The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-02 00:00:00

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HOYA t A ,RICr LYCRA/. Socterr.—The general meet-
ing of inenthirs of the society was held on Friday week
in the shirehall, at Warwick. The show-yard receipts,
rs4withstanding an unprecedented attendance on the
Wednesday afternoon when the entrance foe was five
shillings, have fallen about 1:500 short of the sum
received at Chester. There were LEW present on the
Tuesday, 3,376 present in the cattle yard on Wednes-
day afternoon, and ii,154 present on that day in the
implement yard; 19,002 paid • half•a-crown apiece on
'Thursday ; 2f1,4441 paid one shilling each on the Friday.
1.4 e foiling off on this day, as compared with the
40,000 of the Chester meeting, is attributed to the
absence of any extraordinary facilities in the way of
excursion trains at a lower fare, which would have
attracted thousands from Birmingham, Coventry, /sc.
THE HORTICCLTVItAL SOCIETY'S ISTEW GARDEN.
I 'The fine! decision of the Horticultural Society is taken.
The attempt to form a grand garden at Kensington
Gore was resolved upon on Wednesday week. All that
now remains is for the Fellows of the society and
the public to find the money, and for the council to
settle the details of the lease with the Royal commis-
sioners, and obtain a plan worthy of so noble a site and
so great an undertaking. Su many have signified their
intention to join the society should the garden be formed
that there can be no doubt about its giving the society
a very great addition of strength, for almost every per-
son of wealth and station in the West of London must
necessarily take the deepest interest in • place cakulatal
to add so largely to their personal enjoyment, irrespec-
tive of the immense impair& it would be certain to give
to the improvement of that—we should say those—Arts
which conduce more than anything else to the beauty
and enjoyment of country homes. Nor is there any
sign of serious difficulty in completing the fund of
£20,000 by the issue of debentures, which, under the
new arrangement proposed by the Royal Commissioners,
will afford as safe an investment as tan ever be obtained
in operations of the kind. Each debenture is to be of
the value of £lOO, carrying until paid off 5 per cent.
interest, payable half yearly, and giving the holder
free admission, either in person, or by transferable
nomination, to the gardens at all tunes whatsoever. The
Royal Commissioners are to guarantee a sum not exceed-
ing 1:20,000 to all debenture holders remaining unpaid at
the end of the first term of 31 years, or else to renew tho
lease for :11 years more. Several members of tho
Council have subscribed for these debentures in sums
from £3OO to 1:1100, for the purpose of showing that they
are satisfied with the goodness of the investment. The
form of the ground is settled, so is the position of the
bounding arcades, and of the great winter garden;
anything further is quite open to discussion. We enter-
tam no doubt that the Council will consider whether it
wiU not be to the interest of the society
that they
should invite plans for laying out the inner area of :.0
acres, as soon as they shall have ascertained that the
money which is required can be raised.—Gardenere
Chronicle.

THE TURNIP CATERPILLAR. —A
food deal of com-
plaint is still heard of the ravages o the black cater-
pillar among the young turnip plants ; and numberless
recipes are published for their destruction. The heavy
rains of last week, in so far as they have been general,
wiU prove • better antidote than any other. Among
the remedies proposed are the following :—Herd flocks
of ducks in the fields attacked—do not mind the failure
of the plan at first, keep thou on the ground, and they
will soon acquire an extraordinary appetite for the
grub; mixtures of sulphur, soot, and ashes sown over
the drill ; children employed to gather the grub into
cons; brushes to shake them on to the intervals between
the rows and implements to crush them there ; quick-
lime and arsenic strewed on the plants, or quick-lime
in larger quuitities alone ; all these methods are recom-
mended with confidence by men who speak from expe-
rience of their vane.

CHEESE MAKING.— 000 Of the most interesting
papers in the current number of the Highland Society's
Transactions contains • report by Mr. Fulton, of Tem-
ple Mary-hill, near Glasgow, on the best mode of mak-
ing Dunlop and Cheddar cheese. It appears that not-
withstanding Dunlop cheese is, according to the analyses
hitherto published, one of the richest descriptions manu-
factured, it sells for less per ton than many other sorts.
In 18534 while the farmers' price for Dunlop was only
from VS to 1;30 per ton, that obtained for Cheddar by
Mr. Harding, of idarkbury, near Bristol, at the same
time was nearly Ditt per ton. In addition to this direct
commercial advantage the article than bringing in so
much larger a return is made with lest labour and with
less waste, and then it is a more nourishing and digesti-
ble food. It is plain that the Highland Society were
right in seeking for a report on the differences of pro.
cess which led to such differences of result. For it is
clearly ascertained that the quality of the cheese is
determined almost entirely by the mode of manufacture,
not, SS has been hitherto imagined, almost entirely by
the quality of the pasture. "Whilst in Ayrshire,"
writes Mr. Harding, " we made cheese in almost every
part of the country ; and whether it WIN from the old
pastures of Cuninock, the forced Italian rye-grass at
Cumming-park, or the heather of Corwar, the cheese
was uniform in texture, quality, and flavour; if there
was any iiensible difference, our impression was that the
best article was made at Corwar. Three of the cheeses,
made as at many different places, were transferred to
our own cheese-room, and were it not for the private
mark upon them we could not have discovered them
amongst our own." Mr. Fulton accordingly undertakes
in this report to describe the Dunlop and Cheddar pro-
cesses respectively.

FA RMERS' MEMORANDA MR A UGURT.— The most
important business of the month is the corn harvest.
Do not let the corn become too ripe before you begin to
cut it. Wheat, when ripe and free from weeds, may,
for stacking, be cut and cocked immediately, whilst in
earlier stages, and with any green amongst it, six or
eight days field room is necessary. Let gleaners into
your fields. Make up dung-heaps: hoe turnips; pro-
vide an early supply of Thorley's Food for Cattle for
winter use, for, besides benefiting the cattle, the owner
will find a free use of the food a great saving to himself.
Sow rye and winter barley.-27ierley's Farmers' Aleut-
;suck.