. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. tractive shipment-Some Dorset sheep were also on board. Before the Huntingdonshire magistrates atNorman Cross, last week, a gamekeeper namedAlbert Smith, on the Holme Estates, with placing poison near certain famouscovers in the Fitzwhliam Hunt country with theobject of destroying life. Evidence was giventhat foxes, dogs, and cats had been destroyed bystrychnine on defendants beat. He strenuouslydenied the use of poison, but was fined £10 and£20 lis. costs. Strange Death of a Labourer.—The death ofThomas West wood, farm labourer, wa
. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. tractive shipment-Some Dorset sheep were also on board. Before the Huntingdonshire magistrates atNorman Cross, last week, a gamekeeper namedAlbert Smith, on the Holme Estates, with placing poison near certain famouscovers in the Fitzwhliam Hunt country with theobject of destroying life. Evidence was giventhat foxes, dogs, and cats had been destroyed bystrychnine on defendants beat. He strenuouslydenied the use of poison, but was fined £10 and£20 lis. costs. Strange Death of a Labourer.—The death ofThomas West wood, farm labourer, was reportedrecently to the North Worcestershire coroner ashaving Occurred at Halesowen under singular cir-cumstances. He was overcome by the beat w henworking in a haytield, and fell off a wagon and in-jured his neck. While he lay in hed a thunder-storm occurred. The lightning coming throughthe bedroom window, it was said, startled in turning over his neck was heard to crack,and he died immediately. 83 MARK LANE EXPRESS July 17, Notes and Jottings, To the cattle breeder or owner, whether he bea breeder simply of young stock to be sold whilstin their growing state, to mature either for thedairy or the block in other hands, whether hebreeds and finishes them on his farms, the monthof July is one that on the average gives lesssatisfaction than any other month of the speaking, July is a month in whichvegetation is either rampant and outgrowing allneeds, or otherwise the land is dry and parched,feed scarce, flies terribly troublesome, and yourFeeders and milkers losing flesh and milk beforeyour eyes in a very rapid fashion. Young stock,too, in a time of short feed, lose badly, andIncrease in legginess, and often give a good dealof trouble one way or another. This year, over a very large portion of Eng-land, also Ireland and Wales, the latter conditionas regards feed prevails this year. Grass is veryshort in most cases, the weather is excessivelyhot,
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