The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-07-13 00:00:00

Somrrsrtsbirc.

THE operative carpenter at Bath are on the strike for
an increase of wages.
TUE annual death-rate in the Taunton local board
district for Is7l, was only IS per I,oiso.
A PIECE of meadow ground, containing 7i acres, at
Cheddar, sold by auction by Mr. Nicolls, fetched 1:610.
TIE branch line between ?none and Rodstock, on the
Great Western Railway, has been opened for passenger
traffic.

THE Taunton Turnpike Trustoca in September will
pay off .oeo, the remaining portion of their bonded
debt.

--Tug Bath Town Council have resolved to purchase. for
.f.,4,10?, • site on Claverton-down for an al ylu tu for pauper
lunatic&

NIL JAMES STAPLE. harmer, of East Stoke. and I liszles
Clark, a shepherd in his employ, have been lined X: by the
Tem it nimustrates for removing sheep infected with the
foi it and mouth disease.
SONERSATAIIIRE GRANSIAR. —ln the introduction to some
poems in the Soruersetshire dialect, Mr. J. Edwards ;rises
mine amusing examples of what he demi-pc:l AA West
Country grammar. Thus the verb "To be is thus con-
jugated • Indicative mood. present tense. "1 lilt Thee
beest, Ile, she, or it lie, We. ru, Tann, They'll,. Pint
tenm, " war, Thee wart, Ile, she, or it wer, WAS.
You was. They was." There is also a "Finikin" mood
used by persons of superior education. Present tense, " I
are, 'non ham, Ile she, or it are. We ham, You ham,
Thee ham. A "i..tuere-louse mood. "Its I. Iteest, Hes
or Ile us, Ho ye, Ile urn or 'Es WIL" Future tense,
" Wool I, Wont, Wool.a, Wool us, Woollay,
Imperative mood, "hat I he. Theeirst better be. Mirske
he, she or um he, Lot we he, You'd better be. Mink.: they
Isx" An extratinlinary Potential mood, "I mid inebby
' ha litn, Thee midst melibey ha inn, He mid niebby ha bin,
We mid oriebbt ha bin, You mid niebby ha Inn. They mid
ineirby ha bin. And a still more extrannlinary subjunc-
tive mood, "Spooasin I he, Spooasin thee West. Spooasin
a wer, Spooasin we lie, Spooasin you in, Spuoasiu thaitu."

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL BOCIRTY'S
AT TAUNTON. TAUNTON.

The ground own which the Show is hell Ii leo than %
a mile from the market-place adjacent to the high roa4
leading from Taunton to Wellington and Exeter, or whit'
was in by gone days the old coaching road. This
is perfectly Hat., and in every way t convenient .4
access A better site coola not, in fact, have been select,,t.
Putting it at the outsible,•the distance from the rails,'
station is not a mile and a half.
The trials of implements were continued throughout the
preceeding week. There were six classes, the first tn.%
being for mowing machines, the third for haymaking
machines, the forth and fifth for horse-rakes, and the
sixth for a system of drying hay in net weather. In this
latter class their wax not a single coin', but in oil the
other classes competition was most active. Special prize.
were also given for guards and feeders to the drums of
threshing machines, and it is satisfactory to lumw that upo%
Inventions which are specially designed to protect th%
lives and limbs of labourers, nearly all the leading iniple.
, meet manufacturers of the Idniploin has been exerting
their creative faculties. It is impossible to doubt that one
I or other of the twenty-eight appliances exhibited will be
found to answer the required purpose. In Class 3 tk%
tint prize of Z.VU has been awarded to Mews. Ashby,
Jeffery, and Luke for the best haytuaking machine- the
second of Z:10, to the same Firm; while the Reading Iron
Works take the third prize of ta In class 4, for self.
action horse-rakes, Mews. Nicholson and Son, of Nes-ark.
stand at the head of the eleven entries, while the second
prize of £lO is given to Messrs. Houghton and Thonipson,
of Carlisle. In the next clas., which is for horse-rakes not
self-acting, Messrs. Nicholson and Son sweep the hoard, an
they are given both prize* over the heads of twenty.two

,
opponents.
On Sabinlay the implements were on VIM hilt the
attendance was very limited.
The judgem of implements completed their awards on
Saturday and, after a long and patient trial, they have
given the first prize for threshing machines, fitted with e
pocial
refi!rAteat,p:.itcatiliiZiget.uendettthitl jecond, to
oyed
with
Messrs Tasker, the Andover finu. For machines, in which
the safety-toter,' wet feeders are cimbined, Messrs. Clayton
Shuttleworth, the great Lincoln manufacturers, are
given the first prize ;and second to them, out of fUentriei.
conic Mears. Marshall and Sono, who are also a Lincoln.
firm. The weather has not, on the whole, militated against
the suFcesa of, these trials.

In claoa2,lo7the I:jawo•horse mowing machines, the
judges selected nine out of the twenty left in for a further
test. this included four f I lornslty and Sons'—all they
had entered for trial-- two of Sainueleon and Co:a. one
each of Burgess anil Key's. Harrison, McGregor and lot,
and Walter A. Woo. They were set to work in a heavy
clover hell. The ground, however, was not no stony aa
the field in which they worked on the previotut day, and
consequently the clover warn cut with much more ease and
fewer accident.. Thejudgestlidnoton Saturday make their
swirls. There Ilse heen a great deal of dissatisfaction
among the competi tors ever since Wednesday, when Messrs.
Hornsby and Sons were permitted to wins a quantity of
very heavy stuff at the end of their piece, and there was a
large amount of fool complaining on Saturday, especially
after the whole of Hornsby's machines were left in for the
further test.