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tial loss of the W ^ the tilths, | season for them for many " rs. Beans, I believe, are 
dem pss OF THE M 8. but joven gprs is every appear: nw a good|not much better, but there are not m any hereabout. 
July Wheat Some of the vagin 4 too is Meg very Felsen look E healthy, ou are not likely to be a 
ll ood ero y straw, and a e ge A few l, particularly that which w wn early on = heavy cro e bave heard o: NM ase, but don’t think 
= "e LI fields a little laid. With suitable | wind am ow. Of Beans and Ten rm e is an unusually | there is gei ot i it i Man as come on slowly, 
weather there is the prospect of a good average crop, | large breadth sown, owing to ven almost total failure | but as it is n = wall established, a and does not, like 
it mi h thi _ But of the Clover last year. many crops, suffer from dry weather, we may expect it 
bee DT de [A peor got th mer ceri € g condition have blo omed ut set well, a are so far to do - — = iay pd sown in d 
L decided o; Pah ear our | free from fly, promise well fi crop; but in| time, have n very well; but it cannot be 
me fart rong pomi a was ile eee dis- | those cases ue ae they have bier tried on land of a expected that. the pth sown can come up without 
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were put in with manure, and the water drill are| promise fairly ; but the later kinds are covered with | former, but prices have not given way much. Lean 
decidedly a good crop. Other varieties of Oats on fiy, : and will be of little or no value either for corn or | eattle are not so plentiful as they were, es prices are 
othak eal } of. They On the whole it is generally considered that | still high. Our wool fair took place on ‘of bain 
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the straw, and only pen a te fg oducing a light cr op. there will be a poo in comparison with last year| June 29, and there was a large amount 
Pedy: : the Barleys red by the hebr rains| of one-fourth in the Wheat, and of one-third in both | done at rather better prices v were expeeted ; 
MN a and the ipei old frosty nights. They | Barley and Oats. Of Mangel there is generally a good | good flocks, with a fair proportion of tegs, sold x 
Miss much prev. : s will M e$ n |plant, but owing to the unfavourable — it | rather over 2s, per lb. The Duis s of Richmond's was 
PN yea cata | s pa not made much progress. - Most of t he early sold at 25. 2s. 14d. Down ewes alone about Is. lid. 
2 woot bat m complaints in se localities wn Turnips have been destroyed by the fly, and | Th 
LO not "retting Mrd. in sown more in season have come up very prices ; Ri believe all was sold, except “when some sellers 
where set, of the pods not fillin "n What we ! irregul ly hin Sang ig Turnip soils a is r arise. The attendance was 
een able to examine persona t suffi fai na = he stronger lan is = [ver ier rge, and though the à has been only a few 
respect, but are fairly podded, "and appear like tio v. ng | very differ and their growth 1 is peel e years established it has ne one of the most 
an average crop. Peas: as far as we have seen this perceptible. “Indeed. Phe ti genera yd is in a very | important, and has bee ^ rh — — i - 
crop promises well; and should it continue free from precarious state, and a few more vif o of vd — farmers of ie a pe e rm rers 
attacks of fly will afford a good yield. Mangels : | dryin g weather ‘will be fats al t a it. | better employed than € e em minns vem 
growing well and in most instances a good plant. | The Crop of ] ay is on the eda a very Tighe e v. E works going on ; and th en not been so many spare 
Turnips: not p Coleseed : the early t uplands, where laid early, have | ones for haymaking, bu e fine weather has, with the 
injured by fly ; the later sown a very g y by | yielded vet but e seeds aed not produced | mowing and inymaking machines g ot through it very 
plant. Potatos: on inferior Potato ES. a poor crop; | half a crop, and many of the "pel uplands ssa tru and there wil be more done in this way 
| on better soils more promising. Hay: on old ed have been equally Ej Mice It is nearly all|every year. me the mowing machine has 
lands a heavy crop; seeds only a poor crop. Alfred 5. | secured, and is of fine quality, and dd we very | used it has given great satisfaction T EM 
Rus have a thorough soaking rain, that and |grass at ls. 4d. ty “of t en, giving 
ORSETSHIRE: Bradford Abbas, Sherborne.—Never | other artificial food must be _Tesorted to, or great them three „horses (so as to have one voting and the 
before do I remember sach a long continuance of dry | losses s the men n have earned good wages, from 
weather; for the last nine weeks we have had scarcely | are getting very mu 4 dried u up. Up to the ‘last few | 4s. to 5s. a » and the work is mot near so hard 
anything of rain better than an occasional passing | days, however, stock has done well, and beasts and sheep | for them as a e with the scythe. One cuts odd 
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n complete disappointment and a hot sunshine, Still | Wallis, Overstone Grange, July 12. the other drives. So that the cost is about 2s. 8d. pe 
our light lands have proved more holding than stiffer! Ox HIRE: Lodge Farm, Sarsden, near Yin acre, exclusive of tear and wear of machine ; and the 
soils, as much of the lias of the county of Somerset is | Norton, July 12.—In givin ou a short r price for eti de with scythe has been a 4s, 
much as to let in a hot sun and a drying|of the growing crops in this neighbourhood, “T | erige ls. 4d. for machine. They do about from 
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8, among whie the ap bis as been | Cotswold hills on the "T and red soils; many fields | acre more after 1 
usy. Beans an kably | of Wheat looking well last April, now show the “ drill | Harvest will begin suit the end of this month. G. S. 
well, but when not very pe lag sow lete | ks” Ton pe: and the [es deis a: uch under last 
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"Turnips. Beans have in some places been attacked be to this ay inde | but pose ol for ce 
the black dolphin, Aphis fabæ. My crop has been free| moisture. I rag! gee tie for the informat 
from this pest, but can scarcely form a pod for lack of | those who wish commence steam cultivation, tl 
moisture. In roots the Mangels have come up very | all our spring work, res 200 acres, besides 
irregularly, but when stiniulated into quick germina grubbed for a neighbonr, has been done without sid 
tion by the application of superphosphate, they still show | serious breakage, and 50s. will put our 12 months 
a vigorous leaf; mine too are at present free due. "km | Work in order, We are now bursting u Clover | be had rd a 
leaf- f mining grub, Antbomyia bete, though bo these lea with the grubber for Wheat, making what is| the feeding 
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gradually but surely becoming a great pest, "My crop. p a fair crop, but bi c. f to suffer| eat, say 150 Ib. per day, with RÀ bi additio, El 
Swedes want rain, but puma I used 3 ewt. to the|from dry weather. m a € eas: short is ring the latter stages of fattening a few pounds of 
acre of T rphosphate (Proctor's special), sown broad-|straw, but well ;podded none i 
e = well mixed ei nemen soil, I have found "s | Potatos: we pe 
eci advantage over ing with the as to| Mangel: a good pla Tois coming badly, and | by the sale of t 
duce me in future to act even more than I have yet b Hay: a bre light crop, Piles very ‘ware. | aro f Ns 3 x Rec 
e on Prof, Voeleker*s dictum—to inco; bei ing sold from t a question really 
manures with the soil. Our hay-making is well done, "Wast SUSSEX : July 11,—We have had ver ry dry|is, whether the half of th crops o of T as removed 
but the yield bats 3 good is below an ig by and | and not genial weather for several weeks, and pasture | from the field for felaha in the yards, aided by 
ttermath ~ Ape -— or ah in | Grass — - so sem entiful im the early part - the said small quantity of e c or corn, will sufficiently 
midwinter. When will t anxi mmer w got very short, and unless rain com ed y the corn ¢ crops ? Le, 
question,  Harves st will be ‘early, but. if ‘the Prop phets soon our „prospect s altogether will be far from pro- not fücient] 
mising. Th e has bee a a good crop of meadow hay, | y| to te what is mA the test of profit, a 
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will not be b cheering as ‘the y were tw bee Ad in many EN and perhaps ve may | it. other south-comtry rym s avc on sies 
. Flax, vile s here grow me [m say "the EA ole is about an average as to quantity, but | th «go hr Be ee sum 
ce E fibre, but sity of the seed the — better than aml, Wheat looks hir d | Eon of cake as agen cd our north-country penes 
> ur m Seen and will be fit ho look upon vagance and. w aste, and. say 
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l 3 "other eeds, "Mad cannot fail to yie of Hale m ahi ae a a little over 1 bushel por an any ; the 
"à vied Batley nip TESE anprom: amg his d pas r than amy other that we bave got. [t is as eur T ade a map. le n 
d pin su. Pagina Mc : ear; and, o Whether iti is cues seta think ie sowi wing ta ki: remember that when 3 , more gs js given, - 
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parts of the fields, ‘The crete mel: in ome ist hide 1 os Goth bun A Vile. dee d ey prat E) — 
but not the Weeds, and where Clover seeds have t, whatever the quality may be; and we often hee f ill 
ha and hoeing could thes be resorted to, the ‘eet that millers don’t like it. Pepe y is good, and perhaps to M s abt of the crops. It is true our ae 
ve "dbtsiued the mastery, and both n e ty and į will be the only crop likely to come up to an average | will show a smaller money value, but we get 
ity the corn will be deficient, The Oats, too, d this year ; erint deal of it wodht have been down and |return in manure and corn. Selling, as I did, some 
es and on all Kill, i var Short, and on|spoiled but for the dry weather. Pe sd are very |fields of my Wheat e 16l. per aere just after last 
the weakest and hottest land they will not get|short in the straw, but the looks fairl harvest—even at . per ponds i come to 
n the whole, they are deci ya | the yield not be th cae an | the ‘names ion that tein E and I look to that as my 
n the w soils, es ind also on the Peas are almost a failure, poor il tay, and upon s as — je p roduce 
able to report much more any are being cut up for ne or fed ‘of | p^ iib to it "Bes sides, I pi 2 tons of straw per acre as food or 
both of Wheat and Sui There wast make room for Turnips; there has not been so bad a litter for my cattle. Turnips will not pay the cost of 
