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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 8 



There is one means for collecting information, and 

 enlisting contributions, that we have always desired to 

 avail of, but as yet in vain, except to a very limited 

 extent, and in desultory, hurried, and chance directed 

 efforts. This is by the making of agricultural tours, 

 and surveys, and reports of particular farms, or farm- 

 ing districts. We have in vain attempted to engage, 

 by the offer of pecuniary compensation, the aid of a- 

 bilities suited to this object: and the continual confine- 

 ment heretofore required by the mechanical labors of 

 publication, has prevented the editor from giving, with 

 any system or regularity, part of his time to such ends. 

 But arrangements will be attempted to permit some 

 release from this confinement, for a week or more in 

 each month — and so much time, it is hoped, may soon 

 be given to the search for agricultural information, in 

 various parts of Virginia Still this object will be but 

 very imperfectly readied, until the service can be 

 made continuous — either by engaging the aid of an ef- 

 ficient coadjutor for that special purpose, or otherwise 

 of one in the mechanical branch of the business of 

 publication. 



ERRATA. 



In the communication on Hessian Fly, No. 6, p. 342, 

 col. 1, line 7, the following words in italic were 

 omitted in the manuscript, and should be supplied. 

 " In one of these years, it happened, that my crops, 

 thus treated, suffered as much, perhaps more,/ro7n. the 



fiyr 4-c. 



In communication on Mud Walls, No. 7, p. 428, col. 

 1, line 15 from bottom, for " adage,'' read " old age." 



Though we acknowledge and correct errors with the 

 utmost readiness, we must be permitted to say that 

 such as affect the sense, rarely, if ever, occur, except 

 from omissions, or illegible writing, in the manuscripts 

 furnished by most of our correspondents. If care was 

 generally taken to write legibly for publication, the 

 editor would be saved much labor, and some responsi- 

 bility, and correspondents would seldom if ever have 

 cause to complain of their words being misprinted or 

 omitted. But we do not mean to complain of the 

 form of what is so much valued in any form. We are 

 content to undergo any labor of decyphering, rather 

 than to lose any of our correspondents' highly valued 

 communications. 



Table of Couients of Wanners'' Meglstcr, Alu, 8, W^ol, IW*. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page. 



Coal deposites near Farmviil", - - 473 

 Inquiry as to "Green Sand." Remarkable 



product of sweet potatoes, - ' - - 473 



On successive crops of corn on the same land, 474 

 On the advantages of keeping Indian Corn in 



the shuck, or husk, - - - - 434 

 Opinions of the Presbyterian Church in Vir- 

 ginia on slavery, and the efforts for its aboli- 

 tion, ..... 507 

 Comparative value of apples, to feed stock, and 



for sale, and their products, cider and brandy, 508 



The money market, .... 503 



The Harris Seedling, - . . t. 503 



William and Mary College, - - .- 510 



John Carter's grapes and wine, - - 510 

 Appeal to all those wiio have been and ought to 

 be contributors to the pages of the Farmers' 



Register, - - - - - 510 



SKLECTTONS. 



P.lgo. 



Haymaking in England, ... 449 

 Observations on the property possessed b3'^some 



plants of ripening their fruit under ground, 456 

 On the treatment of old fruit trees and vines, 



which it is wished to preserve, - - 457 



Quick work in pressing cotton bales, - - 453 



Top dressing grass lands, ... 45s 



Skinless oats, ..... 458 



Richmond flour market, ... 453 



American system of wine culture, - - 459 



Cultivation (in hot houses) of the pine apple, 4C0 

 Employment of cats in preserving fruit from 



birds, - . - . - 460 



Beet Sugar, ..... 4(jo 



Economical method of keeping horses, - 461 



Interesting to silk raisers, ... 452 



The western " Barrens," ... 4(53 



Anecdote of a noted Pointer. A pointer sow, 463 



Railway transportation of live stock, - , - 



Orchard grass and the yellow bird, 



Curing clover by cocking, . . . 



Culture of the Tulip, . . . . 



Asiips, soap, and soapers' waste, as manures, 



On Hessian Fly, . . . . 



V/ar with the bees, . . . . 



Liabilities of those who take periodical publica- 

 tions, ■ . - . - 



List of patents for improvements in machinery, 

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

 conomy, ... 



Facts in regard to the duration of life in slaves, 

 and free negroes. 



Frauds in the sale of trees, &.C. 



Migration of fishes . . - . 



Sugar from Indian corn, ... 



Gas lighting, - - - . . 



Of money as a medium of exchange. 



Extract from an old work on agriculture. 



On soils, ..... 



Grinding old garments into new. 



Agricultural reading, . . . . 



Jerusalem artichoke, - - - 



Great heat at tiie earth's centre, 



Marl in New England, ... 



On the advantage of cellars for sweet potato.;s. 



Green rye as a manure for cotton and corn. 



Notions on the management of negroes, &c. 



Dr. Church's steam coach, ... 



Memoranda for those who would improve in 

 husbandry, . . . - - 



Pennsylvania husbandry, ... 



On the use of lime in agriculture. 



Characteristics of Flemish husbandry. 



Malaria of marshes, .... 



Account of the bursting of Solway Moss, and 



the flood of mire thence proceeding. 

 The great Hood of 1771, in Virginia and South 

 Carolina, . . . . . 



Mulberry and silk culture. Two crops of co- 

 coons in a year, .... 



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