The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

Ranculture.

WWI TO FL COCO WEATHERED HAT. —3IE. T•
bowiek gives the following seasonable prescription fur
flavouring weathered hey:—
Fenuvrek (powdered). 112 lb.
4 Caraways, ... „
Cuwine.
(Mixed end strewed over the rick in building.)

Mr. Bowiek adds :—" I am glad to be able tor t port
the f tet that many who used this application (a ith the
addition of a spritikling of salt) have had great retwon
fur satai.ctien at having done Po. My wagoner tells
inc that the team never ate their clover butter,' 4.41 a
gentleman to me a few days since, whose clover hail
fully three weeks' ble.tching, but who flavoured it in
the manlier above recommended. Ifulveer, sitojiar
treatment may with advantage be employed when the
rick is cut and the (wilder wanted. My plan with tat'
which had not beets Itivoured in the rick ball been Oda
—tirlect the 10p.., le.ttmets, and inferior tjualitiem, stud
shake them well up toget:ter. Datup the mate alit. salt
and water, •nd duet it over lightly with the aromatic
mixture. Have the whole nicely oozed together, no
that each portion gets its own share—aiel let this be
duo sonic twenty-four hours before trying. The quan-
tity of tuatcrial to he uaed depend. tivon the
quality of the hay ; the worse tile sell. pie, ttf wanes the
more is requirud to improve it. Hut at the majority of
caeca, Rib outlay of ba. should render a ton of inferior
material palatahle, awl will retay the outlay many
times over. If the hay is of the mustiest character, it
would stand knocking over with the flu, in order to
take part of the dust oat of it. And, if possible, t tie
ingtellituts from a wholesale druggist, finely kround,
anti warranted true to n vane ; for, all its Many other
•iiiiikrelion I. not I.lUkouviii."

Ilart:ca•c.—lt may hot be generally known that the
fettling properties of rapvenke are very nearly identical
with those of boaceilciike, aild,itherrfore, although very
reluctant to appear in pulaqe, I rhiag i; a duty we awe
to each other to impait any information we think may
be of raiue. The great ditthnilty hitherto lies been to
grt the cattle to et rapvcake without wattle. This
°Nieto. I think, is fully attained by grinding the rape•
cake as One as pigineith and mixing with pulped turnips
and cut etraw ; the sweet juhe of the turnip takes off
or moderates the bitterness of the rapemeal, nut no
divides it gat the whole, that the cattle eat it as
well calf linseed cake were used. My plan .4 i t.O )sit
1
notch turnip or suangedirterrel a. ot intended to las giveu
to • certain number of beasts per day, and then wiz as
many pounds of the meal, per besot, as is to be given :
say 411. for store beasts, and Tlb. or sib, for cattle tied
up for winter feeding. The r.spe meal and tornip pulp
are neat iniard with Al muck cut s•vaw sa, will be ball-
cient for tie day. e ink in the Jo-rowan what will
he requited for the WO of tho tutoring day ; RI the
cattlOF, for it when it hag heen mixed twelve or twenty
10111fA, to either (realm spited or loosser kept food. We
have toted tido for • con--islerahle number of both store
anti stall-fed cattle last winter, all of which have done
well. The raper die used should he of the green kind.
Sheep will eat this mixture in. wioter bit alit in susta-
iner ; for then little or 110 ellar shwa.' be used. If wp
di4lect the sone atuouest front roach kind of cake for
walls.- left as manure (and toe vain,lit nno, is i„.,niss4y
the legion:), we shell fluid the co,t of fettling on tape cake
ahout woe-third of thee on —t. I'. Sinte-
r., Cobh,. Soup IV4rks, Wutejield, to the Wakefield
Itieniers' Ont.
.1 Plimmitv MAAS ACAI‘ST POTATO BLIGHT —X.
Leinote. to a letter to the Paris Academy of &brume,
'nuns te. coal-tar AA A pre-ervatiee stgaiipd the potabo
bitit. Ile incorporate. two ;tams of coal-tar with lOU
parts iii dry and o-at esesh, nod strews thia mixture
over the ground to he planted with jaitatoes, after
which the het.; is plonithea or dug in the usual way. In
this manner tic CoAl-1A( ii buried to the depth of al
crittonadrea, or thereabouts, and the 'Noakes tilagtell
in it thrive perfectly, •twl are never attacked with the
blight. M. Leinaire had also made the discovery that
potatoes pl Med in • part of the same Gehl. which had
been purposely left without coal-tar, contracted the
disease, at the unto those that the ethers were free.