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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 12 



puddings and griddle cakes, and a variety of other 

 purposes. The cost of making it is very trifling, 

 and the means are within the reach ofevery farmer. 



ERASURES OF SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR NOJV-PAY- 

 MEKT. 



Subscribers in arrear are requested to read the 

 third rule of the editorial convention. (See the rules 

 annexed to the Conditions, on '.he cover, as well 

 as in many earlier publications.) This rule will, at 

 the close of this volume, be (or the third time strictly 

 •enforced, and as it will be also hereafter at the end 

 ofevery succeeding volume. Each enforcement of 

 this rule has swept from our list from one to three 

 hundred ''patrons" of this journal, and but few of 

 whom would have been discontinued by their own 

 order. But our pledge, and other cogent reasonia 

 require that the rule shall be truly and fully com- 

 plied with ; and it shall be done even if at the total 

 loss of all such subscribers, ol' their favor, and of 

 their existing debts. 



The usual "credit system" of periodical publi- 

 cations, or rather non-paying system, if not thus 

 or in some way checked, is enough to break down 

 even the most popular and extensively circulated 

 journals. Indeed the more extensive and widely 

 diffused circulation causes the greater proportional 

 Joss. We have already adopted measures (in the 

 present conditions of publication) to restrain this 

 enormous abuse, and which measures, ifgenerally 

 availed of, would be alike beneficial to the subscri- 

 bers and to the publisher. And if the effort is 



ajjpreciated and properly seconded by the real sup- 

 porters of the Farmers' Register, the " cash sys- 

 tem" will be adopted without exception hereafter. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



For the Farmers' Register. ^ 



The suspension of specie payments in this coun- 

 try caused less alarm in Europe llian we had appre- 

 hended. American stocks had previously declined 

 to so low a rate as to put a slop to sales. The Bank 

 of England was obtaining considerable reinlbrce- 

 ments of specie, and no apprehensions of suspen- 

 sion by her appear to have been entertained. The 

 average prices of grain were lower, and the duty 

 had consequently increased ; but this is ascribed 

 more to the inleriority than to the superfluity of 

 the harvest. 



In this country every article of domestic produce 

 has declined in price during the present month. 

 Tobacco $5}j to S6 in the large markets, and wheat 

 %\ 10 to $1 15, at which rales extensive ship- 

 ments have been made. Cotton in the great 

 southern ports has fallen to 7 to 10 cents ; and the 

 threats of monopolizing and witholding it from 

 market are not likely to be executed. 



Supplies of new tobacco have been large this 

 month, and the general range of sales ,^3;^ to '•^'7^. 



Exchange on New York may be quoted 8 per 

 cent, premium, and on London 17 to 18. 



Slocks of all kinds continue depressed. The 

 banks have been temporarily relieved from the 

 penalties incurred by suspension, but money con- 

 tinues scarce. The want of small change is a 

 great and growing evil, but individuals do not. aa 

 on a former occasion, issue small bills. X. 



December 21, 1839. 



Table of Contents of Farmers^ Megister, Jl>. 12, \*oh T^Il. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Diseases peculiar to cattle. Remedies - 

 Ttie increase of insects caused by the non-gra- 

 zing system 



Mode of preparing land for ruta baga. Yield 



of tliree acres 



" Jottings down " in the swamps (concluded) 

 Pennsylvania farming . . . . 



Green crops for manure .... 



" Distemper," or murrain among cattle 

 Lime for the mountain lands ... 

 Promiscuous remarks .... 



Proceedings of the North Anna Agricultural 

 Association ...... 



Cultiva*;ion of sugar-beet ... - 



On under-draining 



Brief notice of Indian Key, viTitten by a young 



girl 



Experiment of compost manure for corn 

 Growth of morus multicaulis on soil almost 



purely calcareous 



Erasures of subscriptions for non-payment - 

 Monthly commercial report ... 



SELECTIONS. 



The London cattle markets ... - 

 The London dairies 



Page 

 70.5 



710 



723 

 724 

 734 

 742 

 743 

 744 

 7.54 



756 



75G 

 757 



75S 

 759 



764 



768 

 768 



706 

 707 



Letters from a young farmer to Mr. Jamieson, 

 (concluded) ...... 



On breeding and rearing horses for agricultu- 

 ral purposes .-.--. 



Agricultural and rural economy of France - 



Legislative aid to agriculture ... 



An extensive piggery . . . - - 



Rev. D. V. McLean's experiment in silk-cul- 

 ture 



Messrs. Cheney's experiment of feeding 



The natural and artificial systems 



Greatest known yield of corn ... 



A large hog 



Hog manure 



Okra or Alvarado cotton .... 



Address to the Agricultural Society of Freder- 

 icksburg 



Premiums awarded by the Agricultural Socie- 

 ty of Fredericksburg .... 



Ruta baga and the garden flea ... 



Bots in horses. Murrain in cattle 



Diarrhoea in horses 



Remarks on Iruit trees .... 



How to dry pumpkins 



Description of a farm in the western extremi- 

 ty of pastern Ross, Ross-shire, [Scotland] 



Cai)ital profitably invested in agriculture - 



Winter butter ...... 



Apple molasses . . . . - 



Improved method of training raspberries 



711 



719 

 722 

 733 

 734 



735 

 740 

 741 

 742 

 743 

 743 

 744 



745 



753 

 753 

 755 

 756 

 756 

 758 



759 

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