113 at full prices. Coffee and
rice are quiet, and no sales reported. Lard unaltered.
Palm oil very steady. Olive oil in good demand, at full
prices. Other articles not changed.
MinCtso LANE, Friday. —Sugar : Good demand;
prices above last Friday; at auction. Itarbadoes, 33e. 6d.
to 40s. ; more doing in refined; low lumps, 445. Coffee:
Extreme rates obtained for East India at public aa'es.
Tea : New season's Congou, Is. to Is. 10d., and in email
packages, Is. to Is, Id., with many buyers. Bine:
Large parcels, soft grain, 10a 61. to Ih., paid by private
treaty. Saltpetre: Further sales ; fine Calcutta, 245.
to 245. ftd. TallOW : Steady; now P.Y.C., 475. 9d. t
48e. on the 'pot.
HOPS.

POULTRY—CouId not the influence of the Eoyal
Agricultural Society of England be brought to bear on
poultry? The Council onoe regard, dit favourably, and
for a 'few years add, dit to their annual shows. The
good example was speedily followed by nearly all other
societies, arhether county or foreign, and the result has
been a marvellous improvement in and development of
our different breeds of poultry; but at present we have
done little more than learn now how much room there
was for it. I do not think I advance too much when I
gay that in all probability, had the Royal Agricultural
Society continued its exhibition of poultry at its annual
meetings, onr farmers would by this time have taken
steps for the introduction generally of the different birds
as direct branches of live stock, and that we should have
been more independent of our neighbours for our
suppliea. At the meetings of the Bath and West a
England, the Birmingham, and numerous other im-
portant Societies, the poultry hay is always thronged.
The money paid for admission at the doors and for
purchase of birds tells well up, and the list of subscribers OWENG to the sedentary habits of the age, food that
is constantly on the increase. It would be a graceful imparts vigour to the human frame, without over
act to the wife s and daughters of many of our agrroul- taxing the digestive powers, is of the first importance.
turista who take is much pleasure in their poultry Peligot the eminent French seven before the Academy
yards as their husbands and brothers do in their cattle, of Sciences in Paris, proved thar the sustaining power
if, when the great meeting of England's agricultural
produce were held, they could contribute to its success, of strong tea, when made from young leaves, is frilly
equal to soup • hence he accounts for the instinctive
If, as an experiment, one or more clauses were added to perferenoe evinCeid for tea; and at this juncture, during
the prize list, say for fowls, turkey., duck, and geese, the prevailing epidemic in cattle, when it is desirable
the entries would lam sure be sufficiently numerous to to decrease the consumption of animal food, the sterling
jurvify it, and the classes oonli be divided as experience qualities of rich strong tea should be even more fully
should suggest. The prize list would be • guide to the cognised. Pure uncoloured tea comprised only of
intending , purchaser of stock, the different districts of youngj leaves is best, for the Chinese as is well known,
England would be fairly tested as to their poultry
constantly color the brown wintry leaves to enable
capabilities, and as is now the ease with cattle, the
breeds beet suited to the differeat localities would be them when so disguised to be paned off as the taring
growths. Fore green tea is always of a natural dark
squght after and improved. The nucleus of • poultry ava and cot of a bluish hue; neither is pyre Black tea
stock is to be found on almost every farm in the intensely dark. ['forebrain's Agents—Chemists,
country, and 'on the principle that a good bird costs
- to lump than • bad one, I think the subject, Aro. —in all parts of the kingdom, supply "The pure
Tea;" it is exceedingly delicious, nd paste's's great
...ficant as it may appear, is worthy the attention strength. Notice, " Hornimati ik Co. L oadon, original
of agriculturists generally. A
—Rants in cricaur--t a
- -- importers of the pure Tea" is on each packet.
Golitte.

BOROUGH, Friday.—Memrs. Pattenden and Smith
report that the trade during the past week has continued
steady throughout choioe descriptions being in some-
what brisker demand at improved rates; all other aorta
remain Arm at late pricer.

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