The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

agriculture

THE GRIAT AGRICULTURAL MELTING Ai Wxfitvirs.
—The prize lists for the meeting of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society at Warwick, in July next, are now in
circulation. The amount offered this year in prizes fur
live stock is F:1,502, and for implements (including
medals) £2ll ; while the prizai added by the Local Coup
inittee amount to 1.12193, making • total of £2,4013 to be
The special prises offered by the War-
wick Committee are fur " cattle best adapted for dairy
purposes," for long-horned cattle, Shropshire sheep,
horses, and pigs. The exhibition of cheese will be con-
fined to the county, and the sum of 1;150 is appropriated
for prizes. The prizes offered for implements are as
follows :—For the best application of steam power to the
cultivation of the soil, £3O; for ploughs, £4O harrows.
£2O; cultivators ; rollers, £10; clod-crushers, £10;
tile and brick machines, I'2o ; draining machines and
implements. ; miscellaneous awards amid essential
improvements, ten silver modals, not exceeding in
value I:21 ; and for the invention of any new imple-
ment such stun as the Council may think proper to
awatcl.

Pziez OF Gusen.—Further ourreopondenco on the
imliject of guano has been presented to the Iluuoe of
Lords by command of tier Majesty. It consists of two
letters. The first in addressed by Senor Juan Y lie
Goma, of the Peruvian Legation in London, to the Earl
Malmesbury (24th of March, Min wherein his Excel-
lency, referring to recent interpellations in the House
of Commons, attempts to explsin the alleged differem.c
in the price of guano in the market of England and tli2
United States of America. M. do Oinua, after • preli-
minary flourish about " erroneous statements " recently
published in the English journals respecting the trade
in guano, boldly asserts that "no difference exists
between the sale price of Peruvian guano in this
country and the United State." There was a differ-
ence, from February to June, 1856, occasioned by
some error in the transmission of the order of
Government authorizing A general abatement ; but
it ceased from the month of June, when the
Government (of Peru) directed that the price in the
United States should be raised from $.5.5 to $6O, and
that it should be reduced here from £l3 to £l2; since
which period there has been no difference between the
two markets,—" positively none in favour of American
farmers." Certain quoted prices, his Excellency adds,
are purely nominal in both countries, as, for instance,
the price of £l3 ii.. demanded by the agents of Govern-
ment in this country; M. 1)e i isma asserting that the
45.000 tons add in the United Kingdom in the
three months of the present year were, with • few
exceptions, sold at £l2. In Anierica, billet June
lam:, the riding price, he intimates, has been 1)60,
about £l2 66., and, if this difference of 6s, were not
made up to the American farmer by the advantage of
buying guano on the spot, it 1,1 he that might complain
(accenting to his Excellency) of prejudicially high
de Osina denies, in colic/eaten, that his Government
has ever fixed, or wished to fix, a higher price than 1:13
for all suites of its manure above the number of :tritons.
The Earl of Malinesbury replies on the 31s1 of March
very curtly, concisely, and to the point ;he Kays that
the question at issue is not merely that of a difference of
price charged in England and the United States of
America, but the moot important point viz., the exor-
bitant price charged in this country, "the effect of which
is nioesuarily to check consumption, and thus to indict
an injury on the fanning interest." Tlic Peruvian agent
has not met this plain and straightforward statement of
the cue.

FRENCH CATTLIC.—The 3/miitear of Thursday says :
The ceremony of distributing rewards to time exhibi-
tors at the prize cattle show took !dace to-day, at Poiesy,
when his Excellency U. }Widmer, time minister of agricul-
ture, commerce, and public works, presided Tbill
show, which, notwithstanding the uuf avourable weather,
had attracted • large attendance of visitors. proved to
demonstration that the types of cattle, originally bred
with so much superiority by our neighbours across the
Channel, are becoming inure general with us, and pene-
trating all our centres of production. The previous ex-
hibitions have not presented, in the bovine race
especially, a choice of animals so remarkable for the
attainment of forms most favourable for fattening. And
it was not merely the crosses with the Durham breed
that were characterised by this capital result, for it was
equally found in • great many beaats belonging to our
indigenous breeds, the Limousine, the Garonnalte, the
Chatelaine, the Bretonne, and even the Landodae, repre.

lentetil llt the,show by Wei(Tit animals of a very superior
description. The sis.ciiiiens of sloep and pigs evinced
toadied peogresi On the lent of low breeders. Amongst
others we shall ithlabee a 1.4 of b us Moutlolowns, which
pre-eminently possessed all the ,14.1ities that recommend
this valuable brevi. Ill,lisedleney. the Minister,
arrived 14 Poissy at one o'clock, sweompanied by 11. du
M.Plllly Mornay. sgricultoral director. Ile was re-
ceived at she station by the Mccretary 11eneral of the
Prefecture of :-Witte-etd has., by the mayor of the to a Is,
anal hy other officials. .Ifter visiting ill Bilet.V.Sil/11 the
several parts of the show, the miniber repaired to the
stage fitted up 111 the prize room, which was tilled with
a large crowd, and in which we recognized several repro-
mutat:yes of tile great bodies of the state."