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FARMERS REGISTER, 



[No. It 



APOLOGY. 



Much to our disappointment, and not a little to our 

 incouveniance, the engraver has failed to send on the 

 woodcuts for the -Treatise on Draining,' in the time 

 promised, and counted on, and in consequence, the re- 



gular continuation of the publication could not be 

 maintained; and our office arrangements to meet that 

 object have been made in vain. The remainder of 

 the work will be given as soon, and as much in con- 

 nexion, as possible, after the engravings are received. 



CONDITIONS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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The following resolutions of the Editorial Convention of Virginia, will hereafter form part of the condi- 

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 ■main indebted on open account at the end of two years, from the time when the advanced payment was due, 

 shall be erased from the list of subscribers." [Resolations of the Edito-rial Convention of Va. 



Address — Edmund Ruffin, 



Editor of Farmers' Register, Petersburg, Va. 



TiiMe of Cmiieuis of Fmrtners^ Register, *li^o, 1 1 , I'oJ. F*. 



ORIGINAL COMMrKICATlONS. 



Page. 

 Address of James M. Garnett to the Frede- 

 ricksburg Agricultural Society, - - 649 

 On the alleged change of climate in this re- 

 gion. ...--.- 664 

 The increasing use of leaves as manure, - 665 

 Miscellaneous remarks on practical agricul- 

 ture. — Deep ploughing, .... 666 

 Brooks' macliine for thrashing out clover seed, 668 

 Limestones of Rockbridge county, - - 66,9 

 Proceedings of the Editorial Convention, - 669 

 Extracts of private correspondence — capaci- 

 ty of poor land for improvement, - - 674 

 Rust on manured wheat, .... 675 



Mangel wurtzel, 676 



Report of a farm in North Hampshire, (Eng.) 676 

 To subscribers in arrear — erasures of names — 

 discount on uncurrent notes — postage on 



letters, 690 



On the cultivation of corn, . - . - 691 



Marl of South Carolina, - - - - 693 



Apology, 696 



Conditions of the Farmers' Register, - 696 



SELECTIONS. 



On the establishment of the British Board of 



Agriculture, 641 



Honor to the memory of Sir John Sinclair, ■ 

 Cultivation of cotton in Hindostan, 

 On the breeding and rearing of pigs. 

 On the feeding and fatting of swine, 

 Mode and advantage of raising Irish potatoes 

 from seed, .-.-.. 



Communication of foreign flavors to fruits, - 

 On the saccharum of the sweet potato, - 



Race horses 



Milking cows 



Cultivation of asparagus . . . . 

 Management of flowers and plants in rooms, - 

 To keep filberts sound, . . . . 



Grapes on town houses, . . . . 



Sagacity of a dog, 



Resistance to motion in canals, in relation to 



velocity, 



Deakin's improved blast for smelting iron 



ore, 8ic, 



Construction of railways, . . - . 

 Consumption of coal in Great Britain, - 

 Davenport's recent experiments in electro- 

 magnetic machinery, . . . - 

 Great improvement in domestic economy — 



dispensing with coal as fuel. 

 Beet sugar, 



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