The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-26 00:00:00

FARMING OPERATIONS.

WHeee HOICING is later than usual, bet it must net
be forgot that the hoe reor arw*lerat" growth at this
If it is properly hwidled In dry weather.
Hoses Hoe. in dry weather, busts, peu, pennies,
and the carrots sod potatoes u soon 41 they will stead
it.

VlTOFllle—the second April sowing—set in for sum•
mer roiling and folding, ii prerioasly directed.
Ramp sow on rien land. , .

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CHICORY Is mown on poor sandy soils, as • forage
Plant. in drills 1 Or 10 lechers apart, so as to penalt of
the crop being hismdditael. Chicory is also mown broad-
cast in the place of stover, the same way am mainfoin,
iiften half and half, 7 lb eseb, in laying down light
clover-sick soils to permanent pasture with • light crop
of barley or oats.
LOCUMS is beet adapted for the rich but dry odes.
reous soils of the southern mounties. The land should
be well followed end monured in the autumn. and
, smashed up and harrowed fine et this season, and thee
drilled with from 12 to 16 lb. of seed per acre, the ,
drills no wider apart than will Permit Of band-hoeing.
It is sometime, occur with °ate or barley, but as both !
plants, and all the grasses, are obnoxious to it, it is
better to sow it •lone on land expressly prepared for it.
and afterwards to keep it perfectly elem.n and free from
weeds of every kind.
Tug STOCKING Or P•IITURNS In late season is always
a work of caution, and there is generally less danger
when the bite is short than when • high temperature
sets in, forcing up an over dixoriant growth, Bornewbat
analog..a to the s.oond folding of a water meadow. To
oonnteract the purging effete of such In d on all sorts
of stock, more especially sleep, hay chaff, with a
suffiairocy of meal to mak animals eat it, should be
siren. Again. cold nights and sudden changes of
temperature often continue up to the middle of Kay.
If there is a dry too sheep should have it over night,
and neat cattle may have to be boomed nightly for •
short time in the South as ii mornin.n in the North.

0011 N IfAREBIII.
flaurfot. Thureday.—Arrirals of •11 artlcke are exceedingly
trilling. The oreather continue. hot and sunny, with an entire
absence of min. The corn trade this weak how been mum in-
terfered with by the holidays, and the dulnees has been hi-
erea.ed by an equal disinclination for Wainer on the part og
both buyer. and sellers. On uor.tu-day's market English wheal
was In short supply. and the prices made were rather over those'
obtainable last week ; • better demand for One qualities of
foreign, at fully lad weea's values. Barleys here improved in
value fully 64.. and melee • further la to 2.. per qr.. but the
advance has considerably cheeks! the demand, for bottle:tides.
In oats • better trade than of late, at an improvement of ed.
per Qt.
MOW. 11. d. L d
American, spring, per 4001 b. .. 42 .. 43 0
Ditto winter 41 .. 15 0
Engliab, tad and white, new, ditto .. 38 .. 16
Danube, [braille, soft, ditto ... 26 30
(Mirka, Taganrog, cc., aott, ditto .. 36 .. 40 0
Bertha:told arlanople, soft. ditto .. 30 . 41 0
Californian. white 46 .. 47 0
Polulh Odom, Nloolaef, tat,. ditto .. 0 .. 0

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VALET.
ruid to fine malting. Jar imp. qr.. 32 0 .. 38 0
trial and French, grinding, per 40411 b. .. 28 0 .. 27 0
Danube and Mediterranean, ditto .. 28 0 .. 24 0
OATS.

Limerick and other, floe whlt-e-,-per- 3201 b .. 24 0 .. 24 6
tkork, Dublin, Mad, ditto .. 21 6 . 5:2 0
Cork, Waterford, black, per 3041 b .. 19 0 .. 20 0
Insh taint), ditto .. 19 6 .. 20 0
Prince Weald lelamd, black ditto .. 21 6 .22 0
1114J11.

per 4.8311,
FPI= per Imperial qr.

.. 42 0 .. 8 0

'LOCI.

English, rood se 4: cond., per 23ifb: 20 0 .. 31 0
United State., Comedian, Soc., sweet super-
fine, per barrel .. 31 0 . 23 0
INDILaI U.

BO 0 .. 31 0

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