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FARMERS' REGISTER— RAIL ROAD— DURHAM STOCK. 



be so considered, witliout first making payment of 

 such arrearages. 



Sections. It slia'.l be the duty of the board of 

 directors, to specify to what objects premiums shall 

 be awarded, and what amount: and transact all 

 other business necessary lor the well being oi" the 

 society. 



Section 9. There shall be committees of three 

 appointed to award jM-emiums to the various objects 

 designated. 



jlrticU 4. — Section 1. The payment of two dol- 

 lars by a citizen of this county, or any one owning 

 and cultivating a firm therein, and such annual 

 contributions as may be required by ihe society, 

 shall constitute membership. 



Section 2. Any member ma^^ withdraw when- 

 ever he thinks pror.er, by notifying the recording 

 secretary, after having paid his dues. 



Section 3. Each member of this society, at their 

 annual meetings, shall furnish an essay upon some 

 subject connected with the objects of the society. 



jlrtidc 5. Before an adjournment, the proceed- 

 ings of the society and board of directors sliall be 

 read, and signed by the president and recording 

 secretary. 



jirtide 6. Two-thirds of the members present, 

 at any annual meeting, may alter or amend this 

 constitution. 



Signed, 

 THOBXAS M. BONDURAKT, President. 



Granderson Moseley, Rec. Sec* 



From the Eail Road Journal. 

 RAIL ROAD IN VIRGTKIA. 



Orange C. H., Fa. October 1834. 



Dear Sir, — I have noticed in the Virginia Ple- 

 rald a project for a railroad li'om Fredericksburg, or 

 the Great Bend of the Potomac, to the Virginia 

 Springs, through the Blue Ridge, &c. I look upon 

 this scheme as both practicable and grand, as far 

 as it goes. But one has only to open his eyes 

 upon your new Rail Road Map, which should be in 

 the hands of every friend to internal imjjrove- 

 ment, in order to be convinced that if this rail road 

 is continued on from the Virginia Springs to the 

 ever navigable Avaters on the Great Bend of the 

 Ohio at Guyandot, it at once opens the most superb 

 highway that can possibly be constructed in the 

 CJnited States, to the great West. It unites the 

 great South west with the Atlantic in a much 

 shorter distance than the great Erie canal; and 

 when completed, Vv'ill enable the farmers of the 

 west to carry their corn, which now sells for r2| 

 cents a bushel, to the city of New York in less 

 than 48 hours. Besides, "the public will be ac- 

 commodated in carrying from tiie great Valley of 

 the Mississippi, and thence through Fredericks- 

 burg and VVashington, Baltimore' and Philadel- 

 phia, to your cit}^, in a comparatively short period; 

 whereas, to my knowledge, hundreds, if not thou- 

 sands have, during the past season, waited at 

 Guyandot, day after day, for want of conveyance 

 to the White Sulphur and the northern cities. All 

 the travel from the South west to Vv^ashington city, 



* In the proceedings of the Buckingham Agricul- 

 tural Societ)^ in No. 5, the name of Granderson Mose- 

 Jey was incorrectly inserted as George Moselay. 



during tlie session of congress, will of course fiill 

 into tliis track, the route being nearer and quicker 

 than any other. The inhabitants of Kanawha 

 are now ready to do much for the construction of 

 this road, in order to give free transport to the mil- 

 lions of bushels of salt now manulactured annual- 

 ly at their works. A few daj's ago I saw a mer- 

 chant from near the salt works on his way to Phi- 

 ladel|)hia and New York to buy goods, which he 

 said he should send home by way of Pittsburg or 

 Wheeling, and that he must wait for rains, be- 

 cause the Ohio was quite too low at this time, and 

 at the best it required four weeks at least. Were 

 the rail road of which we have been speaking com- 

 pleted, it would require no more than 44 or 45 hours 

 to transport the same goods from New York. If 

 I had time I might mention other advantages, but 

 I only wish to call the attention of the pubhctothis 

 route, and I am sure that they will at once see 

 those advantages, and save < me the trouble of 

 mentioning them. I am glad to learn that wood 

 for rail roads can now be made durable, as it will 

 greatly lessen the expense of excavations and em- 

 iiankments. In the route above mentioned, there 

 are but few streams to cross, and the gaps through 

 the mountains render it comparatively a level 

 grade. I remain, dear sir, very respectfully, 

 yours, 



J. MACADAM, JR. 



From the Free Press. 



GREAT SALK OF IMPROVED STOCK IN JEFFER- 

 SON COUNTY, VA. 



At the sale, last week, of the improved stock 

 upon the farm of the late Henry S. Turner, Esq. 

 the following extraordinary sides were made: 

 One Durham Cow, 8 years old, for ^255 

 One do. Bull, 2 years old, 325 



One do. Heifer, 1 year old, 231 



One do. Bull Calf, 4 mo. old, 162 



One I do. Milch Cow, 1.30 



One ^ do. do. do. 155 



One I do. do. do. 120 



,^1.378 



From the Britisli Farmer's Magazine of July 1834. 



ECONOMICAL MODE OF PREPARING FOOD FOR 

 CART HORSES. 



In a former number of this work a correspondent 

 proposed an inquiry as to the most economical 

 mode of keeping cart-horses in town. We were 

 in hopes some of" our readers, actiuainted with the 

 subject, might be induced to furnish us with the 

 means of gratifying him, but being disappointed 

 in this expectation, we ourselves instituted an in- 

 quiry, and have, at length, been enabled to make 

 an authentic statement of the best practice, and 

 the most economical, which has ever come under 

 our notice. 



Our attention was not improperly directed, in 

 the first instance, to the condition of' the various 

 fine teams of cart-horses, which all visitors to the 

 tov/n of Liverpool must h.ave seen and admired, 

 because we presumed that our correspondent did 

 not seek inf()rmalion how some miserable animal 

 might be enabled barely to exist undei' severe 



