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Descriptions of the different varieties. 



Red jfntwerp. — Of fine size, excellent flavor, 

 and productive ; one of the best. 



Yellow Antwerp. — Syn. white Antwerp. Similar 

 to the last, except in the color of the berries ; a 

 delicious fruit, but does not bear carriage well. 



Barnet. — Syn. Cornwall's Prolific. A fine, large, 

 red fruit, productive and excellent, but does not 

 bear carriage well. 



Common red. — Syn. Old red. The old kind of 

 (he garden. An indifferent bearer, and of in- 

 ferior quality. 



Double bearing. — Syn. Perpetual bearing. Said 

 to be a good and productive kind, having the 

 merit ol producing one crop in July, and ano- 

 ther in September. 



Franconia. — Syn. Seedling Grape. One of the 

 most produciive and finest kinds cultivated 

 around Boston. Fruit red, large, and hand- 

 some. The origin of this son is unknown. It 

 was originally received (rom Vilmorin, of Paris, 

 by S. G. Perkins, esq., of Brookline. 



New red Antwerp. — A notice of this will be 

 ibund at page 256. It promises to be, so lar as 

 we have tried it, a very fine variety. 



Cretan red. — A fine variety, the Iruit large and 

 handsome, rather more tart than the Antwerp, 

 and continues in bearing a long time, which 

 renders it highly valuable. 

 Besides the above eight sorts, the new Turkish 



Turban, Victoria, Brentford, Spring Grove, and 



the Ohio Ever-bearing, are recommended as very 



fine kinds. To those who have room, we would 



advise a trial of them. 



SQUIRRELS AND A SIGX OF A HARD WINTER. 



From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. 

 The Detroit Advertiser says a squirrel hunt look 

 place near that ciiy last Thursday, The total 

 killed was 3360. Other papers notice like 



wholesale slaughters. The squirrels eeera to 

 abound this fall in unusual profusion ail over 

 the country. For some weeks past, the woods 

 in the neighborhood of Fort Erie, across the 

 river, have literally swarmed with them. With- 

 in the papt week or two, they have crossed the 

 Niagara to this side in immense numbers. The 

 rapidiiy and width of the river, have proved 

 laial to many of them, but little armies of them 

 have neverihelesa succeeded in gaining our 

 shores, whence they pushed oflT south. On the 

 Alleghany river, we are told they are so nume- 

 rous, that it is not deemed worth while to waste 

 powder and shot in killing them. Those wish- 

 ing a squarrel pie stand on the banks of the 

 stream and knock the little •' varmint" on the 

 head with a slick, as they swim across. This 

 apparent general emigration of the squirrels to 

 the south,^ is held by the Indians, and others 

 knowing in such matters, to betoken a hard 

 winter. 



INQUIRY CONCERNING HEMP. 



A cultivator of drained swamp land, in Wash- 

 ington county. North Carolina, desires to know 

 whether hemp would be a crop suitable for his 

 situation, as to soil and climate. The land is such 

 as was described in the 11th number of vol. vii. 

 The soil is mosily of vegetable formation or ma- 

 terial, rit-h as land can be, and generally well 

 drained, but still sometimes subject to be injured 

 by too much wet. Any reader of this work who 

 can and will give information on this subject will 

 confer a favor on our correspondent, and perhaps 

 render service to many other persons similarly 

 situated.— Ed. F. K. 



CONTENTS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER, NO. X. VOL. X. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 

 Report to the State Board of Agriculture : 



1. On the farming of Rockbride county - 458 1 



2. With reference to partof Nansemond county 461 

 Value of clover as food for hogs ... 481 | 

 Marl and soft limestone of South Carolina. I 



" Chalk hills," improperly so called. New 



Jersey green-sand, &c. .... 486 j 



Statement of the number of acres of land marl- i 



ed in King William county .... 488 i 

 Estimate of the increased value of property in j 



King William county caused by marling - 489 I 



" Amende honorable" 490 



Inquiry concerning hemp .... 452 



SELECTIONS. 



Steam plough 457 1 



Poultry inquiries 457 



Another humbug exploded - . . . 4581 



Artificial manures 460 [ 



Storing small grain 462 | 



Improved agriculture. Lecture by Mr, Smith I 



on drainage 463 I 



Experiments with manures ... - 462 



Change of seed 473 



Ancient and modern aqueducts - - - 474 

 On the improper use of the plough in the culti- 

 vation of Indian corn 475 



Lice on chickens - - .- - - - 476 

 The polar plant of the western prairies. A vege- 

 table compass 476 



Manure - - . . - - - 477 



Preservation of peach trees .... 477 



Use of camels on the western prairies - - 478 



Shoeing the horse 479 



Butter making in New York ... - 479 



Sowed coin 480 



The floating island in Derwent lake, near Kes- 

 wick 482 



On a method of destroying the canker worm - 482 



The Ohio ever-bearing raspberry ... 482 



New England banking 483 



Agricultural letter from Gen. Washington to 



his overseers - 484 



On the cultivation of the raspberry - - - 490 



Squirrels and a sign of a hard winter - - 492 



