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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Our market ranges from 9 to lOJ cenla ; New- 

 Orleans, 8 to 12. The total receipts up to this 

 time, are not much short of last year's ; nor is the 

 export to England materially diminished ; to 

 France, however, it has fallen oH" considerably. 

 The war between Great Britain and China may 

 cause a large importaiion oC East India cotton into 

 British ports, which formerly found a market in 

 China. 



Supplies of wheat in Vir>rinia have nearly 

 ceased. In our northern ports the prices range 

 li-om 80 to 100 cents. Flour, $4^ to 5. The 

 quantity received from the north-western slates is 

 immense. For example — there passed the Erie 

 Canal at Buffalo, 



In 1839, 288,165 bbls. flour, and 965,000 bus wheat 

 Inl840, 639,633 " do. 883,000 » do. 



291,000 bbls. flour, 



Inspected at Philadelphia in 



1838, 



1839, 



1840, 

 At Baltimore, 1838, 



1839, 



1840, 

 There arrived by the Ohio ca- 

 nal, at Cleveland, on Lake 

 Erie, in 1S39, 1,520,000 bus. wheat, 



and 266,000 bbls. flour, 



In 1840, 2,151,000 bus. wheat, 



I and 505,000 bbls. flour. 



I Corn sells at 45 to 50 cents per bushel. Pork, 

 ^6| to 7 per hundred weight. Exchange on Eng- 

 land, 8 to 9 per cent premium. 

 I January 27th, 1841. 



CONTENTS OF THE FARMERS REGISTER, NO. I. VOL. IX. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 

 Union of the Carolina Planter with the Fanners' 

 Ren;ister ....... 1 



Experiments with bone manure .... 1 



Natural history of the tockawhoughe . . 3 



A successful experiment in rearing silk- worms . 8 

 The supposed transmutation of wheat to cheat . 11 

 Continuation of answers to general queries on 

 marling, in regard to green-sand marl used on 

 the Pamunkey river lands: 



V. Answers of Edmund F. Wickliam in re- 

 gard to the use of marl, on his South 

 Wales farm, Hanover county ... 20 

 On (he soils, and marling improvements of King 

 William county. Introductory to answers 

 to the general queries on marling . . 21 



I. Answers of Richard Hill, in regard to 



the Rumford Academy farm ... 24 



II. Answers by William S. Fontaine, in re- 

 gard to Fontainbleau farm, in King Wil- 

 liam county .26 



III. Answers by Thomas Robinson, in -re- 

 gard to Mount Pisgah farm, on Mattapony 

 river ....... 27 



IV. Answers of Thomas Carter, in regard to 

 Pampatike farm, ; . . . . 27 



Liming on the Pennsylvania barrens ... 28 



Thrashing machines 32 



Answers to inquiries respecting the manuring, 



and rotation of crops, of Westover . . 35 



Crushed-cor nmeal. Wintering hogs, &c. . 36 



Convention of cotton planters in Alabama . 37 



A common objection to agricultural periodicals, 

 and especially considered in regard to the 



Farmers' Register 38 



Sketches of western New York ... 40 



First experiment in beet culture. Management 



of hogs 47 



Domestic animals — their diseases and food . 49 



The farmer's wealth 51 



Remarks on greensward, orchard grass, and other 



grasses 54 



Inquiries and remarks on salt, as a manure, and 



especially for cotton 55 



The farms and farming of the rich Lexington dis- 

 trict in Kentucky 56 



Agricultural societies 57 



Inoculating -57 



Root feeding 58 



Comparative value of the cocoons of the " two 



crop white" silk-worms, and other varieties . 58 

 Kentucky blue grass supposed not to be the same 



with greensward. Grasses improved by calca- 

 reous soil. Mellilot , .... 58 

 Inquiries and remarks upon the calcareous rock 



and soils of South Alabama ... 59 



Manner of deposit of Hessian fly eggs . 62 



Monthly commercial report .... 63 



SELECTIONS. 



Description of the African potato ... 2 



Cultivation of the vine in the west . . 3 



A curious fact 3 



Profit of peas amongst corn ... 4 



The curculio and fruit worms .... 4 

 Report of Major Gwynn on the drainage of the 



swamp lands of N. C. - . . . . 5 



An improvement in fattening hogs . . 7 



Chrysanthemums 8 



Prognostication of cold weather from birds . 9 

 Laying down open lands in grass — Kentucky ro- 

 tation — stock fodder, manuring and grazing — 



curing clover hay 10 



Rhubarb plant 13 



The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky . . 14 



Large hogs ....... IG 



America against England in cotton manufacturing 17 



Value of the olive 28 



Pumpkin sugar 28 



Seasonable hints 29 



Extracts from the address of James M. Garnett, 

 to the Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg, 



Va., November 13th, 1840 . . . . 29 



Propagations of the rose .... 33 



Convention of tobacco planters .... 33 

 The European duties on tobacco. Opinions on 



the other side of the question ... 35 



Reporting experipaents with artificial manures . 43 



Hay seed among dorn 43 



Beets for cattle 44 



Cabbage as food for hogs 44 



English mines and mining .... 45 



Two good farmers 45 



Hogs — mode of feeding 46 



Manures and their application .... 48 



Calves running with cows .... 49 



A comparison of the different breeds of sheep . 49 

 Sowing grass seed thick and even, not thin and 



irregular, is the true interest ... 52 



Damp stables 53 



Remarks on the supposed discovery «f the Hes- 

 sian fly 60 



Manure for cotton 63 



Age of trees 62 



Erratum.— In heading of article, page 35, for «• Worcester," read " Westover." 



