Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-08-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR HAMPSHIRE.—The wheat crop must he reported under the average and of inferior quality as a whole in this county, with a very limited acreage grown. Barley, which in the early part of July promised a most prodigious crop, has also suffered most severely from the effect of heavy rains, is now laid and twisted in a most unusnal manner, so much so that a plump sample of grain fit for malting purposes is out of the ques tion, more particularly after high cultivation where roots were fed off with sheep eating hay, fake, ay.c., and so luxuriant is the crop generally that this remark applies equally on the hill farms and light soils, as on the vale farms and more fertile land. Oats an average crop. Beans of the winter variety are good, for where they are short in haulm they are well podded. Spring beans are, on the contrary, very irregular, and in only a few instances are likely to yield a fair crop, which upon the whole, can only be considered a bare average. Peas are, upon the whole, about an average crop. There is a probability of securing an average crop of sound potatoes, although many will he unfit for storing for winter use. Mangolds, swedes, turnips, carrots, cabbage, &c., are all very promising this year. The supplies of sheep at the early fairs have proved a full average, but as regards numbers and condition, the rise in price above last year is about lOs. per head, and this price certainly ought to be satisfactory both to buyers and sellers, there being every prospect of plenty of roots after grass, &c., and a strong probability of a good price for mutton in the winter and early spring in consequence of the scarcity of really fat animals. Cattle are selling fairly well, including milch cows, the latter being difficult to obtain of a good breed in this neighbourhood, and great caution is required in purchasing cattle at present, owing to the prevalence of foot and mouth disease, which during the past few weeks has spread greatly ni the southern division of the county, and we find great dissatisfaction prevailing in the minds of cattle breeders with regard to the orders in Council for its suppression, and for permitting its introduction into this country by foreign animals imported, and it is almost a universal opinion that unless our importations of fat animals are slaughtered at the port of landing, and store animals undergo fourteen days' quarantine, we cannot hope to be again free of thefoot and mouth disease, and that under present arrangements the losses directly and indirectly on our home-bred stock nearly or quite equal the value of our foreign importations.—JOSEPH BLUNDELL, Southampton, August 17, 1h75.  ALLEGED MURDER OF A GIRL IN SUFFOLKI  Fanny Pleasant Clarke, a young woman employed as a domestic servant at Brantham, went home mortally wounded on the night of Sunday week. Before the Suffolk coroner evidence was given tending to implicate Frederick Ernest Page, a young man who had been associating with the deceased, in her murder, and the jury having returned a verdict agairuit him, he was committed for trial on the coroner's warrant