The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-03-21 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR
HAMPSHIRE.

Since our last report we have experienced a succes-
sion of storms and heavy mina, which have been very
prejudicial to the operations of agriculture, and the
seed time has been delayed in consequence beyond the
usual period. Very little has been done in sowing
peas or Lent corn, even on hill farms; but in the vale
farms nothing has been accomplished in the way of
seeding for spring corn, and there seems no prospect of
a change at present
Wheat having been sown late, and the plant back-
ward, little or no damage has been d .ne up to this
date, yet a continuance of rainy weather dining the
remainder of the month must be prejudicial to the
wheat plant. As the quality of barley, and the weight
and substance of all spring corn, depends very much
upon the period .4 sowing, the seed time cannot he
much longer delayed without injuring our prospects of
a profitable crop.
The fodder crops, such as trifolium, rye, winter
vetches, &c., are all unusually backward. The plant
of clover seeds for hay is very regular and promising,
and making rapid progress under the influence of mild
and open weather. Hay and straw is very dear, and
on those farms where the lease allows the tenant to
sell and return the value in manure, it is a great
help in furnishing manure for top dressings and root
Crop*.
The foal for sheep and cattle, such as swedes,
turnips, mangel, hulls,out very well, and will
probably prevent an undue and over supply in the
! cattle markets, by which the price may be eipected
to be more regular. Sheep have not done well
on the roots this winter, and the usual amount of
mutton has not been made, owing the continuance
of wet weather the animals having neither a dry
coat or dry bed, and we have never seen the land
1 where roots have been fed off in a worse state
and more unpromising for the next crop. The hill
farms which have water meadows attached will this
year have the full advantage of an early growth of
grass, the prospect being early and good. In our last
report we referred to the fall of lambs from the horned
ewes as being a full average, and we have now to report
that they have done well and sell well, a large portion
of them having been already sold at a high figure. The
lambing time of the Dorset and Somerset downs, in
December and January, was very successful, with very
few low.' either of lambs or ewes. Many of the
earliest lambs will be fit for market at Easter.

On reporting upon the lambing season of the Hamp-
shire Down ewes now nearly concluded, we cannot
speak so favourably, and this is to be regretted,
because upon the SUCCeI4B of this breed of sheep so much
depends the profitable occupation of the Hill Farms.
This stock has in many cases suffered most severely
from lameness, and many lambs, at the commencement
of the season, came dead, and large losses of ewes also
occurred, but as the lambing time advanced the losses
decreased. But we cannot expect an average number
of lambs to be saved this year from this breed of sheep,
and a larger per centage of ewes than usual have been
lost. The feeding of cattle this year is likely to pay
better than usual, especially where they have been
housed in comfortable stalls or boxes, but when fed in
open yards they have been subjected to much discom-
fort, and have not made the progress they would in a
drier seas n We find, too, that the fanners make
most profit who rear and fatten their own animals,
particularly when they select well-bred short horned
stock
March 15. JOSEPH BLUNDELL, Southampton.

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