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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 7 



NOTICES AND REPLIES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



There is no authorised general agent or collector for 

 the Farmers' Register in ViRGiNrA ; nor will any be 

 appointed soon, nor without notice being published. 

 Some of the reasons for this departure from general 

 usage, were stated at page 127, No. 2, of this volume, 

 to which those who have made inquiries are referred. 



There being no agent to receive payments is no im- 

 pediment to these being made, whether by new or by 

 old subscribers. In either case, if money is sent 

 through a post-master's hands, or evidence is taken of 

 a letter containing money, and properly directed to the 

 editor, being committed to a post-office, the loss is the 

 editor's, and the proper credits will be allowed, and 

 the copies sent, upon information of the transmission, 

 though the money may not have been received. (See 

 the conditions of Farmers' Register.) 



The notes of all specie-paying banks will now be 

 received for subscriptions to the Farmers' Register. 

 iThe banks having generally resumed specie payments. 



it is hoped that much of the inconvenience suffered by 

 subscribers, and of heavy pecuniary loss by the pro- 

 prietor, during the time of suspension of payments, 

 may hereafter be avoided. 



"A subscriber," whose letter was received through 

 the post office too lale in last month to be answered, 

 is requested to refer to and read the "Address to the 

 friends and supporters of the Farmers' Register," at 

 page 63, No. 1. of this volume, for the explanations 

 and reasons which he deemed wanting. 



The author of the anonymous communication from 

 the north, (accompanied by a private note signed, as 

 ivas then supposed, by a real and responsible name,) 

 containing serious charges against a large and noted 

 seller of mulberry plants, is informed that it will not 

 be published in the Farmers' Register, until sustained 

 by known and undoubted authority. Our pages will 

 always be open to well established statements, from 

 responsible sources, of any of the numerous impositions 

 practised upon the agricultural public. 



Table of Contents of Farmers'' lie^ister, JVo. 7, T*oh f^l' 



Page 



Estimation of the farmers' profession - - 397 



Swamp - - 397 



Cattle — Devonshire - ... - 398 



Steam power 400 



On feeding wet leaves to silk-worms - - 400 



Milk from cows fed on distillery swill - - 401 



Silk culture 401 



Geology and geography of New York - - 402 



Agriculture of Tuscany 104 



Pumpkin-seed oil 40.5 



Remarks and inquiries on the effects of marl 4(Hi 



Answer to the foregoing inquiries - - - 407 



Grease for wheel-axles ----- 407 

 Report of survey (for canal) from the Dismal 



swamp canal to Winyaw bay - - - 408 



Important to silk-growers - - - - 414 



Smoke-burner .-..-- 414 

 Bridge across James river, on the Richmond 



and Petersburg railway ... - 415 



Breeding of bears 415 



Deep ploughing. Treading in seed Eatable 



prize animals 418 



Sheep worm - 418 



On the frozen soil of Siberia - - - 420 



Milch cows 421 



Destructive insects ----- 422 



"Bulleting" not a sure substitute for spaying 423 



Renewing old hand-saws - . - - 423 



Profit of dear lime used as manure - - 424 



Sharpening hoes 424 



Culture of rhubarb 426 



Root culture 426 



Squashes turning to pumpkins . - - 427 



The queen bee 428 



The peach tree 428 



Culture of onions 438 



Fowl and poisonous earthen ware . - - 439 

 Difference of planting corn on grass, and on 



stubble land 439 



Carrot field culture ... - - 439 

 Useful instructions regarding the milking of 



cows 446 



Broken limbs of animals ... - 446 



ORIGINAL, COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 

 Desultory remarks on the silk culture of the 



United States 389 



Wolves in Fauquier ... - - 395 

 Proceedings of the Agricultural Society of 



Nottoway and Amelia - - - - 416 

 Large leaves of the native mulberry (morus 



rubra) 417 



On the sugar and cotton regions of the U. S. 418 



Memoranda of liming. Proposed legislative 



premium 421 



Seedling Canton mulberry trees ... 424 

 Silk culture and mulberrj' speculation - - 423 

 Treatise on the Culture of Silk, No. 1. On 



the morus multicaulis .... 429 

 Strictures and remarks upon former articles - 433 

 Profit from clover. The drought. Sea-ore. 



Coultering. Improvement of land and health 434 

 Cultivation of middle South Carolina. Louis- 

 ville, Cincinnati, and Charleston railroad and 



bank 436 



The drought. The Green Spring lands of 



Louisa county 440 



Season and state of crops in August, (repub- 

 lished from supplement to last No.) - - 441 

 Private correspondence. Season and state of 



crops in September 443 



Latest report of the multicaulis trade and 



mania 444 



On the seedlings of Chinese and other mul- 

 berries - - 445 



Monthly commercial report - . . . 447 

 Editorial notices 448 



SELECTIONS. 



Materials for manure 285 



Swine 286 



Natural history of the herring - - - 288 



The American manner of moving houses - 393 



Hydrophobia in sheep 394 



Practical effects of draining - - - - 396 



Selection of seed wheat ... - 396 



Curing clover hay 396 



Taking honey without destroying the bees - 397 



