1837] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



749 



ho(ri=heac1, would be 25.000 hnirpheafls. Tlie pre- 

 sent exports from the Ignited States to tliat coun- 

 try do not exceed 7000 honj'slicuds, and their 

 whole consumption may be estiu\ated at, 35.000 

 IiojTsheads, and there, as in Germany, tlie peas- 

 antry are compelled to use tlieir inU^rior miserable 

 stuff at an exorbitant price, mixed with a snuill 

 poriion of Ameiican product. 



From a statement, made out with (jreat care 

 and labor by Joshua Dodire, Esq. American con- 

 sul at Bremen, to whom we are indebted lor much 

 valuable information on the subject, it appears that 

 the quantity of tobacco imported into that port 

 from the United Stales, nearly all of which o-nes 

 into the interior of Germany, from the year 1828 

 to 1835, has varied but little. Thus, it is apparent 

 that the exports from the Uniied States, and im- 

 ports into fbreiiin markets, have not increased so as 

 to produce the present depression. 



It is a remarkable fact, the cause of which we 

 have i)een unable to account for, that the duties 

 exacted in Holland and Belirium.on MaryJand \o- 

 bacco, are 14 per cent, hitrher than those paid on 

 the same article from " Viririnia, and all other 

 North American states." The same difference 

 applies to the transit duty throuirh Holland and 

 Belgium, and which is confined to Maryland to- 

 bacco alone. 



The fliregoiniT are the principle facts the com- 

 mittee have deemed proper to present to the con- 

 sideration of the convention ; and believino: that 

 the present state of things operates unequally and 

 injuriously to the tobacco plantinG" interests, which 

 is not experienced by any other class of our citi- 

 zens to the same extent; and lookinfraf the annu- 

 al value of the exports of tobacco from the United 

 States, which at [jresent exceeds $;8,500,000, they 

 confidently trust that some means will be adopted 

 by the general government, which alone can rem- 

 edy the evil, to secure and protect the tobacco in- 

 terests of the United States abroad, in common 

 with those of her other citizens. They therefore 

 respectfully recommend the adoption of the follow- 

 ing resolution. 



Resolved., That a memorial be presented to the 

 congress of the United States, signed bjMhe presi- 

 dent and secretary of this convention, in behalf 

 of the tobaccco planters of the country ; praying 

 that such means may be adopted as may be best 

 calculated to promote the tobacco interests of the 

 United States, and relieve the planters from the 

 oppression and onerous burdens imposed by fo- 

 reign srovemments upon that article of' commerce, 

 particularly in those countries from whence their 

 exports are admitted into the United States free of" 

 duty, or at a reduced rate. 



nANiETL JENIFER, Chairman. 



The above report having been read, was unan- 

 imously adopted. 



On motion of Mr, Mercer, the proceedings of 

 the convention were ordered to be published in 

 the newspapers of the District of Columbia. 



The meeting then adjourned, to re-assemble at 

 any time when a call for that purpose shall be 

 made by the president of this convention. 



BEET SUGAR IN ENGLAND. 



Many of the English farmers are beginning to 

 turn their attention to the cultivation of the Silesian 



beet for the purpose of manufacturing it into sugar. 

 I'he success which has atieiid<>d the business in 

 France, they consider a sufficient guaranty for its 

 profitable cultivation in England, and they are 

 eniraiiing in it wiih a spirit and perseverance 

 highly creditable to tlieir national enterpiise. 



[English paper. 



ITEMS OF HUSBANDRY FROM VARIOUS SOUR- 

 CES. 



To tlic Editor of tlic Farmcis' Register. 



Madison Co., To., February 23rd, 1837. 



Being confined to the house by a rainy day, I 

 herewith send another communication- Follow- 

 ing so shortly after a previous one, I fi-ar it will be 

 considered intrusive. But you can dispose of it as 

 you think best. 



JVorn out lands. 



To rely upon clover, plaster and rest alone, for 

 the improvement of worn out lands, is fallacious 

 in the extreme. Other aid they must have, or 

 they will ratlier deteriorate, th;m improve. If" 

 land has sufficient lili? to [iroduce a tolerable cov- 

 ering of clover, then it may be improved by clover 

 and plaster, otherwise, no dependence is to be pla- 

 ced upon either, until brouulu to tliat state of fer- 

 tiliiy by the application of manure. Such land 

 may be then continued in a progressive state of" 

 iiTiprovement. by clover and plaster, rest, and a pro- 

 per rotation of crops. Worn out lands are more 

 dependent for improvement, on a judicious and 

 bountiful system of compost making and manur- 

 iiiir, than on any other general plan for their re- 

 suscitation. 



Ditching. 



As a means of improvement, draining is the- 

 most important, the most permanent, and that 

 which ouglit to precede every other. 



])Iamire. 



Manure should be spread as soon as it is hauled 

 out; it sustains much less loss fi-om evaporation, 

 when spread, than from fermentation when lying 

 in heaps. 



The amount of expense in manurinfj is unim- 

 portant, provided that the crops derived therefrom 

 repay the expense with sufficient profit. 



VVe should not apportion our manure to the 

 quantity of land we may wish to place under til- 

 lage ; but should apportion the land to tlie quanti- 

 ty of manure we can command. 



No more ground should ever be brought under 

 tillage than can be manured and cultivated well 

 by the force at the command of the fiirmer. If a 

 farmer finds that his land is becoming unproduc- 

 tive, and that he is unable to keep it up by ma- 

 nuring, he may be assured that he is cultivating 

 too much, and his only remedy is to abridge his 

 fields to the dimensions which he is able to ma- 

 nure, no matter how small they may lie. If he 

 has a f!)rce capafile of cultivating a hundred acres 

 in the old wa_v, let him put the whole of that force 

 upon twenty-five acres, and pursue a system of 

 high culture. The first year he will probably not 

 make so much as he would have done in the old 



