The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-11-11 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1873.

morning. when abe told m• she had pet It Qom At
that time she bad (oat gone to bed. On Mossday
moraiog I got up abut half put six. The bundle was
still on the fluor. I newer sew any portion of the abild.
Never heard any noise whatever. I dirt not say any-
thing about It to anyone. Whet I left on Saturday
J.,no Tz.,d begged me not to mention ii—
Prisoner accursed this willies' of burying this
body, but she denied It —Mr. John Good. surgeon,
rereisqd the cell. non be gavo b..fore the Coroner....
Sept Hire said Mrs Saunderi taxed the girl with being
in she fatally way about six weeks ego, but she denied
it. Ile Ind asked Mrs. Saunders to attend to-day, but
she raid she Gaol I Dot all. was an frightened on Monday,
het she was willing to answ,ring questions rat to her.
—ln reference to prison/is charge against Warren,
tte magistrato re-caned her art put to bar
this question, "Did you burr the child r Warren—
No, I did nor. Mr. Coombs: YOU never saw the
bundle erred No; Jane asked me if I would take it
to the garden for her, and I said I would not, I didn't
like to have anything to do with it. Thud: That
is an untruth, you did bury It; you took it dowastairs
In the morning before tiesskfaat, and put it where it
waa found. Wine, : I did not; you got up yourself
sb.ot half-peat au, pet • shawl round you. and went
out there ; and it's no use to blame me. I didn't do it
Fria, err: Oh. you did. Warren: Why do you tell
such stories, Jose !—Prisoner was remanded till Satur-
day, for the attendance of Mrs. Baun4ers.-00 Satur-
day the girl Tl:srd was Avila trou;:ht up before Kr.
Williams. Mr. IL Thornton, sr d Kr. It. 0. F. Steward.
—Mrs. Freon-es Saunders. of Forston farm, aald about
a trooth ago she remitted an anonymous latter, and
showed lit, Jane, who mid It was false, she was get
in the fam.ly way." Her mother and aunt came to
Forston on bearisg • repo,* circulated at Char-mister to
see Jane. Wits:tem' afterward, showed them the letter
In Jai es presenos. list mother was so thoroughly
convinced It was not true that elm withal witness to
heap listen. Wittier, wished her to take the girl home
that tight, altboegh it would have Inconvenienced her;
sod Mrs.Trz srd said @be would If she (ritoss.) very torah
wished It' bat she (the mother) was quite oonvinoed
It wale only a tcsna•lous tin got up On this she
allowed Jane to remain in the house.—The girl bad no
qua ton to ask Mrs. Saunders.—The prisoner WU then
cautioned.—ln reply she bad oothing to may.
Prisoner was then oommitted for trial at the aseime.—
Her father ammo In, and manifested great grief 4 the
disgrace of his daughter. Ile said she had been brought
up resreotably, and made a good scholar at. It was a
bard trial for them at home. arid what she had got to
go through- H. bellaved there bad bosh a strong
loduee meet behind to make her do what ale bed: that
1.. bOlieSOn from the bottom of his heart. It was a
heavy blow. He hoped It would be • good school to bor.
For 22 years he had worked at Wert Milk—The
migistrates agreed to take hell, two melte. in L'2o.

47 mid mom suffer from Um WO. Whok shall IwAT
of imp I

No doubt they on fierce ;termite.,
Without respect for pineal ;
I/ one tend-r thin skis
Another bites • came one."
Yet, independent of their evil propeovitift for biting, I
reed In the Sofro (lay Mapastat that they wed lermerly
b.+ be a favourite mediate, with doeters for eolir. Ac
old writer says—" Truly it is a remedy not to be des-
pised, but it is no new remedy : it is a certain cure,
laseranoh as a governor of Zerioh was so helped by
their um that he would have liked to hate written
a sonentendation in their favour." If I try to soften
down their bad properties, and to bring with pre-
tentious their good ones, I am only forlewing the
ememple of a greet authority ; for S'o•lvapeare In
' speaking of pereeitleAl Mtn sail, them
•• Mom milling, smooth, detested rtrawee,
Courteous deetroyers, allebte wolves, most liars."

I now bring before your notion annther Parasite. Think
of our blood vessels, and the blood vessel' of other
mien* being the thermals throne, with* insect
parasites ire II 'wing in countless namban like fish In
great rivers and all their smaller brenchee. The
hemateson' a blood parasite, Infest. the bunion blood,
wed Liii. Itas been now proved by Dr. Lewis. It is
I.6th of an inch In length, and as broad ss one of the
red blood discs. Nothing as yet is known of It. organs.
As our knowledge of entormer ,:tends we may find
Other at present °biome dithasee aseetist.i with the
practices of eome nob permits as thi,. Tiro discovery
of he dwelling-pine la of mune the first etep to its
removal. For the sake of variation to our rubj•et, I
woLld bars briefly refer to the benefinal u•in of
parasitic/0 life. In the fertilisailon of the Yuan plant,
there ha. beat found a great difficulty to obtain seed in
this country. This arises from tie feu that the Yuma,
being an inseot loving plant,i, certain smell moth collects
the pollen and inset te It into the proper remptairle. and
with the pollen deposits • few egg., the Ivrea 1 the
isnot feed, upon the seeds when maturod. An I inieed
it almon ammo that the plant and the Insect ors almon
lassparstale. Not having thla particular lomat in this
country, we are unable to prorate the seed of this par.
Ocular plant. Persidthe, if not deriving nutriment from
the animals on whioli they are found, must hem great
ansoyanee, end must pertain!, retard the flight of birds
sod insects. We owe a debt of gratitude to a large and
importaot elme of lies of the ichneumon family that
are true mashes, and that live on other llamas.
nnemies both In the ovum, worm, sad chrysalis ststa
Parasites, se • rule, login life is the egg form, passing
frogs that into the arse an estarrillsr state, and then
into the third or proper stile, but mmenlmes this
arrangement is somewhat altered. and, as a French
naturalist tumid Fibrillae noticed, rooms !meets have
to pass through what may be termed intermediate states,
that la to sty, not only eggs, lams, arid pupa,
but inerillcations of their stases; this be terms hnso-
metamerphoris (this is the saes with one of the bes
parasites—the oil beetle). Bees ere 'Mined with a
parasitical worm, indastrag dhow. These creatures
feed an the fatly limn, pan through their tonal
imp, sad then ezehaage their living quarters for
the water whore they lay millions of eggs, which ars
'gain ready to be taken up by any animal frequenting
the moist localitlee in width they are found. And
whilst epeaking of bees there is • Iligroomple lingua
called Niece ifellitopiteras that lofting bees, filling the
stomaith with an immense number of mieromopie sperm
that greatly weaken the insist. The Trithitun, an
Lunn that males immense damage to the bees, is the
miens of a dhows called the foul brood, analogous to
typhus fever In the human natjecd. It lays It. am la
the larva isf the be., end the perbet isnot shortly
comes to maturity ; the young bee le killed, and it.
decaying body mans a poison similar to typhus fever
to arise ha Its immediate neighbourhood or brood.
There ere two lasts that I had almost forgotteo to
mention, the Inn Is that dogs when troubled with a
era% Ida of LON by biting and gribbing M them,
the leas And their way Into the gnomish, from hence
the embryos are set forth by the wale join*, &Mg
rise le panisitleal won's. fiesondly,Dr.Oohhoid rsisMoos
a ermine feat that he eslegalatos that about 4,000 people
are affected with Tape-worm in the metropolis; and,
supposing that each day see or two of the segment' of
the lira' worm pass into the sewn, south' 40,003
MtThiamine* is then eland over the land, and
eggs may in swallowed by cattle, the severing of
the eggs preserving them from atmospheric traumata
As the erratum of the Parasitleal animal world are so
numerous, I might ban drawn your attention to more
than I have don.; but as there is still stitcher branch
Of our oat PRA llMOUllilett, gamely, vegetable pennies,
I mast burry on to that, ionoluding my remark, es
animal parseitee with some brief lefortnation regarding
their development. The Science of Helminthology or
Nutornology, makes ns smuggled with the forma,
habits, droners, development, dhhibutien, and Oust-
teation of a large number of invertebrate monism.
whist Mks up their abode et one or more periods of
their Hie time in or ex bodies of men or other animals. :
Dr. Oebbold mys that the happiest and perinea after all
the mint truly and philosophic way of stodying the
Intosos is to regard them as a partisohn fauns,
deetined to occupy an eqatily partiatisr territory—
that territory Is the indeoprsad domain of the
interior of the bodies of OULD and other animsla
Seth salmi.] or host may be regarded ss a continent,
and each part or neon of his body may be noted aa a
district. lath district has its special attractions for
pirticulsr parasitic forma; yet at the same time nirlUeor
the diarist nor the oonturent are suitable localities is a
permanent resting plain for the breeder. None cf the
internal parasites continue in one state, ill have •
tendency to rosm, migration is the soul of their
prosperity, change of reehlenes the thug qua um of
their ninety., whilst a blockade in the interior,
prolonged beyond the proper period, terminates otly
in altification and death. I now venture to drew your
notice to various dieordere inflicted on the higher forms
of animal life, is also upon various trees and plants,
and different torts of crops, by parasitical lune, and
other forms of vegetable life, air well as the ravages
crested in crops by worms flys, end so forth, members
of the paranudtical family. The bean Pamela the
Aphis Fibs, or the Black Dolph n, arrives with en east
wind, arid is most destructive to the bean crop. It Is
'opposed to derive its nourishment from the sap of the
pleat. Its powers of reproduction are enormous.
Kollar states that it multiplies after the rate of 719
millions in one season. This blight (so call.d) le
arrested by tipping the plants, and some persona assume
that by this means the pods of the bean become en-
, larged and more folly developed. A check to this
, parasite is the larva of the lady-bird, Ichneumon, and
' 'maggots of other insects. And hate I may Delius
that the lune of mann parasilleal lies feed upon some
of our insect enemies, and thus des- ray them, as seen
In the nee of the bugs and beetles found smosmt the
beans, le A plan soccetmis &copied is to grow beaus
mcd peas together; this is done for more than one
reason, Firstly, the Mess serve as a support Se the
pea, keeping It off the ground, and giving It air and
light. Secondly, In ease of an • &onion of tie man
or Mask apish, one stands s chance of mein one of
the two crops, the black offence' the bean being
eapedally favoured by as east wind ; and the preen
aphis by tbe south-wad wind. Why this should
be I eannot vesture • reason, and on this point I should
wish for laformation free any member of the club.
Mouldiness in bread is frequently developed. It
arises not from germs In the stmombers, hit from
inferior lour kept seder wrong erooditiou. It
Ii stated that susses of mit added to the
breed prevents the mediation of this mantle& fungi.
The potato dimee, the montiorpora telegram' no
doubt arises from a parasitical fongoid. It curia be
*need back to Its beginning, nor imer the first appear-
aces of typhus or any other malignant fever. The
fungus that produces such dire remits emotive this
' mort minable vegetable, ii not only fouad on the potato
but also on the night shade of our hedges, and Tiny
commonly on the fruit of Um tomato; nor elms it coals*
itself to the same natural order as the potato, but Is
found on plants of other orders, to wita.ed
the,
seroplinklosth. A carious feet may be here moo
that the mvocluim of a fungus is a great itingtive to
tbe production of the green colouring matter of the
leaves, thas seerounting far the extreme healthy
appearance immediately preceding the Mink or after
the pradastim of the spores. The Permits never
Sit. upper side of the imf, an always on
r san co
er sorts... Is perfecting lasi, it destroys the
matrix on villa it rows, mad earns Me haves to dry
up and patchy. The fungus really steps the breathing
apparatus of the bane, by filling up the 'Womb or
mouths by this miens • the stem sad leans Mean
end
with moisture, producing rot and drossy.
T▪
he sperm obis rips are given of by the fungus, sad,
by means of the wind and 'hewers, the dieeans is
"mad with alarming rapidity over large disking.
Sasides the germ or spores, other bootleg, are alio found
called Omani, or a secoudary sort of fruit ef the
potato form, whisk do not germinate or with at
ones, hut rennin for • whole season, until curonmatanoes
of • hvostrothis character mem whoa they reproduce
their parent forms. The friages of the petite fruit
affect. the leaves, tbso the stole, aed holly lb* tuber.
It appears that the fungus pooMrstes from the extorter
or cuticle to the interior, the eyes being the lain to
inoonotb, and I question very mush if planting
the eyes le not • me way of sprouting the
disease. Destroying the haulm Immediately has
sometimes been recommended to stop It, but
If delayed the fungus soon gets to the Wooer.
When the dimes moire in • field, where the resting
spores have been developed it does so from beneeth
upwards • these plants mos affect the healthy one. la
an oppodte direction, that is from the leaves down-
wards, and to the crop might& Early planting of early
sorts, I opine, is the beet preventative. Amongst
00111111111 that suffer from vegetable fon& in the shape of
parasites, we may name the hoe.. Thus we read in
the Times newspaper, April 3, 1673.

" The veritable origin of Me hone threat Is the sualitrt of
I paper In lb. A maraca NaturaLief by Mr. 110 -whore of New
York. Hs exam nod the natter •audlng from the nor:rile of
the shred animals, end radar the molar pus, Liand no las
Man Him" Vad" of ,ellataals organisms, all in sires of
viewer development, then being a mesa. of infante lichen,
kerns Urealario auroras, These erre in every form of
development, there helot hundreds of fragnsinia in a slink
drop. Another was an unknown species of Arr./pales, also
giving evidence of propagation end growth. The third form
was an unknown species, not hitherto described. In order to
prows that these spores were floating In the amosonere, they
were caught on moistened 0f... in the rmarre in the
vidnity of the di.... mi. L. regarded unen( the
rallaiiPhorld and reiretab'e origin a th a disease [Karel' to
damonetratlon, but yet not as proving it, as the atmospheric
veritable Tom may bare dustily found a favourable n•dts.s In
arab to germinate In the mucous matter EIVIII2 oil by Lb*

Parasites in plants are roost nameroue in the tropical
region,. Sometimes a tree may present vari,ina kinds
of foliage, arising from the different kinds of permeate
intruder& In Britain only • few specks are known.
I will here mention the Dodder. 'than been deseribod
" As a nonpareil, heels' no leaves but red thread&
and after It has fastened its *lmperil or small tendr.lis
on the lime, thyme, nettle, madder, or sueh like, It
coils the root, and, like • eohering parasite, lives upon
suother's trencher, and, like an migrates, guest, first
starves and then kills its entertainer, for which reason
Indigent:oov clowns 0111111 it by the name of 'bell-weed,'
' and in Sussex by the name of • Devil's Outs.'"
Gerardo also deserlbas it as • strange herb altogether,
without leaves or root, like unto threads very mock
snarled or wrapped together, oonrovedly winding Smelt
&boot bushes end hedges, and sundry kinds of herbs.
Dodder, when lint produced, lives as an ordinary plant
in the toil, the roots deriving nutriment from the mme.
It then puts out • tendril, and, if fortunate enough to
attach Itself to a beootang plant, it aeon penoae
mote tendrils, whisk cmatinually wind themselves round
the plant, phasing Its eszlege sad deriving Detriment
trim it. Ito on rids Misr a Use. whitkr, and free

this time it Is entirely indepeedeat of the well. One
t can
;our ordinary pi tote, and mart be sown with the Glover
eel":
ureasillitesurilaAt eolon"e4ehi".. Dipe.o'ddaddne.tdr gibes yr
n thatiWae doingtel tri nbeeen7t:imeeftlifiltWas
seed ; hut it has the power of rya:tuning in the soft
wi boat germinating for • longer peri,d than the clover.
cut UP
D.o1:1 dienrt
o soon
many be OM, 101,k:tato ,
parer° plant, so that harrowing or tearing abroad Is
of n., ure to rid the plant. The rely effectual way is
to die op the troll and burn thoroughly. Some geoids
haw recommended • weak aoluti,n of Sulphate of
Iron to he applied with • waterieg pot, but this remedy
sin otly be ad,pted when the plant bas not male
much havoc. MI Caudell° reeenim•nda the way to pt
each one
e so
beoo thatm.s a
f l
rid of thle troublesome pert Is to mow suoh portions of
the crop as is Infested More the seed is fallen, and if
this lot taboo Phsoe, to repisoe the crop by some sort
of grace that has not the privilege rat being affected by
tile plant. flax Is sometimes affected with it. Browu
rape is again another parasite which &Mathew Itself to
the clover roots, end Is most probably sown with the
clover seed It 11 • leafiest plant that attaches itself
to the ends of the route, causing them to swell, and
from this swelling they derive their nutriment. In
some /reentries this parasite is often feud, and the
mode suotoed f Its extirpation is to steep the seed
is as aThallnashashare.. It la supposed that the Needs
Meech thensialres by • kind of MI whieb firsts to the
surface, and are then poured off with the water.
I um inollm-ti to thick that Liohens do not procure
ti,eir oust n0,.0s from the errential juloes of the plant
or tree on whioh they are found, but from decaying
p.rtior • of the bark and from the atmoephere, although
they add very much to the piolumeque appearance of
the aged monarchs of the forest glen. Mistletoe in
severe winters is cut from the apple MP sod given to
cheep which eat it readily; It le said to preserve there
from rot. Tbis pl..t Is found on the Oak. Lime, Black
popi,,r, Will w, Pear and Almond tree in Prance and
Spahr, 'onetime' the Olive tree about JOTSISIOS1). The
old Druids used to consider this plant most leered, pro.
hably from it, scarcity. The seeds have a peculiar way
of germination. Tito, mod out a rootlet that bends
over notil It Towhee the body of the substance to which
the reed hes been attached, having reached this, the
roots swell out and extend between the inner bark and
the soft wood, as growth advance.. the root boom:nes
Imbedded in the Kd wood, but do not on their owe
account penetrate. Whim several plants are nourished
from one branch it often causes not only the death of
the pastkular laranch, but also their own death
from want of nourishment. It Is therefore rm.
pollen* to free erehards from this undesirable pest.
Smut le • parasitical (amps that destroys the metre of
the dower, feeding on the fleshy mats that It modems,
and materially Interfere, with the yield et wheat,
although it does not so mush laterfors with the quality
as quantity. Boat, on the other band, cogent" itself to
the astute wheat grain, and may be recopied by the
offensive amen when crashed. The ribeeeed grata
remaining in the erop of wheat spoils a large balk, alb
unlike the smut, it remains "stir harvest and dose not
gat dispersed previously. It will not here be probably
out of plass to mention the reason that we adopt a
solution ef blue vitriol to steep ear mod wheat in, or
the use of lime. It is simply this, that the germs of
the Bust fungus k °timed with an oleagetoos sub-
stance, which, whips mined with an alkalies body as
1i.., bowsaws saponified, or, on the other band, mixed
with a styptic metallis melt edition, destroys the germ,
which, babg deprived at its revering, crews to germi-
nate, and rots is the soil, and thus prevents the sear
ream of the Meese. For any ewe part I prefer the use
of ritsiol. On this point I should like the opinion of
theme present. Steeping grain in a meta% solution
serest also to destroy the germinating power of Mehl,
whist grains, which are oely • it recopied, for some
of our semeroas basset sad (sapid enemies. With
regard he lichees a diversity of opinion staid& fleas
Goateed that they are the nestle of ettratiting moisture
to the tree an which they grew, and thug meld is their
nutriment end growth; often, ea the oentrary, con-
ked that they are &itchiest"l to ail Maher tram My
owe impeesellen is that to • 'striate extent they are
I, jerboa, Meant& as they Aerie" for the support of
their thanes ea amount of teorgeole mketesees from
the bark in whisk they ere found, these anbetaamm nob
being oontributed by the atmosphere. I may hare
inaction the new Tine disease, the Phylosseere Vastatrix.
This pareultar pandits in stilts ilwee-fold state, whether
severing the root, clinging be the branches, uader elde
of the WM or when lying, Is • peeilsehrly ohmenteme
ead dangerous enemy. It sums to prehr the Wee to
olkez plants, although it is by ne steam metal* that
other, are not similarly affected. Although the West in
sot of itatill difficult to till, the lest pies..
found out, Is to burn both sins and soil, net forgetting
to destroy the roots of th, via, whit* may
become affeeled If allowed to remota, lives at the
risk of being Mama, I will Miser before
your nodes a very remarkable way in width wadies
make themaelme of ass is beauttlyleg the ladles. U
they sometimes ereate great ravages assoopt the silk-
worms, and In this way make the ladles silk cheeses all
the more expensive, they seem to try to make up for it
by assisting the muesli and oysters In the siluaturs
then* beautiful pearls, that add so much to the charms
of the ferns!' sex. I will read to you an extras& from
the Laccei en this inbjeot :
In • late number of tbe journal of the Gamest fader there
will be found some intersalng remarks by Kr. Greer, F. 1.5.,
" On the Formation it British Pearh and Moir potalble im-
p-ova:ant." Issuese is ware that en carter or • mama,
as the sts. may be, when Irritated by • foreign body, not
having the mean. of Orratehicg Omit is reduced to the MOW
city of taming down the ennoyance of the inevitable presence
of Ibe intruder by shedding around it, through the agency of
its " mantle," laver after layer of lovely " name," or mother of
put. Such le ihe origin of the.. pearly concretiona which
may be fund adherent to the inside of the shells of the
above nammi montages. The roaster and more valued
purls are gall to be formed In the soft parts only of
the animal, of which a good example may be seen In
the educational series in the Mumenn of the Royal
College of Burman, in ths shap of a round pearl Imbedded
In the foot eta sae, or a fresh water pearl mama Mr.
Limner ha. found rowan to abandon the generally received ,
Ides of the grain of sand which plate the part of me I
crumpled roe-leaf to the mullumous ayberite, and eoncludet, ,
frost obeerratione made at the uterine mural (nerlfts.)—
conclurions being seeporled by the independent
reaearches of Signor Aetatio Ville In Italy—that the
exciting owe. Is no lamps.. partials, but is actually
• minute paraitical satcsoon (a mamas of dietessa)
In the arrthee • while in the ameba or greet
water rouowl, it is a minute mite, a,otos
(Alex) —ln het, an itch Insect. The promos
of ash paradtm as • nucleus he hes
_paled by
treating the pearls with • dilate sad. Yr tiers., thee
hint, at the posdbilitv of estttng on toot • kind of peat-I.
ornery, so to steak, where the eultivatlat Si this precious
ornament may be oan led ; elle( the Carom as an example
who, as is sell known, not onl- Introquee umtaThe Imes of
Buddha between Lb, 'hell eat mantle (there to be
pearl-
washed by the mollusc foe the edentate benefit of tbe
but even go ea far as to brine about what may be LIMP a
mural Barons " diathesis, coatantinsilog the weber is-
habiled by the nausea. With regszo to snob disabeis, 0 may
be interesting to mention • theory of • einebreted ?meth
zoologte, M thetas Bulkier', pot foovn,d some years ago by
tire Amadei I. Sciences iffaturelles," that • matinee so
alerted le in the condition of • calculate or gouty subject, Ike
bleed being hlghly charged with the seassrial whisk gam
towards the ssuetlon of pearly subelanees; the exam of which
over and above what Is required for the nacreous lining of the
shell is preciplutted in the Sono of • pearl, notch as in the
analogous atm of • man • calculus it formed in the kidney or
bladder, ore coeeretina of wets of mat above the knuckles.
The ruder of Sheridan.. "(kith" may remember how that
the rartm Tlitstrine" cries, "Oae an °yam fall in lover
but en ermanie enamel is well-nigh as hedicrou. In concep-
tion as an amorous oyster eepeeially when it aimulstes
humanity, Ise bar as to be actually laid up with put In the
Pool.'

I sin afraid, Kr. Chairman and gentlemen, that in this
disomree I have been prosy sad team, but please to
beer with my Imp.rf.cttcci, for I have laboured under
various clnfiloaltins in ratlMairpLeVrerer a simple repast
to gratify your withal' a If I bare dose
nothing else, I hope I may ve spume' up some to
look Into natural history more than they have hitherto
don*, for it I.e large, • wide, and ea interesting eold to
labour la. I ham drawn your 'Mantle& to a few
peresltiosl forme, Mb an most ooneern us, but the few
I have referred be boar no oomparison to the whole
army of throe great:use, that a handful of and beers
to all the and banks in aU the sees. Wherever the
Great Orestor hes laid so • store of food, In allitgrarate of
the vegetable and salad kingdom. as well on land
so In the sea, In ths chill regioca of the north., the
gunny soutb, there he has emoted some aahash to feed
nem it There is decay sod mote going us in every
crested being, sad there are otAer greeted Wags formed
to Oak and tam to an that waste, ea that lie wombs
of feeding matter may be lost. As sena of these Maisie
parasites are liable to berme and multiply to s
pestiferous extent, It Is our advantage and out duty so
the Dade of Onaikill, to seek out for the ways and
mesas of keeping them under control, of bringing them
Into the subjs.:44os of men. An we hays been able to
bring the wild besets of the forest under our sway and to
bane them, so may we hope, by sifting Into the canoes of
the ravages of perseites, sad looking out for amoter.
balancing inn usnanif we do not entirely eradicate them,
we shall at least greatly diminish their Injurious
toadied's.

Tire CH •11111.11 remarked It was • most exhaustive
paper, and wu written In a hue intereeting and
radiant manner. It was • subjeet that was not half
as meek studied sill deserved to be, for it was one of
great importimee. He wee pleased that vegetable
marmites were iseleded for he cosaidered them quite
es important es these of of antreals.—ln reply to Kr.
Mark, and Mr. T. Randall, Kr. Bleurerr said potato.
disease and wheat blight were undoubtedly parasites.—
The Ciilllllkir said there were different °phlegm—Yr.
Stetter! Baked their opinion strut lb. effect of Ham
on timber trees, were they lajurioust—Tb• Osmium
said he never understood that they were detrinseutde
only affecting the surface, sad not touching the vital
perta—lfr. Etzereser : Do tbey obtain their nouriehment
wholly from the atimostbere ? beelines If not they
must fake something from the bark of the trees they
infest —The Coorrnorr observed lichen nourished
equally well 011 stone, and, where there was no life,
nothing Gould be tajured.—ltr. Dma,, mad, only
particular klnis of lichees grew on stone.—The
CHAIM/a said several hundred varieties. The mistletoe
was paraaite,and roadbed to gignantie growth COM pared
With many othere, yet many people held it did not
ir jure the growth of true—Mr. Maus said in &menet
where mistletoe wu grown seNuively, and on apple
tree. especially, It was thought it did no lojary. In
Devonshire there was not a bit of mistletoe,
now the mIEIIE-thrush which abeeeds In Somerset It
was thought the bird tarried the seed and deposited
iii. the rough bark of trees —The CHAIM \lll asked if
It vu nettled that ib. duke la sheep's liven arose
from taking le larval or proceeded Iron some internal
derlogymest.—Mr. Bourirtre Oros ht that it was from
feeding.—The CB 4111X1a some said the Bike
WI. only a cronfirmied stage of dives.., the Ars' gym otos
of whisk was that the outer edges of the liver and lights
became rounded and bliinted.—Mr. Botrerr said the
lard opiniim was that Dm flake is developed from a
pars/ilia—The Coats/A thought it might preoui from
oreanle derasgement.—Kr. Mang mentioned a case Is
illustration of the satjeet. 4 hundred sheep were sold
off a healthy farm to one squally fru from disuse. I
• shot time liver dukes were developed, sad badmen of
going to law, the matter was referred to erbilrallosr
The arbitrators found both farms had been perfeatly
free from fluke, and also that the sheep parttime/a
were 'kneeled by It. They then learnt that the sheep
bad been driven three or four miles from the
veador's to the purchaser's. From the rasa who drove ,
them they ueertained the road taken, and fund it woe
ty eome wet ditches when there was a good deal ef ,
grass growing rapidly. To the sheep taking up lams
there they attributed the disuses, and they tweed
other sheep driven that way had been siettlarly snubs& I
Their decision than termed on whither Uri 5he,,,.,,
to be deitured by the seller sr Waked lay Vro
Tbe CIAMIALAN prepaeld "Sad Ihroololoilr. Bram*

for Intrados's( the ablest la es able and latereeting a
manner. It we. one wltielt bad uot been much
brought before the agrieolturel world, but he. felt Stan
It we. a matter on which they had • great deal to
learn, and that bringing It forward at nob mite's as
this 11141 the beet way of gaining irtowledge. Solana
Wei by experienos, and experlenoe aided by aolenoe,
would do a groat deal to elocidete these subject', and
by them farmers would b, enabled to demi with
parasites both In the animal and vegetable kingdom. Ti
wee • sub)-et vitally effiating the interests of *ideal.
turista under both beads. There wits hardly • orop or
an animal that was free from the ravages of Fortoldi's
and u they admitted lo solentille rewirch and It was
brought to beer upon their every day *aperients. they
would be Pestle bilerattit4. They were muob indebted
to Mr. Bennett for bringing forward the eubj:ert. he
thought there was very little room for dboussion ; all
they could do we; to aid theft little experience, and
say how far it confirmed or refuted the theories
adveneed. Beery man concerned in agriculture moat
feel that this was • subject which to know more of
would be much to his advant.ge. He was very pleased
that • young member had brought forward this scion.
lade Paver to ably, and hoped ethers would follow his
example. Be had great pleasure In proposing a sortie'
vote of thank, to Mr. Bennett—(bear, bear).—Mr.
Masco said some flee or six leen ago he wad Induced to
try planting peas and beans together. With the pees
be put In a peek of beans per sere, The beans name
beautitully In btonom, awl made the pleas look like a
Iran crop rather thin of peas. But a blight took the
bean*, they began drooping their heads, the fi ,were fell
off, and in the rod he did not gather as many beau..
as he planted. But ee had reason to believe the beans
saved hie pea strop, and b• gathered over ten seeks per
sere. Als to ulna Bros or blue vitriol for used wheat,
he had used both. For some years he applied vitriol, but,
getting smut one seams, he west beek to the old plan a
Huse and salt. He made lime strong enough to flull
an egg, and then applied lime. Be al.o used some
lime over the heap of •beet as a sort of drier —Mr.
Buterre said Was vitriol was of use to killing immature
seed-dr. Melegueseded the vote of thinks. Hehoped
moth good would result from the paper, that other Glebe
might take up the subject, and their knowledge be very
muck extended, is It was of greet importanes. —Tee
vote wee cordially passed.—Mr. Blesegre thanked them
for their kindness. He had strung • lot of foots to-
piker lathe paper, but bed bees prevented preventing
them In the meaner he weld have wished through
Win occupied with removing from the Isle of Wight,
aid befog buoy In a sew farm. He tiro kat tarsiers as
• rule were netela the Whit of making oesrvetl.s. on
natural history es Hwy oueht. Yet It wee • sableet of
great Interest, and to them a gemedou of profit or
low. They required to knew more el the peewits' and
fungi, sad If they devoted es the 'abject • few
minute' Web day, as they were going about their
fume, they would add to Asir store of knowledge and
do geed to the sommualley at large, —The preecedlop
thee terminated,