The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

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TEI NEWSPATVS P. DISZCTORT of SM.
C. Mitchell and Company appears in a revised and
extended condition, and will he hailed as an im-
mense boon, embodying accurately the information
of all others mast ementiod to the general bedlam
of the country as promoted through the ordirjr
channels of publicity ; for Mitchell's she standard
authority on all matters relating to the newspapers
and periodical publications of the United Kingdom.
Indeed, if you present yourself in any London
Coasting-boom, the test of year receptian will be
the q,psazanøs which your Journal makes to Mitobell.
Thu I. no new thing; but one of which we ten
vouch for the halftone having been experienced
ever since our respected friend, the late Mr. Merles
Mitchell, the bead and founder of the firm in Red
Lion court, started his admirable enterprise in 1846.
For our own part we owe especial achnowledrement
for the peciennesoe given to our numerous journals
that appear every week in Dorchester, Weymouth,
BlandfOrd, Bridport, Poole, Salisbury, and Yeovil.
Ws refer therefore with satidestiee to the page of
Mitchell for the ese•ral details *four soheme- of pub-
lication, as one of the Gen iesteeoes to which the
priocipl• of limited liability has been employed, and
as far as can at present be anticipated, with swore,
to extend the advantages of the Press throughout a
widespread district of country. We subjoin an
extract from the preface of Messrs. Mitchell and
Co.'s directory, showing the statuette of the Press of
U.. United Kingdom as ascertained by them laden
thous iminpilses

Pa/SINT Poarnow or TN/ Nrwarars3 Pauma.
" ars new ant Wished in Ow Unload Riviera 1,261
10..nito4ou, aisbri led as Mises land —Leedom,
; Provincial, TOT —933 ; War, 43, lisoaaad. ;
1'606,0, 198 ; British Mau 1/ Of therm than. .
Ji Daily pratliahed is England; 1 ditki, Wale.
12 d'"°, &Mho*: 19 ditto, Ireland • 1 ditto,
1111. On Maness to the saltioe GI Ibis oriel Dina
$Ol7 for WIC es fad tics follcoriag intarmotami hot*
voa., that is that year thews Irmo pulaishad is the
United Magian T 4 Josnals ; of thins 31 Perm wim
awed daily ,15 in Load,,. Ila Birontogbua, 3la
Li.vrini, 3 011 Banobater, 3 a Ralobergb, 4la Mimi-
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Dail, haw media. 78 apla4 Vi la 1836.
lluoulino• now le states 01 ps_hil-sairia. isolodina the
quarterly Braises, swabs, Or. al 'dike, igg a
diradaily roligliass starseisr, lopusuumag Nis obinia
of Boehm& Wmoloyass, Matboatota, n",thos. hide.
paideets, and elite Christian Oamainenitise•
amoriamiairr 0/ ntlit Eruct in Eliours Aso
Damao. —Wawa Williams Illaskuread sae Ear,
Edinburgh rad Loads., bays pout ihmab at Ibis
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rea, %store, and vfflsreea of ibi outbreaks
•"°*? A.D. 817.. But the ifftrence betwixt this
pub' @cation and all that have proceeded it on the
soh is the cheering fact that the writer has, sib.
Ve It;ibalieyas by dint of doe cam and precaution,
, eess exempt frnin the simulator's of the donee.
Phis being the ease, he is commoodably anxious to
impress upon Its fellow tenant farmers the necessity
of attending strictly to the mode of healthful
management adopted in a system which has proved
a safeguard and preservative againrd the Cattle
Plague. H. directs attention ID fact to the manage-
ment which since 1851 he has followed with such
successful results in keeping down the bills of disease
and death in his farm stock. His 01141•30 an few
end simple. To avoid &masa the things to be
guarded against are, he asserts, merely bad air, bad
water, improper food or improper quantities of it,
over exertion, extremes of temperature sod mod&
comitagion. During the fifteen years of which be
enunneniatise the experience, with, many times, over
100 cattle, seldom under 60, sad now about 70 well-
bred Ayrshire cows, with eight or ten
Alderney', he bars had only three deaths --one from
rum boson, one from injury, and one alter calving—
whilst the only two oases of serious illness have is
one iustanoo been a case of milk fever, sad in the
others very distinct and well-marked case of foot.
and-mouth murrain. By the way, we weeder if any
careful observer has ascertained it for a fact that
animals which have had the foot•and-mouth dissent
have either not taken or have been len @object to
the rinderpest ? as we feel convimed that many
dairy cows in this (Dorchester) neighbourhood passed
through one of the forms of the foot-and-mouth
disorder jest prior to the outbreak of the plague.
We can omddeutly recommend the publication of
this Scottish Tumid Farmer so far as oars and pre-
caution are of vales in gaud* against the ravages
of the subsisting disease.
RANDY ROYAL ATL•D Or MCDIDJI OIDOOD•PRY :
(W. Blackwood and Suns.) Alexander Keith
Johnston is the ablest gssapher that bee ever
7 Geary de Lisle,ajor Royaell, Malts747:add Bamboos pet together might with the aid
of Hesstreldt sad other ass* sod learned travellers
idord something like the matter-of-fad stithreoed in
his labour". But, an engraver by prelestion, the
beauty, clearnem, and, as Mr. J. 8. Mill will ftartitrti
say in his next speech on the Cattle Plague, "percep-
tivity" of his prodootioss are unmatched, for there
ismer bee existed within the rem* of any other map-
maker the possibility of attaining them He lase
given its the ' Physical Allan" and in imperial folio,
The Royal Attie of Modern Geojgraphy." Bet
them valuable and in fact expensive works are
within the reach only of the &doom. Room then
to the man who joins the middle dam movement of
our day with such an auxiliary as this proposal to
t forth the "Handy Royal Atlas of Modem
cgrapby" at one MU the teat of the last mantimed
meunigoent volume. • madmen of the maps
bating bort,/ submitted to Ilk we do not know bat
that we y prefer the style and character of the
cheaper imps. The new work we are told will
tone& by the improvements and rectiftstious of
the Royal Atha The Berke is indeed an ascending
om commencing with the &hod Ageism, and the
larger and more advanced are expressly adapted to
supplement the information contained to the smaller
and Imre elementary. Thus it appears to us that
the premed Moo is destined to become • familiar
work of rdereoos. Commencing in Marsh a part
(de) will be Mood on the first of each alternate
month; ii that as there are 12 purse the work will
take two years to reach emapletion. this
time every important discovery or change be
added up so the time of going to prem. And as it
=that the latest and most authentic desorip-
each oountry,together with the mostapproved
geographical text books, will be °outpaced, and the
information so gleaned inserted in the maps with •
spacial view to the requirements of woman and
pupil it is certain that for schoolssad
i 00l no work bee ever yet bees better onsosived
for tL conveyance of authentic geographical know-
ledge. The specimen map of n and Portugal
is singularly minute, dear and fai fal ; it is printed
on tossed paper with coloured outlines to the great
province@ of the Peninsula, and is quite a pioture in
its beauty and prosaism