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stated hours every day with passengers and pro- 

 duce will then give a most enlivenhig aspect to our 

 city. We rejoice at the prospect. 



MONTtlLV COMiMEUClAL REPORT. 



To the Editor ot' tlie Fanners' Register. 



The annual period of commercial inactivity is 

 now approaching — if in Virginia any period can 

 l>e called inactive — for the succession of dilfcrent 

 crops which her soil produces, is such, that one or 

 the other occupies its respective dealers through- 

 out the jear. 



Tlie crop of cotton, except an inconsiderable 

 rcnniant, has been received and disposed of. The 

 total receipts in Virginia lor the year ending 1st 

 October next, may be estimated at 42,000 to 43,000 

 bales — disposed of thus: 



Bales. 

 Shipped to foreign ports, - - 30,000 



Coastwise, _ . • 6,000 



Manufxctured in Petersburg, Richmond, &c. 5,000 



Each of these items, it is believed, will be with- 

 in the mark, but the last has not heretglbre been 

 taken into account in estimating the crop. It be- 

 gins now^ however, to assume sullicicnt impor- 

 tance to deserve notice. The sapi)ly of cotton 

 to Petersburg ti-om North Carolina, has been in- 

 creased this year by the faciUty of getting it to 

 market on the rail road. 



Whilst the operations of the manuflicturers in 

 this country have been considerably diminished, 

 and rendered unprofitable, those of England 

 and France have inci'eascd, and thriven to such 

 an extent as to require nearly all the raw material 

 which had been furnished to them up to the latest 

 date Irom thence: prices were consequently sup- 

 ported there,, and an advance created here — the 

 Petersburg cjuotation being now 12^ to 13^^. But 

 as large supplies were to arrive in Europe afler 

 that time, there is more likelihood of their having 

 a redundant, than a limited stock. The crop of 

 1833, in the United States, it is estimated, will 

 reach, if not exceed 1,200,000 bales— that of 1832 ' 

 was 1,070,000. 



This is the season of greatest activity at the 

 tobacco inspections, and as an impression prevails 

 that the quantity will prove smaller than usual, 

 prices have recently advanced, particularly of the 

 finer quaUties — the general sales of such, are be- 

 tween 8 and 10 cents, but for fine and superior 

 11, 12, 13, and even 15 in a few instances have 

 been paid. The lowest quality sells at 3^ to 4, 

 and other sorts at all the intermediate prices up to 

 good and fine. The result of the crop, as to 

 quantity, cannot be ascertained until October. The 

 foreign orders, both for cotton and tobacco, have 

 this }-ear been larger than usual. 



The increase of flour mUis in Richmond has in- 

 creased the competition in the wheat market, and 

 contracts have tieen made for the new crop at 

 $\ 15 cents per bushel. The usual demand 

 for new flour for the South American markets, as 

 well for those of our northern cities, of which Vir- 

 ginia furnishes the earliest and best supply, gives 

 a great advantage to her farmers who ]:)ossess fa- 

 cilities for delivering their crops early in the sea- 

 son. 



It it pleasinfj to remark that the recently pro- 

 jected work of extending a rail road from Rich- 

 mond to the waters of Potomac is about to be un- 



dertaken. The sub^jcription of $300,000, for which 

 books were opened, have been readily filled, and 

 it is understood that operations will be commenced 

 forthwith. When this work shall be completed, 

 there will be a continued line of communication 

 by steam power from Boston to Roanoke, with 

 two very slight intermissions; and we may hope 

 to see ere long similar improvements extended to 

 Raleigh, and llirthcr south. 



The great work of improving the western com- 

 munication from Richmond to Kanawha, is also 

 said to have assumed a more favorable aspect. 



X. 



June 26, 1834. 



EXTRACTkS from private CURUKrfl'ONOENC'E. 



THE WOR.H IJV PINE TREES. 



Orange, jlpr'il 5th. 

 We lost much of our best pine timber last sum- 

 mer by a white worm (as it is supposed) that 

 bores into the trees and kills them. They are in 

 clusters of from ten to filty. I ajipreliend that it 

 is an increasing evil, without remedy, more to be 

 di-eaded than the Hessian fi}"^, and which cannot be 

 exterminated, not even by the "restoration of 

 the deposites." Information fi'om any quarter 

 upon this subject, would be acceptable to many 

 of your subscribers, no doubt, fijr I believe the in- 

 jury to be extensive and extending. 



[The habits of the insect which is so destructive 

 (under certain circumstances) to pine timber, will fur- 

 nish an interesting as well as useful subject for inves- 

 tigation — and we hope that the foregoing request for 

 information will receive due attention from some of 

 those who are able to give it. It is believed that the 

 destruction of standing trees by these insects, is al- 

 ways produced by the cutting down or killing a pine 

 in the beginning of summer, and thus furnishing the 

 most fit receptable for the eggs of the insect, which 

 soon hatch in such numbers as to spread over, aad often 

 to Idll many surrounding trees during the same sum- 

 mer. From such facts, it would appear, that the 

 worms speedily assume the winged state, and leave 

 their native tree. But on the other hand, sap timber 

 containing the eggs, or the worms, used in building- 

 houses, will continue to be inhabited by them for a 

 long time, and sometimes until they have eaten up 

 nearly all the inside of the wood. 



The wide destruction of pine trees by the recent 

 hurricanes of May and June, will probably be the 

 means of producing these worms in immense numbers, 

 and by their attacks, of extending still farther the loss of 

 timber already sustained.] 



I purchased of R. K. Meade, Esf[. of Frederick 

 county, Va. in May 1832, a pair of fine Frederick 

 sheep; the buck two years old, the ewe one, for 

 which I paid him $65 delivered in Alexandria. 

 The ewe had a ewe lamb the 13th December, 

 1832 — tlie lamb remaining \vith her. She had a 

 ram lamb the following July, the 13th, which I 

 have sold for $25; and on the 24th January, 1834, 

 she had two — a ewe and ram, and raised them 

 both. Her first ewe lamb, which she had on 

 the 13th December, 1832, now has a fine ewe 



