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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



No. 7 



rious considerations; one oC which is, the effect it 

 has on Ibreiirn exchaniies, by creatinii; a debt 

 aojainst us. Tiie quantity of wheat imported into 

 the United Stales, from Ist October, 1836, to 1st 

 July, 1837, exceeded 3.500.000 bushels, according 

 to official documents. 



Cotton has not varied much in price for some 

 weeks past. The crop of the U. States, brought 

 To market during the year endinij 1st insl., is 

 1.423.000 bales. The export during the same pe- 

 rioil lo 1. 167. 42.5. 'I'lie quantiiy rnanuliu^tured in 

 the U. Statrs was 222.540 tiales. A larger quantity 

 than usual remains in the interior, which will go to 

 swell the receipts of the ensuintr year. The price 

 of the old crop closed at 7 a 9^ cents, and that of the 

 new opened at lOv^, in Petersburg. The stocks in 

 England are larirer than fur several yeans previ- 

 ous, but the price being low may increase the con- 

 sumption. 



X. 



October 24, 1837. 



SEASON AND CROPS. 



For nearly or quite two months, there has been no 

 rain sufficient to moisten the dried earth, or to cause 

 any other than very slight and very transient benefit. 

 After some early cold weather, and frost, wliich injured 

 tobacco on low grounds, (where frost is always soonest 

 felt,) the general temperature has been as unusually 

 warm, as the weather has been unusually dry. Even 

 on this day, (Oct. 24th) and the preceding, the heat 

 of noon is Hke that of summer, and quite oppressive to 

 the feehngs. This drought has been a very serious 

 obstacle to fallowing for wheat, unless where done 

 Very early ; but on early and good fallowing, the ab- 

 sence of rain has greatly facilitated the sowing of 

 wheat — and, unluckily has the process been forward- 

 'ed, unless the extreme dryness of the earth will pre- 

 vent the sprouting of the seed, until steady cold weather 



shall have set in. If the present warm weather con- 

 tinues until the wheat is generally up, legions of the 

 Hessian fiy will still be alive and active, and their 

 worst ravages may again be feared and expected on 

 the crop. 



The corn crop through eastern Virginia, to near the 

 mountains, is very irregular, on account of the very 

 partial effect of rains, but general!}' will be worse than 

 we supposed two months ago, and will probably fall 

 below an average product. Tobacco in exposed situa- 

 tions, has already been damaged by frost, and probably 

 much of ttie crop was cut prematurely, to guard 

 against that disaster. 



Grain and grass crops have seldom sold better than 

 through the past year, and high prices may be expect- 

 ed for the year to come ; and this, added to other cir- 

 cumstances of a more certainly durable continuance, 

 make the present time especially profitable to the cul- 

 tivators of grain, grass, and stock farms, and inviting to 

 the investment of capital in land, and its improvement 

 and cultivation. 



From ttie Farmer's Cabinet. 

 PKKSICUVIKG PUMPKINS. 



A correspondent at Union Bridge, Maryland, 

 under date of May 9th. says — "in looking over 

 the Farmers' Cabinet to-day, I find a request from 

 one of your subscribers, for information as to the 

 best method of preserving pum[)kins through the 

 winter. I answer that the way to pre.serve them 

 one or more years, is, to pull them bofbre the t>ost 

 comes on, and keep them in a warm dry room. 

 This is my method, and I have now several large 

 ones in my house, in a fine state of preservation ; 

 and my neighbor, Mr. Davis Lightner, one of" 

 your subscribers, has them two years old at this 

 time, weighing 43 lbs. each. They are very 

 fine. 



Table of CoMeMs of Furmcrs^ Kes'iste.r, »T«. 7, Vol, W. 



SELECTIONS. 



Page. 

 Letters of General Washington to Sir John Sin- 

 clair, 385 



On raising mixed crops, with a view to increas- j 



ed products, 389 1 



On manure for wheat, 39O ' 



Extraordinary mode of hatching chickens, - 391 



Tape worm in the pointer and spaniel, - - 391 



The ferret, 392 



Value of the willow, 392 



Natural succession of forest trees in North 



America, 392 



The fig, and the process of caprification, - 393 



The subsoil plough, 394 



On the various implements used in husbandry, 394 



Account of the Fribourg bridge, ... 39g 



Deepest mine in Great Britain, ... 397 



Owen's " animalized carbon," ... 397 



New manure, 397 



Fishing with buck-eye, .... 398 



Kemarkable attraction of birds, ... 398 



Hints on raising asparagus, - - . - 398 



Effects of foiests on the size of river currents, 399 



Purification of tar, 399 



Page. 

 Full directions for the manufacture of beet-root 



sugar, ..-...- 399 



Mr. Madison's address to the Agricultural So- 

 ciety of Albemarle, ..... 412 

 The several operations of banks on agricultural 



and general interests described, ... 422 



Beet-root sugar in France, .... 428 



Observations on grape culture, ... 430 



Straightening water courses — protecting river 



banks — and embanking low-grounds, - - 431 



The cut worm, 440 



Preserving pumpkins, .... 44s 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Governmental action in aid of agricultural im- 

 provements in this country, ... 429 



Account of the soils and agriculture in western 



New York, No. I, 441 



Comparison of the value of horses and oxen. — 



Estimate of the worth of corn-stalk manure, 444 



Proposal to publish, "The Husbandry and Hor- 



culture of the Atlantic states," &c. - - 445 



Commercial Report, 447 



Season and crops, 448 



