The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-03-13 00:00:00

ACI RIC RAT, REPORT FOR
11 AMPSHI RE.

Sine: Our at report the weather has ,ntirmed
stormy and wild, except dnring the Led week v r two.
Wc have, however, experienced a few .frost+, which
bare done much good in making the hint work better
for the seed tim., which has already commenced in a
few iustatwes n the hill hinny awl dry soils, but the
work of the farm is generally very!treneb in arrear.
Should the weather turn drier, of which there is some
premise 'luring the lad few days, it fluty still prove a
favourable iced thus for Leht 4:orn.

A cpapaiderable breadth of wheat has been sown
lately under favourable e,irmunstaneei, for althoueli the
land was heavy, yet that is none the worse for spring
mown whoa!, as tie, plant starts more like wanton
sown corn. The wheat plant upon sU dry soils is
in, king strong and forward, where sone in good time
in the autumn, awl it Inuet lee admitted that for the
hill farms awl thy louts everywhere the wet winter ham
been propitiima particularly for lea wheat.
The prospects of early foal for cattle awl sheep is
good. The irrigated anewlowe promise abundance of
early arwe, nod the dry pastures everywhere are
laekina unneually green awl gay. in many instance',
there is food for rattle. which is now being grazed by
dairy ono's, tee. All kinds of Gelder crops for
soilin, cattle are very forward, rye and tnfolinus
especielly. IWinter %etches al., are very strong, and
a goad plant
We must now :auk to the comina seel time.
Barley by the hest farmers will be sown as P.M as
po,sible, awl where oats are required for home con-
sumption the plan of mixing barley with them is
becoming general, giving a heavier weight of grain
with nix or eight buahels per acre more crop, and a
much greatsr certainty of securing pi\ regular plant;
the use id the new steep for seed earn is fast coining
int p lie, as it is found to entirely prevent the rooks
ant small birds from injuring the young plant. This
plan is necessary now that the boys who were used to
scare the birds away arepsent to school instead.
It is satisfactory to repwt a full average fall of
lambi from the Hampshire I /own flocks on the Hill
Vanes, whi -It have now nearly finished Ittnlling and
this eiremin lame is the more favourable as several of
the li4 1-mbing season have proved diswarowp and
nude: me average. There have been, however, *Pine
serous lessee both id ewes wad lambs which have come
to pew notice, but this is always the ea.-e to some
extent even in the beet seasons. In our last report we
spoke favourably- of the early fall of lambs from the
horned Dors ris, and we find that they have done well,
although the weather has been so wet, awl on killing
they are foanil to be very fat awl are selling bath in
the metropolitan and the eetinty markets at high
prices.
Sheep are We" .4 lIWe well, and tlik must C. Intinur
for some time, seeing that the deistic-, tell us our
sheep MiOrIZ had decreased mullet him; like a million in
each id the last two yearn, and this is certainly no
more than e edit be expecte I while Pliaewpes of various
kinds were freely imported with the stock from abrow
I awl it is no wonder that univenial ilbisatifaction
prevail amongst the Agriculturists thomghout the
kiwi-den, and that all the farmers clubs and agricul-
tnral societies are petitiening the Government in
' Privy rentedl to adopt sub measures as will secure
no againet the importation of diseasae to which nor
eattle, sheep, and ph,s have succumb,- l in such large
mintheri during the past three yeare, S 4, WI to fat
eyeviel the Milialltage of our innwpriation o 1 live ato,k.
In view .f the present awl future high pekoe of meat
awl scarcity of stuck the supply of dew' meat from
America ought to show the Government that in the
intereid both of the stock owners and the meat
cansumers in the future the whole of our
(-reign supplies she'll,' be sent into this country as
plea 1 ineat, in preference t. live animals, as being the
Pinly means whereby we can be sure ef free trade in
meat without, as heretofore haviug free importations
of disease also, awl if the blea which 'prevails in the
Privy Council, that to make ea great a change
sieblenly would he too great a disturbance to the
business of iew Importers, then let a time be named,
gay the lit of January, 187 e, after which time no
animal shall be admitted alive for 'daughter in this
country, except from Ireland, which may very pro-
perly he treated as an integral portion rd the kingdom.
The large importation of supplies of dewl meat from
America has, in 'some case., caused alarm, but we see
I no cause for it, as the price of American meat has
already risen to meet the price of our home killed,
instead of home killed falling to meet the price of
American.

March 7th, JOSEPIi BLUNDELL, Southampton.
1877.

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