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

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=ree Thersdereirs=l:: Blest
“Myearte. rosierd.awlise the
ash sed he Meets upon Apiefalture." There
woe Timitzik. J. J. Boss (President) le the &dr,
Ma. Satiaders (Vies. Presides_ 14, Mr. 1.
Dame, r. J. mg, Mr. Menstall. Mr. G. Mbs, Mr. W.
Mr. J. Udall, Mr. P. loseguaa, Mr. Hibbs,
L 05..... Mr.
Kr. J. Shepherd, 11. r. W. Longman,
and Mr. Bennett (Moine ileontery en emus% et the
seettesed indispeoltiou of Mr. B. O. ReadaU).
At the out owistieg, on the President's suggestion,
It ins agreed ths• there ahead be a diesseedoe, without
any formai war beteg reed, ou the Labour Qawelott,
MO they stightisers one !mother's views, us (aide for
est tatureospest of this Important question.
Ia introdestag the leonine, the CHAIRMAN said
had their Mead Mr. Damen with them sad he would
introdues se the anti eel for the evening's dieeouseion—the
Law of Prisegenitsre and its offsets opo, agriculture.
It seemed Is hiss to be • rather le .abject to
be trested by a lot of tenant fanners ; at **same tune
he hit nue It weeid he introduced in lair sad
manes by Mr. Damn, and so doubt flog should hays
$ good (thrombin upon It

Kr- DAM., of Dentheeter, said in speaking to them
that wireoing moos the subject 011 the card - the Lew of
Priniegialture and Be !Bata on Agriculture, he fell
that Ite wie labourito under some dlssd,sntag., booms
It was a sabjeet width had not been much dlsossasd so
li, ash. bow from his side of the question, sad**
pushier view we, quite contrary to the oadanicio at
whisk be had awned reepooting the law salt stood and
bad boa for • peat number of yearn. Ha believed
that some ...ben of the dub, aod sanaially the
Chairmen from what ho had said, that he
Dames') would take the poriescies: on this sub-
, bat that was not hie Wan for he had some
to tube as armies coseleidoa. the ',tibiae
was mendoned at their -lunar, metig he saki per-
eine that Oahe of the gestienten were tkl.klng " Oh I
hi', going to lithe the Law of Prlmogralturs—that'e a
denprou sort of sob** :" but he (Ir. Damen) did
sot think it more &agonies for %nut fanner' to dis-
ease than other clues of the community, harass all
were intended in the abject, sad if the law wee only
intended for the divantamkof ono elms it was quits
mare to give way in • very non time, They eould
from the &thetas that took place in April last in the
Hues of Commons that the "abject would be proud-
sandy brought forward, mad In all probability be made
a Government questioa. Whoa the topic was intro-
Awed by lb. Fewkar both Hr. Gladstone end Hr.
Disraeli "poke nye. it, and on that audios there was
only • majority of about 80. Beth the debt lionearable
gentlemea agreed It WY a Vag giallakia, whisk aoald
Oct be thee desided, and said that it must be brought
forward at another time, or words to that offset It
was • question not eonliaed by any mesas to the
=ll:4coutituanalas of the country, but bad ban
: by all dames to the kingdom, and waa fore-
shadowed as • 'ablest for future legislation by members
of the Government during the reases—ladeed, all men's
Wade had been more or less exalted ea the matter.
Besides this, persons who had &POW the gabled had
&demisted a rediatributioa of the lead, sad at
meetings the rights of property which had existed for
a peat number of years had bean sailed in question.
Looking at the folding Law of Primogenitors
sad Eatell—for the two things were so intinowely
oseaseted that ha should not attempt to murals
tham—bto knew that the popular opinion was
all in thou oldie truth system, width act °sly per-
mitted bat ocapalled the divides of load on the &mai
of a father of a family between all his eons. That In-
volved a peasant proprisbary In the Guidry. Lowe
were made—or ought to be—for the beadlt of ell aad
ad for • few, and the question mom *doh was the
Citadvanfap that the land should be divided In
y of be latched rewording to the law as it
etude. He should etrompt to show that the exhilag
=a wee ors beetefidel to the conuetnity a large
bbe Treads mods, although they knew law wen
ohm. capable of improvement. In this country..
bed bees meastomed to see without any 'isthmoid
teenage that when meats" fell in. the eldest son took
, and people were perfectly satisfied bemuse
they oesastomed te it. Had they boon amid to
the opposite mode they might have been equally orew
test. - The Law of Primogeniture bad bees la form be
many peerationa, and they bad "me eldest sow waittre
20, 30, or non years for the estate. I. other econtrigo
where "states were divided onicroyst all the eons, the
whole family sometimes waited for many years for the
division of the land; bat In this country.very'of tea the
=sou took to professions of nodose Medalled
the greeted orniuneste the cousin modem.,
many of them from time to time being raised to the
Hesse of Lords before their elder brother sante into ids
wilate. Thus it had bees for the goosed basalt of the
oacunuity,aad mush Utter for thonsolves,than if they
kid waited for years sad then had part clan 'stele at
their fathers death asoordin to the pee** h Frame
sad sows other countries. It was mid with troth that
In this sountry the population woe so great that the
lassi should be 'titivated as wall sa possible; sad he
quite agreed it must be so. But the question was
under which 'pont would it be beet cultivated?
Would it be tinder our present system, or with a prom
proprietary? He should show by statistics that so far
as regarded the production of this country—the climate
sad sell of which wen by no mesas so genial as in
Preue—whilst the nun of wheat grown in the
tidied Shod= was 28 bushels per sore, in no other
truantry exempt Wartemberg,which had only two millions
of Inhabitant'', there was nothing like that quantity pro-
domed. In France, where they had the bed statistics,
the average was 17 buheis per sere, in Germany
10, and in Austria about the Mae: in no other
country ones Wurtemberg arm there anything
like the product of England under oar system of
farming. Even to the colonies, with their virgin soil,
the produce was smaller. In Australia the average was
eithaated at 13 bushels per acre. 01 00arlis the Ant
growth pre a much greater return. Especially was
this the ease in California lad year where the
lead was find broken. Bid in • few years 'the pre-
dootko of these (outdo became gradually lees from
the fact that they had not the advantages there were to
this country in means for restoring fertility to the soil.
In Autralla there wire Undid gram lands, but they
did not cultivate root crops, and he had heard it add
by • permit who had lived there many years that he had
never seen a turnip In that wootry. It was a feat that
hind width at find grew 40 bushels yor wire, in a few
years yielded lees than 15. But, in °moldering the
present subject, he would not adduce the err=
of the esionies, uit was fairer to compete
with the other countries of Europe. With regard to
the production of beef and mutton there were We
daddies to go upon, but he had no dont himself that
It was mush rubor in this ountry in proportion to It,
dee than in any other on the unttrent. lf them state.
faintayMktirt
o=rd to the production of the manta., were
tub, the bed no noon to complain. 11th. sal did
net something like what it ought to do people
would have cues to be diasarafied : but whilst England
pedaled about one third more than any other European
souatry with the azieption he had named, the people
as a people had no reawn to complain. There was
another pert of this Tootle& which he thought
eseiou. If they divided and sub-divided lands It. a
destroy the great middle ram of the country, w
had been eallad the bulwark of England, whether
rightly or wrongly was not the question, though he bee
Bond% had bees rightly so-Galled fats greet amber it
aura The middle ala, of this wonky was greater that
that of say other In all the world bode, but it we sub-
divided the land as it was done in other onantriee time
middle dam mast be destroyed, not only Is the reed
diirtriets bat in alOWIla, for they tended to support oath
other as a dam, and neither pretended for a moomal
they mould do without the other—they supported out
mother in a most remarkable way. If a peamas
proprietary wen introduced there would be no middle
dile In the country; end In very few yeses we should
ese • (*edition of moiety dollar to that width adds'
in Prance, the great allies prosperous, in the 1111•1110111111
Isteeely say middle else., sad nose whatever In the
conatry to support the middle othes of the town,. If the
wife of slandlord in the country wanted a baud she woad
have to send to Paris or some other large dty for it ; with
regard to the f armies' wins it was, ho wever, no ineonveal.
enee,for they did not wear any bonnete—(Laughter). In
meads' of the subdivialon of land ha amid not arotil
DOM Memos to the labourers. In this country then
wu as agitation for the dividon of land, but the
=on which the men who promead it should ask
vie was where are the people beet paid—le
It
es moll or Imp farms? Eli far as his experienoe a:-
leaded labour lambast paid on the idiar. On farms when
jibe tenant with his family did the chief part of the
work, sad there was very little &dadaist labour em.
'eck he Tutored to to y soak labours were woos,
pill libali these on large faros if they took the perly
&Tomo audage. Hives not an advocate for very
Imp farms, but the exception proved the rule;
hews. if opinion !Anna of medium miss were bath
He did not approve farms being too imp foe
the Want/ capital or ability, but thought it an
serer to go to the other ant.... of onall
fiesn. With roped be the labourer it might be elitl
they Auld treat him an the commandal priadpio—
that he bad a peeled light to mil his labour in the
dearest market sad the employer to buy it to the
shenpesi: but he dr Damen) bad net ones to that
—and believed it a peat Udall'sa
S. the labourer if be were treated oa that prloolple, be-
Aka being an inewevenisses to the employee. Be many
things were needed by • labourer whir' the Isedlord or
his smear amid 'apply Dinah abeamr than he could
pi then showier._ and why should not that Intim be
uallaued widish bad always prevailed? For instaare,
oho add uppy a pottage so cheaply as the laadlord t
He lam Ma fad that ea ouniereial prineiples it was
▪a• analogs to the leadlord. Indeed he was • lease
by E. Tiro es to the bit of hied ead fud, who ould
supply them eo well ea ide master ? A bit of lead us
idles • great bun to a rasa, and he took great pride la
IN and that was a feeling which should be onooetspel,
Is roped to fail, if the labours'. lived 5 or 6 miles in
the country and bad to pay for the carriage of ood it
woe • serious addition to its wed ; but the muter wee
trequedy sending to tows, and kindly brought it home
for him : while, if the leborer went to out faggots hie
easther's cart brought them to his door. He had rather
dignified from his "abject. but the labour quadrat was
at moth involved in the ma* ration 0, lead too»
that be scold hardly avoid it. This was • sobjeet that
mold greatly ablia &radial, bat at the
puma thee he la under the great disadvantage
of being the lirot, for ought he knew, to speak about it,
sad he bad seareely sees anything written on the
=titFor a great number of yeas. three laws bad
the laws of the Edo sad Penises wthth
5
dewed set, sad they were sot meetly prepared fat
to say they were spinet the puha', Interest mid
to be asap& He had attempted to show Nod
the Law of Pltare the proinetlea of the
mg wee Made* ftry, oad that its abolltisa
wild de away with the great middle ohm of the
ereaerpHaling said so ninth in favour of the Law of
roboormleare, be did not wish to be inieuderstrod.
Thou were various torte to this sub).*, and ha m t
MI NIA to mention that landlords with all :el,
miwlimes bed domes to perform; indeed the country
‘7,-,,-417imitsa their performance. If the poodocoo
lemma to the ratio of this outlay, Ming no. 30
minions as Maid 15 at the 'meads& then +said
be diet 80 or 70 years a population of 60
Wats& Therefore IS was not oily maw
that the lewd dente be made the best of, but that the
boiler& Amid do adz daty la every possible Way,
eed renew ono obaiwilels the way of the good sal-
BMW ed the sell In mild to Mir pert a Ire
=he wild met help win there was still • good
ho dose (and be was we the Ohekwas wade