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F A R JVI E R S' REGISTER. 



[No. 4 



case, in places where labor is much cheaper than it is in 

 Milwaukee. This paper (in small quarto,) is published 

 once a month, for $1 a year; and it would be incon 

 ceivable how it could be afforded so low, in such a 

 place, if the mystery were not explained by the adver- 

 tisements showing that the paper is an appendage to 

 a seed-store, and nursery, according to the usage of 

 some other and older parts of our country. 



"3Iilivaukee price current, [April 17, 1838.] 



Beans, white field, - - bush. ^3 50 

 Peas, blue imperial marrowfat, bush. 3 .50 

 Beef cattle, on the hooi; 100 lbs. 8 00 

 Flour, best, - - - bbl. 10 00 



Grain, wheat, common spring, bush. 2 00 



4 00 

 4 00 



Italian, 



Oats, 



Corn, 



Corn for seed. 

 Corn Meal, 

 Bacon, Hams, - 



Shoulders, 

 Lard, - _ . 

 Butter by the keg, 

 Cheese, - - - 

 Eggs, 



t/ows, new milch, 

 iGrass-seeds, red clover, 

 Timoihv, 

 Hay, - - •- 

 Pork, prime, 



Mess, - 

 Lime, _ - . 

 Wood, - 

 Sugar, maple, - 

 Laborers' VVafjes. • - 



lb. 



doz. 



each 



bush. 



Ion 

 bbl. 



cord 

 lb. 



2 75 

 75 



2 00 



3 50 



2 00 

 16 

 15 

 15 

 25 

 16 

 31 



30 00 

 16 00 



3 25 

 10 00 

 2100 

 26 00 



1 25 



2 00 

 12 



a 12 00 



a 3 00 



a 3 25 



a 100 



a 4 00 



a 18 



a 16 



a 16 



a 18 

 a 38 

 a 35 00 



a 12 00 

 a 25 00 

 fl30 00 

 a 1.50 

 a 3 00 

 a 15 

 month 15 00 a 20 00" 



A NEW WATER-FILTER. 



Some six or seven weeks ago, when the water 

 ofthe Schuylkill was so yellow and turbid, and all 

 the conduits from Fairmount ran discolored 

 streams, the following discovery, which we find in 

 the London Morning Chronicle, would have been 

 a blessing, as it niay^ahvays be henceforth. A Mr. 

 James Richards, of Dumbleton, writing to the 

 editor, observes : " I have discovered a cheap fil- 

 ter to cleanse river water, which you willoblise me 

 to communicate to the public, as it may he useful 

 to the inhabitants of London, Westminster, and 

 other districts where clean soft water is preferred 

 to dirty or hard water. It is nothinir more than a 

 bag made of unbleached calico, in the form of an 

 inverted cone, attached to a small wooden hoop, 

 and in this country called a dropping bag. It is 

 first saturated with water, afterwards piiiverised 

 charcoal is thinly spread over the inside of it with 

 a dredging-box used by cooks. At first, a part of 

 the charcoal will pass through the pores ofthe bag 

 with the wafer, but by continuing to fill il full with 

 the same water, and adding charcoal, in a few 

 minutes it will become as clear as sprinir-water. 

 To prevent the charcoal being washed from the 

 pores ofthe bag in filling it, place another bag in- 

 side it, and dredge a small quantity of pulverised 

 charcoal into it. The cost of both bags is under 

 one shilling, and the two I send you will cleanse 



from fifty to sixty gallons daily, if it be supplied 

 with water fi-om a pipe and regulated by a stop- 

 cock, and more in proportion to the size and 

 in number as may be required. I have used these 

 filters the last month, and hope the use of them 

 may add to the comfort of others." 



This plan, it will be seen, is extremely simple, 

 and within the means of every citizen. Why 

 should it not be generally adopted in Philadel- 

 pliia 1 — Philadelphia Gazette. 



ON THE SOURCES OF MALARIA, OR AUTUMNAL 

 DISEASES, IN VIRGINIA, AND THE MEANS 

 OF REMEDY AND PREVENTION. 



£y the Editor. 



Throughout the course of publication of the 

 Farmers' Register, it has been one of the main 

 objects of the editor to attract attention to the 

 causes and effects of malaria, or unhealthy marsh- 

 effluvia, and to enforce his views as to the means 

 of restraining or preventing this greatest of the 

 evils under which the eastern half of Virginia suf- 

 fers. To forward this end, every fit opportunity 

 has been availed of; and the subject has been 

 treated, directly and at length, or incidentally and 

 slightly, in various articles in these volumes. But 

 there has been found but little if any encourage- 

 ment to persevere in this course. The editor has, 

 alone, and without any certain evidence of appro- 

 val of his views and his course, and certainly 

 without any practical adoption of his recommen- 

 dations, laf)ored in this cause, which, to his under- 

 standing, demands the support of all, on consider- 

 ations of economy and agricultural improvement 

 and profit, as well as on the more important 

 grounds of the strength or frailty ofthe tenure by 

 which the people of half of our entire territory pos- 

 sess and enjoy health, happiness, and even life. It 

 is under .such impressions of the high importance 

 of the whole subject, that the readers of this 

 journal are again invited to its consideration; and, 

 probably, for the last time, by the present writer, 

 if there continues to be no more interest excited, 

 and action produced, in regard to the evils exist- 

 ing, and which are multiplied ten-fold in power by 

 the ignorant and careless legislation of this com- 

 monwealth. 



The views of the writer on this subject were 

 presented generally, and at some length, in an 

 editorial article (pp. 41 to 43) in Vol. V, on the 

 causes of, and means for preventing, the formation 

 and the eflects of malaria in eastern Virginia; 

 and also in sundry shorter incidental passages in 

 each of all the volumes, in connexion with articles 

 on marshes, mill-ponds, and canals, &c. &c. But 

 as it would be requiring too much of readers that 

 they should either remember, or carefully refer to 

 these various articles, a general, though slight 

 view of the whole subject will be here presented, 

 sustained by additional facts, which have been re- 

 cently learned by personal inquiry and obser- 

 vation. 



That the common autumnal or bilious diseases 

 of eastern Virginia, and especially ofthe tide-water 

 portion, which is most subjected to them, are prin- 

 cipally caused by the effluvia rising from wet 

 lands, is a matter in which all concur. The gene- 



