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FARMERS' REGISTER, 



[No. 4 



of the European crop, and a consequent great foreign 

 demand ; neither of which contingencies is at all pro- 

 bable at this time. According to these views, every 

 farmer should endeavor to get his crop to market as 

 early as possible. — Ed. Far. Reg. 

 June 23d. 



From the Farmer's Cabinet. 



SUMMER PRUNING OF TREES. 



"Experience is the best teacher." 



The riwht time for prunino; trees is afier the first 

 running of the sap, fiom the middle of June to 

 the first week in July. The reasons for it are — in 

 the first place, when a tree is in HjI! leaf you can 

 better judge what branches to remove, than when 

 it is leafless. In the next, the wound heals over 

 more kindly and efiectually after summer trim- 

 ming, than afier winter or spring pruning; and 

 lastly, suckers are not so like to shoot out after 

 midsummer trimming, as if it was perfiirmed in 

 the spring of the year. The writer of this has 



performed the operation extensively on a large 

 number of trees of various kinds, the last week in 

 June, with the greatest success, and has never 

 seen a tree, in the least deirree, injured by it. 

 The practice is now becoming general among 

 those who have the most knowledge of the sub- 

 ject, and it is honed that those who are timid at 

 departina; from an old custom, will make a trial of 

 it this season, on a scale proportionate to their 

 fiith, and rest assured diappointment will not 

 follow the experiment. 



Pyrus. 



From the Mining Journal. 

 FLINT IN WHEAT. 



The scoundrels who burn wheatstacks in the 

 country leave behind them some curious chemical 

 results. " Swing " is a grand experimentalist. 

 There are found in the en)bers, lumps of coarse 

 glass, which are the result of the fusion of the sili- 

 ca, or flint, which wheat straw in particular is 

 found to contain in very consideiable quantities. 



Table of Contents of Fanners^ Hegister, J\"'o. 4, J^ol. J*!, 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 

 Remarks on the soils and agriculture of Glou- 

 cester county, (concluded,) ... 193 

 Statement of successful farmingon a small scale, 



on Gloucester low-ground, ... 194 



Tropical fibrous-leaved plants, .... 197 



Analysis of the Santee marl, ... 198 



Correction of a mistake. Crops on the Rivanna, 199 

 Progress of the manufacture of poudrette in the 



city of New York, - . - . - - - 201 

 Remarks on, and some objections to the essay 



on " agricultural hobbies and humbugs," - 208 



Reply to the foregoing, and some other objections, 211 



Agricultural paper in Wisconsin, . - - 215 

 On the sources of malaria, or of autumnal dis- 

 eases in Virginia, and the means of remedy 



and prevention, 216 



Remarks on a Chinese treatise on silk culture, 22S 



Remarks on Dr. Clarke's weather-table, - 24-5 



Eastern shore railroad, .... 246 



Commercial convention of Virginia, - - 251 



Sheep grazing among growinc: corn, - - 2.53 



State of the wheat crop of 1838, - - 255 



Errata, 256 



SELECTIONS. 



Extract from the proceedings of the Planters' 



Society of JMonticello, S. C. - - - 199 



Patent banking and ditching machine, - 200 



Manufacture of beet-sugar, .... 200 



Raising clover-seed, 201 



On the advantageof using sub-carbonate of soda 



in washing clothes, .... 202 



Blue-grass, 203 



Best timber for pump-logs, ... 203 



Barley, 204 



On tiie formation of mould, ... 2O6 



Disease among sliell-fish, .... 207 



Germination of the acacia, or locust seed, - 207 



Sunflower-culture, 207 



Quality of milk, 212 



Advantages of peat-ashes and coal-ashes for 



manuring, .... . . 214 



Account of the introduction of rice and tar 



into the southern colonies, . . - 214 



A new water-filter, 216 



The raising of silk worms (a translation from 



the Chinese,) 217 



Observations on prognostications of the wea- 

 ther, 244 



Subterranean travelling, .... 247 



Geological origin and formation of soil, - 248 



Roots versus hay, 250 



Account current with a pig, ... 250 

 Extracts from the proceedings of the commercial 



convention of Virginia, .... 251 



Jauft'ret's new manure, .... 253 



Singular discovery of a subterranean river, - 253 



Of the rtjckers on corn, .... 254 



On feeding horses on pease, to save blades, - 254 



Pruning trees, ...... 254 



Breeding in and in, 254 



Summer pruning of trees, .... 256 



Flint in wheat, 256 



The following errata were caused by the illegible writing of the several pieces in which they occur : 

 No. 2, p. 78, col. 2, at end of 3d paragraph, for "shown," read "slow." 

 No. 3, p. 164, col. 2, line 3 frofc bottom, for "gents," read "goats." 



No. 4, 202, col. 2, line 17 of editorial remarks, for "extreme," read "extensive." This last error is corrected 

 in part of the impression. 



