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ICAN HERD-BOOli" 



DEVOTED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry.— Liebio. 



Vol. X — No. 11.] 



6th mo. (June) 15th, 1846. 



[Whole No. 13T. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY J O S I A H T A T U M, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year.— For conditions see last page 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Prospects iu Eastern Virginia for new 

 Settlers. 



To THE Editor, — T observe in the last 

 number of the Cabinet, the highly interest- 

 ing communication of" Viator," followed by 

 the Report of the Petersburg Agricultural 

 Society, on the subject of "the probable emi- 

 gration into lower Virginia of a number of 

 farmers from New Jersey." 



In the autumn of last yeat, the writer of 

 this, at the request of a few of his neigh- 

 bours who intended to visit the Northern 

 part of Virginia to look at the country, ad- 

 dressed a letter to the editor of the Rich- 

 mond Whig, enquiring the prices of land in 

 the Eastern counties, and what sort of re- 

 ception emigrants from the more Northern 

 States would be likely to meet with : — this 

 letter was obligingly published in the Whig, 

 and answers have been received from many 

 of the most intelligent citizens, of more than 



Cab.— Vol, X.— No. 11. 



twenty different counties. These letters, 

 without exception, express the strongest de- 

 sire to encourage Northern farmers to come 

 among them, and hold out every inducement 

 which can be desired. A friend of the writer 

 introduced the subject to the Agricultural 

 Society of Petersburg, which numbers among 

 its members some of the most patriotic and 

 intelligent citizens of the State. 



In a very recent visit to that section of 

 the State, the writer received all the atten* 

 tion and kindness for which Virginians are 

 so justly celebrated. The country around' 

 Petersburg possesses advantages which cer- 

 tainly are not exaggerated in the Report — 

 lands of excellent quality can be purchased 

 within three to five miles of the city, at $;5 

 per acre, in many instances with good build- 

 ings, and an abundance of timber. Shell 

 marl of the best quality abounds almost 

 everywhere, and manures from the city are 

 almost altogether neglected. It was stated 

 that the best stable manure sells for twelve 

 and a half cents per cart load, or twenty-five 

 cents for a two-horse wagon load. The mar- 

 kets for meats- and vegetables, are higher 

 than those of Philadelphia or New York. 

 Wherever the attempt has been made, the 

 result shows the soil to be susceptible of the 

 highest improvement, and productive in all 

 the grains, grasses and fruits.^ 



In company with two of the members of 

 the Society who drew up the Report referred 

 to, we made an excursion to Sandy Pointy 

 the princely estate of R. B. Boiling, iu, 



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