The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

Zuriculturt,

AGRICULTURAL REPORT TOR DORllET.—Rartest has
begun in many plaues on and before the 23rd of lost
month, and lies now become pretty general. The hasty
thunder showers have laid the cum quite fiat in many
fields, so that the quantity and quality will not bees
w"""tioilmded, We shall get a good deal of '' tailing"
corn and the yield must be Isesened. We do not re.
member to have seen so much laid spurn for many years
put. The weather has been more favourable for the
Ailing of the grain than it would have been had the
mulling sun continued to throw its withering rays
direct on the oom, and had we not got a tall of rain it
would have caused premature ripening in some districts
and probably • 'maned yield throughout the country.
Some of the spring wheat has been much affected by
rust on the leaf, mowing an unhealthy growth, and, we
fear, some diminution in the yield. Much of the barley
bee suffered from the seine cause, especially that which
was gown late ; but the rain, although it has only fallen in
showers must have improved it of late in other neigh.
bourhoods, as it has in this. Most of the crops of oats
appear to be healthy and promising. It is impossible to
calculate correctly what the yield will be. The wheat ap-
pears to be quite an avervge crop—perhapis rather over.
Barley an average -much injured by rut. Oats over
an average. Beano a fair crop. Peas much blighted.
Haymaking is nearly finished in the Vale of Blaakinoor
--the most backward part of the country for meadow
hay, and although the cut was not nearly as good as we
had at one tinie anticipated, there is one advantage—it
Is stacked In capital order. Old hay is more abundant
than usual, so that the 'short emit I. not of so much
sequence,con-
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waits,
bitty
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mire
tiowlesses, there is nothing left by the cows that will
may for suiting. There is often meth may Houle on wine
fermi from unpalatable tufta of gruc that the cattle du
not we to consume during the mummer months, If left
forth(' cows they will not consume them, eseeptthey are
kept very short of gnu, before the frost has made it
mom palatable. The dairymen are ichurt of keep for
their paws, and the milk is feet decreasing, so 1110011 so
that dairy protium, will be very high in pries if we do
not get enough rain to Oalliis a rapid growth. Turnips
are late, and In many places still In want of rain. Tur.
nip-hoelng and harvest have coins together this year,
the hoeing being late end the harvest early. The turnip
beetle and the caterpillar were busy in some places at
the begiming of the season. This we hoar of in all
seasons and we hear of some 01144 are ploughed up, hut
we fear to a greater Went this season then in some
former years flhoop keep 111 mem The mond
share of Glover is very light in moot plans, and ohm+
lies, of cheep keep very
followed es a sonsequenee,-..
O. A, Jidii.
A gallon CP Den 51110 MIA Utti,llollll
SAWANIN.-./n 14415.9 1 WM led to try a intoner of ex.
perimente on the effeet of burnt clay on different Will
of 'swap, and the multi proved SIM till. euhlitenee
lied the proisrly of depriving the amigo meet offeeluslly
u( all Its isitrogenions oonetituente ant[forming ammo"
or the MAW{ preetieel offlitieney, r send sloe by 01P
pertinent that the eiiiii pr met when kept wooed to
the varying show of the elmoophere did not give out
olnioalein odoun. Witch I propos' hi thel tide reagent
should he used In eminealun with floe sloe' and
gypeuin for the purposes! 11)001100ring Nall Humor*
from the lemma at totem, 7lis PNEIIIIIIII sli prelim
the addition of -eliarimal end gypouni ere 1,, lA, fly ober.
NEI to Insure the emilidele absorption of ell y
niiiitudeus
WWI I and anunilly, by memo itt lie the aiiiinunimal
modal* that may be formed ley the 'Miler dreompuel.
lion of iiltrogenoue om& eller the solid manure
has been obtained, will here Owen that en the
buntling. sit the ally hits enema of the uperetien very
itittiotily depends, Hempen AN If the hillit hi (Wiled u
toe dit deprives $ do sinetimee to A echellierAlllll en'
rht u lie properly filing the ammonliwel salts In
id tile heal pimmitiitl not be greeter then he required le
dry II and render It porous The 111111411•1111110 of the
Above rearpoilm that woold be rejoined are, for every
on, 1111111114111 tune of the erellatilti}sulid matter MM.
Wind In sewage twentylve tone of rill elay, two end
relied km. at 01111110111, Anti ell. ten V gyFu of ni. After
being valued to a moderately fine eta division,
them now* ere to be thorough Wly as by 11111111111111.
111011111 with the liquid sewage, and the whole allowed
to run into tiseretlire for enheidenoe, lip these meals
the sewage will be fond tu by completely tiondurind
and will lubside In equal ail Mature with the burnt 'lay
and (wain,. while!. the greater !mart of the eharimil will
be found to Mod as, the sedan of the reservoir and
/UVIII a pretentiVe itratom to arrest the IMA(me of any
deleterious gamey which 'Hoy lion escaped absorption,
in willed' Might he lonised from any neldental nun.
In addition to the Absorptive properties of the burnt
ahoy I elm fuend that the iodation. °obtaining large
quantities of elevens matter In suspension were ideated
iii a remarkably 'hurt Bine, in other words, in sub.
siding, burnt clay takes down with it the whole of the
foreign bodies In ineclianleal admixture. After sub.
oldenee the supernatant liquid is to be let off by the
outlet specially provided, and 'nuns are to be taken to
prevent the charcoal running to waste. The reservoir
1 la then ready to rewire nuother charge of sewage, and
, Mile process may be repeated until the striituin of solid
manure leis become suffielently thick to neoes-
skate Its removal. With respect to the coot of re
-
Agents. The cost of getting and burning the clay is
somewhat dependant on the locality, but If the clay is
found In the neighbourhood the cost would be in the
ratio of its. per ton; the channel hit per ton, and the
gypsum £3 per ton. Thus for every 100 tons of avail.
able solid matter in sewage, 25 tons burnt clay at Se.
ta 15e. ; h tons charcoal at £3, £7 104. ; 1 ton gypsum
at £3,-214 N., would be required, and £l4 Is. the
ant for re-agents on every 128 i tuns of the manure menu
-
featured, Resuming the value of mut& manure to be £2
per ton. This gives the value of the product as equal
to £2117, from which deduct the above Ele 1t,., and the
interest on the omit of the machinery required, working
'mimeo, fro., to show the profit.—Henry Wright, 11,
Backingham-street, Adelphi.
Foie:min.-8o many mistaken notions exist about this
that a few woids respecting the principles on which it
depends may perhaps not be out of place. Forcing niay
be mad to be heat applied artificially to obtain natural
reimlts. Any acceleration of vegetable growth is,
strictly speaking, forcing. The diffeaence between acce-
lerating and protecting is this—in the one case we make
use of beat, which induces earlier development ; in the
other • materMl is applied which prevents the parts de-
veloped from being injured by sudden atmospheric
changes. In all kinds of forcing unless the laws which
regulate vegetable growth are perfectly understood and
fully carried out success will be partial. Many people
have found out to their cost that their ideas reepecting
forcing would not stand the test of actual practice, sim-
ply became they did not possess that knowledge of vege-
table physiology which forcing requires. It cannot be
too early impressed mm the minds of all young gardeners
that an acquaintance with the laws which regulate vege-
table growth will prove ultimately of the greatest advan-
tage to them, for in no department of horticulture can
the gardener show such a thorough knowledge of his
profession as in early end successful forcing. It matters
not in whatever form heat to applied, nature must be
imitated to obtain natural results, otherwise it will
prove but • useless expenditure of time and money.
And nature must not only be imitated where leaves and
fruit are growing, but also where roots are ramifying,
and to force the vine or peach into active growth 11111
maintain • high temperature, when the outside border is
R frozen mass 10 or 12 inches deep, is not natural. The
chief cause of grapes shanking and not colouring is
forcing the roots into a cold wet eubaoil (which is in.
jurious to them) in search of food to eupply the demand
of the leaves. To this cause may also be attributed the
wholesale dying of branches of apricot and other fruit
trees, which might have been prevented had the borders
been mulched, and the trees covered with Nome material
to retard or prevent an active vegetation in the branches
until some corresponding excitement was afforded the
roots. Leaves absorb, so do niots, hut both moult be in
suitable mediums to properly fulfil their respeutive
functions, and no roots can do that if border, are on.
protected during the period of early forcing. Few, I
apprehend, would explicit success in growing melons' or
cucumbers union the temperature at the roots was eon.
siderably higher than that where the leaves Cr,. Dom
not nature prove beyond a doubt in the gennination of
seeds, for Milano, roots moat be In action Wore
leaves? What are the first efforts of a bulb? Why to
send forth roots. Anil what do vines in pots do AM?
They form roots. 14 1. plain, therefore, that roote intuit
be in Ration before leaves, and to insure YUMAN in
forcing we 'oust not allow them to be °hooked but keep
them in action by applying a material wide!' will gem
rents and maintain a suitable degree of heat. In forcing
of all kinds the hest must be applied et the roots first,
—Arodalur.
Row AND Lopriore terwariz.—l can give a eommon
sense opinion of the value of the sewage matter to be No
conveyed and inanufaeturild from my own knowledge of
the feet—from the testimony of Profeesor Llehlg, who
is a host In himself in point of the 'clones of agriculture
and its requireinente. livery part of that enormous
quantity of food (says !MOM° RIM 6 man common
during hie lifetime, say 00 or 70 years, OM wee de.
rived-From the fields in flesh, lIIIIRIL and ventaidee, or
of fruit, corn of all kinds, and semi, kc., mom be obtained
and returned to thein. or the fluid and wild excreta
of men oontain the mineral element* of grain and mode
In the 'noted quantity, end have the emit of mitering
the elementery lionetitnents of the soil gradually drawn
from it by the cultivation of grain or the feeding of
fatale, If we do not restore to a meadow the with.
drawn elements, its fertility ileums% while with a due
apply of these rideable inetten—hoth fluid and solid—
which without due namlnetion we thoughtlessly rejoin,
It not only remelts the shiny and unimpaired, but may
be ratonishingly Manned. Them agents, so redundant
in the sewage of our towns, It is our bounden duty, as
well as our Interest, to Gelled and okilfully apply to
their very important use, In these we wry 01111110nin,
and consequently nitrogen, to our cultivated plants,
sod this nitrogen Is anompenlal by the mineral els.
meat' of food ineetly in the 111111111 proportions In which
they are contained In the plants which Nerved al food
to the animal', and thus they serve se nouriehinent to a
new generation of plants, to which both are esemildal.
Beside' being an active member of the ineilluel pro.
fusion, I sin a great grower of roses, and as well have
formed an Arboretum, free to the public, of nearly 19
mires in extent A few menthe ago I told my superin.
evident I wished him to win*, for prises for ram
and other beautiful lowers at a neighbouring flower
&low, and I said that if he wen noseeful the proneds
should by divided amongst my men. I was ourprleed to
end that last month I had upwards of thirty thousand
roses In full blooin al my Abornum, forming a Inagnie•
out sheeted*, and et the horticultural thew alluded
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defeating,o cI 1. Wi a i nineh.il nr
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pin s( M
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as I promised, I was told by my men that our inoololll In
rose growing we. owing to the plenty having beim well
watered by the labourers Is overbours with memo
Water, or, as my foreman gravely remarked to WE, "by
bream them with the real thing itself." I should be
hailer!, aid hereby snake the Oldie offer to do so, to
give 'piles of the monde of a seas of 1,000 of these

proof

standard roses, 'qua' to R 75, for the best Lamy on the
most approved luelbod of oonaolidating sewage matter
for agrieultural and other purposes, and tlie but plea
for irrigating the land szten.lively with sewage water,
In a systeinatio inannar In conasatlon with CAB plan ; and
a mound prise of the prod's& of 500 standard roses,
squat to R 35 forth. second best—leaving It to Prolemor
Lindley and Mr. /Amid to at as judges.—Mr. Hick.
elan.