I'MON OF THE CAROLINA PLANTER AVITH 

 THE farmers' register. 



By an arrangement, just completed, between 

 the proprietors of the Farmers' Register and the 

 Carolina Planter, the two publications will be 

 united from this time forward, and tlse subscri- 

 bers of the Carolina Planter will be supplied, 

 instead, with the Farmers' Register, issued, 

 however, in weekly form of publication. This 

 change of the times of issue has been adopted 

 upon the advice of judicious friends of the 

 work in South Carolina, and also because, 

 agreeing in this respect with tiie Carolina 

 Planter, it was supposed it would be more ac- 

 ceptable to its readers and patrons. The 

 monthly form of the Farmers' Register will 

 continue unchanged, as heretofore. The sub- 

 scription price and conditions for both the 

 monthly and the weekly publications will be 

 the same, (as stated at full in the Conditions 

 of publication of the Farmers' Register,) and 

 any subscril>er who is supplied with either of 

 the forms, and should prefer the other, may 

 have the change made at the end of any month, 

 by sending a post-paid order to that effect. 



To each of all the original subscribers to the 

 Farmers' Register, to whom we are now in- 

 debted for their generous support for all of nine 

 volumes, (and of whom nearly 400 names still 

 are left on our list,) we shall send an extra copy 

 in this new form, as some evidence of their 

 kind and sustained and sustaining favor. This 

 of course will not apply to those among them 

 who have before chosen to avail themselves 

 of some equivalent privilege or premium, of- 

 fei'ed by the conditions. We hope that it will 

 be acceptable to these, our oldest and best 

 friends, to receive thus gratuitously the week- 

 ly publication, for more frequent and thei-efore 

 more inviting reading, while their regular 

 monthly numbers will contain all the same 

 agricultural matter, and somewhat more, for 

 binding, to be placed in their libraries. 



The agricultural matter of both publications 

 will be the same. But some articles of the 

 monthly form must necessarily be omitted in 

 the weekly publication, and these will be such 

 as are not strictly of an agricultural character. 

 On the other hand, the weekly sheet will con- 

 tain a summary of news, and also some adver- 

 tisements, both of which will (as heretofore) be 

 excluded from the monthly publication. 



Each of these forms of publication has its 



earnest advocates, and opposite advantages; 



and to each there are also strong objections. 



In issuing both, we shall incur much addilion- 



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al trouble and expense ; but, at this sacrifice» 

 and by offering the choice to all subscribers, 

 we trust that w-e may finally please all. 



To furnish a summary of weekly news, in 

 the manner which M'ill be attempted in the 

 weekly sheet, will cost m.ore labor than to fill 

 five times as much space with other and origi- 

 nal matter. But without such labor, any such 

 summary must be stale and worthless ; and so 

 long as we may offer such a dish as part of 

 our bill of fare, it will be our care and pride 

 to have it composed of the best ingredients, 

 prepared in the best manner, and served up to 

 our customers as fresh and new as a weekly 

 supply will permit. — Ed. F. R. 



experiments with bone manure. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Fairfax county, Va. December lOth, 1840. 



On reading the ariicle headed ' Exiraneous Ma- 

 nures,' |);iife589, Oftober iiunihor oflhe Fririners' 

 Register, 1 iim reminded of my promise to give 

 you ihe result of my experiment wiih bone-dust, 

 or more properly speaking, crushed bones, as a 

 manure. 



JVly first ppplicniion of bone manure was on 

 turnips, in 1838 ; liie result, so far as relates to 

 ihe first crop and the expense, is elated at page 

 152 3, vol. 7ih of the Register. I have theretore 

 only to add the results of two years' adduional ex- 

 perience in ihe use and efliect of bone manure in 

 comparison with stable or other putrescent ma- 

 nures produced on a farm. 



In order to ascertain, with as much precision aa 

 I could, the requisite qnatuity of bone per acre, 

 as well as to be precise in its application and com- 

 parison wiih oiher manures, I laid off an acre of 

 ground which I designed lor turnips, and divided 

 it into eighty-one efjual parts by cross furroivs at 

 the proper distance. Upon two-thirds of the 

 ground thus laid off, a good two-horse carl load of 

 stable or (arm yard manure was dropped in each 

 square, which of course was manuring at the 

 good rale ol 81 loads per acre. To other parts of 

 the ground, crushed bones, from the Koxhury 

 IVIass. mills, were applied at the rate ol 15, 20, 25, 

 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, and 81 bushels to the acre, pure 

 as tliey came to me, without adulteration or ad- 

 mixture of'any kind. On the residue ofthe acre, a 

 compost, consisting ofthe sumn)er scrapincrsolihc 

 cow yard, without straw or litter ol'any kind, with 

 only 8 per cent, of bone, was applied at the rate of 

 12 loads, ol 25 bushels each, per acre. The ground 

 had previously been well ploughed early in the 

 spring, and a dressing of sixty bushels of good 

 fresh lime had been applied on the furrow, imme- 

 diately preceding the first harrowing. The farm- 

 yard manure was regularly distributed on the 

 ground and lightly ploughed in as fast as epread ^ 

 having previously, as well as every other part of th» 

 ground, received a good dressing olplaster ofPai;= 



