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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 2 



twenty-five hundred of the Moras Multicaulis. 

 My friend, S. B. Tuck, will set about as many 

 more. We iiave no doubt at all of the success ol 

 the Morus Muhicaulis, but we have found it im- 

 possible to procure them at any price. As many 

 of our white mulberries are small, our present in- 

 tention is to engraft tiiem anotlier year. 



TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. 



Owing to a combination and succession of losses 

 and mishaps in the printing department of our business, 

 (a department of which we have been compelled, and 

 with as much reluctance as unfitness, to Assume the 

 personal and immediate direction,) the May No. was 

 not issued until the 12th, instead of the 1st of May ; 

 and to make up for the lost time, and to return to the 

 usual and regular time of issue, it was necessary to 

 print the present No. in half the usual time. This 

 will, in pari, serve to account for the circumstances 

 that No. 1, which was six weeks in going through the 

 press, was very largely supplied with original mat- 

 ter, and No. 2 has a supply unusually small. But it 

 is only in part, that this explanation serves — for, in 

 truth, the aid of our correspondents is furnished very 

 irregularly ; and it has so happened that there has been 



but little received within the last month. It is hoped 

 that this cessation is but temporary — caused, probably, 

 by the recent fine and growing weather, which has 

 given to every farmer abundant and interesting em- 

 ployment in his fields ; and tliat, from all such peisons, 

 the Farmers' Register will, at least, have the benefit of 

 some of the leisure time afforded by rainy days in 

 summer, and the long and tedious nights of winter. In 

 the meantime, we are persuaded that the present offer- 

 ing of original matter will not be found deficient ex- 

 cept in quantity — and the defect, in that respect, has 

 permitted the insertion of some long and interesting 

 selections, which, otherwise, would necessarily have 

 been deferred, or excluded. 



ERRATUM. 



To the Editor of the Fanners' Register. 



If I am not mistaken, you have omitted a part 

 of my communication, which appears in tlie first 

 number of Vol. IV of the Farmers' Kejiister, 

 viz. " I beg leave to bring before your readers, 

 an old theory on the generation of plants," &c. 

 The omission would induce the reader to believe 

 the theory advanced to be one of my own, which 

 is not the fact. The theory and opinions are 

 drawn irom Richard Bradley's old treatise on gar- 

 dening, published more than a century past, 



GALEN, 



Table of Contents of Farmers^ Register^ JVo. S, T*ol. jf Fl 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



On the agriculture of Florida. Importance of 

 the sugar crop 



Queries on political economy, as connected 

 with agriculture 



Highlands injured by water . . . 



Difference of the growth, culture, and product 

 of grape vines in the United States, and in 

 Europe. Osage orange leaves for silk-worms 



Remedy for the "Murrain," or Carolina Dis- 

 temper in cattle ..... 



The Eastern Shore Rail Road ... 



The salivating quality of green clover, and 

 clover hay ...... 



On raising hay for market .... 



Liming in Fairfax. Early housing of corn 



Healthiness produced by marling. Its introduc- 

 tion into unhealthy countries recommended - 



Tennessee land and farming — limestone — lime 

 — lucerne 



French weights and measures, compared with 

 English or American - - . . 



The surplus revenue considered in relation to 

 the agricultural interests and wealth of the 

 nation ----... 



Monthly commercial report ... 



Silk business beginning in Petersburg 



Peculiar advantages of Virginia in agricultural 

 products ....... 



To readers and correspondents ... 



SELECTIONS. 



Agriculture in Flanders 

 Sale of fine cattle 



65 



89 



94 

 94 



105 



108 

 108 



109 



118 



119 



121 

 126 

 126 



127 

 128 



Some notice of the private life of the Marquis 



de Turbilli 70 



Mineral manure — chalk — limestone — shells — 

 lime .......72 



Description and statement of the ingredients of 

 the earth, improperly called " marl," in New 



Jersey -86 



General views of the atmosphere considered in 



its effects upon vegetation - - - 91 



A productive farm 93 



Importation of African asses - - - 93 

 Gross misconceptions as to the nature and value 



of agricultural papers - - - - 93 



Fowl lice .......94 



Reviews of new works on calcareous manures 95 



Cultivation of sweet potatoes ... io5 



On stall feeding 105 



Native country of maize, (or Indian corn) - 107 

 Progressive increase of temperature as we de- 

 scend in the crust of the earth ... 107 

 Gooseberries ...... 112 



Currants 112 



The Hessian Fly 113 



On the conduct and management of overseers, 



drivers, and slaves 114 



American oil well 116 



Cultivation and harvesting of Indian corn - 117 



Nicotine, (essence of tobacco) - . - 118 



Trifolium Incarnatum .... 113 



Report and surveys of the City Point Rail Road 120 



Railways in progress in England - . 123 



A tree "dahlia 124 



Sugar from Indian corn .... 124 



Natural history ol' rice .... 124 



Victoria wheat ...... 125 



Atlantic silk company .... 127 



