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FARMERS' REGISTER— PRESERVING EGGS, &c. 



the propriety of submitting your views concern- 

 ing it to your representatives. 



John Brockeivbrough, 

 J. Marshall, 

 Richard A^DERSON, 

 Nicholas Mills, 

 John Rutherfoord, 

 John Enders, 

 Joseph S. James. 



Suhscriptions in 1832, to the James River and 

 Kanawha Company. 



Cd-No Lists have been received for 1833. 



Counties. 

 Albemarle, 



Amherst, 

 Augusta, 

 Botetourt, 



Buckingham, 



Greenbrier, 



Henrico, 



Kanawha, 



Louisa, 



Monroe, 



Nelson, 

 Norfolk Co. 

 Rockbridge, 

 Spottsylvania, 



Towns. 

 Charlottesville, 

 Scottsville, 



Staunton, 



Fincastle, 



Pattonsburg, 



Courthouse, 



Bent Creek, 



Lewisburg, 



Richmond, 



Charleston, 



Union, 



Salt Sulphur Sprin 



Red Sulphur Sprin 



Lovingston, 



Norfolk Borough, 



Lexington, 



Fredericksburg, 



No. Shares. 



122 



347 



86 



20 



249 



105 



330 



50 



213 



10,024 



1,070 



26 



324 



ffs, 69 



, 9 



45 



5 



345 



20 



gs 



13,459 

 Corporation of Richmond, 4,000 

 Bank of Virginia, 5,000 



13,459 shares. 



Required, 



Deficient, 

 E.E. 



22,459 

 30,000 



7,541 shares. 

 J. BROWN, Jr. 



Second jiuditor. 



PRESERVING EGGS. 



In 1820, a tradesman of Paris asked permission 

 of the prefect of police to sell, in the market, eggs 

 that had been preserved a year in a composition, 

 of which he kept the secret. More than 30,000 

 of these eggs were sold in the open market, with- 

 out any complaint being made, or any notice taken 

 of them, when the board of health thought proper 

 to examine them. They were found to be perfect- 

 ly fresh, and could only be distinguished from 

 others by a pulverous stratum of carbonate of 

 lime, remarked by M. Cadet to be on the egg 

 shell. This induced him to make experiments 

 which ended in his discovering that they were pre- 

 served in highly saturated lime wafer. M. Cadet 

 suggests adding a little saturated muriate of lime, 

 but gives no reason. They may also be preserv- 

 ed by immersing them twenty seconds in boiling 

 water, and then keeping them well dried in fine 

 sifted ashes; but this will give them a greyish 

 green color. The method of preserving them in 

 lime water has been long the practice of Italy ; 



they may be kept thus for two years. This useful 

 mode is well known in many parts of England, 

 and cannot be too much recommended. — [^Mecha~ 



nic's Masiazine. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS AND SUBSCRIBERS. 



The communications on Roads and Railways as con- 

 nected with the interests of the Southern States, on the 

 Influence of the Origin of Seeds, <l5*c. and some others, were 

 received too late to be published in the present number 

 of the Farmers' Register, but will make part of No. 5. 



The address of Fmeaton is desired. 



Those persons who fiave written to inqviire respect- 

 '■ns; agencies, collections, ^c. are referred to the editorial 

 \dvertisement on those subjects which was printed on 

 lie cover of No. 3. Subscribers who have not received 

 ill their copies, or who may fail to receive them hereaf- 

 ter are requested to inform us ; and the attention of our 

 oatrons and correspondents in general is invited to our 

 former advertisement on this subject, on the cover of 

 !Vo. 3. 



CONTENTS OF FARMERS' REGISTER, No. 4. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



On the Influence of parentage on offspring, in Breedincr Ani- 

 nals, 193 — Means for reclaiming wastes formed by Sea Sands, 

 194 — Reply to the remarks of G. W. F. and of Mockiack, on the 

 " General Description of VirL'inia," 195 — Hints on Marling and 

 Management of Horses, 197 — Stage Horses, narrow leaf Dock, 

 &c. 199 — Advantages and defects of Agricultural Societies, 200 — 

 Fallow: its various and contradictory significations, 202 — Skip- 

 pers in Bacon, 20'? — Song of the Bees, 203 — Rake used in the 

 Valley, 203 — The march of intellect and progress of the know- 

 ledge of Political Economy, in North Carolina, 204 — The Gyp- 

 seous Earth of James River, 207 — Culture of Com, 212 — Com- 

 mercial report and present prospect of Markets, 212 — Means for 

 preserving Potatoes, 213 — Effects of Calcareous Soil on Health, 

 diseased Trees, Potatoes, 214 — Yellow Locust, 214 — Mr. Smith'8 

 collection of Dahlias, description of the Dahlia, 215 — Expect- 

 ed Speculations, 215 — Extracts from Private Correspondence, 

 comprii^ing Buffaloe Clover, Gama Grass, Pounding Oyster- 

 shells, Buckwheat, Experiments with Gypsum, Moth "Weevil, 

 Query to Rice Growers, Marsh Mud, &c. &c.216to218. 

 SELECTIONS. 



Bees, 218 — Strew Salt over your Asparagus Beds, 313 — Flour 

 Trade in the United States, 219 — Tulipomania in Holland, and 

 in Virginia, 219 — Hints to Housewives, 221 — Rules for Travel- 

 lers and their Horses, 222 — Method of Generating new varieties 

 of Fruit, 222 — Rotation of Crops, 223— Apple Seed, 224 — Pro- 

 cess used by Nature to Heal the Wounds of Trees ; Theory of 

 Pruning, 225 — Action of Poisons on Vegetable Structure, 226 — 

 Gama Grass, 227 — China Leaves, versus Weavil, 227— Forma- 

 tion of Vegetable Mould, 229 — Salt used as Manure, 238 — On 

 Gypsum as a Manure, 229 — Productive Farm, 229 — Sheep Hus- 

 bandry, 230 — Domestic Silk in Virginia, 330 — Lucerne, 230 — 

 Report on the State of Agriculture in Prince George, 235 — Cul- 

 ture of Rice on the Embanked Marshes of Georgia, 236 — Re- 

 marks on putting down Trunks in River Banks, 237— Inter- 

 change of opinions among Planters ; Gama Grass ; Hedges, 339 

 — Deep Ploughing; Oyster Shell Lime; Other Manures, 339 — 

 Gama Grass, 241 — Silk Manufacture, 242 — On raising Good 

 Crops of Wheat and Corn, 242— Clover Manure for Wheat, 243 

 — Manure is Wealth, 244 — Gold Mines in Virginia; Gold in 

 Buckingham, 244 — Horse Rake, 244— Cultivation of Rye, 245— 

 Application of Geology as the Basis of the Science of Agricul- 

 ture, 24G— On Painting Houses, 249— Management of Bees, 250 

 —On the Duration of Vitality in Garden Seed, 251— Internal Im- 

 provement of North Carolina, 251 — Commerce and Improve- 

 ment of James and Kanawha Rivers, 254— Preserving Eggs, 256 

 — To Correspondents and Subscribers, 256. 



