The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-15 00:00:00

FARMING OPERATIONS.

BARLEY 81MD THU.—This is the usual time of sowing
barley in oar southern counties. A proper degree of
warmth and moisture is necessary to 'acceptant growth
in early life, end a genial temperate atmosphere with
plenty of light in the ripening and perfecting of the
seed. Bat this season, so far as gone, is not favourable
for southern varieties in the mtilting stage of life, and
last year (1469) was very exceptional as to the climatic
range of barley generally, so that there wM thia year be
an unusual d' ity in the normal quality of seed
barley unless judicious 'henget of weed ere made. Bad
seasons Tres° much frosted barley, it may be both at
the forming and ripening of the year—not merely dead
grain with black end, but htlf-dead grain, whose normal
constitution has been so injured as to unfit it for being
sown as seed this year ; and • charms of seed barley
this year implies, in our southern counties, Dot merely
sound seed, hut seed adapted for being sown much later
in the season than usual.

ArrumN WRiArs.—Top-drees with nitrate of soda,
li cwt. to the mare, or 1 cwt of snlphate of ammonia,
or ammo 3 cwt., or whatever fertiliser the land may
require at this smolt.

Puss may yet be sown on early calcareous soils, to
which the crop is partiaL She land should be well
mamma (allowed, bat I.et year this coed not be done in
many di.trieta, and spring fallowing with a good season,
it must be born In mind, in es.entially eleo.asary for a
pea crop, althemili the contrary is still eredlted in some
out•of•the.way planes.
kiLlllll5 seldom do well when 50,10 50 late as this,
but exceptional mown. are not subj.-ct to the ordinary
rules of time. We have sown ever. later than thus
and rraped a fine harvest : much depenilt upon getting
a fine beed•bed, with a favourable start to the young
plants.
Ca 151101.81505, if not sown last month, should be
now .6 early as the weather will permit, so as to get up
strong plants for transplanting. Tbe later the more
forcing they need, and the greater the distance 16, toren
plaints, so as to grow them hardy and healthy.

ARTIFICIAL MANURBIL —lAte seasons have their
peculiar demands upon this class of fertilisers, and
although it would be as vet premature to pronounce the
present season late—taking the kingdom as • whole—it
is, neeertheless, now beginning to be no for a few of the
southern counties. Thus crops will require to be formal
forward, so as to covi-r the land before the drought of
May pets in. and if Bay is moist and growing there will
be • tendency to too much straw and lodging. To pro-
vide for both these emergencies, roasting and lodging,
may appear at first sight no easy task, but when we
attend to the peeuliv functions which the salts of soda
and potash perform Pis otherwise for taking common
salt and the muriate of potash as the cheapest and
readiest fertilisers, they both absorb moisture from the
atmosphere in dry weather, while in growing weather,
while in growing weather they promote early maturity,
with stronger straw and more corn. Farmers may thus
cot the ()stale° knot with • two.edged 'word, as it
mere. Both these saline fertilisers should be more
largely used than they generally are. Those who burn
wood should therefore husband their ashes with the
greateet care; and the same may be said of salts of lime,
viz , the phosphates, sulphates, end carbonates, an they
conduce to the more solid structure of plants along with
carbon, and without which plants, including almost all
our cultivated varieties, never show a normal vitality
auffie etit to trope with an unfavourable season ot one
time ammonia was the p.n.:sea for everything, but it
won't do without the other., and espertenoe begins to
teach that the latter above-named require to be in much
greater proportion than was then calculated.
CALVING is very general this month, and it is • bad
plan to Oat vpringing cows when their time it oat into
a loote roomy bon to calve. It is much better to put
them there an they go dry, and not to shift them back
to their at.ll, until some tiiiie after calving, when they
are wholly recovered. Ball the difficulties experienced
at calving arise from springing cows standing one slop-
ing stall. knocking *pipet the trevioes and the like.
The day is ant far distant when roomy cow•boxes wili
be the rule all the year over.

I DEATH or Mi. MERRIEST, M. P.—A.t • quarter past
one bat Thursday morning, at his residence, Victoria-
Pinilieo, London, died the Hon. F. H. F.
Berkeley, 11. P • for 33 years member for Bristol in the
Liberal interest, in his 76th year. The hon, member
ha, had a long illness, and although it is admittail his
letters were carefully and regularly attended to, and
that he allowed no divisim. of Immo tance to pas. with
out making eff.irts to pair, the Bristol Radicals
could not brook one so " unconscionable a time
dying," and the city lies been agitatid for weeks past
by the presence of thre. Liberal candidates for the ex-
pected vacancy I The indecency and ingratitude of
such • course is pail .1 to consider, and the only penis.
ation'offered i, that Mr. Beikeley, daring his dines.,
wan ig•orant of all the pi...m.410v' going on ID Bristol
in relation to Lis seat. "The good friends about him, in
reading to him the contents of the rewspapers, very
oonsiderately pawed over our load doings, and it was
only on one oram.ion, we believe, when he happened to
see a paragraph in the London Tiotes, that he became
oogoissot of any movement. The paragraph referred
to the candidature of Mr. Weer, and although it at
first somewhat tweet by it, he soon joined his friends
in a laugh at the ciomplienentary nature of the
announcement." Bristol haa beh.ved badly to its
nvinber in his last day., and now the trio of
candidates for his place go through the pitiful alio of
ataying their stump oratory till Mr. Berkeley is buried.
The veteran agitator for the ballot wished hin funeral to
be strictly private, no we shall be spared the scandal of
the crocodile's tears of the citisens over his grave.
THE MED Or • MELLOR Or PSOIIIBI CARL —Th.
curiosity of newspaper readers must often have been
provoked tarlatan to know how all the faithless swains,
mat is beavydernages for breech.s of promise to marry,
centres to pay the little bill. Well, last Thursday,
Mr. J. A. Richardson, applied to the London Court of
Bankruptcy, under the following circumstances
When of the age of 18 years I prat:140,01101y met in
the Old lieeteroad with one Emma Yule, then of the
ace of 25 years. We asbrequently promised to MOM
each other, and when I artsined the age of 24 years the
oontract was broken by me. The said Emma Yule
brought an action against me in the Exchequer of Pleas
for the breach of the said contract, and recovered £5OO
damages againat me, and £A3 2.. coats oT suit. Mr
salary as a clerk at the London and Lancashire Fire and
l.de Assurance Company was 1:130 per annum. The
cause of my inability to meet my engagements is the
inauffloieney of ray inseam to pay the said damages and
costa, end maintain myself and wife. " He was
ordered to 618 • cash and property amount. Of amuse
he will get through the Court, and Miss Yttle will have
lost husband and damages, and must pay the mats
Tug ktant Man COSI AT LAST : OR THE PSOORSIS
or Minima —lt was no ordinary pride and satisfae.
lion that we lately bad the honour of an introduction
to one of the most of the moat eminent mir• of the
me. Professor Thomas Holloway, a gentleman who has
done more for the advancement of medical science than
any other that ono he earned, not excluding such re-
nowned "anions" as Abercrombie, Rush, Clark, or
Majendie. The Professor has recently travelled in the
United States, having visited this country for the pur-
pose of establishing idepBt for the salsa his medicines
in New York. It is true that our public have long
been familiar with his great reputation, but partly
owing to the heavy duty imposed upon imported
medicines, and partly to the unwillingness of physicians
and druggists to &drama the intermit. of • professional
brother, whom superior knowledge and skill threatened
to oast their own pretentious into the shade, the sale
(although great) in America of his his wonderful
remedies has not yet equalled the enormous demand
which exhale throughout the whole of Europe,
Australis, the East Indies. and most other parts of the
civilised world. It was for this moon that the Pro-
lessor, • few months ego, ietermined to make New
York the location of a peat American dept.: for the
preparation and sale of big medicine., rivalling in
extent and usefulness his a lehrated establishment in
London, which, as all travellers know, ii one of the
institutions of that city: We have mason to congratu-
lia.e oormlyes, and especially our sick and afflicted
fellow-citizens, upon his felicitous resolutions. Fur
proceeding step by step, on strictly scientific principles.
the Professor, at the early part of his care. r, attained
to a disoovery which shared him above all competition in
tee healing art. He noticed how much of the boasted
medical knowledge of the present day in empirical, and
how little wee really known of the laws of human
physiol.wry. Continuing bin investigations, • happy
thought stream him, like an inspiration, and lid bested
thessat of every dieesse—no matter what it. nature
and diagnosis—in the blood. The blood hm
vitality-
th, blood is alive ; it is, indeed, in the language of
Sailituns, " ths life of man." If that stream of
existence is impart, bow can the human being be other-
wise than feeble, exhanated, emaciated, and afflicted by
various forms a disease? To purify the blood, and
keep it pure, is virtually to banish sickness from the
sixth. Here,.then, is hope for the sufferer. The poor
of
recovery, may CO forth to the world :
ahl'reilinod. yadteesdPartmlngstrong man, Prot. Holloway's
'treatment eradicates all our ailments ; whether they
are of the stomach, liver, kidneys, lungs, heart, or
skin, he refers their origin to the bleed, and restores I
the apparestly dimmed orgen to pristine and perfect
bash& Keeeririg this, as we do, from the stperietace
of our friends, as well as from our own, we discharge
but • Samaritan's ditty to the public, by a °paw
reeommendation of Holloway's Pills and Ointment
,
the former for internal derengemeut of the system ;
the latter for external application to wounds and sores.,
which have resulted every other so-nailed remedy.—
N. Y. Aeldes.