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FARMERS' REGISTEK 



[No. 8 



BIONTHI.Y CO.MJIi:UClAL IltlPOUT. 



Fortlio Famii'i-.s' Kegister. 



Tlie news laU'lv rccciv^'il from Europe is of a 

 li'>s iuvorabie clr.uiu'ier limit Inid bcon expected. 

 The continued deuiand in Eiiirland l!)r specie to 

 pay ibr grain, which it wai^ r^upposed would have 

 ceased, or been suhsiituted by exports of manuCac- 

 tured goods, continued to rentier money scarce, and 

 kept up the rate of interest. A long continued 

 spell of wet weather cre.ated apprehensions Ibr the 

 grain crops, and until these are allayed,, business 

 cannot resume its regular course. Should there 

 be another bad harvest the increased price of grain 

 in this country Ibr export to England, will be by 

 no means equivalent to the reduction in the price 

 of cotton ami other comnnodities. 



Although the diminished exportation of cotton 

 from the United Slates, which, as compared with 

 that of last year, is 500,000 bales, had some slight 

 etfect on the prices, they were yet so low as to 

 cause heavy losses to shippers; and the consump- 

 tion of the first six months of 1839 had been on so 

 small a scale that it is not possible lor the increase 

 of the second six months to absorb the slocks on 

 hand on the 1st of August. The growing crop, 

 therefore, which will doubtless be a very large 

 one, must be sold at moderate prices compared 

 with those which the planters have been accus- 

 tomed tO; and retard the payment of the large 

 amount of debt contracted by the jireat cotton 

 growing states in the south-west. The exports 

 of the last crop have nearly ceased. Compared 

 with those of 1838 they are as ibllows: 



1839, to Great Britain, 785,000, Erance 230,000, 



other ports 30,000. 

 1838, to Great Briiain, 1150,000, France 315,000, 



other ports 83,000. 

 The crop of the United States received in 

 1839 is 1,340,000, in 1838, 1,790,000. 



Tobacco was also dull in the European mar- 

 kets, and the price was declining. The quantity 

 ins[)ecled ir\ Virijinia in 1839 is about 27,000 

 aixainst about 43,000 lihds. to same time in 1838. 

 Prices have consequently declined here and may 

 now be quoted -34.50 to .$'12, embracing all quali- 

 ties. The expoit of the season has nearly ceased. 

 The prospect Ibr the growing crop is favorable, 

 and it bids lair to be one of the largest ever pro- 

 dured. 



The price of wheat is S^-lOto 1.20; the quality 

 of that which has yet been brought to market in 

 Virginia is much inlerior to that of last year. 

 Tile effect of the western crop is not yet felt. It 

 is reported to be large and fine, and in the absence 

 of a large export demand, the price must be low. 

 This, however, will depend on the result of the 

 Enirlish crop. 



Of Intlian corn the crop will be most boimtiful, 

 and in anticipation of this, the price has declined 

 to about GO cents per bushel. 



Internal exchanges continue in a very deranged 

 stale. Slocks of every (le?cri|nion are low beyond 

 precedent, and commercial atfaiis in a gloomy 

 state. X. 



jJuiTust 26. 



Tiible of €»siieiils of Warmer 



ORIGINAL C03IMUNICATI0KS. 



rage 

 Neglect of agriculture in Guilford, N. C. Re- 

 cent discovery of lime - - - . 455 

 Hussey's reaping machine. Ill effects to de- 

 serving inventors of the puffing sijslcm - 45-5 

 Queries on chinch-bug and oat-lay - - 4.58 



An economical boilef 460 



Essay on Vegetable Physiology, Chap XVIII 462 



Chap. XIX - 464 

 Chap. XX - 467 

 Correspondence on the introduction of tropi- 

 cal plants 472 



Reply to charges in Dr. Perrine's communication 473 

 On the usual carelessness of raising silk- 

 worms' eggs ..-.-- 485 

 Ancient copper mine in North Carolina - 4S6 

 Cause of greater value of gypsum on limed land 489 

 The tomato plant, a protection against chinch- 

 bug — and buck-wheat against the turnip lly 495 



The Canton mulberry 499 



Soils (supposed to be) formed entirely of lime 499 



Promiscuous observations - - - . 500 

 Wheat on clover, and liming, in Norfolk 



county - - - - - - - 501 



Introduction of the morus muUicaulis long be- 

 fore its discovery by Perrottet - - - 506 

 On cotton lice, and the means of restraining 



their ravages 508 



The morus multicaulis crop and piices - - 510 



Private correspondence - - - - 511 



Season and crops - - - - - - 511 



Agricultural convention of South Carolina - 511 



Monthly commercial rej)ort - - - - 512 



SKI.ECTIONS. 



Rail-roads in Belgium, comjtared with those in 



the United States 449 



The cotton crops of the world - - - -ioX 



s^ Slegister, •/^>. 8, 'Vol. W'll. 



Witch, couch, or wire grass - - - - 

 Remarks on the manufacture of salt at Key 



West 



Inlluence of the stock on the graft 



Salting butter 



Fat mutton. Sugar beet . - - - 

 Free martins ...... 



Harvesting corn in Ohio . . . . 



Millet 



Suckering Indian corn 



Natural history and economy of the honey bee 

 "The debt-paying nation" - - - - 



Silk manufactory ------ 



Depth of frozen earth in northern latitudes - 

 t'n keeping poultry . . . . - 



Liquid leather 



To fatten })oultiy ------ 



Early cut clover ------ 



Temperature in Great Rritain and the United 



States 



Circular letter of the Commissioner of the 



• Patent Office 



Experiments on the porosity of a mass of cotton 

 On the influence of magnesia in soils, or ve- 

 getation 



On the culture of the strawberry - - - 

 Insect depredators - - - - - 



Agricultural Geology 



Sowing clover seed 



Manure from peal and lime - - - - 



Profits of fainiitig 



Urate and Poudrette 



Propagation and cultivation of the quince tree 

 Patent for manulacturing sugar from beets - 

 Swine in a fruit orchard . - . - 



Anti-septic elfects of lime water - - - 

 Culture of hroom corn in Salem, N. J. - 

 nestroying lice on cattle . - - . 

 Daily value of sunshine - . . . 



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