The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-11 00:00:00

tgriculture.

HITCH= GASDIN OriIIaTIONIL—A busy moon for I
the gardener la now at hand. With favoured* westhor
and thit ground in • fit date, th• goners' planting for
stunner scope should be prooluded with as fast as
pcoable. Potatoes form an Important elemeot la
vegetable produee, and all earir kinds should now be
plants& Avoid as much as possible overstooking the
ground with late kinds; then aro better growls Is
the open field, u la the ricer *oil of the larder* they
make an exuberant growth, and besides bin an ,
schematise crop, aro too frequently an unestiafadory
one. from the eueeptittility to disease. An additional :
disadvantage is that late sorla are on the ground too ,
long for the usually hmited space of the gardon, and
do not admit of suaoseelve *rope UN some lesson. W.
find it an adventsge to grow only early kinds, sad
there are planted ratima thickly in tho rows, which
are 3 feet sport ; this, sitter forking and earthing the
Potatoes, admit' tha plantiag of main mops of
Rrueula Sprouts, Kelm or between the
rows. and by the time tbeis brain to grow truly, the
Potatoes, if not coed while young. are ready to take up
for storiag. Kakis surdas of early Carrots, Turnips,
Spinach, Lettuce., Ise. Oompleto aa moos so pomade
tbe platting of Asparagus and fleakale, sod sow for
sell year's supply of young nota. Dress off tho deed
Of deuyed leaves of Strawberries ; hos and rake
between tho rows, but avoid forking between them at
this salsas. Iltio main *rep of Onto.. should sow be
soon; where • largo supply is required It is best to
sow in drills 10 inch s apart; after railing in lat the
miriade dry for a N. hours, and than firmly roll the
ground with • light roller ; this prevents the &yip*
winds from checking the germination of the seeds, and
is generally b. n-ficial to all light dopy. Keep up
anoweelooal sea/lapel Radlsbee, smell soled, At, and
prepare ground for the general wouiog of Broccoli,
Kates, &a, by the middle of the month. If the plants
are strong, and the opus occupied by them now
required, Cauliflowers may be planted out on good
rico ground ; but if an VW, supply la grown under
hondllghts, it is better to defer for another week plant-
ing out the gement crop. In the fusing department
put in the last lot of Asparagus; this should dye I
supply until the outdoor stock boffins to corns in.
&skate not yet oovored shoald be to before the crowns
begin to wove, ma otherwise so amount of covering
will prevent Its greeoing ; re uneily 00•11 f th• last lot
with inverted pots, and a doutled ties, of turf plued
on the dralsago bolo of the pot, altorOards shakipg a
little loose littor over, so as to exiled., sun-heat or
trout; by this 131.1•41.1 good Seekale is obtainable until •
the first or sound out of Kay. Tom due now strong
and well established In 6or 7-Lash pals may he placed
In 14.1001 i pots for fruiting. Use a good nth 'outpost
of out-third well duempoited manor* to two-thirds
loam. Pot letalr, sod Pluto in • light airy
Is a tomporatere of 60'. A. tlio plaids program
In growth pinch out all littera* and atop at the
fourth tress of bloom ;by this means frogs 10 to 141 b.
of Aso fruit will b• obtained from each. Tho plants,
ethos requiring it, should have a stout stake of 3to 4
foot placed to each. Ooatiouo to Oak of young pleats
of Celery. C.ialigowiro, km., in frames. Oseisams, he.,
when largo enough should be plighted of singly or in
threes in small pota, sad platted in a brisk Mat as near
the glom as possible.

LOHICULTURAL RIFORT FOR RAllPdlilta
We bare non gone through ow of tbe most &Moult
and prolonged shoat masons as record. A. eyeaklerable
aortic of .beet sown during the month of November
has only partially Twisted ; many field. are o'er') thin
of plant and pataby, and some Moots must be
ploughed. and men to poles or Lent oorn. In it's
month of F.brouy, borevar, there wan about tea days
'meta. 04 rain, Oaring skid, tints a good deal of wheat
arm sown, and In good immoo, tbs land being berry,
sad more like outman than spring too*, and lt le
quite probable that as average Ramage of *heat hes
boon sows, for malty racapitm of dry land bate soya
na alias quantity. • bmk trill go far to make up the
deasioaciy at berm Mad Isms.
Vgry little has yet boss dame bearaeda She forme a
piss, be..., of gals sad at lbsViso we are wide. It

ralas heavily, sad the land has no sperm.' of bolsi
he • It stele to melee the seed for soros time; In fest,
the spin seed time must he later than Venal, and in
sommegesoos thews is very little gale for Mower and emu
wade. At the prioMpal seed fair of the °suety, held at
Virineheeler on Monday leek there was vary little
demand let mode and seed corn, it beiltz quite Ins.
poadble on many farm, to nay how mnoh laud can bs
sown either with Lent corn or Mover wed..

Sinop the ayatem of thrashing out of doors by steste
km been in (enigma we bare had so season so difficult to
thrash end deliver eorn in oonditioa us the present, end
only every small portion of home grown wheat is fit
for the miller, ezoept it is largely Miami with foreign
pr,cluor.
The winter having been wild tivere ie in cioneeTtenoe
a larger portion than usual of the turnip crop left, and
the late snow bee kept the grease to oheak, end so far
has been beneficial. The stook of sheep fa, however, so
short that large quantities of roots are being ploughed
in, sad whore labour is svallablo a good plan of doing
this le to use an old old turnip °atter. and spread the
out roots regularly over the kind. They beer in the
lead very well in this way, and very much bogie elm
wbes broken down by roller or chopping with boas,
none of tbe crop being lost by harrowing up on the
surfece.

All kind. of Mock, szeopt pigs, are unusually deer.
The French home, of which No many are now ii..
ported, ars moelient tempered animals, are antics at
work. and more reasonable in prim than our English
hone.. _

Horded cattle are now dearer than we have ever
known them. Clews and calves of good stook are very
diffionit to obtain. The same may be mid of will
bred .gdere end heifers, particularly of the short-horned
elem. The only way to meet thiseensergesiey MOM to
be that est ry fat mer should breed all the .look required
for his own use ant benefv. A good minim 'mild be
much surer, eip.obilly If mere oare was token in melee-
tion of both 'ado and female
In our last report allusion was made to the lambing
meson tehinh was then far advansed for the horned,
Dorset, and Somerset ewes, and it way now be said that
we Dever had a finer and more summons fell of lamb.,
either frost the honed ewes or the went gauntry downs,
and on the (rasing farms of the Southern Divielou few
losses are reported, but, on the 000trary, large numbers
of the early lambs are ready for sale, sad those already
kilted were found to be of azeidlent gaality, end this le
eerbdnly were than amid be expected alter no wet and
nopreeitiou a awes for feeding roots ow the laud. Jo
ermaking of dielaretting season on tbe bill forms of the
Hampshire Dore Books, we are pleased to be able to
report a good fall of lambs, rather over the average in
numbers, and generally very healthy and strong al-
though considerable losses have ooeurrol on some
farm.; tot this apt lies wore to ewes thau lambs, and
appears to have been moat Ser/Ird In lbeks which have
cot suffered from foot dimase ; on the other hand,
where they have been affeeesti by lunettes( very few
dettOs hare to be ',portal, although great loss of no°.
dition has followed aa a matter of (Durso

As very few ett.ther sheep are now to be bad the chief
'apply of mutton for the spring and gemmer must be
obtained from togs Theme taco et Mired bedly. owing
to the rainy sermon, and although there are many hts
of good tege to come to band, they will be ell required
at a high pries ; in feat, Me top price for mutton boa
never been so high before ea dating the past month,
ond sa the 'tusk of sleep le on short, and lea. sheep on
rely dear, it Is to be hoped in the tutored of both the
ftwaer sad ectestuner that the markets may be supplied
with regularity, and so prevent soy temporary fall of
pedal, which wonld, like lett year, be followed by
greeter eotralty after a short time.
JOIIPH BLIT/WILL, Southampton.
Marsh 6, 1673.