The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

210culturt.

fieoroact FAIL—AS Wilbur, ma Thursday last, there
was a somewhat .laak attendance on aceonnt of it.
weather, which kept raspy Inraters it home in the hay
field; sad stook was sotnewh•, slow of mlo. More
wm • large supply of beef, and an average lot of amp.
Primo —hest (sib..!, 125.; ewes, 30. to 48s. ;lambs, 17s.
to 275.

Sate or trna Lan Mr_ 0. J. WOOD'S Silltir.—Ow
Friday hat, the South Down Sock rf the I as G. J.
Wood, Bal., of Ailielhampton, numbering 1.768 ewe.,
lambs, and rams, was submitted topablie competition by
M. J. T. Ensor. The sale ivtracted • eottipany of about
300 from nil parts of the district, every lot w.s diapered
of, and in • shoe t space of time, at good {nice& Sin.
tooth ewes made from 42a. to Me.„ and averaged
about 465.; four-tooth ewes.4s.. end the &vamp
We. about 48e.; two-tooth ewes made 451, to 565.,
with en 'snare of about 511. Chilver hogs realised 42..
to 55a. averaging about 475.; chaser lambs averaged
shout 2k; .ether lambs, 22a. Big•tooth rams were
ell 10a. to £10; twoaooth rams £5 to n 2 ; hog rams,
£5 to £3O, and mimy sold at EIO to £l5 or £l6. Ram
lambs were 14 to £7 • pair. About 20 yearling heir. rs
were also disposed of, and mad* from 1:13 to 20
guineas. There waa also • sale of the farming
tuiplementa.
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FARMIII• •IND RABBITO.—Ii Ii • °common error
among tenant farmer, to believe that the law will
Indemnify them for loss sustained by the depredations
Of game. Not that they have much faith in their creed,
hut that hers and there tenants stung by the lose of a
valuable crop resolve at all hazards to make a public
example of tl e larrilor I by the aid of a condi at law.
In this way • farmer name I Woolrlch, dwelling in
Shropshire, in an evil hour was tempted to bold up to
general indignation a landleril named Galesere for the
mischief done to mope by the rabbits whisk °sleuth
permitted to immense and multiply In a wood close to
the farmer'. fields. Bet the bad look of the farmer did
not stop here. He not only lost him urn, not only was
be also ill advised as to brine an utmost against hia
fur the cause above stated, but be we. further
ci touch • victim of bat fortune that he got judgment
In the county court f £2l. Had Nr. Josiah W. Smith
nonsuited the plaintiff, that learned judge would have
had the double satisfaction of administering good law,
and doing • substantial kindness to the fanner. lint the
fete. ruled otherwise, and the result was that Gateau.
appealed. and the Court of Common Pleas overruled Mr.
Josiah W. Smith, and gave judgment for the appellarti
Now, the respondent was tenant to the apellant under a
lease reserving the right of shooting and sporting,
and the lease contained no coven int either restricting
the amount of game or providing oompeoutico for
Injury done by the same or permitting the tenant to
destroy the same, no that the question we., whether
at common law a twin is liable for things done by
rabbits issuing out of land belonging to him. For it is
to be observed that there woe no evidence of the
appellant having turned down rabbits on the lend. '
But rabbits are animal. ferry naturer, and at law a
m•n is not reapopeible for the mischief done by
such animal., because he has no property in I
them. At the same time, we believe that Mr.
Woolrieh is the first tenant who has tried the ex-
periment of putting down rabbits by the arts of the
law, and his failure may be a warning to all farmers
not to trust in what may seem to them lobe "natural
justice," but to insert proper clauses in their lemma
protecting their Grope from similar depredations.—Law
Journal.

Tug CIDER-CURSE IN DOIIIITRATIII.—We often
beer mentioned the low rate of wages in the county of
Detest, and comparisons are mule with the wage.
ruling in other counties. When we torn to the
eiedistior givine the occupation of the People is th•
population returns of the last census, we end that
whereas in Linoolnshire, which I select as the best
cultivated county in Weiland, the number of &fel-
cultural labourers is 52,871, and the number of people
living by the sale of beer is 1,317, in Dorsetshire the
number of agricultural labourers is 19,131. and the
number of persona selling beer and cider is 602, show-
• proportion in the former cue of one beer-seller to 40
agricultural labourers, and in the latter, one bier'
seller to 33 labourers. The proportion in Lincolo•bire
I, much too high, but what is to be raid of Doreetabire,
where the labourers, earning only two-thirds of the
wages of Lincolnshire, support a larger proportion of
beer and cider sellers? The figurer given, too, do not
fully represent the real state of thing. as regards the
intent to which the beer and cider I. drank in Wrest-
shire, as in that °minty a great demi of cider is given in
lieu of money wages, els in Linooloshire no such
prattles prevails either with reepect to beer or cider.
But I can illastrate this important part of the qesstion
by "Dating a case, within my experience, which can
hardly fail to exhibit the fact that low wages and
Inferior work, with attendant pauperism, are associated
with a preponderating use of beer or cider. In the
year 1852 I bad the control of some extensive drainage
, works in Dorestabire, and at that time the •grioultural
money wages of the district ranged born Is. to 9r.
' week. Impressed that such pay was inconsistent with
suitable labour, I imported into the work some north.
country labourers from Northumberland, practised in
drsining. to afford an example to such local men as chose
to enter the trenches and dig by the piece. I guaranteed
to the northern men, minimum of 18s. a week although
I could command the services of as mane Dorestehire
labourers as I desired to employ at half that prim.
, The result showed that I was right in bringing high-
priced comp tent mei:ll...nougat low-priced in 6 rior ones;
for., soon as the Dorsetelice men knew what the 'roan-
, eountrymen were getting, and saw the chancier r 4 the
! work executed by them, they applied all their energies
lin imitation. At first they drunk more beer, thinking
that by such means they could do more work. They
soon saw their error, and it was both limning and
instructive st the same time to see how struck they
were when they found that the northern men bad for
their dinners good meat and bread, while they were
living on bread. tobacco, and miserable beer or eider.
It was by very slow degrees that the Dortetshire men
realised the truth that butcher's meat was more
strengthening than bad beer. Eventually, by the
example afferded them, the 'technical education"
given them by the Nortbumberland men, and by the
effect of improved food, the despised Dorortshire men
WU* enabled to earn as much se their teachers.
and it was not long before! actually removed them into
the north of England, where the ruling weekly wages
were double those of Dorastaltire, to compete with
Yorkshire men ia the week they had learned.—Mr.
Bailey Dna" before the society of Arts.