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agents, and their deputies, in all their transactions of 

 receiving and paying over subscription money. Ne- 

 vertheless, the system works injuiiously, to this journal 

 at least; and we shall rely on the subscribers to the 

 Farmers' Register to attend to the remission of their 

 dues, by mail at our risk of loss ; or by any other 

 and cheaper or safer means of conveyance, which they 

 may choose in preference. 



The effect of employing collectors regularly, is to 

 induce the greater number of subscribers to wait for 

 their application. This can rarely be made to nine- 

 tenths of our widely dispersed subscribers oftener 

 than once a year, if so often; and even when the 

 tardy application is made, those debtors only pay who 

 would have paid earlier, through some other channel, 

 if no collector's visit had been expected by them. In 

 this way, the general effect is this; that we pay 12 per 

 cent, for collecting a large proportion of the dues from 

 the most responsible and punctual subscribers — and 

 lose (whether aided by collectors or not) nearly all the 

 debts of subscribers of character eiitirely diff'erent. 



The suspension of collecting agencies is limited to 

 Virginia, because, even without using the mail, every 

 subscriber in Virginia, can send his dues to Richmond, 

 if not to Petersburg, once a year. The agencies here- 

 tofore existing for other states, will continue, as repub- 

 lished on the cover of this number. 



ERASURES OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



Just before sending out No. 1 of this volume, the 

 names of 128 subscribers to the Farmer's Register 



were erased, (in obedience to the rule of the Editorial 

 Convention,) as indebted for two years and upwards, 

 and whose arrears due for subscription amount to 

 $1845. These are in addition to all the many previous 

 erasures for the like cause. After the lapse of time 

 enough for all such stoppages of the delivery to be 

 observed by the least observant — and for payment to 

 be made by all who have permitted themselves to fall 

 so much in arrear merely through inattention and ne- 

 gligence—we shall send out notices to the remaining 

 debtors in a different form, and more likely to have ef- 

 fect, than these sent heretofore. So far as we can know 

 the facts, we shall never annoy, even by sending a bill, 

 any subscriber whose recent losses or misfortune have 

 rendered him unable to comply with obligations previ- 

 ously incurred. In any such known case, the charge 

 of the debt itself is erased forthwith from our accounts. 

 But a very different course is called for in numerous 

 other cases, of persons who are not only able to pay, 

 but who claim and hold respectable positions in socie- 

 ty — and for some who are very wealthy, or stand exalt- 

 ed in office, or in public character, and who have receiv- 

 ed the fruits of our labor for 3, 4, and even 5 years, 

 without paying any thing, and who may permit their 

 names to remain, as now, erased, and the arrears unpaid. 

 We have no legal remedy against remote delinquent 

 debtors; their debts are debts of honor — or, if they will 

 so have it, of dishonor, if they continue to disregard 

 every notification of them, and will compel the public 

 exposure of such long continued delinquencies. 



Table of Contents of Farmers^ Megister, J%*o. S, W^ol. W*M, 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 



'On the exceptions to Dr. Muse's address, - 78 

 Government bounties to agriculture, and to 



printers, - 83 



-Introduction and acclimation of tropical plants, 86 

 The blending of wine, silk, and dairy estab- 

 lishments, 89 



On grape and silk culture, - - - - 92 



Mr. Weller's wine from native grapes, - - 92 



Remarks on part of Mr. Garnett's address, - 93 



Which is the most productive corn, - - 103 

 Sassafras. Rat-proof meat houses. Close 



grazing. Hill-side ditches, ... 109 

 Advantages'of planting corn early, and cover- 

 ing the seed deeply, 110 



The marl deposite of South Carolina, - - 111 

 On the benefits of using straw as manure for 



young clover, 112 



On the Southern Commercial Convention, - 112 

 Late works of Massachusetts in aid of agri- 

 cultural improvement, - - - - 117 

 Extracts of private correspondence, and editorial 



comments, 125 



Monthly commercial report, .... 127 



Uses of soap-suds, 127 



Suspension of collecting agencies in Virginia, - 127 



Erasures of subscriptions, .... 128 



SELECTIONS. 



New discovery in making manure, - - - 65 



Mode and effect of employing bone manure, - 66 



Agriculture, &c. in France, - - - - 69 



Page 

 Holkham annual cattle sale, - - - - 70 

 The velocity of horses in the race philosophi- 

 cally considered, . - ... 71 

 Extraordinary productions of a small farm, - 71 

 On the use and value of liquid manure, - - 73 



Caoutchouc roofs, 76 



Bridge or tunnel from Dover to Calais, - - 76 



Embankments from the sea, - - - - 76 



On the propagation of the apple-tree, - - 77 



Notice of an experimental farm in France, - 77 



On green crops — their uses and cultivation, - 79 

 Report to the Senate of the United States, on 



the introduction of tropical plants, - - 84 



New Zealand flax lilly, 86 



The married and the unmarried, - - - 89 



Jerusalem artichoke, 94 



Beneficial effects of bone manure, - - - 95 

 Extracts from the 'Agricultural Report' of Es- 

 sex county, Mass. 96 



Salt hay, 97 



Ashes as manure, 97 



Neat cattle, 98 



Manures, 99 



Milk-weed fibre, 102 



General want of lime in the soils of Massa- 

 chusetts and Maine, the cause of their un- 

 fitness for wheat, 102 



On fattening cattle on different kinds of food, - 103 



Kyan's process for preserving timber, - - 106 



Melons grown over water, - - • - 111 



Report of the Southern Convention, - 113 



Lead mine in North Carolina, - - - 116 



Natural coke found in Virginia, - - - 117 



On the management of domestic poultry, - - ) IS 



