FARMERS' REGISTER 



575 



County, nnd Anlhony Kimmell, of Frederick 

 Couniy, Vice Presid^'llts ; and Col. B. U. Can)|)- 

 beli, Secretary and Treasurer. The Society re- 

 solved, to liold their next annual Fair on the third 

 Thursday in October, 1841, an earlier period be- 

 ing found to conflict vvilii the business of farmers 

 an<l planters. It was to be regretted that so lew 

 of theirayricultural friends made their appearance 

 from the Eastern Shore on tliis occasion, and also 

 that an engagement of a political character debar- 

 red many from the western counties from attending. 

 The trustees, however, have every reason to be- 

 lieve, that at their next annual Fair, which it is 

 contemplated to continue for three days, there will 

 be such an acquisition to the present number of 

 the society, as will ensure its establishment upon 

 a most respectable and permanent basis. 



The Exkcutive Committke. 



To John S. Wilt.iams, Esq. 



Trustee of the 31. Ag. Soc, charged with the 

 superintendence of implements of husbandry : 



Sir — The undersigned committee, to whom was 

 submitted the several articles of husbandry and 

 farming implements for their inspection and re- 

 commendation, do most respectfully report, that 

 they have examined those submitted, and have to 

 report that time will not allow them to make as 

 elaborate a report as they would desire, and were 

 they to make at this time a discrimination among 

 the many articles, it would be an invidious distinc- 

 tion. They, however, take pleasure in reporting that 

 the following agricultural implements, which so 

 greatly relieve manual labor, have met their cor- 

 dial ajjprobation ; and they do recommend the fol- 

 lowing among the many submitted which they 

 have inspected, as worthy of public patronage. 



No. 1. The Corn Planter and Seed Mill ; Post 

 Auger, and model of a Mowing and Reaping Ma- 

 chine, exhibited by Mr. George Page. 



No. 2. The Ploughs, Straw Cutter, Root Cut- 

 ter, Corn Shellers, Horse Power, Corn Crusher, 

 Fanning Mill, Raisinsr Machine, Garden Hand 

 Plough and Churn, exhibited by R. Sinclair, jr. 

 and Co. 



No. 3. The Ploushs, Fanning Mill, Straw Cut- 

 ter, Thrashing Machine, Cultivators, exhibited by 

 J. S. Eastman. 



No. 4. The Ploughs, Cultivators, Fanning 

 Mill, Root Cutter and Straw Cutter, exhibited by 

 John T. Diirding, and Co. 



No. 5. The two Reaping Machine.'?, exhibited 

 by Mr. Hiissey. 



No. G. 'J'he Plough exhibited by Mr. Tinkler. 



No. 7. The Plough exhibited by Larkin L. 

 Moore. 



No. 8. The Washing Machine, exhibited by 

 Mr. Scott. 



The above is submitted by 



John P. E. Stanley, ) r- ■,, 



- Tr ' > Committee. 



Anthony Kimmell, S 



T. Thomas, Sec''y. 



if not quite to 2,160,000 bales, of which 1,850,000 

 bales have been exported to foreign countries, and 

 only 55,000 bales remain in our home markets. 



'i'he quantity of tobacco inspected in Viruinia, 

 Maryland, and New Orleans, is about 130,000 

 hhds. of which a moderate, but unascertained 

 stock remains in the country. 



Of flour and grain we will not attempt to esti- 

 mate the product of the past year, and the export 

 of the present one. 



While the exports of the country have been 

 thus unusually great, the import, on the contrary, 

 is small, as the finances of the government will 

 probably show. The prices of most of our com- 

 modities have been low, on both sides the Atlantic, 

 and bid fair to continue so; l)ut these low prices 

 increase the consumption, and thus produce some 

 beneficial effect. 



Reports from the cotton-growing states might 

 induce a belief that the devastation by caterpillars, 

 &c. was such as to reduce the crop one third or 

 one fourth ; but as such statements are made every 

 season, there is great want of faith in thero, 

 though they are sometimes realized. 



As respects the wheat crop in this part of the 

 country, the assertions of deficiency are realized. 

 Already the millers in Petersburg find the supply 

 inadequate to their moderate demands, while the 

 prices they pay are higher than those quoted in 

 Baltimore and Philadelphia. 



The weather lor a month past has been favora- 

 ble to the maturing of the tobacco crop, which, 

 although less than the last, will be a full average 

 one. The present quotations are, for tobacco, ^4 

 to S'lO, wheat, ^1 to ^1 15, fiour, $'5i, cotton, 7^ 

 to 9i, corn, 45 to 50 cents, bacon, 12^ cents. 



There is every prospect of a resumption of spe- 

 cie payments by the banks, in January next. Ex- 

 change on New York, 3 lo 3^: ; on London, 9A to 

 10. 



Sept. 29, 1840. 



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MONTHLY C0M31ERCIAL REPORT. 



For tlie Farmers' Register. 



The fiscal year which terminates with this 

 month will exhibit an export of domestic pi-oducts 

 exceeding in quantity, if not in value, that of any 

 preceding one. The crop of cotton reaches nearly 



ARTIFICIAL GRASSES, &C. 



From tlie Memoirs of the " Society of Virginia for Promoting 

 Agriciilluie." 



Gloucester county, 19/A June, 1818. 

 Dear sir — I am highly gratified by the late 

 meeting of the Agricultural Society at Richmond ; 

 their proceedings and the light thrown on the 

 subject, give a lively hope that the land oi" our 

 fathers may yet revive and flourish. Invited as 

 we are, by the president and yourself, I am in- 

 duced, however awkward on paper I may appear, 

 to offer my feeble aid to promote so desirable, so 

 great an object. 1 am, indeed, a very old planter, 

 but certainly a young farmer — a few years only 

 have passed, since my mind comprehended any 

 thing like improvement on a scale sufficiently 

 large to he useful. A publication a few years 

 since, by Col. Taylor, entitled jlrator, and some 

 acquaintance with him, (who, I think, deserves 

 well of his country,) induced me to adopt a sys- 

 tem, the effects of which are now strikingly bene- 

 ficial ; nearly the whole of the fiirm on which 1 

 live, containing about 800 acres for cultivation, is 

 sown with artificial grasses, except about 200 

 acres in Indian corn, which prepares it for small 

 grain and grass ; and I have the pleasure to find 

 my neighbors beginning also to be highly impress- 



