The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-18 00:00:00

Agriculture.

TR, settle plague returns for the week eliding
September 8 show that 60 attacks had taken place, being
a decniase of 30 on the previous week
Air .
EITRAOIDISART CROP op WOOL —no yield of
wool from the present year's sbearling tops on the farm
of Linton Burnfoot; Rozburishire, occupied by the far-
famed dackmaster, Mr. Purees, bee proved greatly
heavier than in any former season. Fir. weighs of the
clip (a weigh being 401 b., or 24. 241 b. each) were made
up f only four deems .sell; sit had Ave st pied., while
all the rest showed an individual tale of half a dozen.

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ALL ENGLAND PIC:SIGHING MATCHES : SECOND
MATCH THIS A unlgg.—At the ploughing match of the
Theme Agricultural Aisociatioo irtfordshieo, non.
day, September 13th, 11160, the A &plead Prise was
won by Robert Sherrock, ploughman to Mr. Obi impton,
with one of Ransomes ploughs—Messrs. Ranaomes own
ploughman did not compete. Two other prises wee
aleo awarded to men using Remarries prise phoughs.—
Messrs. Howard. of Bedford, are not imuipeting at any
of the All England ploughing matches this year.
THE MAIIVEST.—Tb• Aforminp Post says that the
hey,,,,,enbte weather Ls seised as • fitting opportunity
for raising the prioes of cereals and of bread, on the
suprosition that the outstanding trope have ruffered
materially from the min which hair fallen during the
last few weeka. Persons travelling by rail through the
'woolly, at the rate of 50 miles an hoar, on seeing a
green sward peeping up above the out barley, imme-
diately conclude that the entire crop bag sprouted, when
in all probability, the Plover and gram seed plants are
simply showing themselves above the prostrate in.
A great deal of wheat and barley has been carojJ,aid
is now thatched in the rickyards in expellent condition;
and • still larger quantity might have been secured if
more energetic measures had been resorted to. It some-
times happens that from fifty to a hundred sores of corn
are rips simulumeouly on • farm, hot it is evident that
if only 10 or 15 hands are employed one-half 01 the
entire breadth must suffer from the wind and from
other causes before it can be secured; and, unfortunate-
ly, only a minority of fanners believe in the propriety
of outting wheat before it is drop-ripe and allowiog it to
mature In the stook, thereby obtaining a better sample
and lea, bran. In those counties in which the grain
crops are soonest ripe reaping nimbi:ma am not no ex•
temively toed as they might be, mainly owing to the
doire of employers of affording their own labourers and
othsre an opportunity of earning • higher rate of woms
than they are able to do at cobra times. The motive
may be praiseworthy, but the result tbia year, as far as
barUy is conoarned, has been extremely unfortunate.
Thousands of acres of it. although cut, have not yet
been carried, which might easily hare been done had
machines been employed in slashing it down the moment
it was ripe. Much of it will be discloured, but sprout
-
log jp not nearly no commas eels geoevally supposed,
On Ile whole, we motors to hope that lime gshiege
has been doers than might have been exported. Cole
and beans atm hardly seroale, and so long as strong
wiled, prevail they sale, little from rola VI. areelx, Mao.
Fold., turnips, and swedes look extremely well. The
rains have swelled the bulbs to unusual
proportions,
' "dint root crop may be confidently exotteled.

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peewee. are plentifully supplied with grass, aro' e.
cows, pique is gradually dying out, graziers and oth"
are likely to lad themseivee better
iLt
elude of the year than they I,ad any iree.,O t
The Tams remarks that I'lin i 5,,..
and biought from bad c ,ndition to gots!, by
of or forced though it by steam power. Th..
have adopted the plan to their Italian fostrerrenr, ette
ban berm Lately inloduood into our eurn
this city, at Liverpm,', and eliaseeshere. Surely tZ,I „tut, prewar. it applicab.• to grain in the ear, thoudli
would probably require to be laid shallow and esp,4
to • very rapid current of air twin a rentiletingfse.
Tlie LATI KONCIT GAC ITT,
of Ayncolimre reduced to • sLiling and
mor.thly in piece of quarterly, ama.t....i
tui
an iiiiiruction, and a style arid kind tf tesd,he
especially its own, may now be found in IL Wog established organ of British H ausbandry, "deb,
all our readers know, is putties:aid at "The Fa,
Office, in Edinburgh. "The Farmer" heel( i,.444
the handeomosta all our class neeesPlPera. Bet ,t 7.
charm of the change in "The Journal of Agriceitero,
will be found both in the novelty, freshet.% /ed.
may add, originality of the oontsibutiona For tumid,.
ji seems probable that as in " Sportisig
see" each number is embellished with • Irma., .
heading, and in that case, generally a living spwiseiu,
ea the "Journal of Agriculture " bids fair to juido„t
with portraits end memoirs of the great tutu
tore as they auticemivelf Paws sway. At all eseot. th„
pn mut number oorniirmes• portrait and hroff,„4.
that wonderful maimede machinist—the late ha:4
uairett, Ee,d.. of Leistao Works, buffos:, wet
we observe is to comprise • portrait and nuns., ~f
late Mr. Hall Maxwell The " Recollections f th,
Mr. Rieharo Garrett, of Leiston, "arc the moot iete,eZ
ing we can ever offer to our country reader., bet
length precludes, our extracting the article. ,
the charaeteriatic vigour of the man, which wng
impediments, raised the 'ancient little sichlefactoey
great note arnon.st the Fast Augliaorr a riaret
near the edam," to • "bug. of bu'idinfr •I•eze Ingr
items blazed and molten iron ran, and the
attain hammer shook the neighbourhood all dee ,et
soinetimm all night besides—the sixty men itett
to ninny hundreds, and the unknown ',L to a
laaa plara of bettascu two and three thouaand soub
labour had acquired • new value and men could ear. et
a day what would hare sullied their graodf.thers tyro
with large families for • we" " it
naturally sprang up mound the centre of iiithi.try
tfehmeig,htutielt...n.d
disposed, as he look,o at
he the
labour under similar eircum.tar.,;:tit,:r
z oo!
chimney smoking where I did not lot
the fuel in ili,
grate ',ad the meat iu the pot,"—his
were more aptly embodied in the netio, ehtdo L;
delighted to amociate with lii. nalm—A
—Ruiliard Garrett in fact, as appears from tio
led the way in the export of agricultural inrprost.„,.
and was mainly instrumental In creatrog the
implement trade, which has rends. ed the cowbell
Sealand and her aviculture renowned throudhed,
world. He was one of the earliest prosioders r 4 tee
Royal Agricultural Society, took an sense I art ,e
establishing the Smithfield Club, and •ireo the Agri.
cultural Hall atom at Islington not only hteatee o
large shareholder, but, as we can well coefinni. from
baring been intoiduced at his stand there pernrouly
the gentleman in question, brought forward t4e suttees-
-101 architect of that immee.e edifice in whit 40.0U0
people can be assembled under One roof with a large
thole of livo streik in ease and comfort The Arne*.
tarsi Benevolent Institution, the Idiot Asylum at Col.
ebeeter, and last, not least, the Albert Middle tan
College at Framlinghatn, treed their existence to L.
e"
n gy. He ale° promoted the East Suffolk Rallesy
the Volunteer orgaeisetion. He died a in.sistrat. and
DeputpLientenent of the twenty in which he Lai Lvel.
Such was Richard Garrett. If Br. stwles nvurt, a
new chapter for his book of ' &If Help" tit las it
here.