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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Interlopers in the businnss, or other rogues than bank 

 officers, generally make biiiiglirg work of such opera- 

 tions. 



Mr. Clay's bill to establish a national bank has 

 passed its third reading, in the Senate, by a vote of 

 2.5 to 24. This is equivalent to a passage by that body. 

 An amendment, ottered by Mr. Clay, which secured 

 the passage of the bill, provides that the directors may 

 establish branches, villi the assent of the states in 

 which the branches are to be established; but that if 

 the legislature of a state does not " luiconditionally as- 

 sent or dissent," at is first session, its assent shall be 

 thence presumed ; and further, ttiat wtien congress 

 may find it neces.-ary and so direct, branches shall be 

 established in any state, although it had dissented. 



In Monticello, Ga., it has been resolved by a public 

 meeting not to receive any bank notes, after Septem- 

 ber 1, except at their depreciated value, or market 

 price in specie. This course, together with other pre- 

 vious and extensive operations in the south and \vest, 

 will help greatly to bring dishonest banks lo justice, 

 and to show them (however contrary to all previous ex- 

 perience) that " honesty will be the best policy" for 

 banks as well as for individuals. Large note-holders are 

 having their bank notes protested for non-payment, 

 when they thereafter carry 12 per ct. interest in North 

 Carolina, Louisiana, and some other southern states. 

 Such creditors have in other cases attached the funds 

 of non-paying bariksin other banks, or wherever found. 

 The Charleston Mercury says that these latter reme- 

 dies are so working that every bank in the south-west 

 must resume payment or stop all operations. 



The banks of Virginia, by law, are to resume spe- 

 cie payments next January. But their authorities 

 seem to have no thought of doing so, and have been 

 imakinT no more recent preparation for resumption, 



than previously, since the beginning of the suspension 

 in 1837. They must count confidently that their pre- 

 sent exemption by law from the obligations of faith and 

 honesty is again to be renewed,; and will be renewed, 

 session after session. Banks that have not prepared 

 to pay specie in 5 years, never will prepare. There 

 will be otf'ered the same and as strong reasons to the 

 next legislature, to extend indulgence to their continu- 

 ed bad faith, {for the benefit of the people, of course,) 

 as at every previous session ; and there ever will be 

 the same and as strong reasons. The plain inference, 

 from the whole procedure, and course of false assertion 

 and argument, is, that the banks and the thorough pa- 

 per money men go for the suspension of specie pay- 

 ments as a. permajient and general policy. The pro- 

 mises made and expectations given to the public for 

 resumption of payments are intended merely to de- 

 ceive and to ke. p quiet the long suffering and grossly 

 cheated people. A new proof of this intended policy 

 will be sien next winter, when another year of indul- 

 gence and impunity to the non-paying and swindling 

 system will be certainly proposed, (and as certainly 

 carried, if the people sliall still permit the banks to le- 

 gislate,) and upon precisely the same grounds that have 

 served for that purpose at every session since May 

 1837. 



" There has been some excitement in Mobile in con- 

 sequence of recent bank frauds in that state. The 

 mai-practices of the State B^mk and branches, which 

 we have before noticed, have been a principal cause. 

 The amount of the frauds is very large. The suspen- 

 ded anH doubtful debt of the branch in Mobile will 

 reach upwards of six millions of dollars." — Money Ar- 

 ticle of N. ¥ Herald. 



July 30. — The bank bill has passed the senate, by a 

 vote of 26 to 23. Both the senators of Virginia voted 

 against the passage. 



COIVTENTS OF THE FARMEUS RKGISTER, NO. VIT. VOL. IX. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 

 Liming land without any beneficial result - 385 

 James river water-borne marl, and its ex- 

 penses. Lime and cement from stone marl 388 

 Manuriugs— improvement - - - - 396 



Ornamental groves 397 



" Best time lor cutting timber"* - - - 408 



Marl in Alabama 423 



Nut grass — inquiry 425 



On the relation of the constitution of soils to 



their fertility and improvement - - 428 

 Trial of Hussey's reaping machine - - 434 

 Another trial of the reaping machine - - 435 

 Agricultural statistics — furnished in connex- 

 ion with the late census of the United States 437 

 On indicating and describing grasses - - 437 

 Wild onion - - ' - - - - 438 

 Failing to give literary credits - - - 438 

 The cost of transferring the money of the go- 

 vernment — the cost ot exchange — and the 

 agency of a national bank for lessening 



both 439 



Explanations in regard to a part of Mr. Tur- 

 ner's address 442 



The season and crops .... 442 



The prices of wheat 442 



The muscardine of silk-worms - - - 443 



Cure for the poll-evil. Castrating colts - 443 



Monthly summary of news - - - - 444 



SELECTIONS. 



French and jVmerican rural comforts - - 385 



Extirpation of sassafras sprouts - - - 386 



State aid to agriculture in New York 

 Pear trees --..... 

 Compost dressing for mowing grounds - 

 Subsoil ploughing .".... 



An experiment in fattening white and black 



Berkshire pigs 



Of bottom heat 



Bermuda grass 



New mode of transplanting turnips 

 Application of bones to grass lands 

 Guano manure ...... 



Green crops — Ploughing with cows 



The wire worm. Benefit of trampling wheat 



The scour in calves 



Agriculture of the Netherlands - -. . 



On iriigation 



Sketches of Normandy - - ' - 

 On the use of lime as manure . . . 

 The pork business at Cincinnati ... 

 The salving of sheep, with a view to the pro- 

 tection of the animal without the deteriora- 

 tion of the fleece 



Agricultural legislation .... 



An account of the insects injurious to turnips 

 Cultivation of the filbert .... 

 Remedy for the bite of a snake . . - 



The rose bug 



Uses of iron - - - . > . 



Management of bees. The subtended hive - 

 Address to the Henrico Agricultural Society 

 Garlic - - - - 



Locality of the canker-worm 



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