The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

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BREAD FROM EHIS YEAR'S HARVEST.—DIDCOT,
July 13.—At the market this day farmers who dined at
the Junction Hotel partook of a pudding made from this
year's growth of wheat. The whole field was cut last
week, and no one present recollected a new crop being
ready so soon for consumption. It was grown by Mr.
Charles Csuldwell, of I)rayton, near Abingdon, and
manufactured into flour by Mr. Richard Bradfield, of
Milton. The produce per acre Was estimated by good
judged at five quarters; the quality fine.
At a meeting of the Australian Agrioultnral Com-
pany on Wednesday, Mr. J. G. Oakley in the cl'air,
the report was adopted nuaniunmaly and a dividend
declared of 15s. per share free of income tax. The
balanoe of net revenue for 1857 was £37,401, and the
capital in hand is £9,802. The sum is considered quite
adequate for the wants of the company, and therefore
no call is contemplated. The results 61 the octal trade
have been satisfactory, 87,580 tons having been raised
during the year and 82,082 soul, at an average profit of
Bs. 3d. per ton. Six sacks have been tested at Wool.
wish Arsenal, and without being picked or amorally pre-
pared, the coal was found to compare advantageously
with English specimens. The land sales have realized
nearly £ll,OOO. Since the let of January purchmes of
store sheep and cattle have been meths to the amonnt of
about moo°, with the view of utilising the Warrah
estate. By the last advises the superintendent hoped
shortly to dispose of them at &profit. Of the stud about
9UO horses have been sold for £3,150, their value having
been previously tested by putting up 100 of the best to
auction at Maitland, when they fetolied only £4 441.
each. In reply toe shareholder, who commented upon
the desirableness of taking steps for increasing the coal
trade, it was stated that the demand already outstrips
the supply. It Was also mentioned that the Govern•
talent are contemplating the establishment of • fort-
nightly mail service respectively yid Sues and Panama.
Tics Tirane Fcr.—ln the list of patent* for which
provisional protection has been taken out is • machine
of a novel and somewhat curious character, The spool-
Bastion, as taken from the list, describes the machine as
a "blast drill," the object of which is to probed' the
turnip crop from the ravages of the fly and the slug, and
its other numerous enemies, and secure, as far as human
' ingenuity can accomplish it, Shim most valuable of all
bulbous root'. The common practice Of Protnutioll the
turnip from the fly Is by dusting the row with lime
during the night, mud while the dew is upon the plant.
This operation is difficult, and imperfectly performed.
Besides the slow process of doing this by hand the diffi-
culty of dusting the underside of the plant as well all the
topside offers an insuperable objection to this mete of
applying lime, soot, or any other compost to the young
turnip plant. This difficulty is now overcome, and the
lime (a mixture of one-slatli of soot with it is reuotn.
mended) is thrown, by means of a blast fan, upon every
, part of the plant, both on the upper and under side.
The fan is put in motion by the travelling wheels of the
I' drill' and receives its velocity in the usual wanner by
gathering wheels. The blast thus created by the fan
is brought to bear upon the plant, which, yielding to its
action, bends from the current, and as it este upon
falling stream of limo or other composition the plants
becomes completely covered with the powder. But this
is not the only object the blest drill wiU accomplish.
The fly, disturbed by a simple contrivance, hops away,
but is at that moment caught by the current of air
entering tits blest fan and instantly destroyed, and
thrown out again with violence from the vortex into
which it had been drawn. This operation is simple, end
the proems of annihilation is similar to that of a mouse
or rat going down a thrashing machine. The fly and the
lime are so ootnplutely mixed and incorporated that the
inieoldevous yet delicate insects are destroyed by the
atinospherao pressure thrown upon them, and the plant
is also secured, by the dusting of compost, from all future
attacks of the enemy. All farmers cannot fail to know
something about the insect which does so much annual
mischief to the turnip mope. Sometimes a fallow, which
In tillage and labour lime oust ES or £6 an acre in pre.
paring it for a crop of swedes, has had all the labour and
capital expemied in vain by the fly. Can this evil be
remedied It seems possible, and if this invention of a
blest drill should be the mean* of securing a turnip crop,
or even improving it, by the application of a top-dreming
of soot or guano, or any other soluble manure, a great
good has been aecouipliehed, not to farmers only, but to
the community at larp, and we sincerely congratulate
Mr. Jeplison Rowley on his invention. We understand
Messrs. Priest and Woolnough, engineers, Kinpton•on.
Thames, have the blast drill now in hand, and under
their able management 1111. i mechanical skill hostilities
will ohortly commenue against the insects. Mr. Rowley
will afford the fanners an opportunity to inspect the
hied thrill at the exhibition which is announced to dom.
mono at Chester next week; being the first time the
invention has appeared in public. . .

PULSE A SUBSTANTIAL Fnori.—The flesh yielding
qualities of all the pulse—or boan, pea, or lentil—family
are very notable, but by no means a modern discovery.
If Esau paid dearly for his 111001 of pottage, he had at
least the advantage of a bowlful of the very best
vegetable food for the support of his fleshy, hairy body ;
inasmuch as Esau's "red pottage" MIA made of
" as appears from Genesis xxv. 30-34. Listen
too, ye patronisers of the Arahica Revelanta—Heleavnta—
Ervelentia—and all other change-ringing in the pulse—
the pea, bean, and lentil—line, to the words of Daniel
on tide subject :—" Prove thy servants, I beseech thee,
ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat and water
to drink; then let our countenances be looked upon
before thee, and the countenance of the children that
eat of the portion of the king's meat. . . . And at
the onto( ten days their countenance appeared fatter in
flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of
the king's meat, Thus Heller took away the portion of
the meat and the wino that they should drink and gave
them pulse." and thus, too, pulse appears to be " •
dainty dish," not only flt " to set before • king," but
better than all the king's ineat and all the king's wine!
And, moreover, with reference to modern analysis and
its results, so for as regards this precise ilescription of
fond, and considering the differenue between heat-giving,
which, in fact, is a sort of fat-yielding material' and
actual solid flesh-yielding substance, how peculiarly and
striotly, and even chemically, correct in the expretsion
" fatter in flesh," when the flesh.yielding, rather than
merely fat-yielding quality of the food ea considered !
Builder.

LONDON MARKETS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

MARK-LANE, MONDAY, JULY 19.

The supply of all descriptions of grain at our
market to-day waa good.

Wheat was from two shillings to three shillings
cheaper.

Barley and oats unchanged, and large sales for
both.