The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-14 00:00:00

REPORTS OP THE HARVEST.

The Gardeaere' Carosside and A grieultural
Gazette gives the following important returns, and
says in a leader :—" The wheat crop is undoubtedly
below an average this year, but not so had as in
1b65; and most spring corn crops are pretty fair.
the pea crop in particular, being very good." The
following is the table of returns :-
1 Over I Under I
Total
Average .Average

I Average

(1863 ...
Whcssl 1866
011aartsley 1 111:668665
486511865
Bean.
11865
PCSJ 1866

183
1731
138 1
113 I
128 1
109 f

Weser : Mr. John Farrar dge,of Langton, Beaminster,
says—Wheat, thin but good; barley, beans. peas,
potatoes, and root crops good; oats, moderate; hay,
moderate, well saved ; harvest genera next week. Mr.
Robert Damen, Dorchester, says—Wheat, under average
but good; barley and peas, over average ; oats, full
average; beans, not mush grown; potatoes, sound but
aural!; root (from good pleat hot went rain : hay, rather
light; harvest general August 6. Mr. W. J. VOUS,
Corte Castle, says—Wheat, barley, oat., potatoes, root
crops, all average; peal good ; hay, under average;
harvest general August 8. Mr. T. li. Saunders. Water.
comb/ farm, says—Wheat, thin, good COM, straw
rusted; barley and oats, good crops; peas, above
average; potatoes, good; root cropt good plant; bey,
clover heavy, meadows light, made well ; harvest general
A uguet 3. Mr. John Pope, ttymondebury, says—Wheat,
under average and light in straw ; barley and peas, very
good : oat. and beans, good; potatoes, promising but
symptoms of disease in the stalk.; root crop., promis-
ing ; hay. partially goad; harvest general first week in
August
Souses= : Mr. Walter Farthing, Stowey Court,
Bridgwater, says—Wheat, at least 5 bushels per acre
under average ; barley, under average; oats and plea,
good • beans, winter good, spring a failure; potatoes,
promising root crops, bad, particularly on heavy
ground; ay, light crop, well mode; harvest generally
now. Mr. J. B. Collyna, Dulvertoe, says—Wheat,
good; barley, very good; oats, average ; potatoes,
generally good but disease appearing; rcot crops, good
but lad.; hay, full crop and well saved; harvest general
end of August.
Wltas : Mr. John Coombes, 'Fishery, says—Wheat,
considerable under the average of last ten years; straw
also very abort; thin plant, well corned; average;
barley, oat., beans, and peas very good; potatoes, pretty
good; root crops, pretty good, but want rain ; hay,
beery, and got in well, especially from water meadows;
harvest, general, August 7th. Mr. James Rawlencie,
&abridge, Wilton, Salisbury, saye—Wheat, short in
straw, ears well filled, but in mine instances struck
with blight; barley, generally good, but in plums it is
going off prematurely ripe; oats, good; beans, winter
good, spring an average crop; paw good; potatoes,
fair crop, slightly diseased; root crops, good plant,
want more rain ; hay, good ; harvest, general, August
3rd or 4th. lir. George Brown. Avebury, says
Wheat, a fair average; barley, more than average; oats
and beans, average; peas, full average; potatoes and
root crops, good proved ; hay, full crop; harvest
general, in about a week.
Devote: Mr. George Turner, of Beacon Downes,
Exeter, says—Wheat, thin on the land, but well filled in
the ear; barley, oats, and peas, an average coop; beans,
very few grown in this neighbourhood; potatoes,
disease appearing; root mope, promise wall; hay, tight
mop; harvest general, in a few days. Kr. T. BMWS
Tavistock, says—Wheat, variable, but promises at,
average mop; barley, early sown good, late sown
moderate ; oats, short straw, but promises a fair yield
of grain ; bra' and peas, none grown , potatoes, promis-
ing, and free from disease; root crops, turnips good'
numgebi average; hay, very good, and well secured ;
harslet general, is a fortnight.