The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-19 00:00:00

Sgriculturt.

TOP•DRZISSINJ TOIL WRIAT.—A mixture of nitrate
of soda and oommon salt, 1 owl, of the former to 2 cwt,
of the letter, sown in wet weather, half in March and
half in April, is u good as any...

POULTZT.—To ensure • profitable result from the
extended keeping on • mixed farm, proper accommo-
dation is iodornsable. A wooden "lean-to" with an
enclosed yard to trout, both house and front being sub-
tiivided according to the number of breeds kept, is all
that his requisite. The house for each breed should be
10 feet square, with • sloping roof 6 feet high in front,
and 10 to 12 fret high behind. A ventilator should be
placed over each division. The yard should be at least
12 feet by 6 feet, and covered with Ape grovel, which
ought to be changed and refreshed once a-week. The
partitions between the yattli should be of wooden
planking Ouch thick, and 2i to 3 feet high, to prevent
the codes from seeing each other. Above that height
wire netting is suffinient protection. &eh yard should
be furnished with a dent-bath, a drinking fountain, and
feeding troughs. In the houses, the roosting places
should consist of poles of young larch trees, or other
thinnings from the plantations, laid upon trowels about
3 feet from the ground at most, with a ladder leading
up to them. The nests and hatching dormitories may
be arranged about the same height from the floor in •
single tier along the walls of the house. Walls and
ceilings should be regularly whitewashed with hot
lime, and both houses and outdoor yards carefully
cleaned out at least ones • week. A very lair breeding
stock for an ordinary sized farm would consist of 1 cock
and 12 hens of each breed desired to be kept. To
prevent "in-breeding," whieb effectually ruins any
rod in • very brief time, the cocks should be *hanged
every seeond year ; and great pains should be taken to
select good, healthy, well-formed birds, with all the
requisite points purely and d ',Coca y marked.— Abridged
from at Highland and Agricultural Society's Journal.

Countr2 fniscellanu.
GARDEN OPERATIONS.

HARDT FRUIT GARDRN.—ShouId the weather continue
dry, or if there is only a partial soaking of rain, it will
be necessary to give all newly-planted Fruit Trees
good soaking of water at the root. Afterwards—if not
already done—well mulch the surface of the soil at the
base, with partly decomposed manure. Destroy every
wasp, and hornet also, at this ...son. Feieh one that
out-rives the winter become. the parent of a numerous
progeny during the next few months.
HARDY FIAMIR GARDISII.—Where the weather con.
tine, dry, it will be advisable to give • good watering
to all freshly-laid Turf, and eapecially to inch as has
been laid recently, or late In the season. Give to all
plantations of Ranisersfais which are now showing
thriugh the ground, a aloe aurfacing with finely-sifted
rotten leaf mould. Protect your oboiceat flowers of
Pansies from slugs or other nocturnal depredator.,
which injure them much at times, the mischief being
done when too late to be remedied.

Krrcitze GAIIDNN.—Things are looking more hopeful
now aniongat our kitchen garden crops. Perhaps .he
young plantar in rows of Peas, Beans, Ao., never looked
better than those which were sown somewhat late, or
transplanted. Use the boo freely amongst all such
crops now, snd by well earthing•up all that need it,
induce a quick sturdy growth. The earliest Peas mud
be staked fortwith. These, as a rule, are dwarf kinds,
averaging 3to 4 feet. Place the sticks somewhat
thicker than ordinarily, as an additional inducement to
growth, and as • protection against cold winds and
spring frost. Cotton or worsted dipped in paraffin, and
stretched along the rows, Is • sure deterrent of birds,
which peck them about unmercifully at this season.
Sow • few Dwarf French Beans upon • warm sheltered
border, with a sunny aspect. Give antunin•sown
Cassiitowers a copious watering with good thick liquid
manure, and draw the soil well up around their
Harden-off Tomato', Capsicums, Sweet Basil, fr.e., by
full exposure to the air on all proper occasions, and
sow mods of Herbs, Vegetables Marrows, &a, where
this has not already been done.
TOWN GAlLDMlNG.—Digsdelions, Daisies, and other
weeks will now be making their appearance in Grass
Lawns, and should immediately be taken out with as
much root as possible, for if any be left in they will be
&continual nniwios. A little white Linton Clover seed
shoeld be sown in their place. The lawn should be well
rolled, and the edges neatly trimmed with tLe edging
iron. It will then present an agreeable appearance, and
render the Grass much easier to mow. Gravel Walls
that have been newly laid or turned should be rolled
ones or twice a week, to make the walks firm and easy
to walk upon during the summer. Look well to the
watering of such trees and shrubs as have been planted
this sprinclffor mooed in their culture much depends
upon this treatment. Plante that have been wintered
in frames should now have all the dead leaves pieked
off. The soil should be stirred, the pots turned round,
and the light' taken off in Sue weather, to give them as
much air as possible to prepare them for turning out.
The Prissiflora etrrnlea, Cann srandens, and Pen piece
peace, are all rapid climber., and are well adapted for
growing in town conservatories. They should now be
potted into Itiesivi pots, with plenty of crocks in the
bottom for drainage, in soil oompmed of rich sandy
loam. Place them in the position they are intended to
occupy, and see that they are well watered, and nom.
sionslll tringed.over the toplon.warm afternoons.
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THs-Siwmis QUeterion.-Ildr. Filliter, C B , resident
waterworks engineer to Leeds Town Council, has been
lecturing on this question, before the authorities of the
town. The belief, he said, was asinine ground, that
rparate sewers would have to be made for rainwater
and sewage. nil was likely, ultimately, to prove
the key to one part of the sewage difficulty. Be
referred to the methods in practice of dealing with the
sewage as it is—the irrigation system, and the de
Position plan, noticing also other methods, including
Monies Earth System, and remarked that upon
further investigation it might, after all, prove simpler
and better not to allow bowie refuse to become sewage
at all, rather than to attempt to putify and utilia• it'
when to made. The sewage of Leeds would 811 •
reservoir eieht acres in extent and Ave feet deep every
day. To practice irrigetion they must eonvey the
sewage 27 mile, away to Thorne Waste, and he pointed
out that although the advocates of 'swage irrigation
adduced remarkable examples of heavy produce and
large receipts, it could not be forgotten that these were
produced upon hind which had cost much to put into
shape, and required much to keep it in working
order,—Mr. Edward Smith, V.C.8.. &a., of Torquay. in
• paper on "The Chemistry of Sewage," urged the
necessity of preserving the excreta of towns and mix.
tog them with deodorising inaterial. Re says the Dry
Barth System was the only one that anemoded at
Wimbledon, but he thinks dry earth not sufficiently
absorbent for economical application on • large scale,
and suggest, sea-wend char as an economical and efficient
substitute for dry earth, that absorbieg 147 per cent if
water against 45 by dry earth.-245 Corporations and
Boards of Health have subscribed 1786 to enable the
committee of the British As ociettan to in,iture into
the treatment and utilisation of sewage, and they are
going to begin.

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females these Pills are unrivalled. Their use by the
fair sex hes become so constant for the removal of thrir
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universal favour is accorded to thew renovating Pill.:
their invigorating and purifying properties render them
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of the system. speedily removing the cause and restoring
the 'adorer to robust health. As a family medicine
I they are invaluable for subduing the maladies el young
and old.

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