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FARMERS' REGISTER— TO READERS, &c. 



Ij'. The quantity produced and received in Viro;i- 

 nia for the year ending 1st October, is about 34,000 

 bales. 



The crop of the United States made in 1832, 

 was 1,070,000 bales— in 1831, 987,000— in 1830, 

 1,039,000— in 1829, 977,000— in 1828, 858,000— 

 in 1827,712,000— in 1826, 937,000— in 1825,700,- 

 000— and in 1824, 560,000. The crop of the pre- 

 sent year is variously estimated at 1,200,000 to 

 1,250,000 bales — and the consumption has as yet 

 kept pace with the increased cultivation. Since 

 1826, the consumption of the United States has 

 doubled, and may now be estimated at 200,000 or 

 more. 



The increased facility of getting the crops of Vir- 

 ginia and of the northern part of North Carolina 

 to market, by means of the rail road from Roanoke 

 to Petersburg, has greatly added to the supplies at 

 that place thus early in the season ; and as an ad- 

 ditional number of locomotive engines are about to 

 be placed on the road, there will be additional in- 

 ducements for planters to resort to that means of 

 conveyance, which has of late been insufficient for 

 the demands on it. The price of cotton has de- 

 clined during this month from 16 c. to 14 c. or 

 thereabout. Exchange on England is 7 per cent, 

 or less. X. 



greater part of our readers. But except from a few, in 

 comparison to the very many well qualified to afford 

 valuable instruction, no such assistance has been offer- 

 eil, and we fear is not intended to be furnished. Nothing 

 but that assistance is wanting to make the Farmers' 

 Register every thing that the kindest and most san- 

 guine of its friends may have anticipated : but without 

 it, we do not hesitate to say (however opposed the ad- 

 mission may be to the maxims of our new trade,) that 

 its usefulness will soon diminish, and its existence per- 

 haps will not last much longer. Neither complimenta- 

 ry expressions, nor subscribers, nor their money, will 

 make an agricultural journal of much value, even if 

 conducted by editorial talents very far surpassing our 

 limited stock. But all that we ask, or wish, to insure the 

 highest degree of success and usefulness for our work, 

 will be that each reader, who is competent, will add 

 sometliing for the information of others, and in some 

 degree act as others have done, and follow as well as 

 applaud their good examples. 



To all who have contributed to give character and 

 usefulness to the Farmers' Register by their writings, 

 we offer our warmest thanks, and request a continuation 

 of the course which they have already commenced. 



TO THE READERS OF THE FARMERS' REGIS- 

 TER. 



Having completed the first half year of our work, 

 and sufficiently shown the benefits that may be derived 

 from the plan, we beg leave to offer a few remarks upon 

 the state and prospects of the Farmers' Register, con- 

 sidered as a means for obtaining such benefits. 



The publication has been most favorably received by 

 its patrons and by the public ; and expressions of 

 approbation and good will have been uttered far and 

 near, among strangers as well as by friends, and in 

 other States no less than in Virginia. Numerous tes- 

 timonials of the high and general estimation of the Far- 

 mers' Register have been received from our correspond- 

 ents, besides those which have been published when 

 connected with other matter — and in the latter case, 

 such expressions as were merely complimentary, have 

 often been moderated, or altogether omitted in the pub- 

 lication. Our subscription list has already extended 

 beyond our expectations, and continues to increase ; 

 and the undertaking has not only been secured from 

 pecuniary loss, but promises an amount of profit, which 

 at first was certainly not anticipated. 



But with all the high degree of gratification which 

 we have derived from this reception, we are not so de- 

 luded as to attribute it to editorial talents, nor so in- 

 flated as to be blind to the danger which still tlueatens 

 to destroy the value, and even the existence of the Far- 

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 preciate its worth in the public estimation. On the con- 

 trary, we believe that if it was to end at this time, great 

 and permanent benefits produced through its agency, 

 would remain for the Improvement of agriculture. But 

 these important services have been principally per- 

 formed by our correspondents, and to them we yield the 

 honor due. The light and instruction thus furnished by 

 a few, establishes fully what we have before said might 

 be done by the united efforts of all, or even of the 



CONTENTS OF FARMERS' REGISTER, No. 6. 



ORIGINAL, C03IIMUIV1CATT0KS. 



Thelmprovemenfson the "VVestovcr Farm, produced by Clover 

 and Four-Shift Rotation, 321— On Moth Weevil, and Means 

 Suggested to Prevent its Ravages, 325 — Horses, Productive Pow- 

 er of the Arabian Blood, 333— Horizontal Trenching, to Prevent 

 the Washing of Hilly Lands, 334 — On Atmospheric Iiitluence on 

 the Soil, 336— Bedford Soils, and Culture, 337— On Fencing, and 

 other Enclosures, 33S — On the Cultivation of Indian Corn, 340 — 

 Notes of a Rustic (No. 2.)on the Locust and other Trees, 344 — 

 Hampden Sidney College, 345 — Buckwheat, 345 — Leaves from a 

 Traveller's Note Book, 346 — Treatment of Young Turkeys, 

 348 — Queries, 34S — To save the Shoulders of Horses from be- 

 ing Chafed by the Collar, 348 — Extracts from Private Corres- 

 pondence, comprising Alabama Management, Meade's Durham 

 Cattle, Marl in the Northern Neck, Rail Roads, Fence Law of 

 Virginia, Gama Grass, Water-borne Marl, &c. &c., 349 — Com- 

 mercial Report, 383 — To the Readers of the Farmer's Regis- 

 ter, 384. 



SliLECTIONS. 

 On the Weevil in Wheat, 331— Method of Destroying the Hes- 

 sian Fly, 331 — Wheat Insect, and Hessian Fly, 331 — Mangel 

 Wurtzel, 352 — Rail Road from Raleigh to Nev/bern, 354 — Corn 

 Injured by Cutting the Tops, 355 — Successful Method of Rear- 

 ing Young Ducks, 356 — Quantity of Indian Corn to the Acre, 

 359 — Manures, 360— Effects of Poor Laws, 361— Kail Road to 

 Charleston, 362— Saltpetre in Meat, 364— Cost of Water-borne 

 Marl in England, and opinions on Manures, 365 — Remarkable 

 Benefits of Gypsum, 366 — Extirpating Sassafras, 366 — Gama 

 Grass, 36* — On Planting on the Southwestern Prairie Lands, 

 367_Fitzherbert's Boke o/ Husianrfri^, 369— Buckwheat, 371 — 

 Aphis Lanata, 372 — Seedlings from Grafted and Ungrafted 

 Fruit Trees, 372— Formation of Mortar, 323— Cutting Corn- 

 stalks, 373 — AmcTican Farmer, 373 — Gathering and Securing 

 Potatoes, Sli— Dutch Ashes as a Manure for Clover, 375 — 

 Flemish System of Manuring, 377— Culture of Silk, 373— To 

 Destroy Ants, 380— Weevil, 381- Steamboilcr, 391 — Transplant- 

 ing Trees, 381— Gathering Apples, 382— Clover Machines, 382— 

 Collection of Shells in New Jersey, 392 — To Preserve Grapes, 

 382— Family Steamer, 382- Great Wheat Crops in New York, 

 383— Planting Vines in Yards, 393. 



ERRATA. 



The selected articles, " Aphis Lanata" and " Seedlings from 

 Grafted and Ungrafted Fruit Trees" in this No. were copied from 

 the Genesee Farmer, though the proper credit to that paper waes 

 unintentionally omitted. 



