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conslUutcil, to bring ony system into notice, so I ihinfr in our present system which imperiously 

 that its operation may be simultaneous and j^ene- 

 rally beneficial. It was only about thirty years 

 since, that the value ol bones began to be dis- 

 covered in this country, and at iliai period, and 

 for many years afterwards, lliey were only par- 

 tially known in a few counties. The efi'ecls, how- 

 ever, produced by the bone system of manage- 

 lueni have been wontierlul ; in short, this import- 

 ant article has been the means of bringing more 



demands an inuuediate and most searching iu- 

 (juiry. 



MONTHLY COMMKIICIAI. REPORT, 



For ttie Farmers' Register. 



There is noihing of importance to notice in the 

 ^"*^'iief=s of the present month. A slight advance 

 wasrelaTdimocriuvaiionThurperh^ipr^^^^^^ laken place in tobacco and cotton-in the 



substance which has ever been brought under the lormer article, owmg to arge sales in England ; 

 notice of agriculturists. and in the latter, Irom the tailing ofl ol the re- 



Butlet us now inquire how this great change ceipts, compared with last year. In flour and 

 was brought about, and how long this system was grain there is no change, and the export demand 

 pursued, by a lew isolated individuals, belore its j is small 

 importance was generally known and appreciated. ■ 

 Tlie lime is not so lar distant, but tliat many indi- 

 viduals can remember, when bones were tiroken 

 with the hammer in the counties of Lincoln and 

 Nottingham, and put into the ground in very 

 large pieces, at the rale of seventy to eighty bush- 

 els°au acre. In 1S12, the bone-crusher from 

 Nottingham might liave been seen with a saucer 

 in one hand, showing his halt-inch bones, and in 

 the other a turnip, as a specimen oi" their fertiliz- 

 ing powers, at the same lime entreating the liirm- 

 eis only to makealiiir trial of them ; subsequently 

 they were drilled in with the seed, the turnips, at 

 the rate of Irom twenty to twenty-five bushels an 

 acre, while some of the higher managers put in 



Money matters and exchanges present little 

 variation. Stocks of all kinds are dull, and most 

 of them unsaleable. X. 



Apriniih., 1841. 



ON THK VALUE OF FIELD PEAS AS A CROP, 

 AND TO PREVENT INJURY TO STOCK FEED- 

 ING THEREON. 



To tlie Editor of tlie Fanners' Register. 



Hancock county, Ga., jJpril \Zih, 1841, 

 j^i,-;_lhave lor several years placed a high 

 value on the pea crop, as peculiarly adapted to 

 our agriculture and wants in this section. It 



appears to me more lertilizing than any green 

 forty bushels per acre. The benefits resulting Irom j cop we grow, grows taller on poor land, is easily 

 using bones were, however, well understood lor | pia^ied, does not hinder us much during the busy- 



many years in several counties in England, before 

 (he practice found its way into Scotland ; and 

 although a few individual farmers may have 

 adopted the system fromobseiving its advantages, 

 yei we are mainly indebted to the mercantile body 

 lor their final introduction and extended use in 

 Scotland, For not only did our merchants com- 

 mission the bones at their own cost and risk, but it 

 was only by using the most pressing solicitations, 

 and the greatest perseverance, that they were 

 enabled to get the generality of farmers to com- 

 prehend iheir advantages, or even to give them a 

 patient trial ; and it is only within the last lew 

 years that the demand has in any way been com- 

 mensurate to the benefits derivable from their use, 

 in connexion with the extension and advantages 

 of the sheep system of husbandry. Now, when 

 we consider the length of time that was allowed to 

 transpire belore the beneficial etfiect of this highly 

 important manure was made manifest in Scotland, 

 even long after its advantages were known andap- 

 1 predated in England, we cannot but regret that 

 improvements of such a nature should be left to 

 the merest chance or accident; or that the best 

 ! interests o( agriculture should be sacrificed and 

 retarded for so many years, merely li-om the want 

 of co-operation in that body whose interests it 

 would tend most lo advance. But this is not a 

 solitary instance Uiat might be brought forward in 

 condemnation of our present inefficient means of 

 co-operating for the diffusion of agricultural im- 

 provements ; on ihe contrary, it will only be 

 necessary to direct attention to rape-cake, saltpetre, 

 nitrate of soda, soot, &c., &c., to show the partial 

 manner in which such substances are understood 

 by a few individuals, before they become of gene- 

 ral import to the agricultural community. It 

 therefore cannot but appear evident, even to the 

 minds of the most indifferent, that there is eorae- 



season, and in every way, is a fine accompani- 

 ment to a corn ciup, and furnishes a fine amount 

 of fall and winter provender for stock (which 

 we are generally much wanting;) but 1 have 

 heretofore thought it left my stock, particularly 

 my hogs, in an "unhealthy condition, and on that 

 account less valuable than it at first promised. 



I have used much inquiry and thought to find 

 a remedy for this delect, and hope I have suc- 

 ceeded ; but it will be necessary to lest the reme- 

 dy more fully, and on that account I send it fo 

 you, if you think it worthy, lor the use of your 

 subscribers. 



Last fall I was conversing on that subject 

 with a very honest praciical farmer. He told me 

 lor a number of years he had used the pea crop 

 in fattening the most of his stock, that they 

 ihrove as kindly on that as on corn, and that noae- 

 vvere injured by it ; and he gave me his plan. 

 He prepared in the pea field a large tight trough, 

 and kept it at all times well supplied with salt and 

 ashes dissolved in water. He never turned hun- 

 gry stock into the field, only turning in his 

 horses, cows and fattening hogs, I tried it last 

 season, gnd the result was precisely aa he in- 

 formed me; they all appeared lond of drinking 

 out of the trough, and were healthy, and did well 

 after they were turned off on other (bod, 1 used 

 the precaution to turn my horses and cows off one 

 or two days each week, and 1 would suggest that 

 horses or oxen should never be put to hard work 

 while filled with peas. Nor would 1 sutler my 

 stock hogs to feed on them ; they are I think more 

 unhealthy for young than older hogs, 



1 cannot close this without giving you a hearty 

 " well done" for your bank comments in the 

 Farmers' Register lor March, and the political 

 essays in the second number of the ' Southera 

 Magazine,' J. S. Whitiex. 



