The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

ilgriculturt.

1 Puica. Paorraien, AAD Tili
peter of whc•i erotism.s to iris, and in the first thus
tuontha of tlrs pax it wiss 45.. 61. per quarter, a hint is
five shillings mere them it mie la the seem period of
I*4 and sevi.o ehillings mere than in that of 1865.
Daring the four querterls periodi that hare elesee.i
ion, the $l.l Marsh, 186.5, it has been slowl but eon.
&tautly roiog ; it was 40s. fal., 43.. 51., 44. 10J. and
45.. 44. B. f at Leademball and Newgete
te44 by the 'armee, averaged bit 1. sr lb., a pries •h.ch
diff•xed hut little from three .1 the March quarter in
1864 an 1965, which were bed. to bid. The Peke f•d•
inferior quality of beef was in all these them periods tb•
same, vu. 4jd. ; for asperier it was 60. in 1864, 7d. an
law pod t. lain quarter. Ti' biaaet pries of beef
mai eel, vaned dada, the lest eighteee wombs. The
mean pnee of motto, was aid.. and was rather hither
them in the fine preview correspendiag mnartisea Bsss
poutioes at the id'ateraide market, isouit.w•rk, ruled
from 66. to 90.. per toe. The average member of
pauper relieved on the last day of mob week in sig
querter was 139,566 is-loor, 759,402 out-doer. Tbe
.mount of in.loor relief was the .8,1110 SI in th- Marsh
quarter of 1964. but rather lees than that of INS. The
nnt.drior peepers me lees Masi at bad been in
ei▪
ther of those periods. According to the Gress with
observations the month of Jmuory Wa. weenier Mau
that month has been in any year since 1861. In oriii.ary.
' course, January is almost 3' colder than December ;
but last January was al warn, as Ma remarkably warm
month that closed the year 1855. At the beginoinc
men* the weather was Mornay, and the wind blew
in gales ; and on the 11th there was in London a fall of
casually heavy snow, which eerioe-ly impeded traffic
and broke down the telegraphic poles and wires. Scan
the mow disappeared guider • rapid thaw, whieli wee
followed by the inundation of all the low-lying Lads ig
the vullm of tb• Thames. Homy rains and high winds,
with Inquiet changes, attended the masa I. ito aloes;
bet its most striking festers was the bleb temperature,
which ccetinned thl near the middle of February, and
showed an average exams of 6' daily. Freon this diste
till the middle of March the air was almost seatissously
sold, and the average daily detest of temperature was
about r. Four day. of heat followed; then four days
of sold; and finslly a warm period of Mehl days. in
which the mean temperature rose 6" ahem the maw.
The extreme madame of Me lint di weeks quickened
vegetation • hedges and fruit-trees budded, mu in sone
pima, almOet basal into Weems. The Malys is the
atratisphere from mild sad damp to cold and dry me
favourable to serLultnnili paradone, which had hems Is
• backward Mate owing to the damed state of the
ground; and was besides • salutary Meek on the too
rapid Weems of vegetation; and at the sad of the
quarter the growing crops were suSehnitly forward not
to be injured by and en frosts Thames. temperature
tbs air in the quarter was tvr, which is 1r above
IPo average of the same period in the previous teenti.
de. yews. The fall of rain wa. 93 PO. which sim.ant
i. 45 is. above the average. Lees the; two inehes of
that quantity fell in March; die rest in area, equal
portiom in the two previous months. The atmospheric
pressers wee low throughout the Quarter. The reporter
at Osernsey states that in January the Weed was
ei.ited by a summeion of storms, evidently resemerit
melons; the most violent of which menrred *a Me
11m, mad with eztesardniery hay, sad isLieed
eatemiee iriery ow trees and bowies. The baroseMer
fell es 28444 in.. the gresteet depresion that.
for U years. At Aldershot en tbe 11th, snow tweeted
the ground to a depth of 9 in.; sad Moat the middle of
the month snowdrops, croesses, and primroses ware is
r. On the 441 i February a barriers@ of unpre-
cedented violenes blow at Belfast and for waxy sinit•
around it, accompanied with thunder and lightning,
and with bail and rain which swept along in IMMO.
Le,.rge trees were tore up; chiniesys thrown down,
and al.tes whirled through the tor like leathers." This
storm ',Woof kl•oolaster and 0.1011 other &SO in the
rwrili of England.—Royiefror's Qiianerly