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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 6 



IMFORMATION AND AID WANTED, FOR THE PURPOSE 

 OF PROPAGATING THE BEST NATIVE GRAPES. 



A subscriber to the Farmers' Register wishes to ob- 

 tain, through this journal, information that will aid him 

 and others in selecting and rearing the best existing 

 varieties of native grapes. The object of this gentle- 

 man in this, as in other more important labors of his 

 long and highly serviceable life, is not his private be- 

 nefit, but the public good. We know that he has al- 

 ready done much, though without claiming the merit, 

 in spreading- the knowledge, and inducing the propa- 

 gation of some of the most valuable native grapes. 

 The aid of the readers of the Farmers' Register, if 

 given to this object in the manner desired, will, easily 

 and beneficially to all concerned, increase and quick- 

 en, an hundred fold, the results of such efibrts, as any 

 one individual, however zealous he might be, could 

 make foi this purpose. 



All wild grapes are seedlings : and as grapes fre- 

 quently, (though perhaps not generally,) produce 

 from the seeds fruit quite different from that of the pa- 

 rent vine, it follows that new varieties may be, and are 

 thus continually produced, without the design or the 

 aid of man. Each of our best native kinds, now ex- 

 tensively known and highly prized, has been at first 

 obtained from some single seedling, discovered by ac- 



cident, and brought to notice by its happening to be ob- 

 served by some one not so regardless of such things as 

 most persons are. Many single seedling vines now ex- 

 ist, producing fine fruit of peculiar kind, and which are 

 not known except in their neighborhood, and may be 

 lost entirely for want ot some person's taking care to 

 perpetuate the kind, by grafts or layers. To bring to 

 light all such vines, it is requested of our readers to aid 

 in bringing together the scattered and almost unknown 

 facts. For this purpose, it is only necessary that any 

 seedling vine, producing fruit of rare and valuable 

 qualities, shall be described minutely and fully, so that 

 it may not be confounded with any different kind — and 

 its locality particularly stated, so that any persons de- 

 sirous to propagate such varieties, may be sure to ob- 

 tain cuttings. If such descriptions, (with responsible 

 signatures,) are directed to the Formers' Register, they 

 will be published for general information and use. 



The gentleman who has commenced making a col- 

 lection of the best native grapes, and at whose sugges- 

 tion we propose this plan of aiding him and others in 

 such attempts, has already growing, though not yet 

 bearing, vines obtained from various seedlings of 

 which he had heard favorable accounts : and he will 

 furnish his testimony of their value, so soon as their 

 products shall enable him to give a full and correct 

 report. 



Table of Contents of Wfimiers^ Heg'istcr. A'kf, 6, J^ol, II* 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page. 

 On the habits of the Hessian Fly, - - 340 



On the rail roads of North Carolina, and the 



south generally, . . - . 342 



Account of a sheep on two legs, - - 357 



Death of the second mule's colt. Land and oys- 

 ter shell banks of Nansemond, - - 357 

 The respectability of labor, ... 358 

 A precocious heifer, .... 359 

 Which is the best route for a rail road to the 



south-west.' No. II. - - - 369 



Rough Notes upon some of the agricultural im- 

 provements of Charlotte, and the adjoining 

 counties, . . . . . 374 



Improvement of the Appomattox River, - 377 



Liming and draining, .... 373 

 On raising two or more successive crops of co- 

 coons in each year, ... - 381 

 Information and aid wanted, for the purpose of 

 propagating the best native grapes, - - 384 



SELECTIONS. 



Page. 

 On Bones as manure, .... 321 

 Natural History of Ants, - - - 328 

 The ice trade between America and India, - 333 

 Small matters, . - . - . 334 

 Silk culture proposed in Loudoun, - - 335 

 On the dilference in the effect of dung on differ- 

 ent soils — and upon the same land before and 

 after it has boon limed, ... 335 

 Memoir of William Dawson, the Scottish agri- 

 culturist, - - - - ' - 337 

 Fruit kept sound in cotton, - - . 339 



Copper in "Virginia, .... 343 

 Stacking hay, ----- 344 

 Agricultural jurisprudence, - - - 345 

 Drinks in harvest, ... - 345 

 Annual Report of the Richmond, Fredericks- 

 burg, and Potomac Rail Road, - - 345 

 Wilmington and Halifax railway, - - 348 

 Beet root sugar, - - - - 351 

 The Persimmon, ... - 351 

 Florida Arrow Root, ... - 352 

 Chinese Mulberry, . - - - 352 

 Geological survey of New York, - - 352 

 Trade in Birds' Eggs, . . - - 353 

 List of Patents for improvements of machines, 

 &c., to be used in agriculture or domestic eco- 

 nomy, - . . . . 353 

 Debate on the Crow Bill, in the Senate of Vir- 

 ginia, ..... 356 

 Account of the labors and improvements of Ro- 

 bert Barclay of Ury, - - - 359 

 Opinions on the proposed southern route for the 



railway to the south-west, - - 366, 367 

 Water power of Richmond, ... 368 

 Increase of trade and travel on railways, - 368 

 The progress of Steam, - - - 369 

 i he dilference of exhaustiong and enriching til- 

 lage, . - - . . 378 

 To cure the Big Head in horses, - - 379 

 The "Waterloo Caesarian Evergreen Cabbage" — 



alias (/'ow Cabbage of Jersey, - - 380 



A London Auctioneer's advertisement of lands 



in Virginia, . - - - - 381 



Verd antique marble, .... 383 



Haerlom Rail Road Tunnel, - - - 383 



Brooms, ..... 383 



The corn trade, .... 383 



