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called lying, fraud and swindling, because the 

 operators referred to happen to be corporate bodies 

 and bank oHicers and boards ot directors. 



But, it may still be asked by those who con- 

 demn us, why, of late, fill so many of the pages 

 of the Farmers' Register with this one subject? 

 We are sensible of this objection being proper; 

 but it could not well be otherwise, while publish- 

 ing the long article on the abuses of banking 

 which is now completed. Our object was to pre- 

 sent the subject in the plainest possible manner, 

 and suited to attract the attention of the farmers of 

 our country ; and to have occupied less space, or 

 embraced more time in publication, would have 

 weakened the desired effect. 



Our opinions on the evils of banking are not 

 new. I'hey date from our boyhood. Neither 

 have they been hidden li'om the readers of this 

 journal, as sundry of its articles will testily, any 

 more than from our associates. But it is very true, 

 that, until recently, no regular, systematic, or even 

 frequent opposition was shown to the system ; and 

 Jbr this eutficient reason, that all opposition was 

 then deemed hopeless. But not so recently, and 

 now. There is good ground on which to build 

 hopes of the relbrmation, i( not the utter destruc- 

 tion, of unsound and irresponsible banking, anil 

 the fraudulent paper money system ; and while 

 hope remains of that result, we will lend our fee- 

 ble powers to aid its consummation ; and shall 

 entertain no doubt or distrust that, if the victory 

 shall be achieved, its greatest fruits will fall to 

 the share of the agricultural interest, in the subse- 

 quent entire security of agricultural propert)- and 

 labor from being, as heretolbre. appropriated at 

 will by privileged corporate depredators, operating 

 by means of legal privileges, and the fraud of irre- 

 deemable paper money. 



While we receive the reproof of the editors of 

 the Compiler as an admonition from true friends, 

 and have replied to it sincerely in the like good 

 feeling, we trust that they will permit us to give 

 them, in return, a friendly hint in regard to the 

 subject in controversy. We have not only per- 

 fect confidence in the friendly disposition of the 

 editors of the Compiler, but also in their good 

 judgment, in all matters with which they are con- 

 versant. But we beg them not to submit their 

 own excellent judgment, in our case, to that ol 

 other persons, who, under the profession of being 

 sincere friends to agricultural interests, and to the 

 Farmers' Register, as their advocate and expo- 

 nent, really are aiming to silence our publication, 

 no!!'(as they profess) because of their devotion to 

 the agricultural, or to (he general interests of the 

 country but because of iheir devotion to, or con- 



nexion with, the paper banking and borrowing in- 

 terest. It is this class which furnishes the main 

 support to all commercial newspapers ; and it is to 

 the most intelligent members of this class that 

 such newspapers naturally and properly look for 

 information and advice, and suggestions in com- 

 mercial matters. We fully admit the competency 

 and superior ability of such persons to prompt and 

 advise the measures that will best promote their 

 own interest, and that of the class to which they 

 belonfr. But we beg our friends of the Compiler 

 to have a reasonable. degree of distrust and cau- 

 tion, in regard to (he opinions of all such persons, 

 when they undertake to act as the advocates of 

 agricultural interests, and as censors of any one of 

 the very fisvv persons or publications that will dare 

 to denounce and expose the plundering of agri- 

 culture by the fraudulent paper money system. — 



• Ei). F. R. 



THE NEW THEORY — S.VVIXG EGGS. 



From the Journal ol' the American Silk Society, 



The principles of the New Theory require the 

 most regular division of eggs, as it respects the 

 lime they are laid. To carry out those principles 

 perfectly, all worms hatched on a particular day 

 should be kept separate from all others; all that 

 moult in one day siiould likewise be separated 

 li-om the others. So also in saving egys, ihe 

 millers that begin to lay eggs on a particular day 

 should be placed upon particular papers, so that all 

 the esrgs on any one paper will be laid on the 

 same day. The papers should then be marked 

 with the date at which the worms that produced 

 thp eggs were hatched, and also with that of ihe 

 laying of the eggs. Thus, a lot of worms is 

 hatched on the 10th of JVlay, and the moths be- 

 gin to lay eggs on the 20lh of June ; the marks 

 on the papers will be " Hatched lOih May, 1841 

 -—laid 20th June. 1841." This may seem a trou- 

 blesome business, but really it is not so. All the 

 trouble will not occupy as much time as is 

 required in the above description of it. In prac- 

 tice it is nothing. When the millers begin to lay, 

 all you have to do is in the mornin<j place as 

 many of them on one paper as it will hold, and 

 matk that paper as above with a pen. Next 

 morning take aivay the paper of yesterday, (as 

 the moths will all have finished laying,) and 

 place li-esh paper in its place, and fill it as before ; 

 taking care, of course, to dispose of all the millers 

 in this way each day. It is a curious /act, that 

 nearly all insects hatch, moult, and commence all 

 important changes and operations in the morning, 

 and this is particularly the case with silk worms. 



We are not in the habit of requiring particular 

 processes, without giving good reasons lor it. The 

 reason, then, of the above requirements, is as 

 follows: suppose a lot of eggs occupy a week in 

 hatching, which is not unfrequently the case, al- 

 though we always recommend that none be saved 

 but those of the 2d, 3d and 4th days' hatching. 

 If all these worms are kept promiscuously toge- 

 ther, they will also require at least a week to 



