The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-03 00:00:00

RVEST I'ItuJPEUTS.

The Magna Nays with the brilliant weather we have en.
limed dude, the past week, harvest prospects have
6c011211 ulna more setiefactory. A large breadth of
land has been cleared of the crops, and with • abort
isontincenee of mob feather the whole of the grain will
be soured under mesh more tar, urablo auspicee than
was expected. They ield of wheat us undoubtedly below
the sewage, and the quality throughout is indifferent.
is some district, the return has not exceeded 2 qr.. to
U. sore ; bet when more reliable data comes to hand
we believe that it will be found that the yield will be
quite 15 per out. below the average. ldr. James Eleta•
dersou, to a letter to the Tears, remarks, " Takieg the
wheat crop (aural] y, 1 mender teat the breadth is greatly
under ev.rsga, and estimate the yield at 24 bushels per
er six bushels below enrage; the quality Inferior,
eonAJts good, weight 311 pet bushel below average,"
ilowever, thrashing opei scions are becoming more
general, end in • few days the result will be sufficiently
well known to foam an accurate animate of the mop,
and of our future requirementa from abroad. As wu
tee ere last year, the whcet grown ou light soils haa
darned out She meet satieraceety. Seeley will be per-
haps 10 per seat. less than an average; but oats are
yielding well, and will exceed a. average. Besse and
pees are an abundant erop ; In tut baton are about 15
per amt. above the averag• All root crops, with the
exceptioe of potatoes, promise an abundant ) iced. The
diesese among the potatoes haa spread to such an
alareithg eztact that many fields have been pionghed
up, aim the tubers turned into manure. It is to be
hoped that the fine weather arrest the progress of
the disease; but extremely severe louse 'nue been
already expeetsnoed by growers, and there is but little
doer* that mites tall rule high during the winter
month&

MR. NICHI ON THE HARVEST.

Mr. J. J. Kiehl writes from Tiptree-ball "Fourteen
days od bright end dry "oaths/ nave permitted the free
OM el the scythe and reaping machine, so that harvest
Is poorly oompletod (ethic neighbourhood, and threshing
=rhinos have been at work, These results prove un-
mistakeably that straw is out of all proportmo to earn,
sad, In fait, that tbe reheat coop berselmut ia, In too
many instaneee, a decided failure (belying their appear.
ones), both in quantity and quality, more tispocially on
stiff ccl. mirth, sad undralued sous. In many oases
%ha crops bavo bean ruined by ice, 'toms, and weeds.
Tho aseounts of the fine white wheats Galled 'rough
chaff,' which in dry mesons are produced so abundantly
sad extemelvely on the cuff sods of the Dentin
Rendrod, are quite deplorable. Red wheats have stood
this seems better than the white. Rivetts are vary good
and perfect, the 1010311 hat suitad their growtn and
development This will be • bed session for heavy land
arsble fermen, for labour sad expensee are beery.
laskt lead farmers have the beet of it, and stook-
breeders are dein. espesially well, subject to some draw.
beaks from food-sod-mouth complaint. We may seer
up our 46,1100," segos roughly as follows —Wheat
foot good)--4,000,000 airs.; permanent pasture and
=and root mope have bad a suitable orison and
m
produced abundantly, although mnah hay tar been
got up badly owing to wet weather; their amend growth
k also abeadata-33,000.000 sires; peas and beans a
good stop, although rather watery and shrinking
860,000 sites; oats (whieh like a moist @email) wilt
probably be as overage mop-4,400,0W awes ; barley
be • doubtful position good in some eases, in others
Injured sad tied to the Garth by an unusual growth of
ereerk-2,700,000 soma Potatoes mush diseased."

Till POTATO DISKASZ AND FOOD SUPPLY.
• Woolwich gentleman, shout live weeks ago, shortly
after a thunderstorm, roomed t .ss the Mayas bad boon
smitten with numerous daro ooloured spAs, wnleh he
Saab for blight, and thinking it might be the forerunner
of disease, to as onoe pinosed off &boat four rause of
tbe top of mob and every stale, suppoing that in so
debs, if his fears were oorreot, it would sot as a pro-
yeasty.; and it is owing to this precautwo, he believes,
that his possums have escaped disease.
Tbe following proseosioa of ewre potatoes front
disease has been tried sumer! oby la Seem and Kant—
Dry lime, pulverised, should b• thinly sprinkled over
every layer et tite elanip, arid the posasom—say in in.
spring, or odes required for me or soie—reassin
lavoriably In Wm ammo malls an when stored, the bins
siding as • promotive of lideotion by oeataot. • bushel
to eix peeks el lime would be amply suilleieut for
damp Um predate of an sore and a moderate erop.
Good proseloal advise la gives by " • Eustis," in
Monday's riiise—" What =Met be dooe with consider-
able odvansege is this: too ripe potatoes nimbi be
sisaral of the moult at ono% and Muir planes taken
gid.Ga.pbage Moats and turnip seed of a quick-growing

MA 3. B. Highs., of Tivertoa, says—" A simple, bat
taoseive, palbasten ot tha evU to. bawl fogad to result
trout plastkig a hew Windier or other broad beans
lestwesa thes tows el potatoea The bean-Malke 'vitae
Mama the potatoes sot as natural omdomors and (tarry
a amp marsalmodast aleotriaity."
Mr. M. Wiesoh, to., write' from Chester-
Add, mastitis( • sabiututos which Mut pear Laeery
avasolwah, via, heft end mangold vugo,L lie says
OH time roots or. boilid whew the owes' akin has hem
Wore& • imp ponies of Ma moat nutritious part,
Ms., Um warm, amsepaa and the remit is • tutelar,
ellitagy eagemble ; but if, instead of belling, the roots
wawkwii sad well hai.l4, taw. peeled ail. eatoa 'rata
Vinegar. NMI WO Taff palatable, W.II.II.I(3OMULIC, .44
who is • posh advantage, will Amy good for several
days whir they are oeekscl. It woald probably be sa
wwwwwwly if mossy aad time it they were sold m the
Ilituisossis do lobsters, ready metal."