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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-17

THE POTATO LEAST SUSCEPTIBLE Of
DISEASE.

The f rllowing in trreating letter eppeared In the Tina
newsia per of 1.1.5:11 sustaak—bir,—l have been spool..
what az:ends° potat, 'power ever sium the yaw 1915,
when the "potato murrain," as it was their waled. nest
Made ouch h iv•er in the stop, and when, unfortunately, I
had planted 10S acct.. About lour.of ins of the pluauat
was cuesard, end as re large a quantity ouuld not by
consumed by cattle before rotting down, an erring.-
mint was made for cooking the whole, as rapid as (arid
be done, with fire sets of steaming apparatus arena to
"Stauley's." The potatoes wires. feat as cooked re-
plead in the same wised pits as Motor., being well beaten
down with broad einooth rover, to form • oaks on um
outside and tLus exclude the air am much as poeeible.
The heaps were tLatched down with draw in the usual
way ; and altuough in a abort time the mar was r *our
S 5 a lemon, a large craner of pigs —uowards of 1,000
—was fattened upin them ; the usual proportion of
berry meal ring ml led —via, one stuns and • had to
each pig per week dome of thaws Potatoes were not
000/1111nel till the curl of the following April, and
although not so paageble wore situ i eataite. I way say
that in some pander the heaps the potatoes thua traated
beanie* absolutely rotten and worthier, and 1t.401,1 the
whole would ha.° been If left uncooked.
Sine. that year 1 Lave continued to grow annually
from 200 to 300 met., oh potaioee, and I hey, never seen
the disaaae so Lenny approaching that of 1815 an it ors
this season. 1, tbeietoro, intard trying again iuy oil
plan of cooking 44 I ratoll CYO crop, arid I have thYught
the suggestion might be worth something to my bed :ber
farmer.. The only otuer way in which the discard
potatoes could be made use of would be by converting
them at once into starch. Will not some of our °me-
epondonts whom' well acqualuted with the process give
some practical details which would enable farmer. to
Stint some inexpensive maehinery for the purpose?
The results or my examioation this day of UMW] rail..
Mee of potatoes grown on my driest and beet soils, and
which are noted for being as • rule freer from disease
than any in this district, show an average of disease of
from 90 to 80 pyr cent It is worthy of remark toot thil
most prolific vanities seemed to he most liable to t 114516•0.
There Mhowever,one mat striking ea option to this role,
and that in Iticrrinee nan-Bninsau kloda-BALL.
is the moat abundant cropper I ever grew, PAU yet 1 did
not dad among them on* diseased tuner. This is all the
more remarkable sauce, as I used it for • dividing hue
Minoan all the other varisitiee—it being so strong a
grower and so distinct In colonr of tuber—each root,
tested in every pare, was growing side by side with tue
roets of t..ke others showing so much disease.

el am, dr, yours tiuty,
A OAMBRUXIESHIKE FARMIR.
Aug. ?Sib.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-17

MUS.Dia IN SHEFFIELD.

Ii Sheffield, on Saturday, a woman of seventy, named
Margeret Ward, was murdered by a Isbooner called
" SeMty Jack," who is in unstody. The demeaned and
bar amallant, who is about 49 years of ego, lodged at
low lodeing-honee in Water-lane, sad it appear. that
about mosso o'clock, whilst .he we. IRWIN on the door
seep, he being smun the house, ..oule aggsairstlog words
Fred •buti, his couotry, by belt•ii • ortobruau, Theo
the tab Wel hoe temper, too Up. 11.1 thy ad WCHII•b, awl
baked bar savagsly on to. beck of her nook, whish sent
her sprawling upon the pavement, sad who, eh* was
bleed up eh* wee found to ho deed.

Dit•DFUL RAILWAY scull:ma IN SPAIN
• frightful re/lway accident totek pleat on the Sane-.
as sad Valonia line on Sanday eight. 16 or 17 tread
M•les have bees reeovered ; while from 26 1030 persons
lime bon (*fund. The train had arrived in dee course
M Tarragona, and was on its way to Torte:ea. The
light was pitch dark, and a Nadel storm of wind and
sok wad raging. The line Ls along the as. mad, and
Sit milers of all the emptying rivers and streams were
Wolk* to such an extent that they owned everything
briers them. At the Moue of the Ciamter, the kmd
bed opened a ohm an the embankmeut Mow womb
tb• train was proceeding bettreeu the stations of
/Maeda and Amposte. Ti. first thing the unfortunate
knee wan in many of thaui the leat•—naraelly
lanrC74s; of the train into the chasm The hinder
Mom remained stsinclus, its coupling chain
Irwin broken as the whole of the earrings. followed
NM engine Foill•niell into the &byes. Amongst the
killed is General Schmidt, who cm on his way to ha
mg in the emote of Madrid. Ile merited the daughter
Godaria O'Donnell.

i'LLEBION lILferION.

Preston election o• friday resulted in the return of
lie Oonservenve candidate, Mr. dottier, by • majority
a 718 over Major German. This Sue was not tin-
espeeted. 2,127 fewer rotes were glees than at the
lest general election. The Duly New " sperdall" says
—The Liberals were not so moon dumbfounded at the
neat se at the oircumstanse that the opposite party
had been W. with wonderfal wowed, to entielpate the
legal announcement. Their figures had been set as
emorshi by the Liberals, and winked at by men of their
ewe party. Still, within flee annuls of the clossi of
the poll, the Consertatives placarded the town with a
statootont that their man was NU ahead. Tee notion
we resolved with incredulity and ridleule, bet when it
sus losnd that the Mayor's statement was only nine in
muss, the amaa.n,sat fen was an Auon'e rod that
swallowed up • sense of defeat. Hence Cousteau..e
jos sew slap their Liberal fellow bugesses os tte back
sad ony, tui where ii the Duetted Matoe of
rat vaunted ballot."
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-17

PORTLAND.

Tit
C.ituttuwaon. —Sir, Ia your paregrsph about
the " Culliuttwood," which venal cease into Portland
rosds last week, you mention th 1111410 of her owner'
as M. sere. lerrett and Morris of a new lino. It should
be M..cr. Devitt and Moore owners of the oil (totals-
lishi-.1 '•Austrdian line of clipper ship, and stoamerg."
Yours l‘c., B. G. Carney, Platt House, Wrothem
Kent.

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GI.IBII SHIPS AND ITN PRZA(DANT or TIRE
FRINCIL F•klay moniing H. M. :3 bi ps Northum-
berland ar.d Sultan left Portland Harbour for Hum,
to escort M. Thiers to England. They are et pected to
return on Monday morning to England. in time for the
Channel Fleet Regatta, to day (Tuesday),tof the croup
m:ttee for whioh Captain Veratttart, C. 8., and Pap
muter Moreebv, both of the Sultan, are respectively
president and lion Secretary.
TA LalT'S BA N ROTICT. —• meeting was held an
Thursday, at th• Auction Mart, Weymouth, in. re James
Stu.) Talbot, of Keeton, Poetised, plumber and glazier.
Proofs to the amount of LAO 7s. 9.1., wer• tendered.
The Balance sheet showed liabilities ta the amount of
£197 104., and mute Ltd, consisting 4—.t,ok-le-tswis,
estimated at £5O. book debts, &a, £26, furniture £lO.
Bankrupt attributed his embarrassment to having been
out of employ list wider. The whole of the creditor.,
present and represented, were favourable to the
bankrupt, and the matter mu left in the hands of Mr.
W. Attwool, who was appointed trustee, to do what
he thought best for all puties, and sot to sell up the
bankrupt, if possible, but to give him • chance of going
on again.
ilut.tque DIM.. —Some very firie sighre are frequently
afforded to the Portlander., daring the visit of the
Channel Fleet, by the drills of the sad au and in•rinee
on shore. On. of those grand spectacles was to be seen
in Um Navel Cadet's ground on Wednesday afternoon,
when 'several hundred of blue jackets, from Ii hi. Ships
Sultan, Agincourt, and Bellerophon, went through field
movementr, in grand etyle. Some field gun. were also
brought on 'bore, and added another feature to the
sight. The blue jacket' performed their work with
oonsiderable precision; but the prinoipal oharaoteristio
of their movements was of coarse ths dash and epirit
with whiob they obeyed the oomotande. The band of
M.S. Aginoourt was on the ground. These " aatumn
manceuvres" are well worth a viait to Portland, and
should none of them come off when our visitor arrives,
be may fill up his time by going on board 10 or 12 of
11.11. hiagnilioent chips.