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FARMERS' REGISTER, 



[No. 5 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



The weather has been very favorable for har- 

 vest, and the crops of wheat and oats were stack- 

 ed in dry order, Tlie showers of rain were occa- 

 sionally violent, but of short duration, and during 

 the last fbrtniirht the weather has been dry, and 

 the heat extreme. The product of wheat, so far 

 as ascertained, falls short of expectation ; but 

 proves fair for the quantity sown, and the quality 

 is good. 



Some few farmers who undertook to get their 

 wheat ready for delivery in this month and made 

 contracts in June, obtained SI 50 per bushel; 

 but this price soon began to decline, and subse- 

 quent contracts have been successively at SI 40, 

 il 30, SI 25, and $1 20, for delivery in August. 

 Prices are expected to go still lower, unless a 

 prospect of foreign demand shall check the decline. 

 The crop throughout the United States, is sup- 

 posed to be the largest that has been made for 

 several years. 



The inspections of tobacco to 1st inst. show dou- 

 ble the quantity to the same time last year, but this 

 arises chiefly li-om a similar difference in price. A 

 considerable portion of the crop of 1836 has been 

 brought to market since the 1st October, 1837, and 

 is counted in the present year's inspection. 



The range of prices is from S 1 for inferior and 

 partly decayed lugs, to SH, for choice leaf. The 

 inspections in Virginia, it is supposed, will reach 



about 45,000 hhds. and those of Kentucky about 

 the same, which, with the addition of Maryland, 

 will furnish about an average of the usual quan- 

 tity for export. 



The growing crop is said to be unpromising, par- 

 ticularly as to the quantity. 



The quantity of cotton reported in the table of 

 receipts at different ports of the United States, 

 reaches nearly to 1.800.000 bales, being an in- 

 crease of about 450,000 bales on the receipt of 

 last year, partly arising from the same cause that 

 the inspections of tobacco exhibit so large an in- 

 crease. 



Considering all circumstances, prices have been 

 well supported. They have advanced 1| cent per 

 pound in the last 6 or 8 weeks, partly owing to de- 

 cline in freight, and rise in exchange on England. 

 Sales have been small in Petersburg as high as 

 11| per cent., the range of prices 9 to 11^, but 

 some reaction is now felt, and the accounts fmm 

 England to 16 ult. are not so favorable as those 

 which preceded ; indeed so large a quantity as 1.- 

 800,000 bales had not been anticipated. 



It is confidently expected that the banks in the 

 Atlantic states will generally resume specie pay- 

 ments next month, and that the western banks 

 north of Tennessee will follow the example. 



Specie has fallen to 2 to 3 per cent., exchange 

 on England 8^. 



July 24, 1838. X. 



Table of Contents of Warmers^ Register, JYo, 5, Woh W*l. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 

 Cheap elementary agricultural publications re- 

 commended — agricultural books for scliools, 262 

 Fibrous-leaved plants, and the mode of pre- 

 paring the fibres, .... - 289 

 Premiums awarded by the agricultural Society 



of Charlotte 290 



The colleges of Virginia considered as works 

 of "internal improvement." William and 



Mary College, 292 



On the use of marine vegetable manure, - 300 

 Covering cotton-seed with the coulter. Bene- 

 fit of ploughing clay soils after rain, - - 30.3 

 Agricultural notes of a tour to the west, - - 304 

 Remarks on Jautfret's new process for making 



manure, 311 



Seedling trees from the TJiorwsTnrfZ/iCffuZi.s, - 316 



On rinding or ringing fruit trees, - . - 317 



Extracts from private correspondence, - - 317 



Wheat crop, 319 



Monthly commercial report, - - - - 320 



SELECTIONS. 



On mulberry and silk culture, - - - 257 



Books on agriculture for school-boys, - - 260 



Peach prospect, 261 



Anecdote of the use of lime, - - - 261 



Cut-worm, 261 



Ruta-baga, 264 



Marl in South Carolina, .... 265 



Capabilities of soils. Vegetable physiology, 266 



On stall-feeding sheep, 267 



Canada thistle, 269 



Sow pure seed, 269 



On cotton culture, 269 



Effect of natural causes of difference on the 

 agriculture of England and the United 

 States, 



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Climate and products of East Florida, - - 273 



Cheap thrashing machine and horse-power, - 275 



On grasses for the south, . . - . 276 



Capons, 277 



Peach trees, 277 



Poultry, - 278 



Turnip drills, 278 



Smith's ever-pointed stone-cutting chisel, - 279 



Efficacy of lightning-rods, or conductors, - 279 



Injury caused by the destruction of birds, - 280 

 Increase of temperature in the interior of the 



earth, 283 



Building stone-fence, ----- 284 



Value of Durham cattle, - . . - 285 



Substitute for spaying, ----- 285 



Don't blame your seedsman, . . - 285 



Charcoal for diseased lungs in hogs, - - 286 



Citron pumpkin, - - - - - - 286 



Russian gold mines. Important discovery in 



extracting gold from the ore, . - - 287 



New mode of applying steam, - - - 28S 



Progress of agriculture, - - - - 288 



Mineral manures, ----- 291 



Use of lime in New Hampshire, - - - 292 

 Public exercises and liOnors of William and 



Mary College, 296 



Public exercises and honors of the University 



of Virginia, ------ 297 



Ashes as manure, 299 



Agricultural charlatanism, - - - - 303 



Mowing, 309 



Jautfret's new manure, .... 309 



Great sale of Durham cattle, - . - sn 



Cotton manufactories in N, C., - - - 312 



A domestic rabbit-warren, - - - - 313 



Milk-sickness, 313 



Lucerne and saintfoin, - . . - 315 



Joyce's new mode of heating, - - - 317 



