The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-20 00:00:00

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In • oountv, with • elimate so mill that the furgg Ii
neverout of bloom, the following rode linee,knocked out
with • hammer in. geological excuraion, may not be
unwelcome :

When the Faroe is out o' bloom,
Then hissing's out o' tune--
Which I hope will nut be soon,
Pretty Forty oh.
Fur though the Forte has pricks,
And kissing both its tricks,
Yet good and bad we mix,
Like the Fumy oh.
Then in this world of ours,
As we lois • upon Lose's fl.,wen,
Let us pray .to have the powers,
Of the Furs? oh.
Which shine. upon the void,
'rho' all around be oold.
And blooms howeser
Yellow Puny oh.
STONI-BRIAXER.

agriculture.
THE CAITLE PLAGUE.
Plague in Great Britain, published by authority of the
The Weekly Intern of the reported mass of Cattle
Lords of the Privy Council, for the week ending Enter!
day, November 10, contains the following statement
"Fire &Meeks of cattle plague are reported to have !011.
mined in Great Britain during the week ending
November 10, being an increase of three on the Mare
for the week preoeding. Fresh outbreaks took pleas
in three farms or places where cattle are kept Ohs
number that appeared in the lase return wee one. you
healthy cattle were nlaughtered during the week from
having bees in Doane* diseased The
cases reported are for the following three Petty Berland
divisiors of England, els. :—Chrohire—Nerwich, toe
attack ; Yorkshire, Wes* ItAing—Tedamter, Wee.
Misty, two; Yorkshire, Ernst Riding--flouth Holds:nem
two. No oases of cattle plague In sheep have been
returned during the week; the total number reported
es having been attacked up to the date al this return is
8,828. The mean temperature of the week at the Royal
Obeervatory, Greenivrieb, was 48.4 deg., or 3.2 deg.
above the average of the gime period during MI years.
Rain fell to the amount of 0 92 inch daring the week,
end the maim degree of humidity of the air was 87,,
complete saturation being represented by 100. The
general direction of the wind WWI Notith-wert."
The Gasette of Friday night contains an Order of the
Privy Council, dated Whitehall, Nov. 13, setting forth
that it is expedient that provisions should be made for
exhibition of .at stock intended for immediate slaughter,
end ordering as follows:—" 1. From and after the 15th
day ef November, 1888, exhibitions of fat nook intended
for xlaruch•er immediately after slosh inhibition may be
held in any county in England and Wales, with the
licence of the Lords of the said Council provided that
no such licence shall be granted unless, their lordships
als .11 be satisfied that no came of cattle plague hae
occurred within ten miles of the town or place at which
such exibition is to be held, within one calendar month
prior to the date of such licence, nor unless the exhibi-
tion is to be hell at a distance exceeding ten mile.
from any place declared to be infected according to the
proviaions of the Order of the 24th day of March lest,
and that such haunts shall be tall and void if w any
time exereding 48 hours, previous to the holding of the
maid exhibition cattle plague shall break out within tan
miles of the place where sulk exhibitioe is to he held.
2. Any cattle exhibited at any exhibition held under
this Order must be slaughtered within the town or
place wherein such exhibition La held, and within four
days afWr the close of the exhibition ; and if nay ease
of cattle plague "hal occur to any of the animals within
such exhibition, all the animals within such exhibition
shall be immedia.ely slaughtered, but there shall be no
claim for any compensation either on the local authority
or the Government. 3. Provided that nothing herein
contained shall effect env Insure already granted by the
Privy Council for any market for the sale of animas for
Immediate slaughter. 4. The words herein **stained
ihall be construed is in the said order of the 21tis day of
March last, and all the proviaions therein sontained
relative to the offenws for the contravention thereof,
and the penalty for the same, and otherwise, now Is
force, and the provisions of the said Order in lewd to
the powers of °Marrs employed under that Order, shall
apply to the regulations oontsiined in this Order and
the enforcing of the same, and to the officers employed
under it."