The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-22 00:00:00

agriculturt.

MANCrI, WVRZEL.—.I grmt deal of injury has been
do:., I the frost of last week to tunnel wurzel crops in
ports of the country. Where the roots have
n %lied and laid in rOWA upon the land preparatory
t to the heaps they are de,troyed. Where stilt
st,• .n(l partially sheltered by their leaves, those
are only partiv injurial, and it is probable that
t• iivy last. The best plan to treat them in that
c hinis to run a large (linable uneoldboani plough
: ...• wt. muds of the rows, awl thus throw earth
t... 0 side of t ach row as a protection to the
1.• 11l a week or two it shall be seen whether
t;o• rtn, • 1,4r.y01. The useless expenditum of
!..rv. mg a worthless crop will thus be Raved, and each
r oJt lizs been injural past remedy will rot by itself
aod not infect the rest. lf, after A slight frosting, this
;ion coal at once have been given to the slightly,
there would have been Iron ChanCe of hip
no•di::te injury than where the frozen roots were nub-
j-et.,l to a rapid thawing. We must, however, express
its that injury by frost over the surface of a inangel
Vflr. I out is (ALI, awl that no remedy for its effects is
Whether such rixds would keep after steaming
awl being thrown together in a besp or pit As rutting
potatoes will, we cannot say. If superheated steam
were Usel in rook:ng them, so AA to drive off A portion
of tli enormous imantity of water they contain, there
wouhl be greater ChnOCC of success in such a scheme.
117.ider the ordinary asiking process we should think the
chance of turning rats to, useful account for longer than
,week in this way to be extremely suiall.--Uardearri

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almost exclusively to cattle, sheep, and pigs, the crowd-
ing and inconvenience is very great. Root., seeds, and
agricultural implements, are yearly excluded, more mei
more, simply from want of room. Lust year the com-
mittee had under their consideratimi the possibility of
removing it to POlllO more extensive and commodious
, locality. This year, it is understood, that as a make-
' the agricultural implement makers are to be
limited to a much less extent of space than the small
anionsit hitherto allotted to them. Under these circum-
st.inces, the Crystal Palace Company's proposed show
steps in at an opportune perul, awl responded to as it
is by inainiiers of the leading agriculturalists, including
many of high risk, there enii he little doubt but that
the exhilition will he e:.tero4ve and popular. The
agrieultund implement and machinery department of the
Crystal Palace in its present state is very complete. It
is intended, however, to enlarge it considerably for the
approaching occasion, au! :os it is possible to amompriate
to the exhibition of agricMtural implements an uninter-
rupted space of nearly half a-mile in length, covered,
warmed,and amply supplied by steam power, it is evident
that nowhere else can such a display be made an at the
Crystal Palace. 'The entries for the great root show
will dose on liatnrJay, the :Nth November. The show
will be held in the Caine week as the Smithfield club
show, commencing on Tomslay, the Rh, and ending on
Saturday, the 10th December.