The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-08-28 00:00:00

TILE PRESENT APPEARANCE OF TILE
CROPS.

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The fallowing are the returns made to the corres-
pondents of the Agnoillitral GcLette, relating to thin
ninty

Mr:R. Ihmen. of Dorchester, says :—Wheat, under
avenge; barley, average; oats, average' beans, not much
grown; peas, over avenge; root crops, late, but growing
well ; hay, meadow good, clover light ; harvest commone
August lflth.
Mr. T. Chapman Saunders, of Watercombe, writes :
Wheat, under average; barley, nearly average; oats,
good crop; peas, average (blighted); root crope—mangels
good, other crops promise wall; hay, good crop altogether;
harvest commenced August 10th,
Mr. H. Coate, Sherborne, says :—Wheat, two sacks per
acre under average: barley, good crop; oats, heavy crop
beans, half an average; peas, good crop well harvested;
root crops—rusagels, swedes, and turnips good ; hay,
heavy crop; harvest is now being pushed rapidly forward.
Mr. Nathaniel Benjsbeld, Short's Green Farm, Mot.
roinbe, Shaftesbury, writes :—Wheat, generally eery
light; barley, backward and under average; oats, about
average; beans—winter beans goal, spring ones light ;
peas, fair; root crops, good; bay, quality and quantity
very good; harvest commenced about the middle of
August.
Mr. Alex. IL Luckhani, of Studland, Wareham, says:
—Wheat, light crop, quality good; barley, rather above
average; root crops—a good plant of mangels and swedes,
potatoes diseased; hay, fair crop, well saved; harvest
commenced Angtot 18th or 20th.
Mr. James Buckman, of Bradford Abbas, writes :
Wheat, below average ; barley, fair average ; oats,
average ; beans, variable, not an average ; peas, an
average crop; root crops, very promising; hay, fair and in
good condition ; harvest commenced July 28th.

DORSET COUNTY HOR _
SOCIETY AND DORSETSHIRE BEE-
KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.
Thanks to glorious weather and the indefatigable
exertions of the hon. secretary, Mr. Alfred rope,
backed up by a hard-working committee, the pro-
moters of this society have to be congratulated upon
a most successful meeting, and an exhibition which at
once firmly stamps its character as one of the best
among our first-class local shows. Comparatively in
Its infancy, the fostering care it has received has im-
parted a lustiness to its juvenility which gives every
promise of a vigorous future, and that it will take the
position which, from its locus in yew, it is entitled to
—the county show.
Thursday morning was delightfully refreshing, the
breezes tempering the heat, and Colliton Park, lent
with their usual kindliness by the Misses Churchill—
showed to its greatest advantage. Everything
appeared reviviated by the recent showers, and the
broad tract of country stretching away to the north
afforded charming glimpses of rural scenery.
The Committee of Management were early on the
ground, and the disposition of five or six large MY.
irises, and the thousand-and-one matters to be con-
sidered and opinionated upon in an affair of this
description, kept them well at work. Conspicuous
among them were the Rev. H. Everett, the chairman
of the committee; Mr. Alfred Pope. the hon. see.;
Mr. J. M. Lush, the treasurer; Mr. E. Burnett, Mr.
Andrews, Mr. Burden, and rthere
The show itself, occupied six large tents.
The first comprised the magnificent collection of
plants and cut flowers,the competitions for which were
open to all, and selections from the contributions of
amateurs. This of course was the tent for beauty.
In the second the amateurs or their gardeners
ranged their floral productions; added to by specimens
of plants and flowers, entered by amateurs not employ.
ing a regular gardener, and cottagers.
The third tent was devoted to the splendid exhibi-
tion of fruit from the hot-houses of the amateurs,
constituting a display excusing almost a forgetfulness
of the 10th Commandment.
And around one of the fine trees was arranged table
after table, burdened with vegetables that must have
made glad the heart of the husbandman, and would
have sent the Colorado Beetle into eactacies of
delight.
Another large tent was occupied by the Bee Associa-
tion, of which we shall also speak further.
And there were other tents in use for the officials.
To commence with just a cursory glance at the show,
some idea of its character as regards number, may be
gathered from the following estimates of the numbers
of entries; in the different classes. For plants and
Rowan (open to ell) there were 22 entries. For cut
flower% 35 • and the variety and extent of the exhibits
may be imagined when we say the schedule demanded
for instance 24 waist's* of roses; 36 spikes of
&MeV ;24 blooms of asters, ttc. ; srh the
value of the prisms was not to be
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