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LIGHT AND AIR, The Law of,—This is one of the best text books on the subject of Light and Air yet published. The method of arrangement is so simple and complete: as to make the present position ol this difficult subject easy of comprehension to both prolessional and lay minds. Illustrated by diagrams. By A. A. HUDSON, of the Inner Temple, Barristei-at-Law ; and ARNOLD Inman, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law.
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In a locality famous for the salubrity of its air and the purity of its waters, is situated St. Catherine’s House, Headley, Hants, which Messrs. C. Bridger and Son will offer for sale at the Village Hall, Liphook, on February &. The property is freehold, and is in close proximity to the celebrated Hindhead and Devil’s Punch Bowl, and to the extensive pine forests that enrich the scenery of this part of England. It also stands high, being 300ft. above sea level. The house stands in delightful grounds, comprising lawn and ornamental garden as well as a kitchen garden well stocked with fruit trees, etc., while there are two spacious greenhouses. Accommodation is provided for six cows and a horse, there being also various outbuildings, besides 2¿ acres of rich arable land in a high state of cultivation.
Within seven miles of Bath, and about three miles from two railway stations, lies the pleasant little village of Timsbury, Somerset, which possesses considerable advantages as a residential locality. Adjoining the main road from Bath to Paulton, is the well-built family residence known as Green Hill, which Messrs. Fry and Asprey will sell by auction, at the schoolroom, Timsbury, on February 10. The rooms throughout the house are handsome and conveniently arranged. There is stabling for two horses, coach-house, harness room, greenhouse, storehouse and various other buildings. The property is of very moderate extent, comprising an area of 2a. 2r. 19p., and is admirably suited for a gentleman seeking a nicely-situated country house, conveniently near a first-class town.
Surrounded by the carefully preserved estates of Hovingham, Stonegrave and Gilling Castle, is the valuable freehold agricultural and sporting estate which Messrs. Boulton and Cooper will sell by auction at the Talbot Hotel, Malton, Yorkshire, on February 7. The property is situated at Cawton, in the parish of Gilling, and comprises a total area of about 535a. 3r. 7p., divided into three convenient farms, together with several cottages, woods and plantations. The land is good turnip and barley soil, with a fair proportion of grass, and is well farmed. The estate, which lias a high reputation as a sporting property, is in Lord Middleton’s country, and is within easy reach of the meets of the Sinnington and York and Ainsty hounds.
In a county remarkable for its magnificent scenery, it is doubtful whether one could discover a finer situation for a residence than that enjoyed by the mansion known as Steelfield Hall, Gosforth, Cumberland, which Messrs. Lowden and Postlethwaite will offer for sale at the Scawfell Hotel, Seascale, on February 7. The house stands on an eminence commanding one of the finest mountain and sea views in the kingdom. It is a handsome square stone building, and the interior arrangements throughout are exceptionally convenient and attractive. The grounds, which extend over nine acres, are well timbered, shady, and retired, and include lawn, large garden, conservatory, vineries, etc. There is also a good range of stabling, with a coachman’s cottage adjoining. It■ may be added that good shooting and fishing is obtainable in the immediate neighbourhood, and there is an excellent golf links at Seascale.
alongside a wall or hedge if one is handy, and makes for a gate or opening, and either outdistances her pursuers, who return to their masters to lie down panting and exhausted, or is rolled over by the nimbler of the pair and joins the array hanging on the keeper’s stick.
Another brace of dogs is substituted in the place of the two just run, the line is reorganised arid on they go until other quarry is started, perhaps this time giving one of the other slippers a chance to let his pair of dogs have a turn. It is very good sport, and much more fun than the proper organised meetings, and one returns home to dinner in the evening after the tramp on the breezy hills with a keen appetite, and an appreciation of the easy chair by the fire, with a pipe afterwards, to say nothing of dreams of being “ coursed ” by flying dragons who continually gain on you until you wake up and so escape from them.
Cider making, though only carried on in certain parts of the country, is in those parts a most important industry. Itiis surprising the amount of this beverage which is consumed, say, in the west of England, and how even at this time of the year many of the farmers drink it in preference to beer. Last year’s crop of fruit has by now all been converted into cider, and the supply of apples not being very plentiful, the price of cider is a little higher. That which last season could be bought at about 6d. now runs to from 7d. to 8d. per gallon, this, of course, being for a good make, but it is not all apple-growers, by any means, who can turn out a good product.
Farmers want to exercise a great deal more care in their methods of treating their fruit and making it into cider. If one saw the heaps of apples rotting in some orchards up to Christmas, or even into January, with the pigs and poultry and other stock running over them, and then the men treading over them and shovelling them out of the carts into the press, one would not be surprised that all ciders are not good, and anyone would vow never to taste a drop of any make whatever again. The fruit wants to be carefully collected and left for a short time only in heaps, all stock being excluded from the orchard during this period, then carried to the press and treated with care and cleanliness, thus a good beverage ensues. Good fruit has always a lot to do with producing good cider, and a blending of choice sorts of apples is a great way towards success. If only one sort of fruit were used a very poor result would be obtained.
The sparkling bottled ciders, though being rather sweet to some tastes, are very good drinking, and by many are preferred to the much exalted champagne, which they designate as “bad ginger beer.” With regard to this article, Mr. Baring-Gould tells the story of a gentleman who applied to a large apple grower in the west of England who had supplied him in previous years, for a couple of hogsheads of his sparkling cider. He was told that all the season’s make had been sold to> a London firm, so that he could not oblige his customer, hut the latter could no doubt obtain it from the firm mentioned. The gentleman wrote to- them, and in due course received the following reply: — “ Dear sir,—You have made some mistake. We are not cider merchants, but a firm of champagne importers from the celebrated vineyards of the Due de-----! ”
Imperial corn averages for week ending January 28:—Wheat, 26s. 7d. per quarter; barley, 27s. 9d. ; oats, 17s. For the corresponding week of last year wheat stood at 34s. 6d.
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We have at fairly long intervals of time during the past few years recorded the sales of some large and valuable ground rents secured upon premises in the City of London. It may perhaps be safely said that investments of this kind are, owing to their rarity and choice character, steadily appreciating in value, and therefore it is probable that the freehold ground rent of £800 per annum, which Messrs. Foster and Cranfield are submitting to auction, at the London Mart, on February 15, will arouse a lively competition. The rent in question is amply secured upon a modern and imposing block of office property known as St. Magnus House, Monument-street, King William-street, E.C., which is let out in offices, and produces actual and estimated rack rentals amounting to upwards of £3,30״. The reversion is in 90 years. This rent is therefore a choice investment, and should not be lost sight of by those who are looking out for a thing of the kind.
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Seed Testing Lecture,—The first of a course of lectures on seed testing, with demonstrations, was given on Monday last in the lecture room of the Botanic Society at the Gardens, Regent’s-park, by Mr. D. Finlayson. The lecturer deplored the fact that while all over the Continent and in America seed testing stations under Government control had been established when farmers and agriculturists could have their seeds tested and obtain statistics and information, in England, where the need was greatest, these questions were left to a few private persons or one or two societies, whose researches were limited to their own members. Considering how great was the annual loss to agriculture in this country on account of seed adulteration, the selling of seed which, owing to age or other causes, has lost its vitality, and the mischief done by noxious weeds sown with it, and how inefficient were the means for detection possessed by farmers and others, it was a matter of surprise that the question of public testing stations had not been more generally taken up. The lecturer gave three simple rules—first, that good varieties only should be purchased; secondly, that the heavier seed was in comparison with its bulk the more likely it was to germinate ; and thirdly, that the impurities should be carefully studied—bits of dirt and debris were of far less consequence than the minute seeds of weeds. He instanced one apparently clean sample he had tested, which contained enough weeds to produce over 5,000 of the worst kind for every acre sown. The lectures are to.be continued every Monday afternoon to March 27.
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The sudden break up of the dry, frosty weather of fast week is much to be deplored, and though the weather of the present week has been seasonabfy cold, it has been very changeable—ram, frost, snow and sleet alternating, and we are still hoping for a spell of settled fine. As anticipated in these notes last week, the few days of colder weather have brought an improvement in the fat stock markets, and there is a much better feeling in the trade all round. The best grades of beef make up to 10s. bd. per score, and sell readily at the price, rougher qualities ranging down to about 8s. For mutton there is also a fair demand, the best class of wethers of nice weights making a shade over 7d. per lb. Store stock to sell must be good, as there is not much enquiry for the rougher classes.
Another sale of shires took place last week (Wednesday, 25 th ult.), that of Sir Walter Gilbey’s, wnen 45 mares and fillies passed under tne hammer of Messrs. Sexton, Grimwadt and Beck. The sale was held at Eisenham, and attracted a good attendance of buyers, resulting in very satisfactory prices, the 4o animals bringing an average of a trifle over £lo0. The highest figure of the sale was 630 guineas, given by Sir Blundell Maple for Saxon Talent, a bay yearling filly by Marmion 11.
The official report of the judges of the malting and seed barley competitions at the last Brewers’ Exhibition has been issued, and contains various comparative statistics as to entries, weights per bushel, manures used, dates of sowing, etc., of the last few, years’ competitions, full details of the 1898 entries, and the list of awards. The championship prize goes to Northamptonshire, for barley grown by Mr. M. Tipping, of Bainton, Stamford, from Jarman’s Golden Chevalier seed. The particulars given as to this prize exhibit are that the soil on which it was grown is gravel, and that the barley succeeded a barley crop, and it is noticeable that it was drilled early (February 12), and cut in the middle of August. As regards the districts in which the exhibits were grown, Suffolk furnishes the highest number of entries, sending in 22, Bedfordshire 17, Somerset 16, Berkshire 11. These are the only counties reaching double figures.
The judges again draw attention in their report as to there being considerable room for improvement in the methods of dressing, remarking that many farmers set their machines too closely, but they state that there is a marked improvement in the majority of samples submitted. The whole report is most interesting and instructing, and is well worth the perusal of all barley growers. The judges deserve great praise for the pains they have taken and the great labour which must have been necessary to compile such very clear and comprehensive tables.
Though times are bad, and agriculture is anything but a thriving industry—being rather set down by some as “a sinking ship”—the farmer does not stay at home every day and grumble at bad prices and bad seasons, or try by working and slaving from morning till night to make both ends meet a little easier, or even overlap ; but he sometimes casts away dull care and takes a- little outing. Such an opportunity is afforded him by a day’s coursing, a sport of as ancient origin as most, and one which is not such an expensive luxury to enjoy as following the hounds. For practising the pastime the country must be open, with large fields, or better still, no enclosures at all, as on the Wiltshire Downs, affording a good view of the manoeuvres of both dogs and hare.
The farmers’ meeting is quite a different affair from the club meetings with their stakes, programmes, bookies and other attractions, where the venue is not changed all day, but, by an army of beaters and a multitude of hares, is is so arranged that for each run the dogs can be slipped from the same hurdle. In the rural fashion the spectators themselves have to do the beating, and it makes it much more enjoyable and a more healthy exercise. All the farmers of the neighbourhood are there, and a few friends from the adjacent town. A start is made about II o’clock, after greetings have been exchanged and a few refreshers partaken of at the hostelry ; two or three on horseback to act as judges and follow the courses when they take a wide turn ; the rest of the field on foot, stretching in line across the country under the direction of the secretary, or chief organiser, who takes his post in the centre of the attack armed with a flag, and a rider or two at each end of the line, with three or four “ slippers ” and the excited dogs at intervals down the rank. There are no stakes or money prizes, and they only want to see the fun. Up gets “ Old Sarah.” “ See, ah ! see, ah ! ” is the cry. Fifty yards law is allowed her and then the slipper nearest to her lets loose his dogs and away they go, twisting and turning, backwards and forwards, doubling in and but. Puss runs