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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No. 12 



nual meeting, and in addition thereto, to borrow I oke Rail Road, and upon the Raleigh and Gaston 

 any further sum or sums which in their opinion Rail Road ; provided the sum or sums so borrow- 

 may he requisiie to complete the arranojements for ed, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thou- 

 the transportation upon the Greensville and Roan- ! sand dollars. 



Losses by fire and otherwise in 1834, $.5 041 



Do. do. 1835, i,'i74 



r iP"' , ♦• '^"c . ^^^^' '-^81 of this sum, $356 is 



lor the construction of temporary buildings in the place of those burnt. 



Comparative statement of Transportation in 1835, and 183G. 



Of Produce including Storage, 



Of Passengers, 



Of the Mail, 



Profits from Steamboats, 



1835. 



$64,052 92 



28,948 81 



10,000 00 



1,258 76 



$104,260 49 



1836. 



$62,174 86 



33,177 30 



11,666 67 



1,323 36 



$108,342 19 



* Several other tabular statements of the financial affairs of the company, which accompanied the report, 

 are omitted here, but will be given in the forthcoming pamphlet edition.— Ed. 



THE EFFECTS OF TUUNINO UP THE SUBSOIL 

 IN JVEW LAND, FOR TOBACCO. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Orange, March 2d, 1837. 



As the fallinn; of snow prevents me from attend- 

 ing to my atrricultural concerns this evening, I 

 have dctermineil to give you an account oflwo 

 crops o( tobacco of last year's growth, which came 

 under my observation; 'from which, I flatter my- 

 self the younger part of your readers may at least 

 derive some benefit. 



The first was my own. The part of which I 



am now speaking was a ridge somewhat sandy and 

 far from being good tobacco land; but as it would 

 have shaded some very good land, I was forced to 

 cultivate it. Being doubtful of its capacity for a 

 tobacco crop, and "having often heard of the dele- 

 terious effect on the first crop of the too free ad- 

 mission of clay into the soil, I determined to con- 

 fine the preparationof the soil entirely to the coulter, 

 with which the land was well broken. AVhen 

 thus broken, the roots were removed and the land 

 laid off three feet four inche.s each way. After 

 this process was completed, we commenced hilling, 

 which was done in this way: the four corners of 

 the square were first drawn to the point on which 



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