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choose not to pay at all, we have no remedy — 

 and if they choose to commit the wron^f, some- 

 what less in degree, of paying in notes at 10, 20 

 or 30 per cent, discount, we can no more help 

 ourselves. But the imposition and injury are not 

 the lees felt, and appreciated, because not always 

 protested against; or because it is submitted to, 

 without complaining ill each particular case. 



In fine, we beg that all who are well-wishers 

 to this publication, and desirous of its success 

 and permanency, will duly consider the enormous 

 injury that it is subjected to in this respect. To 

 enable it to bear up under such heavy losse?, it 

 is necessary that every existing subscriber should 

 perlbrm his obligations as nearly as the general 

 (i-audulent course of the banks will permit ; and 

 also to use his influence to extend the circulation, 

 and thereby increase the income of the |)ublica- 

 lion. We lose on the best of bank notes, as 

 (hose of Virginia, say 4 per cent, on the differ- 

 ence between iheir value and specie — 10 to 50 

 per cent, on the larger part of all payments from 

 soutli and west of South Carolina — besides los- 

 ing very many payments entirely, mainly be- 

 cause of the difficulties of procuring good money 

 for remittances. The great and general depre- 

 ciation of the paper currency in Georgia, Alaba- 

 ma, Florida, Mississippi and Arkansas, serves as 

 an excuse to most subscribers for their paying no- 

 thing ; and to our best friends and efficient sup- 

 porters in those states, who desire to continue, as 

 they have done heretofore, to pay their dues fully 

 and promptly, it is so disagreeable and galling 

 that they should be compelled by the banks to be 

 delinr^uenr, that many of them will withdraw 

 their subscriptions, because of the impossibility 

 of making their payments punctually, and in 

 notes not greatly depreciated. Thus we lose in 

 every way by the fraudulent banking system; 

 and it will ret]uire all the counteracting aid and 

 increased support of the friends of the Farmers' 

 Register to prevent its sinking under these in- 

 creasing losses of every kind thus produced. In 

 opposing that e3'stero, and the whole army o( 

 banking pillagers, we have to eufTer much Irom I 

 the hostility and revengeful influence of that 

 powerful interest. This alone would cause much 

 withdrawal of support from this publication. 

 But we should not regard the worst effects of the 

 hostiliiy of the banking interest, powerful and 

 pervading as is their influence, if we could but 

 be protected from the worst impositions of their 

 cheating and robbing operations, carried on, not 

 in malice, or hostility or revenge, but merely for 

 the profit of the dishonesty. If then, those of 

 our friends who are heartily opposed to this sys- 

 tem of general and growing fraud and pillagp, do 



not desire to have our publication silenced in re- 

 gard to their enormities, and put down, by being so 

 cheated and robbed that it can no longer be eup- 

 poried by its income, they must exert themselves 

 to meet the danger, and counteract it by new 

 exertions to sustain the publication. We say 

 frankly, that According to present appearances, 

 half our issue will be a charge instead of a pro- 

 fit to the publication ; and that if the same ap- 

 pearances continue to the end of the year, the 

 names of nearly half of our subscribers must be 

 erased, after their having been furnished with our 

 publication, for one or more years gratia. — Ed. 

 Far. Reg. 



GAPES IN CHICKENS. 



From the Cultlrator. 



Messrs. Editors .-—In your April number, a 

 correspondent attributes the gapes in chickens to 

 breeding from too old cocks. Whether this will 

 have any effect to produce the disease, I am un- 

 able to say, but I have long since found a preven- 

 tive, and practised accordingly. This 1 have 

 conjmunicated to others, who have complained of 

 the malady ; and similar treatment, as (ar as my 

 knowledge extends, has been attended with iha 

 same marked result. 



The disease is prevented simply by scanting 

 them in their food. Who ever heard of chickens 

 which were not confined with the hen, but both 

 suffered to roam at large and collect all their own 

 Ibod, to be troubled with this disease? The most 

 common food (or young chickens is Indian cora 

 meal, mixed with water so as to completely satu- 

 rate it. This, when eaten in too large quantities, 

 is almost sure to produce the gapes. Great care 

 should, therelbre, be observed in the feeding of 

 them, and the meal should be previously mixed 

 some few hours, or otherwise it will swell in the 

 stomQch of the chicken, which, when full, is the 

 very cause of the disease. Garret Bergen. 

 Brooklyn, N'. Y. April 20, 1841. 



DESTRUCTION OF CATERPILLARS. 



From tlje Boston Cultivator. 



Our readers are reminded that this worm should 

 be attended to in season and when this is done 

 the labor of extirpation will be trifling. Close 

 attention to clear the limbs for one or two years 

 will entirely rid an orchard of the nuisance. 



One easy mode of destruction is to apply strong 

 soap suds to the neet— if the tree is large a swab 

 tied to the end of a pole will accomplish the pur- 

 pose effectually. Suds which have been used 

 by the washwoman are good as any, and by 

 rubbing a swab on the nest— after it has been 

 dipped into the euds—the worms are quickly 

 destroyed. 



