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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 9 



Beaufort, North Carolina, Sept. 8, 1839. 

 Your works have been a greiU source ol" inlor- 

 mation to me on the subject of laiiniug; (or by 

 tlieir instructions 1 have been enal)Ied to raise on 

 hind thai woukl not produce, 3 years ago, ten t)ush- 

 e!s of wheat to the acre, 1 have liiis year raised 

 25 bushels to ihe bushel sowed, done by hujuiir 

 my land and sowing; down in peas. I have tried 

 this year a lew of the skinless oats, and I must 

 say, they surpassed any oats that 1 have ever 

 tried. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPOnX. 



For the Fanners' Register. 



No favorable change has occurred in commer- 

 cial affairs during the' present month. The scar- 

 city ol money has even increased, and is most se- 

 verely lelt in'the northern cities, where the rate of 

 interest is 1| to 1^ per cent, per month, on the best 

 securities. The banks grant scarcely any dis- 

 counts, and stocks of all descriptions are more de- 

 pressed than they have been for many years. All 

 descrii)tions of produce have fallen in price, and 

 the spirit of commercial enterprise appears to be 

 almost entirely dormant. This scarcity of money 

 prevails also in Europe, where the rate of interest 

 has nearly doubled. American stocks no longer 

 find purchasers there, and those agents who went 

 from this country to effect negotiations, meet with 

 little or no success. 



No mode of remittance from the south to the 

 north now exists, unless it be by shipments of spe- 

 cie, which must return in the regular course of 

 trade, attended with the expenses of transportation^ 

 to and fro. In short, a greater derangement of 

 money matters has scarcely ever existed. Public 

 works are suspended for want of funds, and private 

 enterprise almost paralyzed. 



The result of the wheat harvest in England, 

 although not ascertained with certainty, (on the 

 1st Se'^)teml)er,) was coiusidered more lavorable 

 than by previous advices; and the consequence 

 has been a decline in this country. The price of 



wheat in Baltimore is 100 to 105 cents; but owing 

 to the very liniiled supplies in some of the Virgi- 

 nia markets, it still commands 105 to 115. 



The crop of tobacco (of 1S38) is now all at 

 market. The inspections in Virginia show 28000 

 hhds. and the receipts at New Orleans a like quan- 

 tity. In Maryland they are reported to be but 

 11000 ; but we have no accurate data. 

 The export to Europe since Oct. 1st, 1838, from 



Virginia, is 19200 hhds. 



FronrN. Orleans 15800 

 From N. York 5500 



Those from Baltimore and other ports not ascer- 

 tained. Prices in Virginia have not varied much 

 durin<T the month, and may be quoted •$4 lo ^12, 

 embracing all sorts of old. A little of the new 

 crop begins to appear, but generally loose, in bulk, 

 and is bought up by the manuliicturers at about 

 %G for lealf The crop will be large, and of good 

 quality. That of Kentucky is reported to be much 

 diminished by drought. 



Of the old crop of cotton only 50,000 bales re- 

 main in all the ports; the closing sales are from 

 9i to 121. Supplies of the new crop began to ar- 

 rive at New Orleans early in ibis month, but they 

 will be retarded there as well as at Mobile, Au- 

 o-usla and Charleston, by the prevalence ol yel- 

 fow fever, which unfortunately rages with great 

 violence this autumn. Although the crop of last 

 year proves to be only 1,350,000 bales against 

 1,800,000 in the preceding year, the stock on hand 

 in Great Britain is larger, and the price declining; 

 so o-reatly has the consumption diminished this 

 yea?. The first new cotton received at Petersburg 

 and sold at 13;^ cents, is of fine quality, and such 

 is supposed to be the character of the crop in North 

 Carolina and Virginia. The season thus lar has 

 been favorable for maturing and gathering; but 

 small proo-ress in these has yet been made. 



The crop of corn is abundant, and altogether the 

 season in Virginia has been a most luxuriant one. 

 Price of corn'^62.1, to 65 cents per bushel ; bacon 

 10 to 12i cents ; "apple brandy 45 cents. X. 

 September 28, 1839. 



ITable of Contents of Wm-mcrs^ Me gistcr, .7IU ^, J'^oh J/^II. 



ORIGINAL COMMUKICATIOKS. 



Nathaniel Bacon. Reply to strictures - - 

 On fattening hogs, by cold-soaked and ler- 



mented food 



Memoranda - - " " ^ 7- 

 Advantages of the three-shift rotahon - 

 Green crops for manure - T . ' ,, •" 



On the manuring of arable lands by their 



own vegetable gi owth.— Rotations ot crops. 



No.I. " - - - ,- -, ■ 

 Private correspondence, and remarks on pri- 

 vate matters - - ' ^ ' . ,'t,, I 

 The Florida Keys, and the Tropical Plant 



Nursery - - - "• rr.' • 'i m ' 



Successive crops of cocoons m Tropical l-lo- 



rida - - - " „' r '*n 

 Remarks on the "distemper of cattle - 

 Remarks on making good pork and bacon - 

 The morus multicaulis market and pnce^ - 

 The "Chinese Tree Corn" or "Grant ihor- 



burn Humbug," again - " , " 

 Correspondence on tlie "Smith 1^ und - - 

 On extravagant and sound esUmates of profits 



of silk culture - - '..',,'•■' 

 Private correspondence— maihng and hming 

 Monthly commercial report - - - - 



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si:lections. 



On the rearing and breeding of cattle - 



History of sugar 



Dutch iDutler 



Milk sickness 



Visit to the farm of Elias Phinney 



The Jerusalem artichoke - - - - 



Holkham, the seat of the Earl of Leicester - 



New reaping machine 



Cure for the poll evil ---"." 

 Letters from an agricultural apprentice to his 



father 



Practical treatment of bees - - - - 



Fruit trees 



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Sweet potato plants started in hot-beds - 

 Cedar quarries - - - - " 

 Mode of producing fine sound peaches - 

 Cultivation of cauliflowers - - - - 

 On changing the color of the hydrangea 

 On improving worn-out lands . - - 



The tea tree 



Cultivation of mignonette - - - - 

 Bees— peculiar modes of management - 

 Wintering bees - - - - ■ " 

 Different modes of preserving tomatoes, and 



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