The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-08-20 00:00:00

Borsttsuut.

Tan Hniegar.—Harvest operaitom have sommeand
In Dorset, and prospeott arlipotuadered'favoureble, to
withatandiag the thongs done by the heavy storms.
Barley sopping/1y Is looking well. Reapiog oy ineobiosory
I. adopted somewhat exteumnly. Maw, el the new
machines bettedand 50th. roma show of the Bath
and Week of gaglaad Society at llorobeetar may mow
be seen e.b us. In many eases tabooing' wages have
been adnaoad. The potato crop is reported nada
I diseased, and fruit is gaierally • Lubin.
00ilarnalt TO TOO Mean Cotten Pll5OO.
Hard Loess Elias Adams, meauitiag pollee at
Blaodford, and Necklet* &hews, steeling Umber, ho.,
at Wimbants. 1 month ; John Thompeoe, vogresioy 50
Lyme Regis, 14 days.—/nprimegwat : John Grove*,
breach of the pease at Commutes, 5 mouths ;
Thorne, steabag • watch itud Juba at 8 :poop,
Headley, 2 mostbv, and An years to • Reforinetory
dohool ; Marin Wood, dieuederly 000duat to a beer.
house at Lyme Regis, 1 month.
Arra...LAW, Or CROPS IS DOUSE—Yr. A Damon,
' desorlixe wheat and barley to &nue., strops ; oat.,
root swops, and bey, over evara,:e. Protean.. ductemen,
Bradford Abbas, says—Wheat, barley, and been,
averege ; olds and bay, above av-rege ; pen below
ave..g. • root mops late. Mr. J. Ford, 110.0 w..,
wiltes—darley, oats, aid bay, over annoy.; cheat,
end peas, avenge; root mope very prouitstog. Mr.
Reny Peeks, Whsteaburoh, Woodford, says— WM.',
barely ea avenge, barley aoi oats, avers.; beam
sad peas, geed *rep. Mr. J. Pope, By, mondsbury, says
—Of heat and bean, avenge ; berin, oata,peetaroolt aroma.
and hay, over avenge. Mr. T. H. &misdate, Water.
combe, writes—Wheat sod peas, average; barley, over
avenges; root neve, very prosslaing ; nay, heavy crop
got up badly. Br. W. J. Pope, Godmeostese, says—
Wheat, under average; berley, ease, root crops, sad
bay, over overly*; beans and pea., average.
How Fool-AlinrifOOTa Daus. lassms DOSIOW.—
TVs einem I believe hae not left the Vale of Bleak-
moor for 'hi last three years or more, and now it rages
with greater vitalises taw iiver, and it is lodged • very
serious matter for dm fernier when his animals are
atteeked in the enguner, whoa they are in milk, and
wino the Unties meanies • mush more eeriOlte form. •
selghbour of Was peal his dalgman £lOO, two years
ago, to gone lase Weaned by Mug damn, out the, sum
was not the farmer's o.ly loss, as intimate slier beviog
had dile disease, are peoultarlyoubjeet toaiacirtion. Now
this suite of thiage is Monettt abut moat y by the
neghgeon or timidity of the Inn aathonties, who will
not interfere unless they see • very &sided ens of
disease; sad how Is it possible for • polio omen who
knows little at nes. had mash lass of their dieseLe, to
say whether animal, have toe foot-and-is Atilt Mannar
whether the dropping of their saliva Le broaght about
by being ont-drivenl In this vale we get Um Mecum
propagated often through young stock brought from
lensed, and which are sold in the Bristol market.
Through the whole of the past spring sod present sum-
mer there has seareely hessian &Maud broegot from tam
maoist ehicli gait not brought the seeds at tel. dosses.%
or to. donee tient, low this vale. A nuke dealer in
this immediate seighbourhood took 120 bead of wool'
from this market In April. has. bat foot-and-month
dimwit on them, sad a* they passed 'brutish the dm),
and grantor lands of the vale they infected many herds
oo the road' rata* gad my oeighbour's amongst them.
The mamas fell lame oa the rood *as eine the other,
and were lets I. form • nucleus of dimmed in each locality.
These animals foamed. ingaiped, mid were lam., bat
be polio* did not taterfisre until they Mil traverse I
the whole of the vale I believing (es the cattle.
&inlet sewed them) that they were footsore
and fountior at the mouth through being driven.
Tone Irish heifers ne brouhs over Inlern
numbers every yen, and taken from Bristol by heelers
to the small market teem, sprawling disease wherever
they go, mid all for the watt of • Little nominee of the
local authorities. Bat possibly the latter are not to
taame. &sowing the oritiad state of pubes opinloo
about any interferenee with trade, they are probably it
fear of toilette' the sore. Toes. saints may be free
from the damns when pat on board the vowels In
Ireland. Toe vessel" themselves ne probtltly the
warn from insane nine-tenths of the animal. an
Infected. The former ought to be disinfected previous
to taklog in a fresh freight of cattle, a id nen thut toe
wood would be so thoroughly icat-regoated with the
poison entsaating from the icetul orea h aud droppias.,
that I question if it volt at ell times be safe. 1 rei.ad
is became almost the only norm from wheelie many
farm*" in Ws 'tin geb 2-Year-oid ;peers in preforenoe
to bending—mime for want of nonionic*, for needle',
and other. through hollering they ciao bay obeaper
thus they eat rear then • And onto there are wnoy
farmers who bare • saperabitadane of straw to be
troddee laic. mason who buy from the seam spurn.
They buy II sumer and sell them the following •Ire,ng
with salves by their aide.. Tots really proves to be a
psying matter, as they boy tient at snout Cll or Ltd
sash, sad by tie aki of a 111th. Oiins aud osias mu,o in
winter make them worth, in 10 or 11 .oaths, from
£2O to OS sash. We sadly waist greater vigilanao on
the part of the Ina aothordise. illy deities lave had
it twigs daring the last two year*, bat h•ppdy oaly •
few whisk bad been litrly introdand hal it the snood
time; tone that suffered from the ice men of the
foam and breath el the dictated animals by their sides.
Geo. Swam, Mao Wale. Blanolford.