The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-09-02 00:00:00

H .11i E.ST kSPECTS.

The Agricultural Gazette ban for acre&
publiehed in the first week .4 A 111.rUP4 a ,vin.
reports from correspondents in every county ,4 the
l.iiitsed Kingdom as to the condition the crop. end
the prospects f hors es.t. These repels appear thins.
weeks later than usual, but, as our conteinissrary
remarks, they still no.o too use., for except in • few
favoured districts. the corn is still green and the slate
of harvest uncertain. Tb. low temperature of the pest
two months has had a ume at baneful effect upon the
wheat crop, thonsands of acres of which, lanai,
several hundred feet above the level .4 the sea, are
not likely now to receive en.sc.:ll warmth and sunshine
'to ripen. Then again there are thousands of mos
grown upon stiff soils which have limn makol in rater
since the heginniryi of last winter, and the An len( -
tural Genstte anticliates that the reports from diArkt,
such AM thew, gloomy as they are alnnuiv, will int
worse and winee uttless there is a sodden change of tile
weather. Of that, unfortunately, there does not seem
to he the most remote prospect, nat just asi the hie
of a change (min May to June, from June to July,
and fnun July to August have all been diserissintek
psi we we m to be entering upon September with the
same disastrous outlook.
(Let ue hope that fine weather, of which we an
favoured with • delightful specimen this glorious kst
of September, will cause matters to mend—Eii.j

The general conclusion to la arrived at (row a. paw-
unary of these reports is that upon w.venty•the bow
out of a hundred the wheat crop will he under aurae,.
and upon one per cent. , wily will they be ~,er swag,,
while barley, henna, and peaa will he Alessi, e. but.
oats alone bets" anticipated to turn ~ot antihing bla
, .
a law it"i. There are 292 wheat retests 1 which
three anticipate a yield over the avenge, al an average
yield, and no a yield under the average, srhile the
corresponding reports are 3, 103. ,orl 14) f"r
liarley, 10, 66, and Ic, for beans, 7, 61, ari
ini
130 for peas, and se, 169, and fis foe
In the West of England, from lienushire
Cornwall, the wheat is said to be in airiest eiery ove
under the average. A deficit of 40 per met.
expeteil, hi Wiltshire, awl such term, x• ••
Inferior," "flinch ender the averxze, "
and "very thin plant," meet one's rYC ate‘ery
column. The brief reports from Wales are ar
an (an be, and, the di the Arica/herd Gas& doe,
not go into any • n a,, to the money low
represented by all this deficiency of crops, kb'
estimate of Mr. Scott, who sets it at MO3AO:° fcc
(meals and pulse crops, 133,000,000 fnr rotates,
£11.000,000 for grass, and over a millioe go:dna ger
hops, the crop of which is merely nominal. IneY 1104,1 w
an exaggerated one. This estamate. whiil Pub
tigal lore, exclusive of the probable deficiency
root crepe, at nearly sixty million, sterling, .e„.
three-fourtha of the annual revenue of the
is enough to damp the meat ardent coons:cell=
though matters may yet mend to .114 eere
nothing can poesibly save most fanners
I.sv% and many Inuu total ruin. peel,
We give selectioorm fe..ni these meat.— ^
ibis
limits, and Somerset, ii another Pot.'"
Monet Counll

LATEST.
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7 Wand. 1 Sir Evelyn NVood for services e ,0 Balsewsl
expected he will be commanded to
shortly.
The Arctic arrived at Dundee to-del
eight whales from Davia's Strait+.
Dundee whaler is amongst ice in Lancaster
eriFwarianscued
en at; Rochester cow menoe±..,..c°^l tc=ls.
Saturday and condoned work th!..—s---
and during the night aided by brilliant

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