The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-04 00:00:00

Boratabire.

THE 88111,vat.T!. The; High Sheriff (Sir K. H.
Nepali, Bart, hie appointed Mr. G. J. Andrews aunty
elect. and the Rev. W. T. Curt:key, of Loderackaplain.
A New Puniornanr.—The Bishop of Salisbury has
collated the Rev. Edward Muds, clerk, M.A., rester of
Whitfield. near Trowbridge, to the Prebend of Nether'
buy in Terre, anciently founded In tin eathedral
church of Salisbury, void by the death of the Rev.
Lundy Foot, and he wee Installed on Theodor.
WHAT NH, I-The Dorset exeutivecol the Labourers'
Union have passed a resolution reociannending labourers
to abstain from oonipetielor prism offered by Cottage
Improvennat and A enteral Societies, being of
opinion that It " d ting to see young suns
and ehildroa coming away from a manatio with phase,
of soap," and "befleviag that the labourers should be
In • punks to gett • plies of meet end make a little
soup at lama.
Homo Aim POlout.artOw.—W. gather 'ran the
census retorts' that the and of Gioneartershire Is 804,977
arena; Somerset, 1,049 815 • Wilts. 859,303; Deets%
1,655,161; Dorset. 627.265 ; seed Mournouttehlre,
368 399 urn. Tb. numbers of inhibit,' hoes., were
—Gdaii.oter, 101,474 ; dommosit. 92,905; Wilt.s4 814;
Devon, 105,200; Dorset, 39 418; sell Monmouth,
36169. The penal...into wee ri turned es. follows :
Gloneatershire, 514,640; Somerset, 483 483; Wlltu,
257.177; Devon, 601,374; Dors,. 195,537; and Mon-
mouth, 105 448. The total of acres In ffnelienel and
Wales I. 37,319,221 ; the numb-, of Inhabited houses,
4,259,117; and of ponulation, 22 712 966.
COMMITS TO Till DOW, 0017WTT Paw,
As•zes . Charles Alper and William Amer. stealing
barna., ko., at newliab.—fferd Weer : Jobn Baker,
smash at Sherberne, end /Visa:nth Hooper, vefrrsvol
at Weymouth, 2 month,; Steelinn Wilmot, ate•ling
coal at Shaftesbury. 6 weeks • John Oupor and ll.nry
Stanley, lighting • Ilre near tbe highway at Ralloole,
and Wllllem Beaten, vagrancy it Wimborne, 21 days;
Thomas Trump, stealing timber at Broad wins,. end
Udall Symonds, leering Weymouth Unton with the
clothes, 14 days; fiery Ann Sergeant, drunk at W•T•
mouth, 7 daye.—lmprianisaif : Henrietta Imbior,
driankeerese at Sh•flubeary, 7 dam
Dozier 110111110 RIM. —ln Saturday's Paid there
is an article by Mr. Joseph Darby, on the Dorset
horned sheep, which, as he says, stand norivallei for
fecundity, exultant as mines, and talon cire•vmlneotly
adapted for the production of our earliest crop, of
lambs. At the beginning of the present outcry the
Dorset ewes were considered the beat horned sheep In
the Kaplan, and they have sin, been greatly im-
proved. 'At Pluh, near Cite. Ahbas, on the farm of
Mr. Mll,r, Is 4111 to he found • fl oh of the original
breed. These sheep are much smaller in gist than the
Improved Dors.!, hut neat, tolerably well shaped, and
thickly wooled. They bear almost as strong • ream-
blau, to the Portliest tweed GM the modern Doaet, and
are reversed by soma sit the connecting link between
the two, for the ovinion was once very prevalent that
the Portland In reality is tho orirical anoestral type to
which all Dorset horned amen own deepest. If so, no
greater metamorphosis has been abated In any 'bob
for the superior &nimbi turned out at the present day
by Mr. 11. Mayo and Mr. A. J. Pittield, nem to pours
few affinities or polite of resemblance even to the
Plush flook.ezeeptin fesandity and early lamb bearing."
Flaring notioed that lo competition with the South.
down, for the occupancy of the chalk eons the Donets
were driven to better land. be say. wo mach hag been
done for the palmation of the breed donor the past 20
Of 30 years, that bat for • third set of favourites having
entered on the lad, they might again stand • far
shame of reganhir the territory from which they
were expelled, now osonzied by the improved Hamp-
shire". They used to be less Marne"' to fatten than
some others, and were rather imperfect In form ;hut Mr,
Henry Mayo, of Ooker'e From*, one of the best breeders
and principal rid, takers for Dorset sheep, says now '
"soot. of the best bred Dorset lamb, &nine at maturity
sod put on fish as fast is the Downs," and be add," I
think the ewes breed more lamb, than our they did."
Great improvement has oleo been siTested in their
form As to wool-bearing, Mr. Mayo says—" We lamb
our (look about Chriamas and near about the middle
of Jane when the lamb, yield from Italb to 31b, of wool,
and the sem from 51b. to 61b." Mr. Paull, • large
farmer of Puldletown, says the Dorseta are prone
wool-bearers, and that horn wool Is now Id. per lb.
more valuable than Down. He adds" The wool of the
horn lamb is very moot sought after for its pesuliar
whitens, and the Inc point It has." The Dorset horns,
continues Mr. Derby, are rather extending themselves
further Into Somerset, in ciompetitlon with Devon
long wools,oroet.bnda,and Down sheen; and forests are
re-established in favour on many farms its the "tall
country. Larger sheep tun Sonthlawne are now
required for the prolltable manuemeet of even the
hilt farms, the downs having been so generally broken
up and 000verted to tillage. Mr J. Homer, of Martins.
town, says 'Very few real Southdown Soots are kept
in this district, the improved Hampshire or Dorset
horns being en muck better suited to its requirement.."
But rile inkfly on those farms having water meadows
along the margins of the Frome and the Piddle, and
more particularly la lb* neighbourhoods of Dorottener,
Malden Newton, and Plddletown. that Dorset flocks
prove of lenheet value ia the *lush country. IJod,
tivae cirounostanoes It is emuddereet more prolitoble to
keep the forward draft ewe., and perform the fattening
busbies" sa regards both iambi and their dams
on the water meadows. Nor Is this mutes confined
to the district :tamed. Further west away flookmae-
tea now find It more remunerative to do the fattening
e home,rather than sell off their draft ewes in lamb as
heretofore. Distant localities are got to be so Inti-
mately connected by the railway system that Dorset
can as readily supply the Louie* market with lamb as
the home counties, which 30 or 40 years ago afforded
the es-elusive supply. Graziers roadie( In the 'nick-
bourhond of the metropolis still attend the Wilts and
Hants fairs to obtain Dorset ewes forward in lamb at
priees that have ranged recently ea high as from 604
to 75t. esett. But of late years they have bad formid-
able competitor" In crosiers from Han, and the Isle of
Wight, who turn their attention very mash to the pro-
duction of early Lambe, and find Done, beet adapted
to serve the end In view. The fernadity of Millet
sheep is so great that the possibility of takins from
them two crops of lambs in one year does not oriel
merely as rare and ezo.ptional, bet has anon been
effseted. Bush exassslve domande are deemed too try-
ing to the oonetitutiocs of ewes for S oettnasters to
make them as • rule, but, with high hallos, the
Dorset ewee on be made to take the run at almost any
period. The details of ordinary management do not
differ very mat rielly from the. required for South-
domes and Hunpshires, beyond bringing the aerial to
lamb two months earlier. Although breeding ilooke
have hitherto been almost entirely reetrioted to the
counties of Dorset and Somerset, there teems little
reason why they should not he extended to other pane
of the kingdom, Particularly to those Metrical of Devon
and Cornwall where gram products, in mid- winter
procreates under gush happy eirstamstanoss that the
natural 000dition of thing" &DPW* 'streusely favour-
able to the adoption of the breed of sheep that will
yield earthen lamb Probably, now that the grazing
and fattening capabilities of these sheep have boon so
much Improved, they will tio more eagerly sought
after.

DISC H WHIR.
A LOCAL SIIOCFI Or PRONISS zoo, NW, IS I. tit aied
be board at the forthcoming arises, the damages
claimed Wag £I,OOO.
RAIN.—The &tab of rain at D,roheater during
February war 4.52 inches, as against 4 02 inches In the
eorreatiendlng month laat rear.
Pans PIGIONIL—M-. W. Bishop, of The Orohard,
has just nineined the Iliot Orion and three very highly
osaimendods, at Bradford (Yorks) pigeon show, for
his celebrated Dragoons.
ALL PAINTS' Clloll.—Ths members of All Sainte'
choir were sot-stained at eappor on Weclueelay evening
.by the ohurchwardeoa, the party meeting at the
rosidenoe of the tolerated organist, Mr. Morgan.
AUDITOIS AND Aeummeofte.—Th•e'ectioa of auditors
aid aseereors of the borough link oleos on Saturday
last Su little laterest was taken in the matter, that
ouly IL,. Charles Hoti ma wee re.nosninatedias auditor,
He therefor* was elected, ant the other allures of last
year ignition* in °floe, viz., hfr. O. H. Daele. Se the
other auditor, end hissers. J. Foster end?. Sam:ides.*
as uscosorr. All four officiere rinds the usual dealers.
Mon Wore the megiatrates on Monday.
Sewrraar Orrimm—At the usual meeting of the
Dorchester Board of (bmardiats ea Thursday Kr.
Ploys., K. P., in the chair, the principal babbler was
the election of lospeotor of Nuleanses Roder Mae new
Sanitary Aot. There wen ilre appLisante for the
°Mee, the salary of whieh ia £OOO a yeer, including all
'ape... ..The oandidatee were—Mr. W. °Mak Mr.
Homer, Mr, Old. Yr. R. Atkinson, and Kr. agog.
(Yeymouth). The chola of the Board fell en Mr.
fornassly of Otrersiolgne farmo who polled 23
votes.

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MILIT&ST CEng'. —lnm the arm estimates
prerented to Parliament on Monday loot, it appears
Mast the peraramer esiehlratainar ot brigade dei A:
upon to. absorption of the permanent staff of the
Auxiliary end BOOM Femme mill maim of 1
Liestasnat-Ooloord. 1 Major. 6 Osplimiss, 4 Usatakagoo,
1 Paysarber, 1 Queter-Water, 1 Sorgauts-Ilajor, I