The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-11-17 00:00:00

SOW GOOD SEED WHEAT.

An move of fact is worth a pound of theory. Granted,
fallacy and all; though the fallacy must be noted in mail-
ing, thus : true theory is simple fact, collated, classified,
made ready for all future use; whereas good practice is
simply fact.
But here is our present fact, illustrating the money
value of good seed wheat. The price of wheat of good
quality is 10s. per quarter. The prim of Halletes pedigree
wheat is Ws. :iota here again of His. per quarter. Nor
I. this all. The average yield of the peat season does not,
probably, exceed four quarters per acre. The yield of
pedigree wheat was six quarters. Here is a gain of five
more pounds per acre.
The case stands thus : Common wheat, at average yield.
four quarters, at 1:2 per quarter, £l4; pedigree wheat, six
quarters, at ke 10a, .Cl 5 : balance in favour of pedigree
wheat ahead one-half, or £7 an acre. With such facts,
who can fail to Yee that the best seed wheat that can be
procured is the cbeapeet I A better illustration of the
monetary value of the persistent selection of the best,
that is, the fittest, iambi hardly be given. Truly, the
breeding of whoate may become as profitable as the herd-
ing of Shorthorns. A breed of level fast broad makers is
as much needed as one of beef makers; and in them pedi-
gree wheats we have taken long and decisive stem
towards short cuts to more bread in our wheats and more
money out of the land. - The Country.

INVENTION FOR CONSUMING SEWER GA&
Mr. T. Harding, of the firm of Colthurat and Harding,
Brisb.d., at bin residence at &nowt. was a good dealftroubled
by newer emanations, and after trying many means of
cure he has bit upon the following Am. Connected with
the main newer is a pipe tea inches in diameter, and at
the top of the pipe ia a ball, so fixed that it allows an
aperture of a quarter of an inch all round, though which
the sewer gas may escape from the pipe. Running up
outaide the large pipe is an ordinary gas pipe, and just
underneath the ball at the top of the sewer pipe a set of
burnem is so arranged that when lighted they make a
complete circle of fire. The ball prevents the sewer gas
from rising through the centre, and it cannot escape
through the flame, which entirely surrounds the aperture.
The consequence Is that the sewer gas mingles with the
ordinary gee, and is consumed,
_adding, it is said, greatly
to the brilliancy of the flame. The invention may he needy
applied to the public Minim, and we are informed that a
one-inch pipe may he used, and that the increase in the
Illuminating power that would be thus gained isenormous.
Another advantage is that the ball and the upper part of
the pipe quickly get intensely hot, and the heat draws the
foul air from the sewers, leaving them perfectly free. We
understand that private trials have been made with
the apparatus, and with very favourable insulin, the deo-
dorining power being most complete. Dr. Davis, the
medical officer of health, and other officials of the Sani-
tary Authority, have been called in to see the working of
the invention, and Apnea very highly of it. An applies-
tbm will be immediately made by the inventor for leave
to affix the epPliance to 2,1 of the public lamps in
Clif ton.