1835.] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



443 



From the Petersburg Intelligencer. 

 COMMERCIAL. 



We are indebted to a friend for the annexed 

 statements of the export of staple articles of pro- 

 duce from Virginia for the year ending 30th ul- 

 timo. 



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5 



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£ 3 



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Exported from Virginia. 



Statement of cotton for Virginia. 



Stock on hand 1st October, 1834 450 bales. 



Received up to 1st October, 1835 33,350 



33,800 



Exported to foreign ports 

 during the 12 months 

 ending 30th ult. 19,897 



Exported coastwise for 

 same period 8,000 



Manufactured in Virgi- 

 nia 5,400 



33,297 



Stock on hand 1st October, 1835 



503 bales. 



IMPROVEMENT OF WORN LAND BY CLOVER 

 AND PLASTER. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Orange, Sept. 24, 1835. 



As I think it the duty of every subscriber to 

 your valuable journal to give some account of his 

 method of farming, or improving his land, I will 

 commence by giving you an account of the im- 

 provement of a piece of worn out land, which I 

 purchased a lew years ago, which at the time I 

 got possession, would not bring more than one barrel 

 of corn to the acre. I commenced by clearing up 

 the land, and ditching where it was necessary, and 

 making dams or stops across thegulleys, and then 

 throwing into them all the brush, and a little wheat 

 straw, or something to stop the dams, and retain 

 the earth that would be otherwise carried ofF. I 

 then ploughed the land deep, and seeded it in the 

 month of March with oats and clover seed — and 

 as soon as the seed came up, I plastered it with 

 half a bushel of plaster, and the same quantity of 

 ashes per acre. The crop of oats was a small 

 one. The plaster and ashes were repeated the 

 next spring upon the clover, and there was a fine 

 growth. Great care was taken to have as little of 

 this green crop destroyed as possible, allowing on- 

 ly a few beeves and calves to graze aiier the clo- 

 ver was in the head. A fine crop of clover was 

 turned under the last, of August, and the land 

 seeded in wheat in October. The crop was be- 

 tween nine and ten bushels per acre. The next 

 spring the land was plastered again in the same 

 manner, and there was a fine growth of clover, 

 which was very slightly grazed in the fall. The 



