64 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 1 



Failures in New York and New Orleans, tlie 

 fjreal emporiums, are enumeraled by Imndrecls, 

 and the amount, not by millions, but by scores and 

 Imndreds of millioiis. Nor do other places escape; 

 the devastation is general. Even the banks scarce- 

 ly retain their credit. Specie is constanily trans- 

 mitted /"rom place to place, while bank notes lose 

 their value, when carried out of the state in wliich 

 they are issued. 



Owing to the absence of competition of demand, 

 or of ability to purchase, and of tiie usual lacilities 

 for transacting business, there is scarcely a current 

 price lor any ariicle. 



Cotton conmiands but 5J to 10 cents, when a 

 buyer can be tbnnd. and he can find current mo- 

 ney. Tobacco in New Orleans', >§ 1, 2, and 3 tor 

 the several grades of quality. I'l Virginia, $ 1 25, 

 to 6. Flour is quoted at § 7 to !•;. Foreign wheat, 

 ^1 37 to 1 50. These quotali-ns arc ot various 

 markets norlh and south. 



The price of stocks cannot be ascertained. The 

 buyer will oifer S 50, the seller ask 75, lor what a 

 lew weeks ago vva=5 worth $ 90 or 100. 



The causes oi this change have been so fre- 

 quently alluded to, as to render any further re 

 marks imnecessary. The explosion was long an 

 licipated — it has at length burst forth. 



Errata. 



The reader is requested to correct the fullowina; nu- 

 meral errors in the Account of the Greensville and Roan- 

 oke Raihcaij. 



Page 11, column 1, line 7, for " 2,800," read "28,- 

 000." 



Page 11, column 1, lines 15 and 16, for "5,800," 

 read "58,000." 



Page 12, column 2, line 19, for "three-eighths" read 

 "five-eighths." 



T^hle of€oiiteMts of Farmers^ Megister, J^o. ^ ? ^''°<»?' ^^• 



ORIGINAL COJIBIUNICATIONS. 



Pasro. 



Great improvements made in Charlotte county 

 by substituting canals for ponds, to supply wa- 

 ter power to mills, ^ . - - 



Plan of a drained mill-pond on Wardsfork creek. 

 Hill side ditches. Making manure. 



The unsuitableness of cotton culture I'or lower 

 Virginia. Abundance of marl and srreen sand 

 in Surry, . . . . . 



On the agriculture of Nelson and Amherst, 



Account of the Greensville and Roanoke Rail- 

 way ..... 



Value of tomatoes as food, and for the benefit of 

 health, ..... 



Remarks on Mr. Venable's farm, 



Management of slaves, ... 



Remarks on rakes and hoes. Narrow beds, 



Valuable influence of agricultural journals. Ag- 

 riculture of Campbell county. 



Sheep shearing, .... 



Gypsum in light dressings, . . . 



The progress of sinking, and loss, in the embank- 

 ed marsh of Shirley, 



General remarks on the causes of. and means to 

 prevent, the formation of malaria, and the au- 

 tumnal diseases which are the etfects of it in 

 Virginia, ..... 



Salt, a specific manure for cotton, and the cause 

 of the superiority of the sea-island variety. 



Queries, ..... 



Bounty for beet sugar in Massachusetts — to fos- 

 ter home industry and abolitionism, 



Chinese mulbeny not produced from its seeds — 

 on the additional testimony of Mr. Whitmarsh, 



The flour rioters in New York, 



Culture of silk. Brussa mulberry. 



Wild geesp domesticated, ... 



Report of the survey foi ra ail road from Pe- 

 tersburg to Farmville, 



41 



46 

 46 



47 



48 

 49 

 55 

 60 



60 



Prospects of the wheat crop. Effects of using 

 imperfect or damaged seed. . . - 



Prospects for wheat. Spring wheat. 



Failure of the Agricultural Convention and the 

 petition for a Board of Agriculture, - 



Monthly commercial report, . . - 



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SELECTIONS. 



Page. 



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 13 

 14 



17 



19 

 21 



Consumption of, and demand for railway iron, - 

 Receipt and patent vending, .... 

 New mode of hiving swarms of bees. 

 Agricultural schools, .... 

 Knowledge of plants apjilied to larming and gar- 

 ^.ening, ..... 



The morus mvlticaulis, and ]\Ir. Whitmarsh "s 

 mulberry seed, .... 



Progress ot steam carriage on common roads. 

 Cause of the rot in cotton, ... 



Resistance to motion on canals, in relation to ve- 

 locity, - - - - - 28 

 Sailing on railways, - - - - 28 

 Extracts from the proceedings of the Agricultu- 

 ral Convention of New York, - - 28 

 Long continued vitality of seeds, - - .30 

 Culture of asparagus, - - - - 37 

 On a particular mode of applying farm yard ma- 

 nure, - - - "- - 38 

 Mode of supporting the poor in Belgium, - 39 

 Bounty upon wheat in Maine, - - - 43 

 On the cultivation of sea-island, or long staple 



cotton, in South Carolina, - - - 44 



Condition of agriculture in Calvert county, Ma- 

 ryland, and the means of improving it, - 49 

 Tobacco trade. - - - - - 52 

 Animalcules from flint, - - - 53 

 Climate of the west, - - - - 54 

 Hedges. Osage orange, - - - 54 

 The horse tamer, - - - - 56 

 Rot in cotton, - - - - - 59 



