The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

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ROT AL AGSM: "MURAL Socri CU OF E 513141113.
There is one inverteet arrangement monocled with the
country meetings of thia !moiety to which, we think,.
attention should be directed at once, in order that the
views of exhibitors thereon may be made knows te the
combed before the plans for next year are finally settled.
We refer to the days on white UM exhibition is held.
and, of course, to the arrival of sleek sad Its &watch at
the ClOllO ci the meeting. It is, we behave, the slunk*
Of many perigees who have given considerable attention
to the subject, and who, from their pajama andexperi-
mice, are enabled to arrive at • satutactoyeasluxion
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that a change tide respect is inversely tailed foe,
and that it might be made with great vantage not
only to those for whom the claim is first raised, but to
the permanent interest of the society. The •
we vetoha offer is this : That in future all e stock
should be on the show ground et Friday evening ; that
the prime should be awarded en Saturday—the whale et
that day being given up for the purpose—and that the
complete exhibition, stock, and implements, should be
opened on bloodily morning, and closed on Wednesday
evening. Were this suggestion adopted we d• not
think the stock &bows would be kept from home lamer
than it has, in many Midweek hitherto been. It is, we
need scarcely say, impossible that the whole of the
animals can, in all muses, if sassy, be sent beck in one
day; and as the second day after the close of the meet-
ing, under present arrangements, is Sunday, the evil be-
comes one of still greater magnieede—every parses in
charge striving for the first opportunity to get away.
Indeed, we believe that the system now tarried out in-
volves Sunday travelling but ways, at least to some
extent. Exhibitors at Warwick had painful experience
of the truth of what we are now stating; and they
will neglect a duty which they owe to themselves and
to each other if they fail to urge upon the council •
lunch-needed reformation. Some consideration is at the
same tisue called for on account of the animals exhi-
bited, for there can be no one JO careless in this re-
elect as not to make all possible efforts to prevent un-
necessary sintering. The change now recommended
would further, it is believed, have considerable influ-
ence upon the receipt' of the show week, for on Tues-
day the company is usually very limited, there were not
1000 persons on the ground at Warwick on this day;
and 11, edneeday, from the uncertainty as to the time at
which the cattle yard will be open produces by no
0151115 so rod a return as it would under the amended
scheme. There are good grounds also, for the opiniou,
that the manufacturers of implements would be greatly
benefitted by the change, as their yard might be open
on Saturday at a small charge, as well as on the three
days of the complete exhibition. It appears that at
present the great mass of visitors are totted on the
ground on Thurse.ay and Friday. Of the 55,5b7 at
Warwick, only 10,219 were admitted on Tuesday and
Wednesday ; and it can scarcely be doubted that mare
! business would be done amongst the implement theist
I if the attendance were spread more equally over the
three days. There are many other advantages which
would arise from the proposed change to whith we need
not now more pal ticularly refer; but we may add theft
it would be moot agreeable to those gentiensui who
are officially connected with the meeting to have • quiet
Sabbath day's rest after the labour they have undergoes
hi filling the show yard. If for 011 d) mull things may be
compared with great, we would mention that the
altered arrangements at Birmingham, by which every-
thing is required to be in Bingley Hall on Friday, and
the show is closed on the following Thursday, has been
found to work in all respects most satidactory, and is
considered one of the most useful changes which the
council has ever made. What is approved at Birming-
ham would, we are sure, be still more valuable at the
meetings of the Royal Agricultural Society; and we
shall be gratified if some practical results shall arise
from our having beeouie the exponents of what we be-
lieve to be the opinions of many of the exhibitors and
other members of the society.— Midland C 41111614
Herald.

FARMING IN TURGANT. peasants go long
journeys with their wretched carts to seek substitutes
for the deficient quantity of their farm-yard manure.
The industrious peasant of Laws is worthy cif ranking
with the (lines. coolie. Enjoying the blessings of irri-
gation within a circle of 28 miles (English), the former
who has never beard the name of guano, manages I.
reap two crops in the year; and yet never allows his
land to lie fallow. He goes, however, with his cart, not
only to the neighbouring town of Lucca, but even as far
as Pisa and Leghorn, to coiled the contents of ths
sewers, with the aid of which be produces, by indefati-
gable labour, marvellous trope, and raises food sufficient
fur the most dense population of the old duchy. The
boats of Viarreggio carry from this port the goats' dung
of the Manumits, to manure the olive trees of lb.
Apuan coast. From the peculiar circumstances in which
our Martinmas are placed, they are debarred from the
benefit of a like restitution of the conditions of fertility.
Cultivation slowly improves, and the amount of produce
rapidly increases every year ; but the scanty and intory
population of a soil, deserted on account of the Wag-
untie exhalations, cannot yield an amount of fertilising
matter is proportion to the quantity carried off from
the land. The gradual introduction of the system ci
the rotation of crops might slowly lead to the sem° im-
poverishment of the soil which has resulted in other
places from the high system of farming. The re
sion lest this should in reality be the result of habse!i'y
no means escaped the attention of the proprietors and
cultivators of the soil in the Grand Duchy, who are an
earnestly endeavouring to make agriculture flourish in
these parts. The barrenness and desolation which has
so long been the fate of the Maremma may, perhaps, be
pertly attributable to the spoliation system of fanning
pursued by the ancient Romans and Etruscans. Agri-
culture in Tuscany, then, is based upon the principle of
restoring to the soil those elements which science points
out to be the most efficacious for the growth of plant.;
and in this respect it is far ahead of the system panned
in other countries.—Liebig's Legiers us Modern Agri-
culture.