The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-19 00:00:00

SWMIAGE.

Math Itacc.—Yr. G. Bark- 01 Purbeck if !win
written to tbo Poot-ofloe estboritles for Clto alteration
of the time of the delivery of the mall balm has received
a reply natio( Utak by the 9.30 a.m. teats from Ware-
ham a mal beg will be not.

Aucw Sumacs Osweu•—Our readers are aware
that It has hese deterediod to argot • luomooat to
the memory ot Allem Biesehe Nereid, whose
i
death eat reported a short slue. AllNagne
alio/ dolkao wabeeittod to the mattes was one
by lAdy esoa7, wbielt wai tit hag moattad by the
sonatas. no tiy iseaseded It.

DOROMMITIR PARKIN! OLDS.
The November rseeting of tile Mob WAG held l.
Seiselay everting, at the Higgs Arras hotel, Derebester.
There were preseet—Kr. 3.0. Homer (Nimblest), Kt.
R. Gouge (Vim President), Mr. R. Dames, Derebwitir,
Mr. T. A. Hester, Telpoddle, Mt. 0. W. Howe.
Athelhanaptan, Kr. T. H. Based** Woesteembe,
A. Peps Dotehieter, Mr. Z. Homer, Telpaddie ; Mr. ,
H. M. Illaeldits, Matilitstown Kr. Crow. Adatildwir
Mr. W. Hairlike. Mmtlanow, Mr. T. Chapatis
Ransderu, Wateroome; Kr. H. Taylor, Dorebeiter; Mr.
0. J. Venue, Weymouth; Mr R. N. Howard, Wey-
mouth ; Mr. T. A. Rom.% Weymouth, Mr. Whittle,
Teller. Kr. Lssis,of Dorohester,Kr. T. loek,Kingstou ;
and Kr. P. Pews, (maistaat monetary).
The PKWODRIFT raid he woo very sorry he oonld not
attend the opeulog media, of the ash this yeer, but
he WM absent from ortewity he sytild assure them, sad
bet from *holm. He we ereeedugly obliged to their
faked Kr. Gems, for tails.; his photo at the Ant
meeting. He (the Preddeut) bad sow difloulty in
being preeout now, but he mode as 'Lot to do it, and
was any glad to mast them. Their And beamsa was
getting • subjeet for the mixt mooring.
They invited Kr. Motile to give them • lecture.
and he bad answered by • letW declining, but
he mot to mob of the member' hie pamphlet on
lite Potato Maw They would have felt greed)
obliged to the rev. gentleman ir he amid bare given
Item a loots* but, is be maid not, they oould only
mkaowledge his oompliment to them in sending each
of them Ids pamphlet. Mr. Boas, of Avoo who was
also Wed, said hie time was so Wes up third he eould
not give • lecture ; and Mr. Rowe, of Dorchester, doelisied
on similar grenade. Kr. Alfred Pops laid kindly
practised them • subjed for Febniery, and they now
wanted ene for the wit misting.
Kr. HOWARD was invited to give a looters, sad be
masested, the rubies* being lift to him ; and for the
January meeting Kr. Whittle premised • piper on the
lawaso of Wow WU,. stook.
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—The Pin.. /MIXT (if:7.-0. Homer) aid he had volso-
leered to bras leeward • subject on await .1 .11 these
invited having Mead, sod he @elated " Fermat sod
its Prospects." After it had bac reed he hoped tla
members would opera their nada on the subject,
because he thought it wee ooe 'Melt required more
verallatica Kum be had riven to it. Ras he hod sea
• had sold sad *teaser is the *beak be bed asked
Kr. Heur7 Hurtles to reed it labia, which he hoped
they would ersese—(beer, besr)
Mr. a W. K•wiriss thse reed the Presideat's paper
111110U0•11:- .

In omasqueares of our Hon. fieerretary fathom=
a gestSsima to Mai teemed • sabtest for
this smaing, I as your ottairmas mold sot allow oar
moseing to pant over without a antipodes of some sort,
and I mild not tklak of • 'abject more salted for our
dub them On am I ham selected, Portant 'tad its
Prospssts. I do not latend going lab M. details of
farming or the managemeet of lasi-sad stock, as them
'abject, ham been before Me eltb cm previous oseadoos,
but shall maim mysslejiral to eapital regard to stock
• farm, secondly, padded knowledge in faraday, sod
lastly my • few words tia its meant prosposta To
begin, with ospitaL There never was • time slam our
day, and I rasy my la, Me history of Ragland when so
mush radial was required to wary on farming laminas
am at present. 111 misdate rightly, it now requires at
lead 60 per amt. more as • dud Dorsetablra farm
thaa it did 90 years ago. The met and inersased use of
=man/icy is ow very Wavy Into, the admit", In iroa
offsets materially the pries of all far:amente, the
advises Is labour not only as Mt farm
labourer but also as iths, dor-
pouters and all other =a mandated with
farming I. soodderable, sad the present prim of
tattle, sheep, sad fart horses la am wie are all aware
much higher than heretofore. I think that you will
agree with me that I have sot over-estimated the
mond now required to stook • farm properly. I will
take for tartans* • farm which twisty years ago
required 66000 to dock, and take for granted that it
now requires £7,600. It is midden that la corder to pay
a tsar interest on this Wally nomad amount the
sated return al the farm mast lacrosse la prrtion.
This is • merlons oonsidoratios, sad Mond be fully
taken Into aosouat by MO proposing to astir m farms.
Gong bask for • moans% to my 6eares—Lsooo at my
7 per mat. yields £3lO, while 0.500 at the same rate
would bring La £32.5. Now the !potion seises how Is
our new farmer to make his new farm madam this
extra profit. This. modes suggest themselves, be must
make more of his goods, orbs mast farm bettor, orb.
most put on his worst °loan., and go and ask his land-
lord " to Moms to he kiad smash to tske • 11.1 e off
Ms rent." Well, just at premat prices favour as, and
h our last year's p yields badly, sad footaad-
t at:iulh im
discuss has mood the most of us • beery Imo
m the mhos of our stook, we mast not ground' "same
than just womb to Teton our mutation ." but
remiss-
bet we are in sompetitioe with all UN world, sad coo.
cot sombino to Item up pries. as boar trades can. We
ham heard of the " mai rig " lately; but it is no good
for as to try and get to a wheat or mutton rig, so
that we mud not bass our condones/ on
primal prima "B. must farm Mtn. " well,
we do farm better than we did, and Mare is so reams
why we should not farm still bettor. The land is very
booed and pays (inmost on all sound laraMmeote sad
Is the generous treatment of the land our new fanner
must plaoe more trust than in the hope that his landlord
will redo*, his root. These honourable friends of our.
tore not often guilty of loworing mots, just now they
dod it won't do to pat on any, but remain "a. you
were." Moreover, if landlords are not asked to take off
any of the rent, wo ma with • fair fatce ask them to
build upon, and render their farms non desirable in
many other ways. Then are yet two more questions
which affect capital Indirectly, load taxation and
tooast right; both of them are reosiving • good deal of
ottomans jut now, and I have Iltale doubt will be
shortly adjusted more to our setiahotion. But now
Jan a low word, as to where bon to target the capital
of whisk we have boos speaking, and how to make that
Invoitmeat sa moans as poribla The value of • farm
to root mast la Agresti meows depod co the situation
with regard to ellmoto, the sitoatloc of buildings for
movealoose, cotter° moootroodatioo, sad team. I
me quite certain those things hart, never bees taken
into ooadderslion enough lathe value of farms • the
expiator of cultivation at. the same whether the
oilman be bad or good, while two years out of seven
the crops are blighted where there is a bad climate,
wherein where it is good there will be probably
an average amp tin whole time. Good buildings
and well situated will add greatly to the vales of •
farm is labour and oartage will be mush less. Catalan
for laiourei most also be to with its form adderwits Mort
will be no certainty is towing solidi.e4 labour daring
the whole year; soother tele( requisite is • sustain
tmare for the larsetanat of oapital in farming. No
man ought to eater on a farm as • yearly temat with
ally • verbal agrestosalt, as words are but sir, and lin
Is uneartaln, hut leases or tenant right mast be adopted
as • security. On lasses I will speak hut. I hays looked
over • great many in my time, sod I me acme to the
sooolusion, that the old leans are not drawn out In
asecordame with the times we 11,. la, and in doe
deforenso both to the lawyers and Nadler& I must
say, that in my opiniao, the time is now some for snob
imamate to be sod aside for ever. Are them times,
I would ask, whoa high farming is such • fashionable
moronic., that the landlord Is to have the management
of the land by defining in the sgreement, the rotation
of moon/ dada, the term? had If this GOWN be
deviant' from Mars is • certain Am imposed for so
doing. Under such restrictions, ne man oaa use his skill
or capitol, either for the good of Maud or the soot-
=unity at largo, but It must man to this that every
lease drawn, say, for fourteen years, the tomtit shall,
daring the first tan years of that lease, manage the
farm in any way that he may think proper, sad shall be
at liberty to sell my madam grown on it provided the
land la kept in good condition by the purchase of
setifirial and other manures, and in the last four years
of the Iran to farm it as may be agreed 00, and no
pasture or meadow land to be converted into arble
without content of landlord, Bash a lease would
be only in accordance with these free-trade
times, sad would enable the holder to sell in
the dearest market and buy in the dumped.
Tonsot right hat been adopted by many landlords with
their lama* aad where it has bees fairly adjusted for
both parties, It has proved, in emend, satidamory; but
still, the tenant is not so cortak for the ismetineut of
moital as under • loam. I most now came to my
mood bead, prseiloal knowlodge In farmiog. Many
moo have allots years take. up farming, thinking, no
doubt, IS was • pleasurable and prated* business, but
mimesis( ao wooded knowledge of it, ninon-dm out
of every hundred made no adequate return for their
capitol, sad found their pismire rather expessive. To
be • prudes! fanner • tam mast be food of his bualoaas
sad give it groat study, ha mast ad only plan for the
morrow, but look forward for • when year for the
managesseat of every pime of land oa the fans, not oaly
for the growth of worn, but also for the feeding of man
and sheep at different magma, and the proddin of food
most suitable tee them. lam ate of tM old and
! soodder • farmer ought, to a sedan extent, to earn
his appreatneship, dad not only know the right way
from the moat way ef doing a thin, bat If easodots
require, be able himself to do it, sad to instrad those
he sin by example its well as by prompt. I would,
however, y no =maser* here. • boy who is to bosom*
, • farmer should realm an oduation that will be of use
to him as sask, and In oddities so the ordinary routine
of study, should aeqaire at least the rudiment. of
geology, botany, and chemistry, mad, If he has head
room motet for say more, let him study the veterinary
art • little. He should also In my minim spend some
tints la a wattles-house, or gems assit :plass, just to
sharpen Ms wits and It him for badness transactioas.
Farmers are not misbrand for managing their affairs
oa tho most approved commerelal priadiples ; but in
future they mom approach more nearly the oorreet
thing, or they will be left behind la tbese go-ahead
times. A forum should be sonnet to be always
, a Lamar • there will always he something
gee. for him to learn oa his farm or about his farm,
and the more observaat be is, and the bettor he learnt
his Mame, like the sehodboy, the higher will he rise in
his dais, and the fewer the stripes In will receive from
hie preoeparms, Dame Nature. And now for a very
few words on tho present premeds of farming. 'There
cannot be a doubt but that fanning haa improved very
much the lad twenty years, partly by the introduction
of •rtifidal manures sad ameMnery. and the larger
amount of espial invested. Than is still room for
much grower improvement If fanners could me slam to
tasks a return; but, I bar such improvements will be
laid adds for the pressat; till the labour question is
settled, and • better understaadiag arrived at between
Us. employer and the outplayed. Another groat draw-
bar* to the haprommeat of farming, at present, is the
Mamma that are now so prevaleat aaeoigsi rank sad
sheep. Many farmers have gunk • large motet
of capital from this mum, sods. nag us these disarm
madam stook farmers will sols 4 on with that swirl{
they ham hitherto *own. The h prim of bath dye
sad dead Mock at present Is • ma worthy of sot- ,
Adoration as the ohmosesre they will DOt be maintained.
For my own part I wold far nether be quitting • lona 1
than just soaring on one. Burdens have, from time '
to time, bees laid on the had till now they are well
nigh Intolerable; and *von the apathy of (armors has
beau amend to • mooed the Jai motive al some of them,
and we are at last making sums imonsmire on our
rulers, Dud I hope tho day Is ad ter distant when we
gall have our tsar share sad ao more. To attain to !
this it is nemmarr we should be naiad and cordially
support awls who at public meetings and In Parliament
so ably plead oar souse, aad sodeavour to moan, for
Ili our Pat rigida Oats are days of ohmage
sad Improvement, and la no Molars shall we
lees probably, wan Mange than ia
TM law basal al haadalloa that yet Wei tillidat