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"V" Daring last week there was not a single quarter of beef or mutton landed at Liverpool from America. Ihis was according to anticipations, and results from the recent strikes in the States. Only one consignment of cattle came to hand during ^SLTla^ow post-office authorities were sorting the last mail from America thev came upon a sample parcel containing tin r- nister nerforated at the top. Upon examination the can- ister was found teeming with living and dead Colorado beetles and locusts. They put the living ones to death, and despatched the whole parcel to the London postal authorities. The parcel WA fener^meettn^oTtt?" members of the Cheshire Agricul- tural Society was held on Tuesday, August 14th, at the Crewe Hntpl Clrewe the Rev. J. Armistead, vicar of Sandbach, presiding The Secretary reported that Mr. Charles Welch was meeting the general committee in the most handsome manner in regard to the arrangements for the show at Crewe on the 14th and 15th September. The judges and stewards were then appointed. The subject of the special prizes offered by the Wal committee gave rise to an animated discussion. They the value of £ 10 and a second prize of the value of £5 for the best pair of horses in a trotting match. Mr. Davies, of Eardswick Hall, Middlewich, opposed the acceptance of these ■nriyps on the erounds that they werejintroducing conditions foreign to agriculture Mr. Boote, of Weston Hall, Crewe, on the other hand contended that these prizes tended to make a class of DeoDle take an interest in the show who would not otherwise do so Mr M'Hattie, Chester, followed on the same side, con- tending that a farmers' jumping prize was as foreign to agricul- tural pursuits as the Crewe trotting match. The proposition was negatived by a considerable majority. T THE WATER RAT.—The Rev. F. O. Morris writes in Land ana Water—"What has this poor, harmless, and pretty animal done to call for an inquiry as to how it may best be destroyed A rat, indeed, it is not, in the common acceptation of the word, but closely allied to the beaver, one of the most wonderful of all animals. These interesting little animals are plentiful along the banks of the purling stream that runs between my garden and orchard, and often and often have I stood to watch them nibbling some small stems of grass or other weeds, or sitting up on their haunches to look about them. Their beautiful soft fur and rounded muzzle are as unlike those features of the common rat as need to be, but it is only another illustration of the old say- ing, Give a dog a bad name and hang him. Call him a rat, and set an iron trap to mangle his tender limbs and put him to a most, rnipl death Nay, I would not and could not do it if he we4 rat a l over No one, I hope, would, who has seen what I Sve seen And what for? What has he done ? Ubi lapsus.« quid feci? For more than 20 years I have had the thankful happiness of living in this quiet rectory, and never but once or twice in all that time have I ever heard of his being ac- cused of eating a few strawberries, and even that I am more in- clined to disbelieve than to believe. Many a time I have walked down to the end of a trellised walk that ends at the brook, and, as I have said, have watched one on the opposite bank, and his twinkling black eyes have caught mine. We have looked at each other, and I have spoken to him time after time, as he would have spoken to me, I am sure, if he could. Once on a time, when I went down the walk, I saw a beautiful sight-a water rat (so called) milk-white all over, about three parts grown. I think I only saw him once or twice again. I hope he went off somewhere up or down the stream, and that he was not caught by one of our Persian cats. Now and then, too often, one of them jumps up to the sill of the dining-room window, with one of these poor voles in her mouth, looking as proud as possible of what she has done. I would scold her, but it is nature too,' fio that it would not be of much use, I am afraid. The few holes the water-rats make in the bank do me no harm whatever. Some- times one serves for the kingfisher to lay her eggs in. No, I would not hurt one of them, nor have one of them hurt, if I could help it. Spare, oh spare, the unoffending woodpecker,' wrote Waterton well and kindly, and I would fain hope that Spare, oh spare, the harmless water vole,' may find an echo in the kindly eyes of many a one who would not see our few remaining ancient British animals ruthlessly and cruelly destroyed."

NOTES ON HARVESTING.

ABSTRACT OF AGRICULTURAL RETURNS…

MARKET REPORTS.-----

Trade Intelligence.

THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD. 1

CARDIGAN CATTLE SHOW.

LLAXIDLOES NOTES.

LLANBEDROGRT

ILISBURNE MINES.

CARDIGAN.

ST. DOGMELLS.

ABERAERON.

LLWYNGWRIL.

LAMPETER.

FFESTINIOG.

BALA.

PORTMADOC.

CORWEN.

LLANIDLOES.

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