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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



It is rumored that the interest due on the bonds 

 of the state of Maryland will not be paid on the first 

 day of October. The treasurer of the state has not 

 succeeded in borrowing the money required. — Bait. 

 Republican. 



A forgery of $20,000 has been discovered on the 

 Merchants' Banlc in Baltimore. — lb. 



The magazine near Lockport, New York, was bro- 

 ken open at night, and 65 kegs of gunpowder taken 

 off by the burglars. This is another " premonitory 

 symptom" of a " patriotic" or piratical movement on 

 the Canada border. 



By this morning^ mails, (Sept. 24.) 



As we feared, the effects of the late freshet in the 

 Savannah river, have been very disastrous to the 

 prospects of the river planters, and every day only 

 but developes additional losses. As yet we have heard 

 from a few farms near the city; on some of which nearly 

 the whole cotton and corn crops have been covered in 

 water, and are consequently destroyed, besides the 

 Joss of considerable stock that could not be got out 

 ill time to save them from destruction. — Jug. Chron. 



The "Money Article" of the New York Herald, 

 September 22, has the following passage: — "The 

 money market here is now beginning to feel the effects 

 ■of the suspension at the South, the operation of 



which upon bills we endeavored to exhibit yesterday. 

 The failure of the cotton houses abroad, the precarious 

 situation of the houses here, and the conseq<ient discre- 

 dit attaching to bills, have produced a similar effect 

 upon sterling bills to that created in francs by the 

 stoppage of S. V. S. Wilder, and specie has become 

 very much in requisition for shipment ; so much so, 

 that many of the banks are selling their silver. Near- 

 ly $150,000 has changed hands this morning at J per 

 cent, premium for shipment — one half the amount 

 was disposed of by one bank." — " There will no 

 doubt, be a good deal of specie go by the Great West- 

 ern on Saturday. This is the result of southern sus- 

 pension. If the banks of that section had paid specie, 

 the surplus in this market would long since have spread 

 itself over the south, and furnished the people with a 

 currency." 



More indications of border warfare. — Two British 

 steamers, provided with cannon (contrary to the spirit 

 of the treaty between Great Britain and the United 

 States,) are moored between Navy Island and the 

 Canadian shore. A cannon was fired at one of the 

 vessels in the night, but did no damage. Another 

 att<^-Jlpt was made on the night of the 9th, to blow up 

 by gunpowder a lock of the Welland canal. The 

 explosion had but slight effect. 



Lord Sydenham, governor of Canada, died on 

 Sept. 19, at Kingston, of lock-jaw produced by in- 

 juries suffered from a fall from Lis horse. 



CONTKWTS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER, NO. IX. VOL. IX. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Remarks on different grasses for hay and pasture 

 The greensward and blue grass of Virginia 

 Editorial remarks on wheat straw for potatoes 

 Extracts from reports of the executive committee 



of the " Association for promoting currency 



and banking reform" 



" Disputed questions in agriculture" - - - 

 The necessary consequences of admitting the 



plea for the continued suspension of specie 



payments ...... 



Experiment of planting corn with one or more 



stalks at a place 



New edition of Liebig's Ora:anic Chemistry 

 Objections to the oat and tobacco rotation 

 Remarks on the soils of part of Surry county - 



Collecting fossil shells 



Board of Agriculture 



Late wheat 



Editorial remarks on notices of grasses 

 Notices of grasses and weeds : 



Wire grass 



Darnel or spelt ---... 



Rye grass ...... 



Summary of news 



SELECTIONS. 



A discourse on the character, properties, and im- 

 portance to man, of the natural family of plants 

 called gramineae, or true grasses— concluded 



On turnips 



On the construction of ice-houses ... 



Wheat straw for Irish potatoes ... 



Vats for water-rotting hemp .... 



Particulars relative to water-rotting hemp - 



Of atmospherical moisture and temperature 



The blister fly 



American blister fly and peach tree grub driven 



. Page 



Pace ^^ ^^ lime. Fish oil for peach and plum trees 528 



gjg! Lime— marl — top-dressing .... 528 



gjg Salt lie, or spent lie 530 



Plan to remove stumps 534 



On the extermination of nut-grass - . - 534 



American cotton planters in India ... 535 



Saw-dust 536 



Garlic, a cure for kidney worm ... 535 



Snow-storms in mountain districts - - - 537 



Statistics 540 



Seven tons of green fodder to the acre - - 540 



Report on hogs 541 



The principles of breeding cattle - - - 543 



Preservation of timber 546 



Breeding of stock 547 



Soil proper for the vine 551 



Factory baths — Exercise useful for swine . 552 



Front yards — Shrubbery — Flowers ... 553 



Blue wash for walls 553 



A brilliant stucco white-wash - - - . 554 



Charcoal for diseased lungs in hogs - - - 554 



Growth of the vine in England - - - 555 



Wheat and peas, alternately, - . . . 555 



The eider-duck in Iceland - - . . 555 



Guano - - 555 



On makins sugar from Indian corn stalks - 558 



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List of the agricultural societies of South Carolina 559 



Renewing old handsaws 559 



A Thibetan yak 559 



On bran as manure 560 



Fecundity of rats .-...- 551 



Management and diseases of hogs - - - 561 



Oil soap — Willis' syringe .... 556 



A simple means of preventing the failure of the 



potato crop ...... 566 



Operations of lichens ..... 557 



The Dutch commercial system - ' - - 567 



Protection of the hop plant from insects - - 567 



Coal dust 567 



Fattening swine - 571 



