The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1865-08-22 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

NEW AND CHEAP WAY TO MAKI BUTTER.—It in • common practice in Normandy, says the Journal of the Society of Arts, to bury the cream in the ground, in order to convert it into butter. The principle we will not pretend to elucidate, but the fact is that cream placed in a moderately thick linen bag, which is carefully secured end buried some eighteen inches deep for four-and-twenty hours, undergoes ouch a change that it only requires a little beating with a mallet to separate the butter milk ; and there it is, excellent butter, and more of it than any amount of churning could get out of the same quantity of cream. When the ground is frozen, the cream bag is taken into a cellar and buried in sand. The bag of cream must be thick enough to keep out any earthy flavour; to prevent the chance of this some people use a second bag. More time is needed if the mass of cream is very large; and in all cases, after the beating, a glass of cold water is thrown into the butter, which makes the buttermilk separate entirely. Sswerel Isiah papers mentioe, thia method. as very valuable for small farmers on account of the scarcity of labour. B.oend Inigny, near Carentou. in the Cotentin—the district which chiefly supplies the Paris restanranta—the land is very much divided. You constantly see bonhoinme Jaques and his wife at work In the field, with the baby lying under the hedge; the butter, of course, making Aiwa meanwhile. Without this contrivance, these senituen in purrs farmers could not get on at all. The fabulous price it fetches in Paris testifies to the goodneea of the produce. If the other system is to last in Ireland, the hint will be of great value to many to whom " the butter" is now the plague of their lives.  Sporting.  TAB Melbourne papers announce the death of the celebrated Fisherman, one of the best horses ever exported to New South Wales. Tat FIGHT roe Tan CHAMPIONSHIP, with £2OO a-side, is to take place on Wednesday, November I. The oompetitors for the honour of the belt and the more substantial money prise are WJrniald and Zoe (the present champion), two men who are already well known to the sporting world by their pugilistic encounters. We are sorry to learn that the cattle plague has broken out with considerable virulence near fihepton Mallet.  LARGE quantities of diseased meat were on Monday oondemned by the magistrates at the Clerkenwell and Thames police-courts. • •• • ••  struck  of Van.:  A  long in  used s the sod  Till TRIPLE idunnun.—lt has been found that the three children lately murdered in London were poisoned by prussic acid. It is said that a private subscription started with view to a memorial to Mrs. Cobden, without a single appeal to the public or to strangers, now exceeds £27,000. FOUNDEBING OF THE A I : LOSS or THIRTEEN Lives —On April 20, when in lat. 10 8, long. 88 E., • cyclone struck the ship, at 9.80 am., throwing her on her beau ends, and blowing away all the sails. She became unmanageable, and at noon went down carrying with her 13 of the crew and officers. The muter, Captain Potter and two seamen got neon a piece of the wreck, and remised there until May 6, when they were taken away by the barque Silvoreraig, of Liverpool, and landed at Batavia on the 17th. They had no covering but what they stood in, and nothing to eat all the time. THE DOCHlES.—Anstria and Prussia have come to an agreement in regard to the Datchies and the un— intelligible Selleswig- Holstein question becomes intelligible at last. Prussia wanted the duchies, and allowed Germany, alter her wont, to weary herself with learned and profound discussions whirl only plunged the subject into deeper darkness, in order to gain a pretext for attacking them. Austria joined Prussia, barque° she did not want Prussia to lead the confederation; and now allows Prange to do Fissile likes, because the Italian and other d fficulties won't allow her to go to war. Denmark has been ukinstly despoiled of her territory; but Oermany is none tha gainer. Prussia alone gains, at which Austria thoubli forced to be an inactive spectator must be horribly jealous. But Prussia's Nemesis may also be near. Twig