The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-05-04 00:00:00

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" Akita ant) fitckerc"

Oh, sir Iwe can banish all our fears. When Queen
Victoria sent for Lord Harlin/MN In 'Here we
turned • P••••ffe stamp upside-down. On earning
that two noble lords had been called to the *see, we
stuck • stamp all askew, but when the greatest of all
living Englishmen went (amid stout cheers and strug-
gling crowds which swayed up to the very palace
gates) to kiss the Royal hand, and to be received as
first of all Englishmen, we flung our heels into the air
—or our slipper heels rather—and after • mighty
cheer, the reflex action of which well-nigh burst our
chair, we hastened to kiss the former indignities off
the Roza head, and lifted it with many repentant
sighs, right aide up, te the very crown of the envelope.
Here in this outlandish place we are delirious with
delight, so that in our dreams we cry "Long live our
Queen and Premier," may the right and the konoltrable
WILLIAM EMART ULAIMITONI, who has dished the
whigs, thrashed the Tories, and sent the Rads raring,
soon prove to Her most gracious Majesty the Royalty
of doing right come what there may, and above all of
saying what you mean till the country means what
you say. Good bye, Beaky, with thy beer and thy
blood, even to thee we cannot be severe, but wish thee
joy of thy farming, at Hughenden.
We know a firm of engineers who are making
machines, int* which a sheep is put at one end which
comes out as cakes of blood-manure at the other.
They are for Australian use, and their squeeze is
slupendous. We recommend the above manure to the
supporting farmers of the late administration. " Will
they kill the sheep first?' Oh, yes, ma'am. Did you
anticipate that they could do so nftenecrdaf It is
hardly needful to add that the farmers take care to
shear the sheep before granting them the fate of the
soldiers... . . .

BLANDFORD.
o FARMING CANNOT PAY UNDER PRESENT
CIROU )(STANCES '
tar,oussor _ BocionO lectured on Saturdoy week before
iniut yes,/ the Blandford.Farmers' Club, at the Crown
moo. Mr. float Wal chairman.
aid be was opening a subject for dia.
_.....i1b.4614Wri1wi be laid it down as aproposition that farming,
et-P '.rime et drew:nehmen, will not pay, and elthoujb
"uh. be corrected, he thought he would
.aa,t,; lebi ale be
e elln t
_I to
indeed who would endeavour to show
".ar'a- C. 's
considered the subject under the heads
j ;
3, labour; 4, o's bills ; and 6
lonise com,
L nee: IC
petitio'elsen All knew rent had 'ensue enormously.
.
Farming is s
very pleasant occupation and it was because
LO engage In forming that they had fouad
rimoess--iv sy 'e's in difficulty ; for the competition for farms had
them y for them. Now and then, with
.6E6 '5;11 acres they he considered it desirable
Palls, will: llwo or three
hadjoiningu fieldTaisaTrocLabectedausepirtattbeys
wartii2lllFttlZurtrerl up. They
been the bawling* of
tour or six per cent to pity on the
tb. "Sarithele end
theeeele lated th'Y paid one-half of the met
deassijelere: ehu"7ldeinii. - What followed taxation,
POI only because they hull witted to their woo and build.
ieg., hot becalms farmers wars the assil:l going race
mai the world. What did the tax -makers Lama ers r.e) ,
that di re is nothing Do easy as to eel, t , axes out f furwors.
,A rates, and all the new taxes come
on the farmer ; for whdra a private person paid on
And
r 25 £lO the farmer had to pay on SSW. And at the
premnt time he had to see that • boy who had not lei n
toe allowed tOOO at school did not hold he horse, or he
would hi liehle to • 106. line. He thought that if there
own any °Monroe under the Schools' Act the overseer.
should look after the cutter and be paid the same salary
that the overseers now get. (L,ughter.) With increase
of rent came increase of taxation-very moderate at first,
bat when they found the farmer would hear it, they put
on locoweed tarat on. t. Labour. He knew since be had
c mmenced farming labour had increased IZ per cent in
price, and that was not the worst of it. Men had been
taught by designing individual•-some of whom had got
Into Parliament whilst others had failed-that the land
belonged to the labour, r. The labourer got as much money
as tiomilie out of farmers, and gave as little as pomittle in
return, end when there is nothing to do John t•kee
rheumatism and goes on the pariah. The farmers Pad got
Into a coll-it was nothing but "paying." For all faro
work the cost is as nearly a. possible double; they have
to pay to ler the Ishour then they did, and it wee net
so godas it tint dti N condor Moo load ageleul-
toral (harem., oith al th, s • t.itiot orewitg upon them
Then there were teeth-m.ll'a bill.-•he blacksmith could
not shoe their lo r os at the sonic prim as hefore, "heearme
iron WIN ou much demi r.' The t ailways charged far more
than they used for c ; exp-nie. wi re iiterria.ine in
every direction, ohilst the farm cro;• *era tilt only scan-
tier, but the perces they produced were I.rwer than in
fe.mee year". Ant this brought him co.- the aubject
fereau competition. 11-retuning with corn, it had roe run
into bolt ir and cheese and meat. With all these hostile
thing. to Copt, nd ierti tar, bow can farming pay? Could
any f them onake hilt wheat pay I Ile thought they
could not grow wheat at lee. thito LEI an acre, and what
did they get for it this year /-113 at the u•moit. He was
elite are in Vie bar year it we ie n t every tody lb it got
Lit (Ileer, hear). To. y lathed bad season., hot did they
believe hod seasons had done all the mischief P-it wart
only thia little isomer that brought thing. to • climax.
With .11 their ability and all their manures they could not
inCreited the fertility ..I the ; for a GOP, pe li•ps they
might, but it wan only at heir own mot, awl bow were
they to pay 'or al There Wes time Wert: triteerell were
nothing more than waste profile. the r -fuse left after
zing mit the commodity. They bought what was
not in the soil. and their CT..p to dt it net: they had been
pay jig for thus increasiag tho powers 'I the roll, which
we, triune poorer and p gofer every day. If they got
pr out .4 the sod they aid not leave future profit ;
lute the gr 'were of t doom in Virginia, they erotil I Ifni
the ...nip. 'shrouding the ;boil, on.' would hot Ire able to
c intinue. lto, for one, did nit fear competttioa as Pomo
did, tote, warn as the foreigner gut into having to mentos
tor every Cr ip, he would find competition with us does
not pay Fermiers cirre inclined to ore -eatisna 0 the
cola. of their mops; they must not expect too mileh out
of mote. though the growth ot them we. a very good ear
of preparing for • corn crop; but wheat and bsrley dot
not pay, int we were eettiog so clever that we wero going
to man teor without barley. The farmer'e frieuois bad
,fiereo but pieta) of infoli-e, OW. silge...tion was that Le
oh xto e I T ,eeoli, an.•ttier that b. should Iron- sorrow
Mori. and eurranta-" real latu." (Laughter ) But did
they tomi ler the expense of those crop*? Why, it would
take four er nye ye•rx to Inane (rut „amen, and suppoe-
Mg all Dorwthare av re to grow fruit, there would soon
be a glut in the market, and their pendiae would be
spilt After all, nothing_ had been done to beat the
ok "Four post" 'Nem. He did not know it would not
be better at times to have a fallow (although they were
told Nature abhors • vacuum). Toey bad been going
too font; they hrl Noise mere ront-tuakiog machine.;
they had overostiouated the value of heir root
had In-en inking experim-nts on some f oty
Plots with ddierest seeds aid ouenurer. and one result,
which would pololdy surmise theta, en. that nine of
them toils • ere (quad to i• intelm instead of the feeding
stud, they dem.- i, trona TS to 90 ger rent, of water. Did
they boo. toe teurnee they were put to to grow that
am sot of oato I lust year there was no hay worth
lodise, but they gave roots to "toll down" the boy;
they had Irwin trying to "toll down" the wont hay they
ever made with 90 per Prot of water, and what bat it
mon to? (A v 'ice: Flukes ii Quite true. If Inaldlel
coal he sold 'if the farm at • ton, it might
pry, hut he dould put down their value a, 6.. &spewing
in thotir, the Pr.feuir paid that he should now be Riad
to hear shy ohs disprove It.. omeitiou that farming can-
not pay deter present c roonstancee. 'rhos circum•
duces Cr., not due to the last two seasons ; the
&loosest Leal limn coming on for year.. Lind had been
decrrottue 112 v .I,p, and locreasiag in price: Menefee were
we half 6, good as they need to be; labour was increased
In tetes and deteriorated in otiallty. It most all come
dora: rest must come down ; the incidence of taxation
eagle careened ; labour, if not lees in prim, must be
seek bettor; and tradesmen must be content with the
MAUI* bail before. (APPlatlott
Ftown raid one part of the suldect had been left
olt-the loodine of sheep and tattle. Rethought sheep
likely to pay in this country. Least year was a very bad
te`rok, and eheat and barley were sent over to oonipeta
'"tt its hot- tit y grew (be himself sold foreign barley),
bet h. thought the time very far distant when *lock would
sent neiq to this country.
)Lr. RlCallse said no doubt the Americans could said
over wheat to I quantities: but they would
"id boy sheep, and therefore English fanners should
roo.• atiention to their flock.. In the neighbourhood
of New Yea '-owe of the soils were said to be complet•lr
nhoi.P.,,i ly c.,,r pier wheat. Whether they were taking
are of the or snore of the city, or following our silly
ri-tite of pittline it in to the Thames, he knew not
fore an Act of Parliament affecting the asrlculturis•s
rem pasaed such bodies MI Chambers of Aericulture and
Ferro-r-. s should have an opportunity of discussing
it. (Applairse.)
Ilr. GALPIN Kidd farmers were considered very much
lehindhand, and it was raid they did not get all they
coll.l out ot the land ; lett here was • man of science, who
had brought hic rich ntlfie knowledge to bear on (rainier,
aaa who toll them with all their ability and capital
b:ought tit hese on f Armin; it did not pay. The 0144"."r
said bey paid tl.eir taxa willingly; now he didn't think
the d'''-(l'"lfilit'lY-the matter of rent 1141 in their o•is
bands bit ratea were forced upon them continually, and
if they c• t . rettiilaion in one particular there was soon
another addition. Kererrinx to • speaker who had re.
commended that Act. of Parliament shout Ibe discussed It is stated that • number of speculative inhabitants,
hshicetheY were piseed,lllr. Galpio obserceelthat what wee of which landlords form a large majority, have been
mint •:s that the Bills should tor discussed. But that rather too lavish during the late election, and are
evrertir what farmers did. They diecuesed Acts after
the mocuief was alone Ile thoi.ght the placing of the beginning to despair of ever seeing their enormous
daturopike I rids an unjust thine. He m.intesined, outlays made 'square." At any rate an unfortunate
"were% that Ile fertility of the soil had been iccre•sed, admirer of the ex-Premier finds himself minus about
sbelieve ~1 'hot in inure. were better than ever, and he did not ES, all through an unlucky speculation. Not relishing
D. y p more f. r tin m. that the meeting of the "Pet lambs" should be held
DoIIIILII tilt not think Professor Buchman had up to public ridicule, he determined to have • quiet
attitgerwed lb. ewe. Ho bad tried tho four-curie bit of fun over it, even if it should cast ES, for id ,•or, we rather doubtful a hetlier it was the hest course there was no doubt of his being re-paid. Happy
lily • m not the best for that locality, because idea. Off he darts with it to the Ulan of law to whom
they mist k,ep • liege lock of sheep, and, if so, thylittle scheme was unfolded. " You see, sir
could not follow the four-course shift, and grow wheat the pretty
alter ley. With regard t rent. some roar. ago his friends that this little affair will entail a slight outlay, but
oneid•red themselves fortunate in getting In the first six suppose, sir, you'll see thiws 'square.' "", I
oh, of
In the eintpetition for • farm, and naturally the land- course, of course, my good man, that'll be right
,ad ghillie such • tick put • little more rent on. In enough." Bo far, el good. When the stars began to
nl''tt I cahty, however, landlords bad meetly given beck blink, a snow-white lamb was profusely decorated
oievict, which was a practical proof of their sympathy.
with the Tory favours, and, escorted by a number of
Ur. Etats thought the manures to-day were het
thirsty creatures, the streets were perambulated. But
_
man those of former years. - ter the " pretty creatures" must drink, or as they were
Mr. June Poop said last year was the worst bobs' seen pleased to term it, have a "liquor up" on the strength
°trios hi, eXperi..llol, and he hoped the fresh Govern. of it. To satisfy the cravings of thirst, the bearer a Anent would im able to do something for them. thneLmirvlamb (and unfortunately
reco
nre to his
ofthepriteeveapenapeum) finds It Kt. L. H. Rogue, who was called upon to my a few w have
atfur, endorsed what has been said in regard to the
Present ow state of agriculture, and hoped bettor days what signi- 6es that? After the lapse of • few days.
*err n.`ltore for them, when a respectable hole had been knocked into time ts,
Th. GUAlknan considered the eul,j-,ct a.tvutierytitemnpoortaat
thy,
intt olto and on, •hich should occupy the
m"n,btro. a great deal inure than Perhaps it did. He hid eprosipjectpearatioofnthfoer eethbeemme'onerunniy. 'nt'alustelat-led,ranaitor,
about that little affair, you know, sir, only spent .C 5.
hot touch faith in the House of Commons doing anything " Well, my good Man, what is it to me how much you
for them; cull there might be given to them &share in the ImPteseutation of the country, eCi th it they mi ht be in a =44:,.
Potwhilethion.,tt I Xeriff. 110,011 Ca./atrol.lv-71. .oseltr ate• • ith " But didn't you soy it would be all right ?
that was • little legacy I lent." " Oh, I can't
he ittiV'uldv,e•e no • burdened. The Maoism of r.nts bothered
to CnroMercial men belooging to towns Four 110.111rhairsb::uthatt legaudasoto
me'?" yo,olviustlike
,tosthaispentr!
toic*lagln•M turwl permits not ficul she It or a en "Look here, governor, if you don't decamp .
out o. .., M.-. e
legitii."7"uro, ahcl thoreby takin. tne Wad riot ot the Tabreau " Decompment and collapse." Morel:
agrimiltoriets' hands. He thought the land Cettily your hare before you cook ought I. .t th, farmers at n•• t r •nt the loodi,,rd to 1
t,Par_al, I prom •etlve rate.. endorse' d the remark. of '
itear:orinxttailtr.deetnee's bills had almost doubled haOperati"
f.ar.forarmtheenced.erectioonn omit
lo ear they mud. have • reduction of Monday
Inewmiondronntschurtre
affit eve, tgl ;we cent tbei t doubt to Pr°oool of levelling was Peooeodid with, and the ling
ea
ene--eari,atteinetWll,lcont itur repenti'tion- -froe-mbricosei--lbocit;yet as
week, t the fwoundhenaton:lll be completed comin plreadietednessat tbLencLto. 41,hcto
in r. emotive., roo,o et,vir than any other e unty
.n.,lhietywoulithb, e for their neat to breed as "Christ'. Church," which will bathe only iron built!'
to logo, AlO Psi* yco ill. They whould require log in this district. The frontage
hada,. he,,,re We for wheat, an Itg per woe fir road as at lint anticipated, but the situation secured is
will net adjoin the
knew they had hoetytc:lbei "tura a and lb' y all a pretty and a healthy one. The whole will probably
D did
i.ed the hellof that this year.
bed
be completed, and in readiness for divine womb? by
laatelleduisth
_IIA4 per csonott,laildik it awtasth:tige.P.rast'Lnalvel.lbirosil matter the- end of nest mouth or the beginning of UDC
iag
_lO be eteeeet empeemtakes into memo when oassiosr. =e;tty to the ethane," and Rai an laws/
eoe.
soon follow.

--(Tn—friday night, at half-past ten, a bus proprietor
went into • Red Lion. Some correspondence about
" thik dog" bad excited the driving fraternity. An
altercation ensued. One cams in, accompanied by a
js:magistrate's coachman, evidently the beat kind of
. The scene changed to the exterior of the gory
royal beast. Words parsed, and blows and kirb.,
and the Bench will now be called upon to adjudicate.
"Thik dog" was at the bottom it (we hope it was
not squashed), and Mr. Harris will oblige the town-
ship and its policeman (who was not, we believe,
present on this interesting occasion) by fetching the
creature away before quiet Swanage becomes an
Afghanistan.
Thik dog" was not injured either in the fracas or
by its perambulation of the wilds of Purbeck. We
are told that a gentleman captured the creature at
Worth on the Saturday, and we are assured on fancier
authority that the terrier is still worth 220. If it has
been running wild at St. Aldhelnee Head during the
last fortnight, we can account for the animal's present
condition, only on the supposition that the Manches-
ter terrier has killed and eaten our missing Kiddie.
The S.S.Sunshine brought a nice lot of truants from
Bourne on Sunday afternoon lam. When they left
they did not appear over thirsty. They were taken
beck in time for church. We congratulate Bourne-
mouth on its freedom for three hours from such pious
pilgrims. Our publican shrines brAr that the attempt
be repeated three times a day. The Mission Church
people were surely short of tracts. We will hand the
surplus to the "Apron subscription" over to them far
such laudable purposes. " "Tis an wind which
blows nobody good.'
Lucie.