The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-11-05 00:00:00

s.gricuitural Items.

IXIMACTSD ISOM scTre,66 £ittlTllll3. OCIDS
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Now we are in the-r:cluid.y. her me ehrlstrats,"
the ars of the gsrlen na ty tie -„,st I ,
and the seed lie: for the next eeed-istwi•ig oti Mlll nay
be made ~et. And this is the hest es VI. OP for such s
review too. Ants that have .teav well or ill, wants
that have been felt, misiak,4 that h ,ve be-n male,
Sr. now fresh in ones memny. Sal n or, Jeri 6: eels,•,_
reels, pumps, ko, for next ectsoll'e work. we Can couch
better now than at any otb-r time bring rx
a ,d observatkm to hear anon our iir.iced ir., wi:h a
view to hen,' he, Wit,. Consi.teutly with the reeptiqu
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of plans by the reel 1., revise the *fro: k out of do ,re.
Begis even now to prepare for n-st year*, Cll,llu by
trenching, manuristg, planting, and collecting stiff to
burn in • "smother." Land got ready n eer for spring
seeds and roots, and kept quite rough, will only re.
quire t be levelled d own and raked over when opting
comes to be reedy for seed at a day or two's notice,
and will produos ts,tter crops thee if got ready in a
hurry. Be ready with pr tooting mitentil for all the
needs of the sesems, remembtring that a few nights of
hard frat may destroy lettuces, endives, celery, and
cauliff Arens worth many pistols. wkoch • few shillings'
worth of labour and litter would have saved COLO-
pletely.
ARTICII, /ICES must be protected ere frost att mks
them. In the first place cut off the leaves t withi a
foot of the ground. owl thou beau up along each side
of the rows a lot of dry litter, consisting of straw, pea
haulm, or leaves, tsking core in we doing to leave the
hearts of the plants free to the light and air.
AspAff vOLTA beds to los cleated up by removal of
the grades, clearing away of weeds, and laying on a
moat of manure or sessreed. It matters not how rank
the manure used for a mulch.
BY C.NS.—It is =Laconia/7 on dry, worm sons to
wow beans now for • hi...temp, and the practice ie to be
commended. On cold, damp *ea suoi we mar say
in clay lan le everywhere. it k waste of seed and
labour to sow now, lout
catiabiliies, and every cultivator must ju Igo for him-
self, our business being to remind all slike warding
to our knowledge of facts and c msideration of the
interest of our readers. In any case berms sown now
should be put on welt-droned land in a sheltered spot.
and the aorta should be such as mansion, minder
giant, or dwarf Willow. •
C will be turning in now, and
piesils.y those C,[111114 forward will be all the better
off for beitm covered with a teat to pr ,tort the hauls
from fast. If the barometer rise. steadily, an I the
wind goes round to n .rtla or nor h-east, cut all the
best cauliflowers and inn them in • shed, or any out
of the war .I sue safe f - um.

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UELERY.—IIard frost c ming aft.r heavy rain
may prove &atm tire to celery ; and it is well, if
t one is a crop worth saving, to cut a trench round the
planiation to krone P•Cuite of surplus wAter.
G tRLI,I and PaTATO ONION 3 to be plants.]
as opportunity offers.
HORSE-RAI/NH to be taken up and stored riseAy
for toe, and new plantations t be made as opportunity
offers and ground can be spared.
P13.4....—The wowing of Pea. now isnot recommen.led
for the community at large, but for those only who are
so circum.iance.l that they may ad ipt the practice
with sane pr weert .1 encores. lilt i. determine I to
sw. select for the purpose a nic., dry. I,ght, well-
drained sunny border, safe from mice. slu-s, and not
over much frequented by sparrow.. Any ~f the fir.t
earlier will serve the purpoe, a lit will b. advisable
to so* two or three Doris rather th us one only

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P ITATOES may be planted ,au dry, sandy soils,
but n 4 on damp, henry 1an.1..
SEA-K ALE to be prepared for forcing. Those to
be forced in frame, and pita nh .ul I be ,aken up, and
exponed aim. urn. b.sfore they are in heat, 4. create
for the root, an 4/ titicial winter. Those to be forced on
the ground should be Meese I of her' leive,. ant the
crown. cover d with clean litter. prepsrat y t
being covered with pots sal (enacting insterisl.
Our report of Tunb-lige Wei's Ahoy Inst week
recorded the fact th it C. rier pize.n wan claimed fir
the large sum of L.OO We tnink this in only the
nee nul time such a .-uns ha. been realised hy a single
bin -I, the former occ talon being th it iii whieh a Onme
cck w.s acquire I for the name prim* at the Cunt d
Palace •nh • rom the Lire 4.4 Joeraat,

OATH AND lIDOIT Or [SOUND N.ICINTT AND NJOTIORII

COUNTI £314 Vri

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At the Council Meeting held Oc•ober 29th. 187 g, at
the Grand lintel, Bristol, the chair wee take,' bv th •
Right Ron. the Eel of Moder. NI r. 0 eoppit Bich,
as chairman of the Flamm; Cons.nit•ge, br otsht up
the glad. rly report, and payment. to the amount Of
El 4.0 13e. 31. were sanctiocesl. Ile in blentaby
n tu srk-.11 ticit he believed that the I D.% rotatable! h.'
the Oil or,! Meeting would not etc £930 64 the, if
an outatanding amount of £BOO, tv.,a spwililv aid. it
would be unnecessary to draw upon the blade I
capital of the Society. The date of the .gteLy'a
Meeting at Exeter wee fixed for Whit wea, cow-
men iug Jule 2.sil, 1879. At a meetiov held o I the
30th of July the Council, having affir ed the pr orni•
lion that it was deeir this t • es ablials frienily relatio
with any Atriculsural Association in the siddricts
visited by the Society, resolved that the Devon
County Agricultural Amociation he invitml t • join he
Bath and Wee .1 Englan I ocirty in th- Ester
Meeting of 1279. A copy of this reeoluti .n was
forwerded in due conrsa to the Secretary of tsie I)eaton
County A mociati .n, an,l so s herin vitation so fortes, ded
the following reply bona Mr. Winter wee communi-
cated Dear sir,-1 have submitted your letter of
the sth August leet to the Council of the Devon
Agricultural Amenieti in, who iu.trursted me to for ward
r.O the accompanying enly of iseeiluti 'us pesPed at
the previous meetiog id the Council, boll on the sth
July Islet, by which you will see that the t 'ouucil are
pledged to hold the 1879 exhibii in of the Devon
Society at Devonpurt. 1 am at the same time to
.XPreee regret that the invitation of your Council Wee
even so loge as to preclude the p of the
Devna Association joining the Bath and West of
England and South-rn Counties Association in the
Exeter Meeting of 1879."