The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-01-28 00:00:00

SATURDAY'S MARKETS.

CORN.
BATIK. At our market the supply of wheat wee stein
metneupi, and m aloft being out of onnittlos. I it at
with • .It. eele at Imt week's prima. B.4sums .4
b•rley imp/vent slightly in price. Fur without
Wheat, • bite, Ms to 45. per g.: dit o. r•d: 57.. t :
barley, 3k to 4S. ; t.. 410 . :oat'. 40. tolls. :Sour,
sup., fin ; ditto, plain be, 32, seconds, Sla
GLOUCISTIIIL —The supply of f.dmen.' grimes wa lure,
and pewee were about the same es lett week. Foreign
wheat neeteetett at former prica. Burky, Melee, and
oats analtared.
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Tanieton. —There Was a full sat/Tolman, at the Cnrn
Itiehanga, but there wag no quotab e al,eratiun In rates.
:atenur h.ul m, not au 111113, but wheat sae sold at late
Wet Flour. 31.1 e. to 31a.
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•
WARYINSFER.—At our vonsis-tt there was& fair
attendance, hut very Wile He in the trade. 13 wond
ooallth of eh•at must he q00t...i at krfoluct.on, left the
beet samples toenntained lets prism. Very fair lots of
barley up offer, tee thew retail former values. Indifferent
samples ease dull arid oesleeted. Ifs other gram hut lilt's
bounce* wee done, and Oaf re WM no in ,terfel change In
value. Corrent quotations ,--Whea,. Ca to Ms. per gr.
balky, ler to 60,.; oats, Ite. to 30s. ; peas, 36e. to ;
b..... 33, to ; rye, SOL to 36..; retakes. 41.6.1. tO
es. 6d.

CORK BUTTER lIIARKET.
Ordinary: Tints, ; Reread; 118..; Thirds. ;
F urths, 8%.; Fiftbk 40 Cured: Firsts, 1..;
&wads, ; Thirds, /Oa Number or Atkins la the
market. lig

GLASGOW DANK DIRECIWiII TRIAL
Several atockbvikers were stamined to-day to show
they were in the habit of purchasing stock for the
Walt in order to maintain the price.
Commis unaltered.

SOUTH AFRICA.
PPPPP ILATIONS FOR W• 11.

Official information was reCeived here on Jan. 3 by
the l'otdontal Secretary to the effect that John Dunn
had crams' the b order, and reported that Cetewayo
intended fialating. On Jan. 6 the High Commissioner
telegraphed to the Colonial Secretary, stating that no
reply had yet been receive It, the ultimatum.
tieseral Lord Cbalmsfo.l has been instructed to
take steps to protso t Britiooh territory, and to
compel the Zulu King to comply with all the
demands contained in the High Commissioner's me.-
gage for the satisfaction of British interests, and for a
better and more peaceable government of the Zulu
people. General Lord Chelmsford is willing to wait
until Jan. 11 to receive an unqualified and complete
acceptance of all the terms of the British Government.
Active preparations are being made to crow the
Tugela at all 10,101 a

HOME-PREPARED MANURE, FROM EITHER
HOUSE REFUSE, OR REFUSE OF THE FARM.
We cared the following from the Gardeners'
Ohrosicle ~f Saturday I lat. In which Ing ientiol
cotton for this week It holds • prominent place :
We have received from Mr. Moule a detailed account of
• manure which he recommends, not only for its intrinsic
value, but for lb rye Mess and cheapness with wh eh it
can be prepared. It •• mash eal he for the garden of the
cottager. or the broad acres of the farmer. Mr. Moule act.
on the principle that anienure. to be serviceable as plant
food, must be in • state of intln tesirnal sub-division, and
must be most thorough y diffused— n • word, that
it must be so contr red as to be absorbed with the greatest
facility by the plant. He says :
" The cultivated portion of my kitchen garden, 14
perches, twelve years at least has never had any other
manure applied to it than that sup lied from it, house
refuse. Yet from it and from about twenty fowls I eau
raise every year produce worth at least na The present
year, f roe, the more exact use of immediate and alternate
cropping, and fnon the methol about to be described fur
the disposing of the slops and sink water of the house, has
shown a still larger produce than that stated At the
same time it Is evident to every one capable of forming
an opinion that the soil, *o far from being impoverished,
to, by the manure applied In continuous and immediate
cropping, greatly enri hod.
"Forth., it thould lie observed that thus 14 perch'e of
ground can, with complete prevention of nuisanceor
Injury, receive the whole of the eink-water and slops of
the house, and from them derive this increase of fertility.
But so great is the fertilising power of this liquid sewage.
especially when treated in the way to be present,
described, that by it and the earth-closet manure and
other refuse together, of. family of from five to ten persons,
half an acre, or even an acre, might Le rendered equally
productive with my eighth of an acre. From an acre
might be raimel JAM per annum, or. deducting £6O for
wages and other expense.,. net profit of 1:100.
"A quantity of any fertilis ng substance, very small is
proportion t., the volume of water which is to hold it in
solution, or to the bulk of earth into which It Is to be
ahoorbed, will, as • natural result, be in both cases very
effleseimia
"We will suppose Linseed, wherever necessary, to
be placed at the bottom of • hogshead or small tank,
the later say 3 feet square and 4 feet deep. Then for
the sake of the alkalis and acids contained in other
vegetable !natter and given out as it deny., them should
be Oa ad an such a tub or tank one or more wheelbarrow.
leads of weeds or leaves of any description.
" Together with this, or rather under the vegetable
matter, should be placed 1 or 2 pecks of fowls dung' or
the same quantity if crushed bones, or • small quantity of
superplimphate. Four pounds weight of superphosphate
would be sufficient for as many tons of earth.
" For special crops nitrate of soda, as I believe, might
be Introduced in the @gime proportion as superphosphate."
Tug I's. or Kites_
Yr. Moule proceeds than to state his views as to the
value of silica us manum, an idea first suggested to him
by an expression of Liebig's to the effect that some day
seluide glass would be sold for manure. From this,
combined with other othervations of natural phenomena,
It occurred to Mr. Moule to make lON of pulverised glees
as (Wows .
" Having in September last mewed a certain quantity
of pulverieed glue and of phosphate and mixed them with
other substance., namely, earth from closeta, slaughter-
house refuse, sink-grater, elope, dc, I applied the manias
so manufactured in the following manner:-1 weed in
that month 541 emits, id wheat, and in the months of
October and November I transplanted the plants which
wens from them into • tame of ground the full memento I
of which smelt° square feet They were 12 inches apart
in the drill, and from 6t.2 inchesin the line. With
each plant I put in about half an ounce of the immure,
more indeed than was requisite Tninspbuiting is by no
manna • matter of neove•ty, for in • neighbouring garden
at the latter end of November I drilled some wheat in
the ordinary way, applying to it in the drill half the
amount of manure used in the former cams, and although
the blade did not appear until December lA, the plant.
In the middle of June following were much stronger and
nearly double the height of any in the hundreds of acne
In the neighbouring cornfield
"The 500 plants In my own garden even before January
let showed a very extraordinary growth.tillerlng out to the
extent of ten Or twelve strands. They afterwards so
ailed the ground as to lead some to suppoee that the
sowing had been too thick. Some of them had forty
stalks ; the lowest numbei was fifteen stalks. When in
blossom their height sou generally 7 feet, and the stalks
=demi tout in proportion They yielded when
and cleaned • peck and sehall of grain, which
would gueKi quarters to the acre, and the straw, which
weighed 50 It.. was at the rote of 4 tons per acre. The
result In the size and polish of the straw was noticed by
every one who looked at it I have often grown wheat
In my garden before, but never any so fins as this."
Mr. Monte's views as to the efficiency of silica in
enabling the Potato plant to resist dimes are new
generallr known, hut not so generally accepted: but it is
only right to let Mr. Moule speak for himself.
The Potatos in my garden last year exhibited some
Medi ul instances • disease This year the Potato., either
saved from the former crop or some of the same kind
=ln Me neighbourhood (most of them the Early irrdrere set in the sumo ground. And, without any
Idea that the Potato any more thee, as I believed, the Pea,
would be affected bY the presence of Wet in the manure,
I had about an ounce of the manure impregnated with
saki acid placed under each tuber when planted.
.. The manure in the previous mason was applied in the
same war and in larger quantity. and
salt m
is
only In the want in the former of silicie acid.
bow-duet The planting in the former year was lines,
2 feet and 4 feet asunder, a. 4le foot or feet in t. 14 line
and each Potato was earthed up to a great hew, ril;
year the Potato' were not earthed-up, but the grou d
between them (they were 2 or 3 feet apart, was well fork:4
From the first he • bowed a strong and vigorous growth.
In souse cams the kudzu was so luxuriant as to require to
be supportal by • stout stick. In the greater numbs.,
though the hau m stood 2 and 24 feet high there was no
seed of such support. Under those whom growth was the
most luxuriant the tubers NOM the lamest and most
abandon.. Now although the blight ha. effected more or
Um severely every gardim and every field in Inc parish.
not • disease 1 tuber has been found among the.. Potato..
" With respect to the model and experimental
Hereford, the head gardener stated. September 19. 'As
yet not a bad Potato where they were properly manured.'
" But since such details might be confronted with many
opmplalate of failure of the manufactured professedly on
the game principle I y the Phospho-Silicon Manure Com.
i, I forbear ; and with reference to such somplaints I
rrotid remark that, very soon after the commencement of
the work of that company. I felt unable to answer for-any
very careful and exact adherence to one of the main
principles above stated. In all caw In which I have been
mire that in the manufacture there haa been such adherence
to that principle, and that there has been apro_per applies.
llon el the manure so manufactured,_ I have not
ern • single failure. In the year 1&"7. when the
Mrd as disease w very bad in the gardens of two neigh.
and never worse in the whole neighbourhood. I did
Dot have in may little garden • diseased tuber. From
ire.t. irround I dug wow weight of fine and sound
In lige there has been the same immunity.
"The rue of 31b. or fib of finely powered glue In as
many or even a greater number of tons of valuable
maaw,' could in no way injure or weaken the power of
the ether isurredimita Although there may generally be
• stillietent quantity of ailex in the soil, it may either be
Dot that very minute form in which alone it it soluble,
Or, If i. that state,it may not be distributed throughout
the set with needful uniformity, so that frequently it
=or=be within reach of • large por•oia of the Plante I
although the attempt IMO& be vale to bare-
teem e mow enetti/ of .801 tate Moil, especially if
aspi sbenta be made in the ordinary way
_of
AZfland, yet. sooorthns to the meekest described
s i unite feasible to introduce sUlicio hob the
sante le be spelled to the teed or pleat