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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



No. t 



vvlierp, ho, i^ recotrnis-ed iis freneral, and romrnander 

 in chid' o( llie aitny, raised by an act ofaseembly, 

 passed two nioniiis bt'lcire. 



It (iocs nol appear when he was commissioned. 

 lie lived in liie couuly of Henrico. You will find 

 in tlie ollice of i lie county court, orileinico, a deed 

 from Randolph to Ran(lol|)h, dated Isi Novenilier, 

 170G, lor a tract of land called Curies, lately be- 

 loniring to Nathaniel Bacon, esq. dec'd., and since 

 Iburid to escheat to liis majesty. His confession 

 commences, "J, Natli. Bacon, of Henrico." (See 

 rieniiinfr''s Stat, at Larire, 2nd vol., p. 543.) 



Col. Nathaniel Bacon, of York county, was a 

 member ol' the council in 165S'. (See 1st Henninff, 

 p. 499.) and of the house of burgesses, in 1659, 

 (see 1st Henning, p. 506,) and president of the 

 council in 1690. (See James City records.) He 

 died on (he 16th ol" March, 1692, in the 73rd year 

 of his age. (.See tomb stone on King's Creek.) 

 He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of 

 Richard Kingsmill, of James City county; they 

 left no children, and by his will (in general court) 

 he gave his estates to his niece jibygall Burwell ; 

 his riding horse, Watt, to Lady Berkley, at that 

 time the wile o( Philip Ludwell. Lady Berkley 

 was, when Sir William married her, the widow of 

 Samuel Stevens, of the county of Warwick, who 

 settled on her a large estate ; and as Sir William 

 left her all his estates, she was very wealthy when 

 she married Col. Ludwell, whose family inherited 

 the mansion at Green Spring, with other valuable 

 and extensive possessions. The tomb stones at 

 James Town are permitted to ao to ruin, and the 

 grave of Mrs. Paradice, (the last of the Lud- 

 wells, who left a large estate for her heirs,) has 

 nothing to designate it. 



ffilliamsburg, June, 1839. 



THE PROSPECTS OF THE MULTICAULIS CROP. 



From tlie Journal of tlie American Sillc Society. 



We do not intend, and hope we shall not be 

 suspected of a design to stimulate speculation in 

 morus muhicaulis. Our object is to give such 

 information as we are able to collect from different 

 quarters of the country in relation to the growing 

 crop of trees. So far, our inlorinalion leads us to 

 the conclusion that there will not be more than 

 one-fifth as many trees grown as there have been 

 buds planted. We have information of entire 

 plantations having utterly failed; of others that 

 have not produced more than one tree liir every 

 ten buds planted ; of others again that bid fair to 

 yield two-thirds, and some f^iw others that will 

 produce one-half. Not more than two planta- 

 tions have been heard from by us that have yielded 

 seventy-five trees for every hundred buds planted. 

 On carefully comparing these accounts we have 

 arrived at the conclusion, that in the whole country 

 there will be rised not more than one-fi(ih as 

 many trees as there have been buds planted. We 

 have been repeatedly applied to liirthecauseof this 

 great failure. As we oi'course could not have been 

 present every where, we cannot even guess at the 

 cause of (allure in any particular case. Some per- 

 sons have supposed their failures wore caused by 

 steeping the cuttings in water be/i)re planting. 

 This we do not believe.' Cuttings that were too 

 fajr^ gone before they were steeped would certainly 



bp hastened in their progress to decay by tlic 

 water; but those that had li(e enough left to save 

 them under any circumstances would certainly be 

 benefited by it. Gardeners who propagate roses, 

 &(\ by cuttings, understand the value of putting 

 the cuttings in water a lew hours before planting 

 them. Others attribiite the failure to early plant- 

 ing, others to late plantin<r ; some to deep plant- 

 ing and some to shallow planting. But the great 

 body of cultivators attribute it to the peculiarly 

 unlitvourable season, and bad condition of the 

 cuttings. The two latter reasons we are in- 

 clined to think are the true ones. We have 

 se«n cuttings planted that were perfectly dry — 

 as dry as our walking stick, and we should as 

 soon have expected a crop of walkinix canes to 

 have grown from our old sweet gum laid in a fur- 

 row, as we should a crop of morus muhicaulis from 

 some cuttings we have seen planted this spring. 



We at present consider the prospect of the f)ri- 

 ces of trees in the fall to be decidedly good — even 

 better than at this lime last year. G. B. S. 



LARGE COCOONS. 



from tlie Journal of the American Silk Society. 



We were shown a sarnple of cocoons on the 

 11th of June, produced by Mr. Richardson, of this 

 city, that exceeded any we ever before saw, (or 

 size, weight and texture. There were nine co- 

 coons which weighed collectively, 339 grains an 

 average of 37| grains each, or a fraction less than 

 one hundred and fifty-three to the pound. The 

 heaviest cocoons we ever before saw, were 175 to 

 the pound. The above mentioned cocoons were 

 the produce of eggs imported this spring from 

 France, and were of the three kinds called mam- 

 moth pale, white, and nankeen. The texture of 

 the cocoons was excellent, and we whould judge 

 1,200 to 1,300 would be sufficient to make a pound 

 o(' raw silk, whereas it requires 3,000 cocoons of 

 ordinary quality, to make a pound of raw silk. It 

 should be remarkeii, that the cocoons had just 

 been completed, and therefore the chrysalis was 

 alive, and of course of full weight. G. B. S. 



ON THE SELECTION OF 3IALE ANIMALS IN THE 

 BREEDING OF CATTLE AND SHEEP. 



(By the Right Honorable Earl Spencer.) 



From the London Farmers' Magazine. 



More from wishing to set an example to others, 

 than from any hope that what I myself can sug- 

 gest will be practically useflil, I submit to the En- 

 glish Agricultural Society the results of my expe- 

 rience in an important part of that division of far- 

 ming, to which my own attention has been partic- 

 ularly applied — I mean the breeding of stock. 

 The part to which the following observations ap- 

 ply is the selection of male animals. A large 

 pioportionof farmers breed sheep, and several breed 

 catile ; to all who breed either, this subject is one 

 of iri'eat imporlancc. 



The object of a certain number is to breed bulls 

 or rams iur the purpose ol selling or letting thcni, 

 but that Ol the majority is to breeil oxen or wether.? 



