The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

Agriculture.

THE destruction of her young, which the sow will
sometimes eat, is a phenomenon connected with temper
rather than with food. She has been excited or dia-
t,.rbrd ;it is not owing to any deficiency f food.—
Agricultural. Gazette.

Famg an official renort relative to agriculture in
Fiance, it appears that very great progress has been
,n.de of late 'ears in French agriculture, especially as
regards the inore.ise in farm produce of every kind and
the fertilization of waste lands.
STACK BURNING.—Two fires have taken place within
a week in one small parish (Bishampton) in Worcester-
shire, by which a large quantity of corn has been
d-stroyed in stack and barn. Nearly the whole of the
parish of Biahampton hat recently been purchased by
H.R.R. the Due d'Aumale.

SHEEP POISoNING fly LEAD. —Mr. Bainea, in the
Volunteer Gazette, says that several sheep hsve died
during the pait twelve months at the Highwood-hill
rifle range, and that an examination proved thst they
had been poisoned by mellowing minute porions of
bulleis—the"apha.sh"—Which lay scattered on the gran.
TOMOURE3 sometimes are caused by lying down on a
hard and slippery floor. If otherwise, give nitrate of
pota,h, powdered, I drachm ; colohicum, powdered,
half-a-drachm, morning and night in a mash made with
bran end& pound of crushed linseed o..ke for four days;
then omit a day or two, and repeat as before. The cake
may be continued The tumours my be painted over
with compound tincture of iodine.— IV. as. in Agri-
cultural Oazette.

MAD Acr oF A FARM LABOURER. —A few clays since,
• drunken man named Hewitt entered a farm-yard at
St. Brock while • th.eshing machine was at full work,
and taking up a bind of wheat twisted it firmly round
his hand, which he then thrust into the machine. He
was too far gone in liquor at the time to comprehend his
danger. It wan only the work of an inatant for him to
be seized by the Machinery, and before those around
him were aware of the mai ac', his hand lay OD the
ground before them.

SHEEP GONE CRAM—A gentleman who came down
on tho Hemptield train recently informs on that two
nuke this side of Claysville there was a flock of sheep
ineloded in a palture field. At one point the fence ran
along the edge of a high precipice. On We Ineaday, a
istampeate occurred among the flock, wten the frightened
or crazy sheep commenced jumping the fence at the
point indicated, going over the precipice at the same
time. Two hundred and eighty of the animals were
killed.— Wheeling Intelligencer.
MEAT PHODOCING.—Mr. Henley, speaking at Wood-
stock last week, congratulated the graziers on the fact
that, fast as meat waz created, it could not be created
fast enough. Tie butchers same and took it before it
ought to be taken, and whim that wts the mile he did

not see that the agriculturists could be otherwise than
in a prosperous state. But the eaters and sellers could
not fail to look with some apprehension on the prtsent
increased and increasing price of meat. Great skill—he
spoke advisedly—hod produced a much larger amount of
meat ti.an any one would have supposed fifty years ago
could have been produced.

ALL EgGLAND PLOUGHING MATCHIM—At the North-
amptonahire Agricultural Society's meeting, at Brackley,
on Tuesday, Sept. 19th, the champion prize silver
medal, open to all England, was won by James Barker,
ploughman to Ransomea and Sans, in competition with
Messrs. Howards' ploughman, George Brown. At the
same meeting, the first prize in class 2 was was won by
Mr. Railton's ploughman with Ransome's Newcastle
prize plough.—At the Royal Buckinghamshire Agricul-
tural Asnociation, Ayhsbury, on Wednesday, Sept.
20th, the champion prize, £3, was won by James
Barker, ploughman to Ratisomes and Sims, in competi-
tion with three local ploughmen. The second prize in
clam 6 was Wpm by Mr. Mead's man, with one of
Ransomee ploughs, against fourteen competitors.

SULPHATE OP IRON AS A MANURE.—The ordinary
green vitriol of our shops in a soil, whether placed there
artificially or not, is a nuisance and a poison. It can
indeed exist as such in a soil only in the absence of lime,
which is necessary to fertility, and under conditions of
deficient drainage, which are equally opposed to the
productiveness of ordinary corps. This is fully borne
out by agricultural experience of its use. It has been
applied to farm crops in a so-called "economic manure,"
with either entire uselessness or mischievous effect; and
it has been recommended for use in stables and liquid
manure tanks for fixing ammonia, which it will do; but
it has at the same time the effect of fixing the phosphoric
acid of the manure in an insoluble form.-4prictatura/
&Swale.

TURNING POTATO DISEASE TO ACCOUNT. —ln
1845 I had 900 bushels diseased out of 1000 which were
hurried on to a large heap promiscuously, and used as
dung the ensuing spring, and what is remarkable, very
succe.sfully and profitably, on half an acre of land, and
planted the next year, 1846, with potatoes, the common
pink-fixed variety, which yielded a full crop, and the
sounde.t I have grown since of that kind (they being
now nearly extinct). This rubbi.h of course was not
salted, not being then thought of, consequently had
become putrid. Former experience has taught me also
that after summers of extreme heat and drought, since
blight hivi appeared, all sound early potatoes attheendof
this month (S ptember), whether it was the entire crop
or those which were left in the ground at the time of
early raising, bee me prematurely sprouted, as if making
a special effort to reproduce a second crop, and came
up perfectly green and healthy.looking as potatoes look
in May, without any signs of disease about them, and
continued so till frost overtook them, rendering them
unfit for planting. In a former year when they did no,
scarcely a single self-sown one could be found in the
spring, though that winter had been s very mild one.
Careful watchfulness therefore should be observed as
soon as they first appear, as I am sanguine to believe
they will do no this autumn, when, if they are taken up,
they will keep well, and prove most serviceable for
seeding, those b. jug such as Nature has proved to be
freest from disease. —Experimenter, Malden, Essex, in
Agricultural Gazelle.

THE SHORTHORNS. —C ,ates's Herd Book, edited by
H. Strafford, Eq., 13, Easton-square, London, contains
the names and pedigrees of 2,117 bulls with registered
numbers, from 21,136 to 23,252; and of 2,873 cows,
with produce up to the 31st December, 1864. There
are 5,882 cows and heifers given in the index; and
besides these, there are many bull calves given as the
produce of cows only, which have not registered
numbers; also several heifer and bull calves not named,
so that really the volume may be said to contain the
pedigrees of upwards of 8,000 animals. Comparing this
number of the series with Vol. 6, the first published by
Mr. Strafford in August, 1846, which contains snintals
born up to the end of 1845, we find that it has an in-
crease of 1068 registered bulls, or more than double
those numbered in Vol. 6, which contains 1,049 bulls
and about 1,250 cows and their produce. The index
of Vol. 6 gives the names of 2,530 cows and heifers, so
that that volume contains the pedigrees of close upon
3,600 animals, which is not half the oontente of the
current volume. The 16th volume is embellished with
13 lithographic plates, six of bulls and seven of cows,
representing several prize animals, others for which high
prices have been paid, and the rest specimens of some
of the most famous herds in the kingdom. The names
chosen by breeders for their animals are of the greatest
variety, taken from the gods of heathren mythology
down to the principal and popular characters of the day,
including kings, emperors, lords and dukes, and every
sort of official position. Christian names and titles,
flowers and fruits are the chief resources for female
names; and many for both sexes are odd enough, as
our readers will find on purchasing the volume.—
Agricultural Gazette.