Fannin(f of Dorsetshire. 
The Improvements still required are those which, with one or 
two exceptions, are general to almost all counties. To use the 
words of Mr. Pusey, speaking, at the Smithfield Club dinner, of 
agriculture generally, " There is a great deal of discovery to be 
made, and a great deal to be done for the diffusion of the dis- 
coveries to be made ; there are still large quantities of land to 
be drained ; there are a great many hedges to be removed or re- 
duced; and a great deal of couch to be rooted out." We may 
add to this — there is the good example of Mr. Sturt in providing 
cottage accommodation to be more extensively foUowed, and that 
not only for the comfort of the labourer, but for the advantage 
of the farmer ; for the want of cottages is at present in many 
parts of the county a crying evil. Tliere are the farm-buildings 
of Lord Portman, Lord Westminster, Lord Rivers, and others, to 
be copied ; there are restrictions as to cultivation to be removed. 
" If allowed," observes a leading tenant-farmer, who holds under 
a kind and indulgent landlord, and who therefore must have had 
the subject forced on his attention, or lie never would have 
pointed to it as an " improvement still required," — " if allowed 
lo vary our course and to sow two turnip crops in succession on 
l-3rd the land, it would insure keep for our stock, and by allowing 
barley after wheat we should get good malting barley," The best 
blood of the stocks of the best breeders, and the best rams of the 
best flockmasters, may be more extensively patronized. Judi- 
cious planting of coppices on steep acclivities, which at pi-esent 
afford little sustenance 'for sheep, but which, enclosed and 
trenched (without which any planting is labour lost), would 
grow good hazel and ash hurdles, might be adopted for the 
double advantage of profit and shelter. And in the vale the 
management of dry copses would be imi)roved by making them 
wholly subservient to the production of timber only, or of copse- 
wood only — both being at present raised together, to the detri- 
ment of each. In our dairies, if the reputation of Dorset butter 
is to be maintained against the increasing fame of Holstein and 
Holland, more attention must be paid to making butter that will 
keep. An excellent agriculturist who has had an opportunity of 
comparing the Holstein manufacture of butter with ours, declares 
that the mass of summer butter made in Dorset is in course of 
rapid decomposition two days after it is made. Without endors- 
ing so sweeping a condemnation, we may remark that it is in 
some degree supported by the reports of the Dorset butter-mar- 
ket, which continually record, in the summer months, large 
quantities of butter '■'■gone to (jreaseV The great secret of butter 
making is the expression of all moisture, and this the Holsteiners 
so well understand that there is one farmer in that small duchy 
who alone sends during the early summer months 1200 lbs. of 
