The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-09-28 00:00:00

WOODBURY-HILT, FAIR.

At this fair on Tuesday there were from 3,000 to
4,000 sheep penned, and a large number of buyers were
preeent. The trade ruled quiet, ercept for lambs,
which sold quite up te sellers' expectations, ordinary
making from 335. to 43t, some good ones were all
from 50s. to Me.. and one prime lot was sold at
these beim; much ailmirett Ewes, ordinary, 30e. to
421.; good, 455. to Ms., nearly all the lots being
disposed of. Yearling heifers, ato £6 each.
At the horse fair there was a good assortment of all
kinds. 0004:1 cart colts sold at from 25 to 60 guineas ;
hacks, 15 to 50 guineas.

At the corn market wheat was plentiftilly offered,
and good Quality ootild be bought at from 38s. LO 42e.
per qr. Malting Nudity, good quality wanted but
scarce, mostly ordinary samples showing. farmers
asked too high prices, which checked trade. Grinding
barley quiet; a good trade for winter oats, winter
barley, tares, and rye, which maintained fully late
Was.

The pleasure fair was well represented. considering
the unpleaaant morning, the shows. &c., being quite
U numerous se in previous years, and all seemed to be
he fairly well patronised, although the number of
pleasure-seekers would have been much larger had the
weather being more of a holiday character.

THE 008 T OF TREATING SEWAGE.
To Use liditor.

the scount of the proceedings of the Town
Connell of Dorchester. when the drainage question wu
considered reported in your Irene of the 7th lost, I notice
the Town Clerk, in replying to iuestlon put to him by
It V. Lock said as follows •.—" The Company ooly got
£1.5e0 at Coventry. where he should think there were
50041) people, yet at Dorchester they wanted £OOO • year
subsidy, escluive of the cost of pumping." As A mitt.,
of feet. the Rivers Purification Association, " Limited"
receives from the Corroration of Coventry £1,200 per
annum as • subsidy, being £7OO inure than the Town Clerk
lasted, Armin, the population of Coventry. instesd of
being 50,000, te given In the Local Goverment Directory
for the year MO se 37,0, but is usually reckoned at
40,000, as your readers may verify by studying my of the
works dealing with the sewage question, in which the
=employed at Coventry always proul oenti y figures.
rualosidy of 1:51.1190 at Coventry is exclusive of the cost
of pumping. for the sewage Bows by gravitation through
the works . . .

"At I:town of Ilertf ord this association receive. an
annual subsidy of R. 560. which la also exclusive of Damn.
by, os the emote here also flows by gravitation through
the work*. The population at Hertford is reckoned at a
trifle over 7,000, and I would h.re rem kk Oka this suheidy
has been twioo raised from .1358 to List and Will year to
.C 550
It is misleading to suppose that the sewage of • email
population can be dealt with for the same relative annual
costa. that of a very much larger one, as experience shows
that, eeterii jeribus, the smalka invariably misty more per
heed than the larger.
The subsidy of U:SO proposed for Dorchester which with
mare complete and accurate information might have been
modified, se the officers of the essodation had only the
statistics kindly furnished them by the Town Surveyor to
go
W, wee based on • population of 9,000, and it will there.
fore be found that it wee not such an exaggerated &eased
me Ur. Town Clerk's remarks would Imply.
The Corporation of the town of Hartford pays this
sesociation at this rate of about le 61. per bead of the
population, whit* is 'exclusive of the annual charge for
Interest on the outtal sunk in the works, ant this after
having had TO 7111111 antedate* of working the pleas them-
selves.
The Corporation of Coventry effected very large snnual
waving when they tranalikred the work of tr,ng their
newest! la this associetion.
The idea running damask the remarks made at the meet-
ing regarred to above. seems to be that the Corporation can
by awes occult mum do the work of treating their sewage
mare steads than tits emaciation wadi do for thsal,
To mopes. that the swami of Ttorehma be
uter
treated for a cswoh Wee anneal sum then that &aged by
this aseociation is a miatake aphids the exp.-rinks of the
rsi•Plifers will in time cornet —Toots (Wilfully,
DOCOLAI 4a2mimsLow.
Ditector.
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