The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-05 00:00:00

Sgriculturs .

Tus Citors.—The wise; seep in the /forth OD the
whole looks promising; it i,l think aimed • week
later than kit year in coming into est. Beans are
blooming very shred; oats are I think likely to rove ms
average crop. The seise may be said of barley; pota-
toes are showing very feebly. Of the turnip seep it is
top early to speak with ecmtdence, but the emir Bowls
swede* in many places have had • terrible straggle with
the fiy ; some farmers have sown • second time, wills
others have left the leafless stumps alone, in the hope
that if we get rain there will still be plenty for a crop.
It is • pity the remedy you recently pablished was
not earlier known among fernier' in the north, as many
of them, DO doubt, would gladly have given it • trial_
Corn markets have ell tended downwards lately; 1 ap-
prehend, however, that s bat will be made now that it
has got to 48e. per quarter, as there is not any piss..
bability of much foreign wheat corning pmfitably to owe
market below that rate, and, although from the con-
siderable quantity of wheat still in fanners' hands
there will no doubt be • fair supply sent for sale, it
will be sbeir own fault if at thth • time they gin'
the market, and thus muss a fall in . 'nue u
great perhaps and as uncalled fee as the rue which
took place a few weeks ago.—H. J. roomer, Ridtmeeter.
Yorkshire.
AC:BICULTURAL ADULTERATIONIL—A aurrespondug
writing from Cheshire suggests the propriety of juin&
lug manure and seed adulteration m Kr. fleheigikid,,
Bill about to be brought into Parliament for the rouw,_
must of food adulterations. The former are aliu
mischievous as the latter. The following ut big
remarks :—" To give en instance of how adulteratio•
the seed market works, • small farmer said to n*
other day, ' I will never have anything to do *Ali
Italian Rye-grass ; it fills the land full of Twitch.' k
neighbour of his had so suffered, no doubt from Ilia
having purchased foul aced. And so it is with artificial
manures. Farmers are cheated, and then discontinue
using them altogether. Thus is improvement seriously
checked, the consequence, of course, being las to the
public in • lesa production food, as well to the tenant,
and ultimately to the landlord. In a dairy district it is
most difficult to induce the holder, smaller, and more
ignorant farmers, to make • single step out of the beaten
track. This clans eagerly jump at such things as (have
narrated, to give them an exams for continuing simply
as their fathers did before them." Gordon:au'
C4rowiele. .

THE BEAN DISEASE.—The coarse of the present
season has hitherto been almost exactly like that Of
1849, and we may therefore conclude that it has borne
no small pert in the production of the bean rot. It
appears, however, on an inspection of different crops,
that the affection is in direct, proportion to the quantity
of plant upon! the ground. Where the stalks are very
close there is in some instances an absolute failure of
produce, while the stake themselves are rapidly becom-
ing soft and peppy, exactly es in the case with the
potato haulm when affected by the murrain; whereas,
on the contrary, where the plants are thinly scattered,
the stalks are already well corned and there is very little
appearance of disease. It is very true that a few spots
appear upon the leaves, and should these extend be the
stems there may still be danger, but such spots ooews in
common bean crops almost every year without inducing
any serious mischief. We observed in the thinly planted
beans, that vegetation had been of late so rapid that the
cuticle of the stem was sometimes ruptured, and the
subjacent tissue much discoloured bi consequence of
exposure to the air, but this did not exit to any great
extent. We have heard also that the common beans,
where over luxuriant, are slightlyaffected,betat present
we have no ocular testimony upon the subject. The
affection arises, we believe, purely from conditions of
climate, and is in no degree produced either by imsecta
or parasitic fungi; though in some oases where it is weN
established, it is very pomible that they may aggravate
the mischief. If our remarks, however, are bomic out
by experience, it is clear that the cultivator may profit
hereafter by the experience of the present year. Should
a forward spring occur again, and his winter beans leek
extremely luxuriant in March or April, it would be wim
to hoe out every other plant, taking them alternately in
the drills, so as to make them stand in a sort of quin-
cunx. We are convinced that had this been done *DM
crops which we have seen would not have suffered to
an injurious extent. The exact proportion of plants to
be removed must of course depend upon the state of the
crop, and proper judgment must be exercised as to thE
peculiar conditions which require such treatment. Some
farmers before pulling op the diseased beans haves
observed a number of little tubers at the roots, and
fancied that they had some connection with the malady.
But this is not the case. Let them pluck up the tut
plant of clover, or indeed of almost any closely allied
plant, and they will find similar tubers, and if they
watch the growth of a bean when sprouting they will
find that these tubers make their appearance uniformly
at a very early period of growth.—Ml J. B.
FARMERS' MEMORANDA TOE JULT.—Cattle and sheep
require shade and water. Ewes to produce early lambs
should be kept well this month. Thorley's Food invigo-
rates their health, and increases their physical power,
thus materially aiding them in the lambing season. Hoe
potatoes and carrots. Lucerne may be cut sad hoed
this month; do not mow it too dam to the groan& as
close cutting injures it. Fold your sheep on the land
intended to be first sown. Wean landm—Tiork je's Par.
mere Abaanack.