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FAHMEHS' REGISTER. 



[No. 



were matle in November ; mallow leaves, were 

 used also. 



MoDENA. — The export of silk from the city 

 46,000 lb. at 38 liv. (4cl. each) ; from the whole 

 territory, 60,000 zecchini. 



PiKDjioNT. — Pavese. — Immediatley on enter- 

 ing the dominions of the King of Sardinia, within 

 two miles of St. Giovanne, mulberries arc found 

 regularly every where, and continue to Turin. 

 Seven eighths of them are about twenty or twen- 

 ty-five years old ; some however are amongst the 

 largest I have seen. 



EFFECTS OF FRAUDUnENT BANKING AND PA- 

 PEH MONEY ON AGRICULTURAL. INTER- 

 ESTS. 



To tlio Editor of tho Farmers' Register. 



Jllabama, /tpril I9th, 1839. 

 » * « # « * 



You Bpcak frequently of agricultural humbugs! 

 Iluw long will it be before the intelligent laboring 

 and agricultural classes, (such for example as 

 read the Farmers' Register,) will find out that 

 the paper system is the greatest humbug which 

 ever deluded and cheated labor out of its liard and 

 honest earnings? The crisis of another general 

 bank explosion is hastening to a consummation, 

 and cannot be postponed more than a twelve 

 month at farthest. Nothing but the rising price 

 of cotton has prevented it until this time. But 

 come it will, to plunder agriculture out of untold 

 millions. Will not such a catastrophe convince 

 the unprivileged classes of the utter lolly of giving 

 an unilorni value to paper money, which is issued 

 in the excess of lour, five, and even sometimes as 

 high as ten-times the specie which it ■purports to 

 represent ? Will not the cotton planter realize tho 

 disadvantage of selling at hard money prices, while 

 lie produces at expanded paper prices ? Will not 

 the manufacturer learn the difficulty of competing, 

 under the bloated cost of labor and production 

 in this country, with tho cheaper labor of other 

 countries — cheaper because paid for in a sounder 

 currency. Will not all, who have not by chartered 

 privileges, evaded the common destiny of humani- 

 ty, "that by the sweat of the brow man shall earn 

 his bread," learn that gold and silver is the only 

 true measure of value, and therelore, tho only sound 

 currency, which needs no regulation, but to fix its 

 quantity; that its value is regulated by the law of 

 no country, but by the immutable law of supply 

 and dtMiiand throughout the world; and that with a 

 unif<)rm measure of value, this country with its 

 advantages of soil, climate, and free institutions, 

 can, by the untrammelled exchange of labor with 

 other countries, become the richest country on the 

 globe. Until this reform in thinking on the sub- 

 ject of bank and bank paper, ran be effected, and 

 the cidtivators of the soil shall issue their fiat 

 against making the promises of banks, and the 

 credit which the law gives them, an equivalent for 

 the productions of the soil, agriculture must lan- 

 guish, in spite of all your truly praise-worthy ef- 

 jtjrts. Jt is, indeed, a hardy plant, but it droops in 

 the shade of a paper aristocracy, whose branches 

 are more dense, broad and towering than are those 

 of the nobility of good old plundered and lax-ridden 

 England. I should like to see some strong hand 



attempt to sketch the contributiona which the pa- 

 per eyetem has levied on the labor of this country, 

 and to institute the comparison which John Taylor, 

 of Caroline, suggested, between the expense of 

 sustaining the rag barons of this country, and the 

 nobility of England. 



TO PREVENT CROWS FROM PULLING UP CORIV. 



From tlie Maine Farmer. 



Soak eeed-corn in a solution of Glauber salts 

 from twenty-four to forty-eight hours before plant- 

 ing, and no living animal having the sense of 

 tasting will eat it. This method of prevent- 

 ing crows fi-ora destroying corn was accidentally 

 discovered by John B. Swasey, esq., of Mere- 

 dith, N. H. several years since. He directed his 

 hired man to soak a quantity of seed corn pre- 

 paratory to planting, in a solution of saltpetre, 

 by mistake glauber salts were taken for nitre; the 

 mistake was not discovered till it was nearly all 

 planted. The piece of ground was finished with 

 dry corn. That part of the piece planted with 

 soaked corn remained undisturbed, while the 

 dry corn was nearly all destroyed by the crowe, 

 black birds, and squirrels. 



Piscataquis. 



jjpril 19, 1839. 



condition and prospects of agricul- 

 ture in jamaca. 



From a I'ciisacola Paper. 



For the following interesting communication we 

 are indebted to an otficer of the U. S. ship of war 

 Natchez. It embodies the views of a disinteres- 

 ted and highly cultivated mind on a sutiject of the 

 greatest possible importance, and commends itself 

 to the aliention of the reader as beingthe result of 

 actual observation. 



Dear Sir: I had recently the pleasure of visit- 

 ing the island of Jamaica, and an opportunity of 

 seeing the new state of things, in that island, pro- 

 duced by the emancipation ol' the negroes. The 

 contradictory re|)resentations which I had seen, 

 prepared me to expect a great deal of angry excite- 

 ment on this ■subject; and in this expcctaiion I was 

 notdisappointed. All controversies, whatevertheir 

 original complexion, are soon merged into this all 

 absorbing topic. The old residents, the parly most 

 materially concerned, seem to be highly dissatis- 

 fied with the present state of things, and well may 

 they be, for in it they see the wreck of their for- 

 tunes, and all their brilliant expectations. The loss, 

 sustained by being deprived of their negroes, could 

 be borne, were they able to carry on their planting 

 busmess; hut though seduced liir a time into the 

 belief (hat they would be able, with a reasonable 

 compensation, to avail themselves of the volunta- 

 ry labor of the blacks, j'et experience soon demon- 

 strated the lallacj' ol that supposition, and in the 

 attempt to continue the sugar and coffee planting 

 many have sustained heavy losses. The present 

 crop is almost an entire failure, and the next must 

 be worse. In fact it is evident to those who have 

 made the experiment in the island, that the cul- 

 tivation of the two gi-eat staples, sugar and coffee, 

 must be abandoned. The rontinued and persefver- 

 ing labor recjuired for their production cannot be 



