The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-05 00:00:00

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FARMING OPERATIONS.

SPIIPO 01 SWIM'S WHEAT rosy still be sown in
places adapted for it. In the northern mantles it it
sometimes sown slat. S• May. It ripens early, but in
Late seaeoas is then liable to injury from frost, on which
account the seed should always be carefully tested in a
flower-pot to ascertain it. vitality. The usual quantity
of seed per sere I. 2 beshels, but where the harvest was
lets .at year 21 bushels may be required. Whether
drilled or sown broalowit It should be gut into a hue
seed-bed, and lightly ouvered.
B•litaT Fslttlea now be 6ni.hed in our
ipoothern °nestles etth .ltle delay as poadde. The
buadlng of the Biteh tree la ooashlereal the 'nowt
time of rowing barley I. Swedes. In Norfolk the old

o %hen to. oak put. on hi. gosling grey,
'II. time to lOW Harley nicht and day."
But there will be some difficulty in applying them old
rules this year. Barley is partial to • dry climate and
a comparatively dry seed-bed. So essential la this that
when the sowing was followed by • heavy fall of rain,
we bane ploughed the heavier el•ss of soils and sown •
wooed time, to secure • proper seed-bed at the time of
sowing and state of the land at brairding. The quality
of seed this year livery diversified, the weight in some
place. being al high as 58 lb. and even RO lb. per bush,i.
whilst in other counties it Is below 50 lb. per bushel.
The usual quantity of seed per acre is from 10 pecks to
4 bushels, but with such differences in the quality the
flown...pot test roust be the rule; and in very many
examples • change of aced is advisable, and more so lo'
late sowing than early.
' 3PNING TANEN continue to sow at intervals, as pre-
viou.ly directed, for ummer mowings and folding'.
POTATO PLANTING. —Every effort should now be made
to he the lateness of the season. For this purpow
the planting of the vets in a fine seed-bed, and borrow-
ing early, "to let the young plants out," or old
familiar rules that should bo attended to. The Surinam
or Yam variety may be planted on a stiffersoil than the
common sorts. The Bovinia, or eattle-feeder potato,
introduced last year, promises to yield heavy crops,
over 20 toes per acre; but as yet, the priee--21.. per
bushel of 511 lb.—i. too high, unless for the growth of
se.il potatos for next year. The potato is very liable to
degetierate, more so perhspa than any of the other mil. !
tinder! plants; but new varieties are readily obtained,
and at present a great many new kinds are being intro-
duced from America, Scotland, and other places, and of
these, ff.:minis, flourball, and Victoria, for field culture,
r. quire favourable notice. . .

i_.ADROTN lUD usually DODD kboot the beginning Of
April. The Belgian varieties (large white, yellow, and
orange) ate preferred for stock feeding. The large
orange i the heaviest cropper and the more nutritious.
A deep sandy loetu is the best ; very heavy crepe
have also been grown OD peaty soils. The land should
be deeply cultivated in the autumn, and manured with
not less than 20 ton, of farmyard manure. If manured
in the spring, it etiould be • month before sowing. The
carrot is • large consumer of pot,sh, sods, lime, and
phosphoric acid. his also rich in flestrlorming matter,
so that nitrate of potash. eommon sit, superphosphate
and guano, are the artiacial manures it requires-3 to
4 owt., in equal quantities, per acre. It is essential
that the seed be of last year's growth and fresh. It
should be well mixed in sawdust • day or two before
sowing, and a peck of barley or rye may be added to
show the line of the begird in horse-hoeing the first
time. About Rib, of seed are sown broadcast, and 51b.
when drilled in, per acre, either on the at or in @latches
from IS to 24 inches apart, and the seed should be
lightly cosered with not more than half an inch of
mould and rolled.

SHEEP FOLDING on turnlpe should now be-finished in
our .outhern counties, and an the northern the twits
should be pulled and stored on the MAI, to prevent
their running to .eed, thus wasting themselves and ex-
hausting the land to no purpose; soil besides the green
tope are against fattening wedders, ewes with their
lamb, and store sheep. No doubt spring growth this
year is later, bat it won't apply to turnips, for they
will now either run to seed or not, let the weather be
what it may. The lateneim of the nabs' greatly in-
crewed the consumption of hay and corn last nionth,
end the rffect of this in the firrt and second week of
April, will bee shorter bite of gran than usual, and
hence a continuance of more bay, cake, and corn; and,
ea
si rule, focus most have the extra allowance without
a grumble. Outdoor sheen, too, °mistime a greeter
quantity of food in late cold seasons than in wino e.rly
one.; and 11,64 is trying more the patience and skill of
shepherds 'his spring is the as den ehangea of tempera.
ture such being very much against the general health
of sheep, more eepernally of ewe flocks.

Ceases MAILING Itt FSANCL.—A general and seientifle
dictionary, by MM. Piivat Desehanel cod Adolphe
Poelllol3, given all aeanabt of French cheere-inakiog
which may afford some useful hints to the inhabitants
of Cheetahs arid Gloucester. The writer tells on that
the cheese manufactured in the old province of Breage,
now the depairtmens of the Ain, is made by boiling the
milk, adding • little s•ffron, taking it off the fire, and
putting it in the rennet immediately. The surd is then
dried in a cloth, pr ssed for a few hours, put into a
cellar, and salted five or six days after, this latter opei-
adult being continued for a month. Auvergne or
Cantal cheese is made without boiling the milk, but
curdling it while Intl teem the cow; the whey being
then separated, • man, with his lege hare up to She
thighs, grin upon the table on which the curds have
been put in a tub pii reed with holes, and kneed' the
taste thoroughly with his arms and legs ; an operation
whieh lasts about an hour-and-a.balf. The uniform
mass thus obtained is left to lament for fiirty-eight
hours, and then salted, put into moulds, and pressed
for twenty-four hour.; after which the cher-ate; are put
into a cellar, frequently looked after and rubbed with •
cloth dipped in fresh water. The celebrated Roquefoet
cheeio, made in the village of that name in the Aveyron,
is obtained with a mixture of sheep's and goat's milk ;
butt yn in the milk their is • secret, for when the
udder appears to yield no more, the maid strikes it
repeatedly with the back of her hand, whereby a little
more milk I. obtained, meets richer in butter. This
operation, which in utterly lierinlesa, causes the udders
• inciease in one in coarse of time The next reamin
assigued for the peculiar flavour of Roquefort cheese is,
that when made intu cakes its. kept in cavern* hollow, d
out in a calcareous kind of rock which skirta the ;
the temperature of these recesses is kept low by various
contrivances, and seldom rise* above eve deg. Crustier.
the chew.° is made with the milk f the morning sad
of the evening before. The other manipulations present
no
peculiarity ; but as for the veins, or penile, as they
we
called, they are obtained by mixing crumbs of
mouldy bread with the curds. The quantity of thin
olive., annually moldier' to the trade is 900.000 kilogr.
(of 21b. Fretaage de Brie is chiefly manufactured
In the department.. of `taine-iit-Oise and i"jeine-eteMarne,
to the amount of 2.500.000 kilogr. per annum. Rennet
is put into the milk while warm from the udder; the
cards are 'nide into cakes, and laid on wicker tray., so
that the whey may run if. After twenty-fottr hour.
they are salted, and then turn,' and shifted from time
to time for the space of a f"rtnight or three weeks.