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rectly, if appearances are as deceptive there as 

 here, where in many places the straw was luxu- 

 riant but the head grainless. The harvest in Vir- 

 ginia is certainly the least productive that can be 

 remembered. No new wheat has yet been brought 

 to market, nor can any price be quoted. So much 

 of it will be lighter than the standard of merchan- 

 table wheat, that prices will probably appear low 

 where the quality is not known. Flour has ad- 

 vanced to $7\ to 7-^-, and would be higher but for 

 ihe risk of keeping it through the summer. The 

 mills near tide water in Virginia, must obtain sup- 

 plies from abroad if they be kept long at work. 



The cotton crop is nearly all at market. A few 

 hundred bales per week arrive at New Orleans, 

 and scarcely any at other ports. If the statements 

 published be correct, the crop of last year will prove 

 to be about 1,330,000 bales, or 75,000 more than 

 the previous one. There is, however, an annual- 

 1}' increased quantity taken into the interior for 

 consumption, which cannot well be ascertained, 

 and which would add to the quantity reported as 

 manuflictured in the United States. Prices in 

 England declined in May and June. In this coun- 

 try they have advanced, particularly for fine quali- 

 ties. Sales in Petersburg 14 to 17 cts. — In New 

 Orleans 10 to 20 cts. 



Money is not plentj', and stocks are low in Wall 

 Street, the great theatre of operations, where the 

 brokers play their game. Exchange on England 

 keeps down to 7^ per cent, premium 



The money market is no doubt somewhat affect- 

 ed by the recent treasury circular requiring pay- 

 ments for public lands to be made m gold and sil- 

 ver. Whether any and what effects will be pro- 

 duced on the currency, and general interests of^lhe 

 country, by this new experiment, remains to be 

 seen : so.mething will no doubt depend on the ex- 

 tent of the evasions which may be contrived. 



July 23rd. X. 



ACCOUNTS AND COLLECTIONS. 



When the second No. of our current (4th) volume 

 was issued, bills were sent to all subscribers who were 

 indebted for one or more previous volumes — and not 

 to any one (unless on account of some mistake existing,) 

 who owed only for the current volume. At a later 

 time, all the same bills, which still remained due from 

 subscribers in Virginia, have been placed in the hands 

 of collecting agents, who will not be able to present 

 them all, until nearly another year has passed. Expe- 

 rience had proved the propriety of making no excep- 

 tions to the general rules adopted in those respects — 

 and therefore, bills have been sent by mail, and may 

 be afterwards presented by a collector, to many indi- 

 viduals who certainly do not require such applications, 

 and whose payments, heretofore usually most prompt, 

 have been now delayed, merely from inattention. Our 

 excuse to all such subscribers will be presented in the 

 manifest necessity of pursuing the same general rule 

 to all persons who are more than a year in arrear, 

 without regard to the difference of causes. 



The sending these bills has also served to make known, 

 and to lead to our ready correction of some errors and 

 over-charges which from several causes had existed in 

 our accounts. Though we have not been able to avoid 

 making mistakes and omissions in this respect, yet the 



plan of printing receipts monthly, affords to every sub- 

 scriber a ready and sure mode of detecting and estab- 

 lishing errors: and whether made known by that or any 

 other means, we will at all times thankfully receive no- 

 tices of errors, and will readily correct them. 



To subscribers at a distance from the limits of Vir- 

 ginia, it has not yet been in our power to make per- 

 sonal applications for payments of arrears: and no con- 

 siderable inconvenience has thence arisen, inasmuch as 

 our most remote subscribers, in the general, are the 

 most punctual payers on the list. Against the very 

 few among them who have not pursued this course, 

 we have almost no remedy. Theirs are simply debts 

 of honor. It is not probable that any other obligation 

 can be brought to bear on them. 



These remarks are designed more to explain our 

 usage, and to prevent giving offence by its application 

 in particular cases, than to quicken payments. Though 

 the subscriptions for each volume, according to the 

 published conditions, are due in advance, we are quite 

 content if they are received at any time during the 

 publication of that entire volume; and no bill is ever 

 designed to be sent to a subscriber who is not more 

 than a volume in arrear. But when bills must be sent, 

 they are made to include all that is actually due, and of 

 course embrace the current volume. 



To the great majority of our subscribers we owe 

 thanks for a remarkable and unusual degree of punc- 

 tuality and promptness in their payments, in addition 

 to all other evidences of their favor and kind support. 

 It is believed that no other journal in the United 

 States is better paid for, according to the number of 

 subscribers, than the Farmers' Register. Many read- 

 ers, not acquainted with such details, will be surprised 

 to hear that a loss of at least one fourth of all subscrip- 

 tions, is usual, and as little as most publishers can ex- 

 pect to meet with: and our brother publishers would 

 be as much surprised to know how much better has 

 been the character of our list. More than 1600 sub- 

 scribers have either taken the first volume, or com- 

 menced in part of it: and of that number there remain 

 less than 40 names of those who have not paid. Yet 

 the work was sent to all applicants, without distinc- 

 tion as to their locality, and in far the greater number 

 of cases, without payment being made at the time of 

 subscribing for the work. 



REMARKS ON THE PROPAGATION OF HYRRID 

 ANIMALS. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



In the first volume of your work, page 193, is an 

 article on the influence of parentage on offspring 

 in breeding animals, written by myself. While 

 writing that article, I was much tempted to ven- 

 ture considerably larther into the regions of specu- 

 lation. In concluding to do so now, I plead the 

 apology contained in the first sentence of that com- 

 munication: "The prejudice against speculation 

 maj' be carried too far, in matters which have not 

 attained to perfection." It was maintained, that, 

 in order to form a new race of animals, the indi- 

 viduals composing it, must, from each of their pa- 

 rents, inherit the blood of two existing races. 

 Many new races have, most probably, been thus 



