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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 8 



rus of the St. John's wort, and the best methods 

 of relieving animals that have been affected by it. 

 Its specific action on the white spots [of cattle] only, 

 or at least mainly, is somewhat remarkable. I 

 have this year heard much of the ravages of the 

 fly — so called par eminence — and have in some 

 measure experienced them. I am now re-sowing 

 some of the places that were most injured. 



An acquaintance has lately assured me that his 

 sales last year, from a farm, which originally cost 

 him but $3,500, amounted to $3,600! How 

 many emigrants would this hurry off, if told of a 

 new country. You will perhaps guess that I refer 

 to Mr. . 



From the Cultivator. 



INFLUENCE OF THE STOCK ON GRAFTED 

 FRUITS. 



On a recent visit to a friend in Hartford, Conn, 

 we had occular demonstration of the influence of 

 the stock upon the fruit. Our friend had in his 

 garden a pear tree bearing- large summer fruit, 

 which ere it was ripe became rotten at the core. 

 The fruit being consequently worthless, he en- 

 grafted the St. Germain pear upon several of the 

 side shoots, and the Vergalue upon the top. The 

 effect has been, to enlarge the fruits last grafted, 

 and to accellerate their ripening at least a month. 

 The St. Germainpof which we took several, are 

 of double the size of those grown on the tree from 

 which the grafts were taken; the Vergalue is 

 somewhat increased in size, though deteriorated 

 in quality, and one of the fruits which we ate 

 showed a partial rottenness at the core. The ef- 

 fect of growing butter, or melting pears, on the 

 quince, a practice general in France, is to impart 

 more solidity to the flesh. These facts may be- 

 come important, as they seem to suggest a new 

 means of crossing fruits, by which the maturity of 

 those that ripen too late for a northern climate may 

 be accellerated; and those which ripen too early 

 for winter use may be retarded in (heir maturity. 

 The grape affords a good subject for experiment; 

 and the Isabella, Catawba and Blands, may thus 

 be brought to ripen their crops with more certainty 

 and in greater perfection among us. 



[This report was prepared for our last No., but hav- 

 ing been delayed on its passage, did not arrive until 

 the last sheet was printing off. As the contents apply 

 to the commercial transactions of the whole preceding 

 year, the value of the report is not materially impaired 

 by the delay of publication.] 



For the Farmers' Register. 



COMMERCIAL REPORT FOR OCTOBER. 



The inspections of tobacco in Virginia, the ex- 

 ports of that article, and the stocks on hand at the 

 expiration of each year, ascertained to 1st October, 

 were as follows: 



Exports. Stocks. 

 26,614 11,950 hhds. 



19,783 12,350 



25,300 10,600 



25,919 15,600 



The exports of the year ending 1st instant, may 

 be classed thus — 



To London 6,854 hhds. 



Liverpool 6,924 



Bristol 1,290 



Glasgow 674 



Leith 283 



New Castle 192 



Havre 3,689 



Bordeaux 300 



Marseilles 150 



Gibraltar 250 



Antwerp 400 



Amsterdam 30 



Rotterdam 758 



Bremen 1,077 

 Cowes, &c. for orders 2,943 



West Indies 111 



About 16,000 hhds. were manufactured in the 

 state or shipped coast- wise. 



Although the inspection was so large, the de- 

 mand has been sufficient to meet the increase,'and 

 prices are well supported. Scarcely any of the 

 old crop can be purcased at less than $6; and all 

 prices are paid up to !§12| per 100 lbs. accord- 

 ing to quality. 



The apprehension of frost at the close of last 

 month, and its actual prevalence in the early part 

 of this, caused the planters, generally, to cut their 

 tobacco in a green state, and of that which was 

 left in the fields, the greatest portion was killed. 

 So large a crop had, however, been planted, that 

 an average product may be expected — though the 

 quality will prove very inferior. The crop in Ken- 

 tucky and Tennessee is reported to be larger than 

 in any former year — that of Maryland very 

 small. 



The quantity of cotton received in Virginia du- 

 ring the year ending 1st instant, was 33,000 bales, 

 being 11,000 less than in 1834. The crop of the 

 United States for the last ten years, has been— 



977,000 bales 

 1,039,000 



987,000 

 1,070,000 

 1,205,000 

 1,254,000 was 



722,700 



252,400 



48,390 



217,000 



1824 560,000 bales 1829 



1825 710.000 1830 



1826 937,000 1831 



1827 712,000 1832 



1828 858,000 1833 

 The crop of 1834 



thus disposed of 



Exported to Great Britain 

 France 

 Other ports 

 Manufactured in the U. States 

 The quantity received in the different markets 

 during the last three years is stated thus — 



1833 1834 1835 



New Orleans 403,500 454,700 511,100 



Florida 23,600 36,700 52,100 



Mobile 130,000 150,000 198,000 



Georgia 271,000 258,600 222,700 



South Carolina 182,000 227,300 203,200 



North Carolina 30,300 33,200 34,400 



Virginia 31,000 44,700 33,200 



The great annual increase in the culture of this 

 article baffles all calculation as to injury sustained 

 by the crop. The last, which was supposed to be 

 smaller than the previous one, from the unfavora- 

 ble season in 1834, proves to be 50,000 bales more; 

 and the crop of the present year is estimated at 

 1,400,000 bales. 



