The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-08-19 00:00:00

THE 00P8.

Yr. Thomas C. Sooti tarnish« tut estimate of the
crops. B. says —" The variebleneso of the wheel atop
generally this season leaves no on. at liberty to d.-
ii to the probable aggregate yield; bat
Pm beet and Irma stops os various farms in wido-tid
dietriote, sad striklog an average, sod the. bestial hit.
ter those averages from dietrista mating from 60 to
100 rates south. north, ma, and mei of leindon, I
Imre omen Is the following oonclasios : —That we have
sot more than 3,300,000 acres under wheat In the
17isited Kingdom base about 503,000 wee less thee
last year. That the yield will be two boatels ander an
average orop, or sty 28 bashels an sere. This maids
by six bushels an sore my estimate It the Time, of
last year's stop, and would yield an segregate product
of 11.500,000 gentiles Dodostlng 1.000,000 qaertsre
for seed required for home use, 10,600 000 gutters
remain to meet • oamumpticia of 22 000.000. The
deficit is 11.600.000 gears's, whireb 1.500000 geisha"
more them I antheipated in the rums on Me 21st April
last. last year I ostlinated the aggregate perdue*
from a larger area at lan, and the fereiga supply re-
quired at 13,000.000 quarters; It has now reached 12i
minima, and there are still 16 days to run to seraphim
the aglealtural veer. This mooed' by three minims
of gutters or £9,000.000 of atooey the average imports
for the previous four years. Fortanatiely, the great
whist Geld. of Russia and Amadei, each with an area
six times greater that our own, are favourably reported
a.; the In. South Australian wheat we are sow mak-
ing mass opportunely to our abets; and car own un-
expectedly early harvest is like else as great • boon to
the mantry sa a Measly reinitiate" is to as Individual
whoa • bill is dm. had it been • fortaight or three
weeks later, as am exposited, it is hard to lay what
maid have Men the piles of breed, for it Is well.
Mown that we have no wheat stook on hand, either
In risk-yards or grcalstles, sad that all foreign wheat-
growing countets, are pretty well cleared. Not
many ago the dread of atandanes haunted the '
agiieelturlsls'mind, but now he ma the nommity of
more prods's, and that his oaly hope is in extra "rope.
The main deawbasks to the wheat yield this year ham
been, la—ib• watt of &Moats, neaselltatiag the ma-
Unease, of the ridtemad-furrow system, which always
maim sleep precasts(' to tall oora ; sesoadly, dideotilve
we from "mpg sells, setae/ by rod or smegot, end
meaning not is usual, at the top or bottom of the Magi,
but In the mum' - the blanks, attar *zinnia' any
hundreds of heads, I esdnated at • kiss de bushel an sere
throughout the whole wheat amp, witiols on 3,300,000
sores sanoants kimarly half &Wilke quarters and over
million of mossy' thirdly, thins's, of planteosthegroand
y on the heavier sods
,arid the slessaseef teatime.
Msialiregard to ether timps Kr. &MS says the Wisp mop
of this year soma an extra area and is good la viability
and fair in quality. The latter is • more soesstisl Gleams*
la It. value than is relation to say other serest, m so
foreign produce equals it kr malting osmosis Otto
mem about these's" width as hat year, andpneesise.a
ameage. Seeing that we eari get this grain fro, many
countries, and that he home use for bone provender Is is
many mem bola( superseded by maim, Its sneers or
failure is redmid la importenos. The earliest I eser oat
thie year was In Barmy, on the 17th of July, and the crop
looked Uk. limb:lie( frost 60 to 70 bushels an sore. Bests
are well podded and will he an average step, sad peas
above. The hay harvest, which Ina late this year
aid is not yet Sabha fa *Drama Adria', was
sot very rathfastory, is the swop, though better
than antialpated In early Sprint, is net above
threafoarths of as ammo, sail is oases in quality.
lamp' I. hay distriele, this stop is not takes
math into smoust ; bit a. It ociseples 6,000,000 'bares
Ii the United Leedom and yields is many to., of I
produce manually, worth 010.003,000 ; sad as the health
of mash stock and the rest of much land depend epos
It, it is of mom impresario than many are asoustased
to think. Besides these epeolalitlek it now appear, by
universal slatisUes to be the most Important "cop in the
world, and equal in 'aloe to two-litho of all other
amps pet together I Our erdllsial grasses, einem, and
forage pima ham Der yielded well this year, haw,
tansy of the plaits were renal out denim the Mater
by Me we Potatoes campy about Mreafairths of
the breed* of lest yeer, sad la* extremely well.
There will be a great bulk of produce if they MUNI
the disease, and the poor will likely be "applied with
this favourite root it 1., than half the mem of last
year. last year the few farmers who had marketable
avow med. tittle (steams, but they sumo% do this
nader any eirseastmoss, as they pleated Into saps
' at • triple met for seed, and the modals is now '
siiiing at half Mot year's prices. Mangold is an
excellent stop, and as It may he grown successively on
the same sell for many years, and keeps sound until the
peseett month, if required, few fanners should be
without it. Smile and all other turnip amps are
gook and kohl alibi, akin I have ohm premed ,
apoa Uwe attention of agriealturieto as • substitute
for the swede for sheep keep on heavy lands,
Is extending at the rale of 100,000 ewes Pei
annum, sad now maples from 40,000 to 50,000 awes
Cabbages are not nearly grown to the attest they shouhl
be, probably biomes they require three operaileas
Instead of one—namely, to be sown in July, transplanted
In September, and planted cut Is Nara. They will
Mos bell to en in July, August, liad September, will
prods", more groin food time my other pleat, my trees
40 to 80 toss an aim under teasress treatment, and
are invaluable for ewes and lambs, milli soweibes:ad
As other live Meek. there is literally no eatti•
sow in the twasalry. live Mock has lowered most
✓apidly sines 1870—Irlsh setae alone at the rate of
100,000 • year—lt Is quite 'Admit we moat make 1110111
provisos for their ineinteaseso by lateressing our
simmer and tinter stook food. If we do Ws we may
soca do sway with the temealty of importing the 12
per soak of our missal food which we now de
aid mattes an still on ttwe rime, and at present
essmallorably over the avenge prier for the lain sea
GriThis posses, what helps to drive away the
gifi people who emigrate yearly; but as peuporiost
is at the lame time dergeming over the three Itingdmm
It „um mosegy be attributed to the dearness el foga
or , wise of adequate irs Prom these einses.
however,and the notion of the Labourers' trolon. bows
dreaded a dearth of harpist hands tido seises • bat
they ham boss agreeably dieeppoluted. ',shower;
where ebandent, and prices for work only oak as
employer. ire willies to pay,
Ti. O'Desogino dodo that he Is abed no 1
lb* pest of prawn If Nylon,

DRIADYIIL Sous AT AN HISCHTION.
Os Saturday nionilmg, Lammas Smith wee 'aerated
in 04•110 Gaol for tb• brutal a:rari•• Boards, ip
Patriot Lyaoh. Priwarr wee folly rooldnod. aad eg.
pree•ed himself ss not willies to Iles Tim ma*
revolting ewes look pleas; th• hangman allowed it,
rope to be too loot, end wbs• tb• anfortuaet• ass
fell, hie feed Unmated it. rrood. U. rssaleed
los to agony for snots •••ood• ; th• repo 541 shoo pallid
up, and, sitar • desperate etroggis, b• seabed to sit&