The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

bred to Mr. Bowie, and now In Mr. ICComble's bands.
A prise tow of this stook brought £B5 at Mr. MCoinblee
sale laid year. The competition WAS remarkable to•day,
also as being • keen contest on equal bums between the
landholders and tenants, the result hung In favour of
the latter. The show of borees was a very fine one, hot
not equal to the Clydesdale show of last year. Tbe
sheep were much admired, ealessially the native breed' 1
but the Cheviots' wen In large numbers, and the prises
were carried away chiefly by the south °multi, breeders.
The 79 pigs shown to•day were superior to those at
former shows. There was a good display of dairy pro.
dime, and it is worthy of notice here that, after long and
, arduous competition among churn-makers, the first prise
has been awarded to Mr, Philip Hunter, of Winburgb,
for an improvement on the old plump churn, by which
butter shown to-day was made in 18 miniitee. There
was a large number of entries for fowls, and after •
severe contest, the Cochin China bid to yield to the
lively Dorking and the common born-yard fowl. As
wottorY to the show, there was exhibition of flowers,
and a temarkahle display was made of an almost endless
variety of native and naturalised sorts. There have
been one or two lectures on agriculture connected with
the exhibition, and to-night there WI to be • public
dinner, presided over by the Duke of Atholl, in place of
the Prinoe Consort, who was at one time expected to be
present and Wattle chair. At one time it is believed
that there were from 16,000 to 20,000 persona in the
show-yard. The city is quite full, and lodgings bad
been for wine days at • premium.

Povaroen.—This is • proper time to attend to early
potatoes for next year's crop, and I would ingest to
your readers the benefit they would confer in giving the
result of their experience on the following pointe :
lat. Is there any better eon for first earlies in the natu-
ral ground for private gardens than the true ash-leaf
kidney The propriety of greening them now hy ex-
poeure to the sun and air cannot be doubted. but is it
deairable during that exposure they should be protected
from rain or devil The next prooeu I preoutue Is in-
disputable •, viz., that they should he preserved in a
dry, cool place, but effedually promoted from frost, and
so arranged by being laid on a fluor, or on end in •
shallow tray or box, or under a dower stage in A n.
after Mr. Cuthill's plan—that they can chit or
sprout without interfering with each other, and then in
February or March planted out caret oily in whole tubers
without dieturbing the chits or sprouts? What is the
best distanoe from set to aet and row to row in r, private
garden? Is there Any material advantage or difference
of produce between large sets and medium-shied ones?
Would a large tuber, if split longitudinally and planted
ea two seta, produce more than the whole tuber punted
as one set? Is it a foot that potatoea do better when
planted on a well trodden hard bottom than upon loose
soil below? Ras the cultivation of the early potalps
been tried in pots unarm a shed, fully exposed to light
antir but to no more water than what Is properly
supplied? I quits amour with Mr. ChithlU, that the
cultivation of the potato, as well to the strawberry, hoe
hitherto been moat barbaroasly managed. We are told
that the potato. is • native of South Amelia I it would
be interesting, and perhaps instructive, if some of your
foreign correspondents would give us the details of its
growth in its native climate at ths present day—wild
and eitillvated.—J. a At., Birksithrod.

4ispulat!le

Tan HARVIIIT IN NOOTiAND.—We have migmagryd
over the southern helf of Rootimid during the lael few
joys, and in all directions the orop in being "eared
under molt authieloue tonditions, In the eastern end
of tiltrothinors a number of reaping machines ere it
work, and though neemionally going wrong from went of
skill n menagentent, they bees done valuable mthylos
cod igrip 4414111441 the farmer how valuable en shy
Inventive eelenee Gen now bring Into the harmed hid.
Keperteneed ponies thy the farmers are deltelent In
ahorp, rUgaroue working of the meshing*, mid reouni.
mend a clomp of horses every two hours, and to keep
the work In I brlik stele oil through. In the later parte
of Yerfareltir• tie mar ore ill randy, 'col gutting pee
on uninterruptedly, 1 there is a fault In the ems, we
m think the feora are eking matten too godly, forget.
ful of the &soulful hotheete mid perils of the locrvisete of
LIMO and lin?. Up Minnigh tlw stretlis ell
ore body at work, the blue booming& wrinkled Celts
tolling awey In entail band. —the fewneas of the reaper.
conmeting thee of the Impoodiffilty aa to the Ingother.
lag of the epremling gelds of grain. Around Perth the
bulk of the wheat mop hue been sleeked, There ileversil
!athlete hare been doubly tillilgent, lobourlng late and
wady. The heavy 'nine of the evening of Titureiley,
the 11th, tooled the Mr, end, elime then, the weather lota
been crisp, end singularly adapted fur the immuring of
the snip, verywhere the reporte are good, and QOM
wee never tarried to the steithyard In boiler condition.
In the 'mildew, the lending Is fir throttled. In Item
wlelsehlre the "hearer* have, In mine lustmiete, boen get.
tin' Sae, it week, with retions —spirited fernier' theining
determined thet they should not Mick at trifle!' in get.
Wig their harmed work emumpllelied, We bath mend
and examined number* 9f potato" deltic They may be
ileserlbed as Mill bethink "heed, in eonctillon, of pro.
Moue your'. Getaelonsl -fields do emit mill, but the
semi Is much lees faulty this year. There may be tailors
to seine toithnt, hut apponitime Justify the belief that
"sell will only be In mitigeted form.
NIWAO4.—The following MI the eoneluelone to width
some tonekleration of the subjoin has led me I-1. Uhl
it le a very diffieult thing to mend sewage to ma. 1
notice in "email estuary that the sewage of a smell town
obstinetely rithieee to go to see, and mtge. In filthy
Oinking mud on the leeward shore of the estuary. IL
That 1110 is sent to see ills utterly wasted. S. That if ap.
plied to land It to Immedietely deodorleed. I lest week,
In tin premium of one of the London other" of lieolth,
caused &bout 18 gallons id very offensive Immure to be
thrown on m piece of windy 'mind whieli had nut been
stirred for a twelvemonth, Within half • minute ail
perceptible smell had awed, 4. That it pummel
eminently fertllleing properties. I have it Ole moment
on a piece of land eonsistlng of a poor sendy Item, roll.
Ins on a shingly gravel, as good e crop of mange' as le,
I believe, In be found within ten mile. of it, I attribute
the ;minim of this crop to the lend having been last
winter slopped with sewage. To a sinall pert I have
applied sewage while the crop was growing ; then it is
still more luxuriant, Tido to one among many histancos
whiah I have observed of the great value of UMW. a
—and this I. the believe *swage ran be sp.
plied to the lend at as little twat as It oen be thrown
Into the ROI. Why should not the sewage be interoepted
end sent in large or irony iron and clay pipes to from
10 to 30 miles front St. Peel's? Why should it not he
radiated from the inetropolle which it poisons, end mode
to °enter wealth on the holders of the surrounding land?
Of *curse there would be difficulties, but surely non* that
English engineers could not sormount. Are there no
difilaultiee In throwing it away The ‘letropoliten
Sewage Minium Company found no diffieulty in dis-
tributing sewage. That company failed because it sup-
plied minors only in the immediate neighbourhood of
London, where manure was • drug. Had it possessed
energy end capital to have carried its sewage toe greater
distance it might have succeeded. Hut if it could send
sewage one mile, why should not others send it 10 or 30?
The scanty capital of the company wee counted in • few
thousands. London has millions at its disposal. If
the softens of the pier is doubted it could be tried on a
small scale. The sewage of a small section of the me-
tropolis could first be dealt with, and the import/nee of
the question would surely justify the cost of an experi-
ment. I would suggest that the flood water should be
kept from the sewage ; that the former should How to
the Thames, the latter to reoeptacles, whence it should
he sent into the country and distribnted as manure.
The sides of railways would ifford convenient oppor-
tunities for laying the first pipes. I say pipe., booeute
I think that a number of large pipes would be preferable
to one large sewer. The (Manes of leakage would be
lees, and a stoppage in one pipe would not greatly inter-
fere with the flow of the sewage.—A Countryman.
Tne THORN Arrhs.--Four boys were brought at the
end of last week to St. Marie Hospital, with eymptome
whiah the house surgeon on duty (Mr. Lewrenee) rightly
conjeatured to arise from sotne nerootio pollen, One
WU but slightly treated, and was not taken in, but the
other three were severely ill, and two were caved only
by the readineee with which extreme remedial (inch PA
electricity) are made availeble in 4 biro' hospital. When
sufficiently recovered, the boy. confessed to having
eaten, in Kensington Gardens, sonic fruit which they
found thrown away under & heap of timber, They said
they had been told "it wee good for reeking wine,"
and they rether liked the teeth. Their deseription of it
us resembling "spooked apples" did not moult olueldete
ita nature i so they were cent to bring wine In, end re.
turned with an Ample load of Mauro stramenthem, or
Thorn Apple, the eource of one of the mat dongeroue
drug. in the Phernmeoposie, It perliere mil cave 4 life
or two if our linden are informed thel mine children fin
the teeth of thle seed &growth,' enough for them to eat a
poleonoue quantity, end that it I. by no MIAMI eel, to
leave it in piiblie 111441111. The proprietors ought to i.e
that ill ill, boil 104141 h,, bRNA{ Or burled,
7,44_,
here