The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

Agriculture.

THI cattle plazas returns for the week ending Sept
15, allows • decrease of eleven as (louvered with th
previous week, the nurnhers for the last three week
being 99, 69. and 56. Only Ma came aro reported a
hawing occurred amongst sheep during the week.

Tag HARVEST IN IRELAND.--llgob Isom, we are told,
still remains uncut, and the rain and wind combined
have disappointd the hopes fondly entertained by the
tumors sOMe sin weeks ago. In the early IMOnner it
was known that the harvest this year would be a mooth
late, owing to the unprenitions weather in the spring :
but the deficiency in the quantity of all grain brought
Into Cork market for the two weeks of thin month is
unprecedented. The potato blight, it is also stated, has
made It. appearance in several districts.

Tee POTATO Cif:W.—From all parte of the country
we have serious reports respecting the condition of the
potato crop. Toe public, as • rule, ought never to
believe much more than ooe-half of the statement.
made by those who write entirely in the agricultural
interest about the disastrous effect. of a ...sob like the
present on the food wore ; but after making consider-
able dedoctions from the reports of diameter which resell
on, it Is to be feared that the owning winter, so far as
our home produce is concerned, will be one of short
supplies. It is stated that the potato disease is making
sad ravages in the counties of Oxford and Berks. In
the immediate vicinity of Oxford, on SOON soil., more
than half are bad, and there is scarcely • plot but what
is more or lees infected. Ooe gardener states that iii.
steed of having 30 seeks, as he relied on, he does not
now expect to have more than 10 sacks of good 015•4.

Woonrrocu AORICKILTINUL AuraelarrOir.—There
was an Influential company, including four or Ave
members of Parliament, at the annual meeting of the
Woodetock Agricultural Association, on Tuesday. The
after-dioner speeches were chiedv on matten relating
to farming. The Duke of Marlborough thought that,
while encouraging the manufacturing proaperity of the
country, we ahould look to the cultivation of corn, as
political complications abroad might at any time inter-
fere with supplies from foreign 'purees. Part of the
businees of the meeting was a ploughing matter, and
Mr. Henley, adopting the view of his l:issli7; ex.
preened regret that the poessesors of steam pl • did
not bring them to these meetings, so that twists
might know whether mterilisery of that kind. prepared
a better, • worse, Or the same kind of geed bed as th,
old plough did. Notwithstanding the rule which ex-
cludes polities at these pesheciup, Mr. Henley general,
contrives to say something nearly oversteptips the pre-
earthed limits, and in this speech he sea not refrain
from a:premise a hope that the agricultural
which he he truly remarked, MIS second to nono—woiLld
he duly weighed in the great pigsties& which &wined
settlessaalk

RINI /LCD VALI. OF UN RIIIDUPS/R. —The ripd,
pest ea.+ first observed in England in the weeb, ,o4irg
June 24th, 1885. In that week 30 beasts were attaciod;
and •he &pease attaped 11. SDAAM"rn in the we. k red.
log February IT. 11166, during venieh the attaalt. ou,e.
!vied 11,706. The annexed table el.ows the cum, ,4
the fase weekly between June 24,1865, and Fehrt,,,,
17, 186.1 :
Week ending. Attacks- Weli ensln1• Attack.
June 24 ... ••• 55 Oct.' „„„ ••• 2214
July 1 147 Nov. 4
8 575 „ II 3 7iTt
. 15 ••• 321 it 11 ..
22 49 4:314
0 ~ 25
21 .„ 757 Dec. 2 ••• 5,4•11
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„ 12 1•Z11 14;
19 ... 1.175
26 ... 1,2711
:lent. 2
7, 16 1.354
„23 1.*13
Oct3o 1.166:
7 ~, 1,436
14 2,361
21 1.555
It was in the la.t few day.
tagious Diseases Prevention
and the results have certdol
reeler, the weekly attacks hi
to the level of June and Jul
bye of this wooed t
Week ending. Attacks.
Feb. 24 ... 13.013
March 3 ... 9,18$
10 ... 9.1475
• 17 7,871
24 ~, 6,744
Si 6.575
April 7 ... 4.555
„ 14 ... 3.764
„ 21 3,917
28 3,314
May 5 ,„ 2,0 ,9
„ 12 2,776
„ 19 ... ... 2.126
June 2 1,116
Should the disease not revive in October sod
_—so ii ins:leased in the corresponding 10.1lithA of
we may conclude that it has been rirtaAlly .1.
Up to the ..1.61000111111D1 of ilSi• 0.4t11 the
lost was oboist 44 per sent of the whole eciul.k.l
ordinary stock of wattle in Greet Britain.

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