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inents are now endeavorinij to obtain lartre loons 

 to meet the heavy exi^enses incurred by their war- 

 hke preparations. The treasury of our ledoral 

 goveiiinieiit is worse than empty ; for it cannot 

 meet the demands npon it. incurred some months 

 past. JNlanv of the stale nrovernmenis are in a 

 pimihir condition; and ilie hanks south of New 

 YotU, so I'ar as the comnmnity i:< concerned, have 

 suspended. Thus fiscal mailers are in a most dis- 

 ordered stale, without an early prospect of re- 

 storation. 



The variations in ilie prices of proihice in Vir- 

 ginia, since last month, liave been slip;ht. To- 

 bacco has advanced a little, and may he quoted 

 at ^4:|: to .^9. Cotton is rather lower — price 8 to 10 

 cents. Canal flour iK42. Corn 42 cents. Bacon 

 8 to 9 cents. Shipments of flour are troinjj l(>r- 

 ward to England from New Orleans, New YoiU, 

 &c. Domestic exchanges are rather worse. Die 

 receipts of cotton at tlie principal markets in ih(^ 

 United States to t[ie latest dates are 1,105,000 

 against 1.872,000 at the same period last year. 



7>/arcA 29, 1841. X. 



TO PREVENT INSECTS CLIMBING UP FRUIT- 

 TREES. 



At a late meetintj ofthe Entomoloffica! Society, 

 Mr. James H. Fennell commnnicaied the follow- 

 ing successlid mode of preventinj; insects ascend- 

 iuiT the trunks of fruit-tees. Let a piece of fndian 

 ruhher he burnt over a jrallipnt, into which it will 

 iiradually drop in the condition of a thick viscid 

 juice, which slate it appears it will always retain ; 

 f()r Mr. Fennell has at the present time some 

 which has been melted for upwards of a vear, 

 and has been exposed to all weather uiihoni 

 undergoing the elitrhiest change. Having melted 

 the Indian rubber, let a piece of cord or worsted 

 be smeared with it. and then tied several times 

 round the trunk. The melted substance is so very 

 sticky, that the insects will be prevented, and 

 generally captured, in their attempts to pass over 

 it. About three pennyworth of Indian ruhher is 

 suflicient for the protection ol twenty ordinary 

 sized fruit-trees. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE PEl^-DEE AGHICUI.- 

 TURAI. SOCIETY, AT CHERAW, S. C, FEB- 

 RUARY 22, 1841, 



Extract From the Farmers' Gazuttc. 



The following premiums were awarded : 



To Gen. James Gillespie, for having 

 produced the greatest quantity of cotton 

 on three acres of upland the amount be- 

 ing 1735 1-3 lbs. per acre of seed cotton, 

 aeilver cup ofthe value of ^30 00 



To Samuel Keeder for the greatest 

 production of sweet potatoes, he having 

 produced on one acre three hundred and 

 twenty bushels, a silver cup of the va- 

 lue of 10 00 



The following is a memorandum of the cuhure 

 ofthe cotton, soil &c. by Gen. Gillespie. 



" Land red or mulatto, about three hundred 



bushels of manure chiefly from the stable, a part 



fermented and a part not, was spread broad-cast 



io the acre. The ground then broken up with a 



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two horse turning plough ; then run off with a 

 10 inch shovel, into rows 3 1-2 leet apart. Scat- 

 tered lorty bushels of partially killed cotton seed 

 to the acre in these furrows, upon which a ridge 

 was made by runninji two furrows with a dagon 

 lilouuh. I'hen sowed one bushel of plaster of 

 Paris to the acre broad cast, and ten bushel.s of 

 slacked ashes per acre on the tof)« of tlie ridges. 



Planted 13ih April, the seed was rubbed in 

 plaster of Paris. 



Chopped out with 9 inch hoes .5th May. 

 First ploughing 6ih May run two lurrows ia 

 each row with a sweep. 



First hooing May 19ih and thinned to one and 

 twostalkd in each hill ; the cotton had died consi- 

 derably, replanted at this hoeing Ibr the third 

 time. 



Second ploughing, May2lst, run two furrows 

 with a shovel in each row near the cotton: June 

 1st ploushed out the middies with two sliovel fur- 

 rows. June 2d hoed second time and replanted 

 the Iburth time as the cotton was still dying ; the 

 previous replanting had come up but most of it 

 died. 



June 23d plouirhed third time ; three shovel fur- 

 rows in a row : June 28lli hoed third, time. 



July 20ih ploughed fourth time run dajron 

 plough (mould board to the cotton) and shovel in 

 the miildle : 

 Jidv 28ih hoed fourth lime. 



Product : 5206 of seed cotton making an 

 averajre nf 1735 1-3 lbs to the acre.' 



It will be observed that thiscotton died so much 

 as to make (bur replanlings necessary, and even 

 then a perfect stand was ribt obtained. This I 

 attribute to the too creat formentaiion ofthe cotton 

 seed placed under the ridge, combining probably 

 with the unrolled stable manure. It was hoped 

 that this rapid fermentation would be checked or 

 carried off by running a furrow on each side of 

 the ridge on the 21st of May and leaving it open 

 for a Cew days, but in this I was disappointed. 

 The object in placing the cotton seed under the 

 ridre, was to force the plant forward early. 

 The stable manure was spread broad cast, 

 1st. Because tliat quantity under the bed would 

 be likely to destroy the plant before the roots 

 could pass through it. 



2d. If placed under the bed and a drought of 

 but short duration occurred in the latter part of 

 the season, if the offers of forms did -not drop 

 during the drought, a good season would cause so 

 sudden and rapid a growth of the plant as to 

 cause the forms then to drop. 



3d. To feed the plant through the latteral roots 

 when maturing the balls. The plaster of Paris 

 was put on to assist the cotton in case of droaght 

 or ordinary season, but rainy as the year was, [ 

 should say, judging from former experiments with 

 it, that the plaster did no good. 



The ashes were used because I believe them Co 

 be a good manure in all lands well drained ; I 

 have never tried them on wet lands. 



The above is a true account p.f the method of 

 working and product of 3 acres of upland cotton 

 to the best of my knowledge. 



Jas. Gillespie. 



The following is a memorandum of sweet po- 

 tatees raised on one acre of land by Samuel 

 Keeler. 



