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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 2 



that the udder becomes so hard and the milk caked 

 or thick, that the young lambs are unable to draw 

 it out ; and without the precaution of milking it 

 out, the lambs must perish. After the Iambs have 

 come, potatoes may be fed to the ewes without 

 danger, and will cause the lambs to grow rapidly. 

 Turnips may be fed to sheep at any time without 

 injury to the lambs. Yours, &c. S. 



Chesterfield, N. J. Jan. 8th, 1839. 



For tlie Farmers' Register. 

 MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



A regular business has been done in most arti- 

 cles during the month. Tobacco maintains the 

 high prices quoted in our last — say $9 to 20. The 

 quantity brought in for inspection has increased, 

 but the quality does not improve much ; the 

 principal receipts consisting of green unmerchant- 

 able lugs and leaf, unfit for export. The export 

 of the month is under 300 hhds — old. 



Cotton has advanced, not in consequence of the 

 improvement in foreign markets, but from the di- 

 minished supplies in our own; which strengthens 

 the impression that the crop will prove considera- 

 bly short of the last, and liarnish a supply not iul- 

 ly adequate to the demand, on as extensive a scale 

 of consumption as existed last year. 



The receipts are, 730,000 aixainst 910,000 bales, 

 the exports about 300,000 against 550,000. Prices 



are nearly fifty per cent, higher than in February 

 last, but manufactured articles have not advanced 

 in proportion with the raw material. 



The last accounts from England disappointed 

 the expectations of holders of grain and flour. 

 Prices had declined a little, but the averages C78 

 or 79 shillings per quarter^ were considerably 

 above the rate which admits these articles at the 

 minimum rate of duty. Great exertions are 

 making in England to abolish the corn laws, and 

 there is considerable popular excitement there oa 

 other subjects. The exportation of grain from 

 the Atlantic ports of France, and from Sicily, haa 

 been prohibited. 



It is stated that on the 20th December, one 

 hundred and twenty-four vessels were taking in 

 cargoes of wheat and barley at Odessa, and so at all 

 the other ports of ihe Black Sea. The Emperor of 

 Russia had loaned three-lburihs of the grain in 

 the government reserves, to be divided among 

 such merchants as had foreign orders ; to be paid 

 in six months without any interest. 



The exportation of flour from this country to 

 England has been checked by the recent advices, 

 and the stocks in our markets will be greatly in- 

 creased at the opening of spring. 



The price of fjour in our markets is $8 to 8J 

 and of wheat 160 to 170 cents ; corn 90 cents. 



Bacon has declined to 10 to 11^ cents. 



Exchange on England 9 per cent premium. 



Feb. 25th. X. 



Table of Contents of mirmers^ Megislet', J\^o. 2, F*ol. T*II. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page. 

 Essay on Vegetable Physiology, (continued,) 



Chap. 3, 65 



Do do Chap. 4, 67 



Cheap and convenient mode of boring for marl, 78 

 Analyses of sundry specimens of calcareous 



rock, or marl, in South Carolina, - - 78 



Suggestions for extending the use of lime in Va. 



The coal trade, 79 



Preparations for silk-culture near Georgetown, 



D. C. ^. . 80 



Failure of experiments. Modes of keeping 



sweet potatoes through winter, - - . 80 

 Marl. Marl indicator. Prolific corn. Suck- 

 ers. Seed. Deep culture, &c. ... 80 

 Diaiy of a careful experiment in rearing silk- 

 worms, (in France,) 87 



Estimates of the expenses and profit of an actu- 

 al rearing of silk-worms, (in France,) - 91 

 Operation of magnetism and of time, in improv- 

 ing the temper of fine edged instruments. Cer- 

 tain cure for the jiiles, .... io2 



Marsh-mud as manure. Blue marl, . . 103 



The last communications of George E. Harri- 

 son, dec'd, ...... 107 



The use of imported stone-lime proposed for 



lower Virginia. Lime for hogs, - . . lOS 

 Editorial remarks on Judge Comstock's letter, 108 

 The 6oAa/i Mpas of the west, a hoax, - . no 

 Manuring with rotton logs and brush, - . no 

 Answer to strictures in regard to the propagation 



of silk-worms, HI 



The former poor and exhausted condition, ear- 

 liest subsequent improvements, by marline, 

 of Coggin's Point farm, - - - °- 112 



Page. 



Stricture and defence. Has silk-culture been 

 strongly and unequivocally recommended by 

 the Farmers' Register ? - - . . 123 



Monthly commercial report, .... 128 



SELECTIONS. 



Account of the progress of the making of sugar 

 from beets, in Europe, and the late important 



improvements, 70 



Discovery of earth in large quantit}', formed of 



the remains of animalcules, - - - 76 

 Sugar from the pumpkin, .... 73 

 On the peculiar fitness of the U. States for silk- 

 culture, 83 



Product of silk, ascertained by careful experi. 



ment, 35 



Estimate of the value of morus multicaulis, for 



feeding silk-worms alone, - - - 85 



Advantages of the general adoption of the Pied. 



montese silk-reel, 86 



Propagating pear trees ftom roots, - - 95 



Memorial of the Internal Improvement Conven- 

 tion of North Carolina, .... 97 



Views of the demand, supply, and prices, of the 



next crop of morus multicaulis, - - . 109 

 Soap from myrtle wax, . - - .111 



Emasculation of the vine, .... 112 



New method of applying sulphur to plants, . 112 

 Root culture. ...... hq 



Experment in planting corn. Alternation of crops. 

 Gypsum. Fattening hogs, .... 117 



Essay on the breeding of live-stock, and the 

 comparative influence of the male and female 

 parent in the offspring, .... jjs 



Food for sheep — caution, .... 127 



Erratum.— In editorial introduction on page 112, for "1833," read "1834." 



