The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

Dorsetsbtre.

LORD POLTIVIORR, master of the hounds in West
Dorset, arrived at Cattisteek Lodge, yesterday (Monday,
29th hist).
VaLILY•II.I COO,l/1 WORR.—We Under!glad that
Mr. R. Wa'ford. M.A.. is engaged on the revision of his
well known work "Coonty Families." published by
Hardwii k stile prim of 2.., and comprising 1,200
pager, and no few ir than 10.000 (doilies. (really the
" Upper Tea Thousand.") Mr. Walford has bad the
honour of an interview with the Priam and Princess 14
Wales st Marlborough House, end of prmenting them
with handsomely bound Oopies of • former edition of his
"County Families," which were graciously accepted.
The work will appear henceforth under the patronage
of their Royal Highnesses, and the new edition me
which the author is now at work, wiU be ready truly
seat year.

WALNUT grant& —My housekeeper says • quarter
of an ounce of ozalle acid d in • Vrineghopful of
boiling water will take out walnut skits. If the
hands are beolly stained, or the stains are of lone stand ine,
soseral applications may be nrceosary. The hands
must be soaked in the liquid, and then rubbed together.
It is • virulent poison, and must not be kit abut.
W. F. It socurrg, Okeford Fitsoeine.—A
common salt and taw apple lime will effectually remove
the steins left by green walnuts on the hands. A
medical friend of mine told my little boy to try the
alndioation lest week; he did so, and it was successful.
Hulas O. WArturr, Hastbledon, Hanta..—aardeeeed
CAromiele.

ORNITHOLOIIICAt RARITIES.—J. C. Mamie, Esq.,
of Smedreore, writes: A fin- opsoimen of a raw and
elegant bird—the glo.sy ibis (Tanlalas /poem. Lies.)
has frequented A neighbouring pond for the lent f ort bight ,
and I have had several opportunities of watching it. It
appears to have migrated from a country unfrequ. nted
by man, as it is not very shy, and when disturbed, takes
ooly • very short flight, not from want of Sting powers,
aa I haws obterved it besport itself in the air *woefully,
and after wheeling about niueb in the IS MI way as the
pleelt during this breeding season, it invariably returns to
its adapted rwort. 'lbis bird is nearly allied to the species
held sacred by the ancient Egyptians. This lithe third
oruithological rarity which his visited our shores during
the autumn. A Golden Oriole (OrioluaCkslbulti, Liao.)
was seen • few wseks sines on the billy elopes behind
the village of Einimeridge, and • Grey Phalarope
( alaropus Lobateis, Lark.), was caught by a shepherd
of Uri. Partniter's after one of he weent gale& This
bird is not so rare as Mc Bingham considers. Scarcely
a winter passes without one or more being wen, about
eight years ago 'several flocks were attracted,to the neigh'
bourbood of Ximmeridge Bay.

&Ltd or Sm.& —A short Act, but of great im-
portance woo pasted at the oboeof the last session,
having been almost unnoticed in its progn so through
parliament. It is tho 29th and 30th Volt., ea 96, and is
designed to amend the law relating to bills of sale. It
enacts that the registration of • bill of sale most be
renewed once In every fivp years, commenting from the
day of the registration. It not so renewed, Buell regis-
tration shall brume to be of any effect at the expiration
of any period of five years during which a renewal has
not been made as therein requirei. ; inbaect to this pro
vision, that where • is-rind of five years from the original
registration of any bill of sale has expired before the lot
of January, 1867, such bill of sale shall be valid to all
intents and purposes so it would have been if this Act
had not passed, if before that day such registration be
renewed. In other worda, any bill of sale that has been
registered for more than five yawls may be renevred by
registratioa before the let of January neat. For the
purpose of such hineeral, an affidavit most be filed in
the Master's Office of the Court of Queen's Bench,
stating the date of such bill of eel., and the names, reai.
dencea, and occupations of the respective parties thereto
as stated therein, and also the date of registration, and
that such bill of aide is still a subsisting aesurity; and
such affidavit to have • 5.. stamp. The set loather
directs ibat the masters shall keep one bodii in 'which all
bills of sale and renewals shall be registered, and which
may be searched on the payment of • fee nib, for every
search as against one person, and office espies of affidavits
are to be supplied for the mane fee. Affidavits may he
sworn before masters of the Queen's Bench, This Un-
portant Act requires immediate attantion.—Law Times.

A VISIT TO • MODEL F•lllL—Proframor Buck.
man's farm, at Bradford Abhas, Ls for the most part
situate On • geological formation upon which there
has been considerable discutsion amongst some of the
leading geologists. At the top of the upper lies and hay.
ing •ciperintpoeed the freestones of the inferior oolite is
• bed of sand, in Gloucestershiee, about sixty feet in
thickness, in Dorset more than double that—this A is
contended by some should he considered as part of the
upper lias, while others place it as pert of the inferior
oolits rook. The Professor then can occopy himself in
cultivating even more intimate acquaintance with this
thick deposit:while he is cultivating his crop,. The
farm, as we have said, is mostly situate on these sand
deposits, on which the soil is a sandy loam—there are,
I however, occasional patches of inferior ooltte, and here
I the land is a stnnebrash--"Stonerash" of the district.—
The whole land, though not visited by the dint drift, is
strewn with dint cores, shipping, of dints (dint Baku),
dint implements—such as Celts, arrow-heads, scraping
implements—praloT of the Frenelt,- -and knives and
tools of various kinds, of which the Professor in his
farming has gradually collected • most interesting seriea,
which be has laid before the members of the Areboolo.
girls' Institute. This earlier occupation has been suc-
ceeded by that of the Roman Conqueror, as remains of
that date 'save likewise been obtained front different
Places on the farm and inquiries upon thee. matter,
are still progressing. In reference to the farming we
would say that It has been marvelously altered for so
shorts time as three years ; coach, thi.tles, and weeds
of all dessriptions—which, certainly, when the Professor
entered on the farm reined daily to rise up as if in
revenge for his having written so niuch about them,
—ore rapidly diminishing. Each year about If ty acres
is cultivated by steam • foot deep, and the so soled
clover sick soil yields doe clover crops. The bittieys are
remsrkable for quality and in the late awkward season
were all harvested before the bad weather, a result
obtained by thinner seeding, and sovriag as early as
'towable. It would appear that on this farm every crop
becomes soil were the subj•ct of experiment, iiiasinuch
as each field is cultivated according to its condition stud
cireumstancim, the time of seising, the quantity of the
seed cows, and the results are all noted in a book, and
so in 1866 the different Aside cropped with barley were