The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-08 00:00:00

agriculture.

PRICES, PA UPERISII, AND THE WEATHER.
The Registrar General reports that lad quarter the
average price of wheat was 40s. 6d. per quarter; a
shilling higher than it was in the Jane quarter of last
year, but 6s. less than it waste the same period of 1863.
Beef by the carcase at Newgate and Leadenhall Mar-
kets was on an average Md. per lb., and was • half-
penny dearer than in the two previous June quarters.
Mutton was 71d. per lb. ; it was a lid, dearer than in
the same period of 1864, and nearly 30. dearer than in
that of 1863. The average price of best potatoes at the
Waterside Market, Southwark, WU 102 s. 61 per ton,
being about double the price of the June quarter af
1861, but less than that of 1863. The average number
of paupers relieved in-door was 125,846, which lordlier
more than in the spring of last year, leas than in that
of 1863; the number relieved out-door was 776,016,
exhibiting a small decrease on the pauperism of 1864,
and a very great deorease on that of the previous year, I
when the number of persons who received relief was
greater than in the present year by 100,000. In his
summary of results derived from the copious meteoro-
logical details that have been compiled with much care,
Mr. Glaisher writes that the unusually severe weather
of March interrupted agricultural operations and
checked vegetation; on sth April this wintry weather
ceased suddenly; and till 10th June, during • period of
67 days, the temperature was, with few exceptions,
libOVo the average, the average daily excess being nearly
five degrees ; and the quarter was closed by • period of
twenty days in which intervals of sold and warm
weather succeeded each other, but with a predominance
of cold. The high summer temperature of April urged
vegetation to rapid growth, and soon effaced the traces
of a backward season. Rain, which had been much
needed, fell early in May, and in the second week of
that month over the whole of the British islands. The
mean temperature was above the average in each month,
remarkably above it in April and May. The mean
temperature of the quarter was 562 at Greenwich;
and there is no record of any previous instance in
which it was so high in the same period of the year.
There was 72 in. of rain. The fall was deficient in
April; above the average in May and June. The air
was unusually dry; for though there was a grad deal
of rain in May, it fell in showers which were heavy,
but of short duration.
BURSTING OF TUN LEAr.—Mr. Glashier in his
elaborate report appended to the new returns of the
Registrar General, gives the following interesting mem-
oranda :—Leaf buds first appeared on the field elm on
the 26th April at Oxford; and on the 14th at Holkhani
Leaf buds first appeared on the oak on 17th April at
Rawarden ; on the 18th at Great Berkhamatead ; and
on the 23rd at Ralston. On Ist May at Abington ; and
on the 2nd at Holkbam. Leaf buds first appeared on
the lime on 16th April at Marlborough; on the 20th at
Heikki= ; and on the 27th at Carlisle. Leaf brute
first appeared on the sycamore on Bth April at Holk.
ham ; and on the 17th at Marlborough. Leaf buds
first appeared on the horse °hamlet on the let April; on
the tith at Marlborough; and on the 25th at Carlisle.
Leaf buds first appeared on the occidental plane on 9th
April at Oxford. Leaf buds first appeared on
the hawthorn on 7th April at Marlborough; on
the Bth at Galway; and on the 11th at Holt-
ham. Leaf buds first appeared on the hazel on
24th April at Marlborough. Leaf buds first appeared
on the walnut ca 27th April at Carlisle. Leaf buds
first appeated on the oriental plane on 23rd April at
Holkham ; and on the 26th at Carlisle. The hazel was
in leaf on 13th April at Helston ; on the 14th at
Banbridge. ; and on the 27th at Marlborough.
The walnut was in leaf on 24th of April at Geoid; on
the 25th at Wisbeach ; on the 30th at Marlborough;
on the 18th May at Cockermouth ; and on the 20th at
Batibridge. The birch was in leaf on 26th of April at
Galway. The beach was in leaf on Zith April at
clalway. The aah was in leaf on sth April at Penketh.
The larch was in leaf on 18th April at Culloden. The
field elm was in leaf on 11th April at Marlborough; an
the 18th at Olkham ; on the 19th at Oxford ; on the
20th at Streatley and linrdpierpoint ; on the list at
Wisbeech ; on the 22nd at Penketh and Banbridge;
and on the 28th at Great Berkhampatead. On 4th May
at Abington. The wych elm was in leaf on 18th April
at Kingsley; on the 24th at Banbridge; and on the
25th at Wiebeach. On the 6th May at Abington. The
oak was in leaf on 23rd April at Guernsey; on the 25th
at Penketh; on the 26th at Marlborough and Oxford ;
on the 28th at Hustpierpoint; and on the 30th at Great
Berkhampetead. On 4th May at Wiebeach ; and on the
6th at Cockermouth. The Lime was in leaf on 13th
Aptil at Helston ; on the 19th at Wisbeach ; on the
20th at Kingsley; on the 21st Penketh; on the 23rd at
Guernsey; on the 24th at Oxford; and on the 25th at '
Great Berkliamstead and Banbridge. On 4th May at
Abington. The Sycamore was in leaf on the 11th April
at Heiden ; on the 12th at Oxford; on the 19th at
Cockermouth; on the 20th at Kingsley and Banbridge;
on the 21st at Wiebeach ; on the 22nd at Marlborough,
Great Berkhampatead, and Holkham ; on the 23rd at
Guernsey; and on the 28th at Streatley. The horse
cliesnut was in leaf on 12th April at Miltown, Ban-
bridge; on the 14th at Guernsey; on the 15th at Wis.
beach, Holkbam, and Kingsley; on the 16th at Oxford
and Great Berkbampstead ; on the 19th at Llandudno; ,
on the 20th at Cockermouth and Galway; on the 21st
at Helston ; and on the 22nd at Marlborough. The
common poplar was in leaf on 18th April at Wishes:lh ;
on the 19th at Oxford ; on the 20th at Banbridge; and
on the 25th at Great Berlchampstead. The occidental
plane was in leaf on 24th April at Oxford; and on the
25th at Galway. On 9th May at Olkhara. The haw-
thorn was in leaf on 10th April at Marlborough; on the
112th at Aspley and Bambridge ; on the 14th at Wis-
beach ; on the 15th at Penketh ; on the 17th at
Llandudno ; on the 18th at Heleton, Great Berkhamp.
stead, and Cockermouth; on the 20th at Holkhem ;
and on the 26th at Carlisle.
FRUIT BLOSSOM, &c.—The apple tree was in blossom
on the 7th April at Galway ; on the 19th at Balaton ;
on the 23rd at Streatley ; on the 25th at Marlborough ;
on the 26th at Great 13erkbampstead and Oxford; on
the 27th at Wiebeach ; on the 29th at Allenheads ; and
on the 30th at Banbridge; on the 2nd May at Penketh;
and on the 3rd at Hollcham and Cockermouth. The
peer tree was in blossom on 7th April at Galway; on
the 10th at Heiden ; on the 12th at Allensheade and
Banbridge; on the 17th at Penketh ; on the 19th at
Great Berkhampatead ; on the 20th at Holkham ; on
the 21st at Battersea; on the 23rd at Streatley and Ox-
ford; on the 25th at Marlborough, Bedford, and WM-
beach ; and on the 29th at North Shields. On 3rd May
at Cockernionth. The cherry tree was in blossom on
9th April at Btreatley ; on the 11th at Hawarden ; on
the 12th at Galway; on the 15th at lialkham ; on the
16th at Marlborough and Great Berichampetead ; on the
17th at Aspley; on the 18th at Oxford, on the 19th at
Banbridge; on the 22nd at Wisbeach, Kingsley, and
Cockerninuth ; and on the 23rd at Silloth. The peach
tree was in blossom on Ist April at Banbridge; on the
6th at Wisbeach ; on the 7th at Holkhain ; on the 9th
at Great Berkhampstead and Streatley ; on the 10th at
Bedford and Penketh ; on the 11th at Oxford; on the
13th at Aspley. Plum trees were in blossom on 6th
April at Galway; on the 9th at Hasten, Marlborough,
ancdStreatley ; on the 1 Ith. at Oxford; on the 13th at