The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-26 00:00:00

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fir.u.L-Fniro.—" I should have saki you would be
more humane," observed a London friend to 55" than
to shut up your cows. I could not have believed you
would be so cruel." A few theta' conversetioe made
a wonderful differencein This benevolent ledfil ho'
premions. She was a thorough Loinimer, and imew
noddle of cow Mites sad habits. With the °Winery
human tendency to fetishism she regarded sow life from
her own point of view, arid pitied my Maggie and Aibde
for not seeing the lovely landscape as they lay rumina-
ting. The arznenent may be thorny given. Grunfleg
that the somilled " lateral condition" al minion Is the
happiest—which may not be true in the quadruped any
more than the human sass—it to inipmethis M this time •
of day to put our domestic cattle under the moddiens
of the primitive life of their ram. When they named
our island wild they could shelter themselves from the
, noonday heat in the forest and secepethe eke by=
into the water; whereas, when ones eows are
ceded, there is an end of forest &ads and of mouse to
lakes and river.; and the question is whether something
better is not AM. Taking the winter into the nue-a
tion, there can be no doubt about the matter.
cows were slaughtered in asthma and Nailed down for
winter food in old times became there were no meas.
of feeding them during the interval between the late sad
early gram; and as for those which were spared the
slaughter, we know what their wildness from hanger wee
by the end of winter. The cows on a small farm for on
a large one either) cannot have open woods and waters
to resort to; and, if mint out to feed, have a hall-and
half sort of life, the superiority et which, to Mall.=
may be questionable. They ham neither the
nor the artificial proteMlon frees hest and dies, and
their condition is ess equable Rhea that of the idall-fed
cow. In high simmer they may be very fat and sleek,
—too fat to be perfect milkers; bet is wady wring they
are meagre, and half dry, when the stall-fed
animals are =4as sleek and prosperous as at any
other season.—thiee a Week.

Faun Diarsiin.—A very curious and deetrastive
disease has lately appeared amend' podium' and
nectarines, which deserves a sheet nodes. It amairred
in a bode where vines are atisebed to the Win
strawberries are cultivated on shelves, and pewit
rectarine trees are attached to trellises at the bask of
the house and immediately under the vises. The home
is old. The vine* have never been parththitrill_healt;
as they were planted far too deep on the °MOW ;
peach and nectarine tress on fibs eanthary an planted
inside, and for the last 30 years have theeesded pniity
well, with °maximal traces of mildew, but have never
before exhibited the curious apposing= which is DOW
prevalent. Nearly a month slams on the peaches little
dark specks appeared with • blseched eentre. A few
days ago the specks were prevalent ea the andthise se
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well on the peaches, on either trete many of them
bad become more developed. Prom the OIDDZDOID of the
skin and the theence of vehemence, the.prsas was
more evident in the nectarine, though therewas no
essential difference on the peach. The white erimant
were dark ring round it W most beinalifelly
seated in the centre of a regular aissuiar detreseien, the
borders of which were pale, but not completely biseelied
like the centre. The whole surface of the
was studded with little salmon-ookeired warts,
more or less in Girths, from the mired someciw
but especially of those in the bleached cidiale, a bid;
purled tendril of salmon coloured vase issued, giving
a very pretty appearance even to the nailed ed. On
taking off a thin slice, the portion of the stsoulent
titans of the fruit immediately beneath the bleached
cuticle was white, and the discoloarettoe was tradable
down to the stone. On examination under the micro-
scope the whole was found to be threaded with abundant
fungus-spawn of very different degrees of eneness.
After a time, the several spots ran together, and formed
a depression an inch or more acroes,stal teeming with the
red spores, but void of every trace of former beauty.
The spawn in this Game had spread in every direction,
and had induced thorough decomposition. As this
growth of this fungus is internal, beneath the skin, it
is very evident that no external remedy ie likely to be
of service, nor indeed can we suggest any palliative.
We should however be glad to know whether the
disease has appeared elsewhere, and whether it exists in
Louses where there are no vines, or in orchard houses.
—11.J.8. in Gardeners' Chronicle.