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FAllMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 7 



The appearance of the growing crop is favorable 

 in almost every portion of the country where it is 

 cultivated. 



The prices of wheat and flour have been gradu- 

 ally declining for some nionlhs past. The recent 

 sales of flourhave been at ,^5 50, and the stock of 

 old which remains in tlie interior (say in the wes- 

 tern states) is larger tiiaii usual at this season. In 

 every part of the country, except the middle re- 

 gion of Virginia and Nurth Carolina, the harvest 

 is said to be'^the most abundant. Some weeks ago 

 a lew crops were sold, deliverable in this month, 

 at SI 35, but recent contracts have been at lower 

 rates; rano^jng down to 105 or 110 cents, for deli- 

 very some tliree or lour weeks hence. That which 

 is now brought to market for sale, commands 110 

 to 115 cenis, if good ; but there is much inferior 

 in the crop. Unless some new and extensive de- 

 mand arises, prices will be low throughout the 

 year. The crop of oats is very abundant, and the 

 prospects lor corn were never more favorable. 



Tobacco of good quality has maintained lis 

 price, while inferior descriptions have declined; 

 the range of sales is from 84 50 to 818 50; aene- 

 rally 86 50 to 813 50. The mspections in Virgi- 

 nia will be about 27,000 hhds. against 45,000 last 

 season, and the deficiency in other states will be 

 in as great a proportion. The quantity manufac- 

 tured at home, is also much dinnnished. The 

 growing croj) in all parts of the country is very 

 promising, and wdl no doubt prove abundant. 



Internal exchanges continue much deranged, 

 particularly between the wesif-rn and Atlantic 

 states, with a prospect of getting worse. 



Exchange on England 10 per cent, premium. 



X. 



July 25, 1839. 



SEASON AND CROPS. 



Notwithstanding the partial but yet very de- 

 structive depredations of the Hessian fly and 

 chinch-bug on the wheat crops of eastern Virgin- 

 ia — the still continued ravages of the latter insect, 

 removed to the crops of corn — the unusual ope- 

 ration of a severe spring drought — and the recent 

 drought which is beginning to operate injuriously — 

 and though all liirmers have suH'ered more or less, 

 and some greatly, Irom one or more of these inflic- 

 tions— slill, en the whole, there has never been 

 known a year of more genial and bounteous sea- 

 sons, nor one when the genera! prospect lor all *he 

 ditl'erent crops was so good. In lower Virginia, 

 rain has at no time been so long withheld as to 

 cause lasting itijury to the growing crops— nor has 

 any material harm been done by the unusual fre- 

 quency and abundance of rain. Drought recently 

 and generally prevailed, and threatened a disas- 

 trous change to the belbre luxuriant growth oi' 

 corn; but the danger has been partially averted by 

 a most bountiful rain which fell on the 24ih, though 

 it was of very limited extent; and, as is usually 

 the consequence, they whose crops received no 

 sufficient share of that blessing, (and we are 

 among the number,) may hope for their turn in 

 the course of a k\v days. The general distribu- 

 tion of a good rain now, or very soon, will secure 

 very good average crops of corn and tobacco 

 throughout eastern Virginia. 



Jubj 26lh 1S39. 



Tiible of €out€Uts of I^armet 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Remarks on the Vegetable Kingdom (conclu- 

 ded) 



Reminiscences of Jamestown . - - 



Bacon's Rebellion 



The editor to his readers . . - - 

 Promiscuous ------ 



The chinch-bugs in Surry . - - - 

 Comparative value of different kinds of mul- 

 berry trees, for their feeding product - 

 Degrees conferred by the University of Vir- 

 ginia, July 4th 1839 - . - - 

 Degrees conferred by the College of William 

 and Mary, July 4th 1839 - - - - 



Essay on Vegetable Physiology, Chap. XV - 

 • Chap. XVI- 



Cbap. XVII 

 Advantages of embanking the tide-marshes of 



Mai y land 



Advantage of late sowing of bearded wheat - 

 Experiments of feeding silk-worms on wet 



leaves 



To keep sweet-potatoes - . - - 

 Product of mulberry leaves - - - - 



Eftects of liming 



First trials of silk-culture - - - - 

 Theory and facts. Two-crop silk-worms 

 Progress of silk- culture, and new improve- 

 ments in the middle states - - - - 

 Season, chinch-bug and cheat 

 The chinch-bugs - ' ,' ' 

 Importance of proper selection of silk-wonns 

 eggs. Dilierenco between northern and 

 southern stock - . - - - 

 Chinch-bug 



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Monthly commercial report - - - - 

 Season and crops 



SELECTIONS. 



Raleigh and Gaston Rail-road 



Pennsylvania mode of getting out clover seed 



Character and qualities of herds, timothy, and 

 other grasses 



Reclaimed meadows 



Labor— the great want ol the tide-water country 



To destroy yellov/ bugs - - . - 



Benefit of birds on farms - - - - 



A week's milking of a Durham cow 



On bricks and brick-inaking 



On the husbanding of farm-yard manure, and 

 on other rural subjects . - . - 



Mowing 



Steam-plough ------ 



Prospects of the multicaiilis crops 



Large cocoons ""■"■'. 



Selection of male animals in the breeding of 

 cattle and sheep 



Chinch-bugs 



Spaying heifers ------ 



Silk-culture in Turkey - - . - 



To stop a leaky cask 



Earth-worm. — Mould 



Silk-culture commenced in Upper Canada by 

 a lady 



The newest and greatest humbug yet an- 

 nounced - - - - - - ■ 



Usefulness of birds in agriculture and gardening 



On the Jalnp i)laut of commerce - 



On the culture of the mushroom - 



Emigration to the west . . - - 

 I Government and agriculture, in Ma,Sbachusetts 

 'Mud for manure ■H''' 



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