The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

Agriculture.

HAIVfiT IX CORXWLLL. —Banat operations have
been oommenced in several parts of Cornwall. any
fields of wheat and barley are sot, and sums of the latter
have been cleared and thrashed. Barley is very good,
and the same remark applies generally to the wheat crop,
although on some light soils there is not • fair average.
Oats are looking well.

ROTAL AGILICULTIJIAL SOCIETY AT LIICIATOL—The
trials of elodcrushers, harrowv, steamploughs, and horse
cultivators wen completed on Tuesday, and on
Wednesday the judges, Messrs. Could well. Wortley, and
Thompion, were sneezed in ths trials of brick and tile
machines. The following are the awards for steam
ploughs and implements i—Fowler and Co., Leeds—
£loo, "pair of sinfle winding drum traction engines,
power for the cultivation of the roil; £25, one double-
drum traction engine, ditto; £25, one traction engine,
working with clip., drum, and travelling diee anehor,
As.; £l2, four furrow Wanes plough ; CIO, dime travelling
anchor; £B, double dram windlass on ingine ; £B, clip
dram windlass on engine; £l2, seven.tine.balance cul-
tivator; 115, light land cultivator ; £B, frame harrows,
rollers, fn., Means. J. and F. Howard, Bedford—oso,
portable engine, with windlass ; £l2, five-tine cultivator;
LE, double drum windlass on Irony; 113, harrow; £9,
general purpose wheel plough; £6, light land wheel
ploushs ; £B, general purpose swing plough; £5, light
land swing plough; £6, subsoil plough; £4. paring
plough. Shari. Ransoms and Sims—Silver medal for
turn wrest plough, with patent wheels; £5, general
purpose wheel plough; Ed light land plough; £4,
I general purpotes awing plough; £7, harrow; £3, light
land awing plough ; td, subsoil plough ; LI, pairing
plough. E. IL Bontall—£l3, cultivator. C. Clay—
£7, cultiestor. Beverley Iron Work Company—s:ll,
clod-crusher. Annis, Barford, and Co., L'9, clod-
crusher ; £6, roller. Beverley Iron Work. Company—
f4, roller. Judges—Messrs. John Wheatley, Thomas
P. Dad, George H. Hipwell, Francis Sherborne, Thomas
Chambers, T. J. Bramwell, John alernan, E. Cowper,
J. Cooks, John Enviley. A fkr an internileelon of ol•eisets
for rattle sines 1865, a rumemion of sheds containing
290 cattle makes • grand feature in the show•yard at
leieeeter. The short horns have come up In great form,
and make an unusually fine display, numbering 133
entries. In the male classes the greatest merit appears
in the aged balls, in that of yearling balls, and,in that I
of ball calve., the other clams presenting less of the hand-
some and extraordinary. The Herefords are not
numerous, bat very good in quality. Mr. Thomas
Rogers's Batter Hall is first in the aged bull class. Mr.
J. H. Arkwright's first.prize bull in the two-year-old
class is an exceedingly good beset ; and Mr. Thomas
Duekbam's Reginald, would probably have been first
instead of second if in a little higher condition. For
yearling Hereford bulls Mr. W. Tudge is first, and
Her Majesty the Qeeen second. The cow elms is not
particularly good. The heifers are better, Mr. S. Plimley
winning the first prise. Mr. J. H. Arkwright is first
for yearling heifers, and Her Majesty the Queen second.
Only two heifer calves are exhibited, Mr. 'fudge's and
Mr. William's, both taking the prima There is an
extraordinary show of I•evons. The aged bulls make •
epee:rally floe class- Mr. George Turner takes lint,
Viseotint Falmouth around, and Mr. T Davy third prize,
while • prize bull of Mr. John Bodley's is highly recoup
mended. Mr. Walter Farthing has it all his own way
in the two-year-old bull clam. Tbe yearling bulls are
uncommonly line—Mr. J. A. Smith is first, Mr. W.
Farthing second, and Mr. J. H. Bailer third ; inert of
the other animals being commended. For bull-calves
Mr. W. Farthing is first, and Mr. George Turner
second. In • good *ow class Mr. J. A. Smith takes the
first prize, Mr. W. Smith the second, Mr. W. Farthing
the third, and Her Majesty the Queen gains a high
commendation. For heifers, Mr. J. H. Buller is first,
Mr. C. Hambro second, and Mr. W. Farthing third.
For yearling heifers Mr. W. Smith is first, Mr. J. A.
Smith second, and Mr. W. Farthing third. The heifer
calves are extremely beautiful. Her Majesty the Queen
wins the Ant prise, Mr. J. A. Smith the second, and •
remarkably pretty calf of Mr. J. H. Buller is highly
commended. The Sasso: tattle are few. Mr. Marshall
and Meesn. J. and A. Heitman win the prism The
Channel Islands cattle make an interesting show; Mr.
Philip Gaudin, of Jersey, winning the prises for cows,
and Sir. G. Clement Pollot, of Jersey, and Mr. P.
Gaudin taking first and second prizes for heifers. In
the well-filled dame of other established breeds, the
Doke of Beekinghana's very large-framed long-horn
bull is first and Mr. J. H. Barbary's second ,• Mr. R. A.
Chapman's long-horn now is first and Mr. J. Godfrey's
long-hora is second ; and Mr. Chapman's long-horn heife
Is first and Lord Rondos' Norfolk-polled heifer is second.
The show of bones was good and varied, and the pigs
were a meritorious collection.