The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-22 00:00:00

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MILDCW.—The mildew of the berberry and that of
the Wheat plant are not the same fungus. It is im•
Possible that the former should produce the latter ; but
it is quite poQsible that the same circumstances should
favour the production of both; and hence possibly hal
arisen the idea referred to.— Agricultural Gazette.

SAIIR BIM— A correspondent of the Agricultural
Gazette says :—ln a two-hogshea I cask I had about 56
gallons of very stale bear, turned by the thunder 1+,4
i.u.mmer, and not fit to drink. I drew it off, wa,hed the
cask out, and put in 21h. of valcined chalk, and the beer
on the chalk. I let it stand three days, then brewed 56
gallons of beer with four bushels of malt and 61b. of
hops, and put it into the task with the stale beer. It
has been done about a month, and now tutu very soft
and pleasant. Master 3138 it is a hogshe.id of beer
gained.

ABORTION IN Cows.—Ergot is not confined to rye.
Rye-gran, both common and Didier), is liable to it;
and this may sometimes explain the las of calvee. A.
oorresp indent of the A gricultural Gazette writes:—" In
the parish of Ludgoan, near Permeate, for seine nine or
ten years past, serious losses in horned stock have
occurred from cows frequently slipping their calves from
the fifth to the eight month ; the calf frequently dying,
and the cow lost for seine time to the dairy. No Italian
rye-grass is, or has been grown on any farm where the
evil exists, as far as I can learn, and the water is usually
pure and in good quantity. Sometimes cows in calf
drink at pools fouled by droppings. Seven in 20 calves
are lost annually on one farm which I know; aud about
100 calves annually are lost in the pariah. What
noxious he-b besides *eget of rye can occasion this?
Sheep do not suffer. We know nothing of the kind in
this neighbourhood."
EARLY HARVESTING.—Wo suffer our grain to become
too ripe ere it is out, as if we bad wind, and time, and
capital to squander at pleasure. Speaking of Irish
farmers, Mr. Beale Brown observes :—" They have only
to plant earlier, not let their corn get so ripe, and cap
their stooks, and the corn can be secured in lrel.nd as
well as in England." On the 4th of August, Mr.
Hanna= cut a perfectly green sheaf, the grain as yet
full of milk, and left it for a fortnight on the ground.
On the 18th he out another sheaf when the ears and
atom were of a greenish-yellow, but more green than
yellow, and on the let of September he cut a third
sheaf. The grain from these several sheaves was care-
fully tested, and it appeared, to use Mr. Harnam's
words, "that wheat reaped a fortnight before it was
ripe had the advent Ire in every respect of the ripe."
The yield was greater. The grain fetched a higher price.
Corn factors, to whom the samples were submitted,
priced the green wheat and the ripe at 61s. per quarter.
The half-ripe wheat they estimated at 645. per quarter;
and Mr. Hardcastle the miller at Wetherby, found that
in yield of flour, the half-ripe wheat was nearly 8 per
cent in excess of the ripe. —Agricultural Gazette.
APRICOTS: If root pruning is well and properly per-
formed, you will not see the effect it will have on the
production of fruit until next year ; but if the tree still
continues to grow very luxuriantly, it is evident that
root pruning is not enough, or else has not been well
done. If the tree is young and vigorous it would be
best to nnoover the roots carefully for • large radius,
and lift the tree entirely out of the ground, and re-
plant it; other conditions, such ea climate. Sic., being
favourable, we bane no doubt that this would result in
a very productive habit of growth. Something, how-
ever, of the non-productiveness of a tree may be owing
to its being nntriinmrd. Apricots require very careful
and judicious manipulation, and it is hardly fair to ex-
pect that a tree which is left to grow wildly should be
productive. After re-planting the tree it will be
advisable to thin out the wood freely and nail it close
into the wall. The best time to lift the tree is early in
October. —Gardeners' Chronicle.
LAWN Gateaux—The best time to sow grass seeds
for the improvement of lawns is March, but it may be
done in the autumn in very favourable localities. The
mode of proceeding would be the same at both seasons,
and consists in loosening the surface of all the bare
patches, and applying a liberal dressing of tioh soil,
fiuely pulverised, over the whole surface, which should
be well raked into the interstices of the standing grass;
seeds of fine lawn grasses mixed with white Dutch
clover, may then be mattered over the surface and
slightly raked in, and when the moil is sufficiently dry
not to adhere to the roller it should be very firmly rolled
down, which rolling may be afterwards repeated at short
intervals after the seed is up. There is another way,
and if your soil is very good it may anawer very well,
to simply scatter plenty of seeds over the grass, rake it
well in, and then roll down firmly as before. If you
mow with a machine, great care should be taken that it
is not set too low, as that will often have the effect of
making the grass patchy. There is no difficulty in
obtaining fine mixed lawn -grasses and white Dutch
clover from any of the great firms whose advertisementa
are constantly to be found.—/&id.
A NEW AND CHEAP WAY TO MAKI BUTTER.—It in
• common practice in Normandy, says the Journal of
the Society of Arts, to bury the cream in the ground, in
order to convert it into butter. The principle we will
not pretend to elucidate, but the fact is that cream
placed in a moderately thick linen bag, which is care-
fully secured end buried some eighteen inches deep for
four-and-twenty hours, undergoes ouch a change that it
only requires a little beating with a mallet to separate
the butter milk ; and there it is, excellent butter, and
more of it than any amount of churning could get out
of the same quantity of cream. When the ground is
frozen, the cream bag is taken into a cellar and buried
in sand. The bag of cream must be thick enough to
keep out any earthy flavour; to prevent the chance of
this some people use a second bag. More time is needed
if the mass of cream is very large; and in all cases,
after the beating, a glass of cold water is thrown into
the butter, which makes the buttermilk separate
entirely. Sswerel Isiah papers mentioe, thia method.
as very valuable for small farmers on account of the
scarcity of labour. B.oend Inigny, near Carentou. in
the Cotentin—the district which chiefly supplies the
Paris restanranta—the land is very much divided. You
constantly see bonhoinme Jaques and his wife at work
In the field, with the baby lying under the hedge; the
butter, of course, making Aiwa meanwhile. Without
this contrivance, these senituen in purrs farmers could
not get on at all. The fabulous price it fetches in
Paris testifies to the goodneea of the produce. If the
other system is to last in Ireland, the hint will be of
great value to many to whom " the butter" is now the
plague of their lives.

Sporting.

TAB Melbourne papers announce the death of the
celebrated Fisherman, one of the best horses ever ex-
ported to New South Wales.
Tat FIGHT roe Tan CHAMPIONSHIP, with £2OO a-side,
is to take place on Wednesday, November I. The oom-
petitors for the honour of the belt and the more sub-
stantial money prise are WJrniald and Zoe (the
present champion), two men who are already well known
to the sporting world by their pugilistic encounters.
We are sorry to learn that the cattle plague has
broken out with considerable virulence near fihepton
Mallet.

LARGE quantities of diseased meat were on Monday
oondemned by the magistrates at the Clerkenwell and
Thames police-courts.
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Till TRIPLE idunnun.—lt has been found that the
three children lately murdered in London were
poisoned by prussic acid.
It is said that a private subscription started with
view to a memorial to Mrs. Cobden, without a single
appeal to the public or to strangers, now exceeds £27,000.
FOUNDEBING OF THE A I : LOSS or THIRTEEN Lives
—On April 20, when in lat. 10 8, long. 88 E., • cyclone
struck the ship, at 9.80 am., throwing her on her beau
ends, and blowing away all the sails. She became un-
manageable, and at noon went down carrying with her
13 of the crew and officers. The muter, Captain
Potter and two seamen got neon a piece of the wreck,
and remised there until May 6, when they were taken
away by the barque Silvoreraig, of Liverpool, and landed
at Batavia on the 17th. They had no covering but what
they stood in, and nothing to eat all the time.
THE DOCHlES.—Anstria and Prussia have come to
an agreement in regard to the Datchies and the un—
intelligible Selleswig- Holstein question becomes intelli-
gible at last. Prussia wanted the duchies, and allowed
Germany, alter her wont, to weary herself with learned
and profound discussions whirl only plunged the subject
into deeper darkness, in order to gain a pretext for
attacking them. Austria joined Prussia, barque° she
did not want Prussia to lead the confederation; and
now allows Prange to do Fissile likes, because the Italian
and other d fficulties won't allow her to go to war.
Denmark has been ukinstly despoiled of her territory;
but Oermany is none tha gainer. Prussia alone gains, at
which Austria thoubli forced to be an inactive spectator
must be horribly jealous. But Prussia's Nemesis may
also be near.
Twig CHOLIFRA.—An "Old Indian," writing to the
Tinto, propoaes a new remedy for this fearful disease.
It consists in inoculation with quassia. The "Old
Indian" says that in 1857 he effected some extraordinary
cures by this means at an indigo plantation some forty
miles from Calcutta. The inoculation may be done by
anybody with sense enough to avoid calking an incision
in one of the principal veins, the quassia is dropped
into the wound, the body should be shampooed, and
nothing given to the patient but cold water in small
quantities. Cramps rapidly awe, and fair circulation
of the blood is restored, the invariable exclamation of
the invalid on recovering consciousness being "I'm
getting warm," with • great sigh of relief; • relapse
during the first few hours may be feared; in such a case
a second inoculation in two or more elem. must be per-
formed. The discoverer of this specific was one Dr.
Honinburglier, who is said to have had a vast Indian
experience.
SUICIDE or A HORBE.—A correspondent writes :—A
few days ago a poor creature, worn to skin and bone,
put an end to his existence Ins very extraordinary man-
lier. His pedigree is unknown, as he was quite a
stranger. A very worthy gentleman here met bun in a
public market, and thinking he could find employment
for him put him to work, but it was soon discovered
that work was not his forte; in foot, be would do any-
thing save work and go errands. His great delight was
to roam about the fields and do mischief. People passing
him used to ejaculate, "Ugh, you ugly brute," when
they saw the scowl which was continually upon hie face.
fru master tried to win him by kindness. He re-
membered the old song, "if I had a donkey that
wouldn't go, do you think I'd wallop him? Oh no, no."
The kindness was lost upon him. He next tried the
whip, then the cudgel, but all in vain. Work he would
not. And as • last resort the punishment of Nebu-
chadnezzar of old was tried. He was turned out, "but
house or haold," to eat grass with the oxen. With
hungry belly and broken heart, he wended his lonely
way down by the Moor's Shore, passed Litokyaniup,
turned the Moor's Point, and still held on his lonely way,
regardless of the wondering gaze of the Pool fiehermen.
At length he arrived at a point opposite the wreck of
the Dalhoueie, where he stood stilt; and while the
curiosity of the Mermen was wound to the highest
pitch as to what was to follow, he, neighing loudly and
tossing his old tail, rushed madly into the briny deep,
got beyond his depth, held his bead under the water, and
soon cooed to be. The ° m conveyed the true,
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