448 FARMERS' REGISTER—GRAPE VINES— TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. 



and every quarter : but more particularly it is request- 

 ed from our many intelligent subscribers who have here- 

 tofore furnished nothing to aur pages. Among them, 

 there are many not only qualified for these humble ser- 

 vices, (which indeed require nothing but habits of ob- 

 servation and correct statements of facts,) but for those 

 of much higher order, who, because farming is not their 

 most important pursuit, deny that they can aid an agri- 

 -cultural journal with their pens. To professional gen- 

 tlemen, and particularly to members of the bar who 

 practice through a country circuit, it will be easy to col- 

 lect the information desired, and still more easy to com- 

 municate the results. We hope that many will in this 

 manner aid our work, by rejDorting any information 

 that may be collected within any certain named limits, 

 as a senatorial district, or a single county. Any com- 

 munications for this purpose must be transmitted in the 

 course of the month preceding the quarterly publication, 

 and of course in December, for the report to be made in 

 the beginning of January, 



MR. HERBEMONTS GRAPE VINES. 



We request the attention of such of our readers as 

 may wish to form vineyards, to the advertisement of 

 Mr. Hebemont on the cover of this number of the Far- 

 mers' Register. His offer to send vines for sale to Rich- 

 mond has been thus made partly upon our suggestion, 

 and we will be glad to convey to him any orders, as a 

 small return which we, in common with the agricultural 

 interest in general, owe for his services to the cause of 

 agriculture. Mr. Herbemont has long been advanta- 

 geously known for his zealous efforts to improve the 

 grapes of our country, and the culture of the vine has 

 been thereby greatly improved and extended. Like 

 most other pioneers in pursuit even of greatest general 

 utility and profit in after times, his many experiments 

 will give their beneficial results to thousands, while he 

 alone will sustain all the loss inseparable from such a 

 course — and before his sales had been commenced, he 

 had gratuitously and widely distributed the plants 

 which he had either first introduced, or of which he had 

 proved the fitness for our climate. 



TERMS OF THE FARMERS REGISTER. 



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editors' address. 



All papers, letters and communications relating to the 

 Farmers' Register, must be addressed to Edmund Ruffin, 

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It is again earnestly requested that this often repeated 

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Communications on Encouragement of ^gricultureby 

 the Legislature, on the Culture of the Fine, and on Differ- 

 ent Varieties of Grapes, 4-c. have been received, and 

 will be published in our next number. 



COIVTEKTS OF FARMERS' REGISTER, No, T. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



On Draining, 385 — Existing Establishments for Agricultural 

 Instruction, 390 — Preparation of SeedWlieat, 391 — Buckwheat, 

 391 — Gleanings in Natural History, 394 — Remarks on Farming 

 and Grazing in Lower Virginia, 394 — Plan for a Cheap and Du- 

 rable Road, 305 — Cultivation of Corn, 395 — Comparative Effects 

 of Lime and Marl, 396— On the Law of Enclosures, 396— To 

 measure the Contents of Corn Cribs, 398 — Sassafras Bushes — 

 Murrain, 398 — Artificial Grasses in Lower Virginia, 398— Cheat 

 or Chess, 400 — Extracts from Private Correspondence, compris- 

 ing Clover on Poor Lands, AVild Pea Vines, Gama Grass, Hes- 

 sian Fly and Smut, Marling, &c. 400— A Plea for Snakes, 402 — 

 Marl Discovered in the Granite and Coal Region, 424 — Jtfagne- 

 sian Marl, 425— Fattening Hogs, 432 — Easy method of Sowing 

 Grass Seeds, 434 — Economical method of Excavating Ditches 

 Canals, Ponds, &c. 435 — Remarks and Queries on Improvements 

 in Farming, 435 — Grinding Grain or Gypsum, 436 — Remarka- 

 ble Meteoric Phenomena, 436 — Water Used to Produce Heat 

 and Light, 438 — The Cultivation of Tobacco, 441 — Commercial 

 Report 445 — The Albany Argus and Farmers' Register, 446 — 

 Report of Seasons and Crops, 447— JVfr. Herbemonfs Grape 

 Vines, 448 — To Correspondents, Terms of Farmers' Register, 

 Editors' Address, &c. 448. 



SELECTIONS. 



Large Vegetables, 403— Soils in Western New York, 403 — 

 Salt Your Corn, 404— Petersburg Rail Road, 404— Effect of 

 Electricity on Vegetation, 404 — Refugee and Emancipated 

 Slaves, 405 — Avalanche in the White Mountains, 406 — Bar- 

 naby Googe's " Whole Arte and Trade of Husbandrie," 407 

 — Gathering and Preserving Fruit, 409 — Culture of Silk, 

 410 — Value of the Study of Entomology to Agriculture, 411 — 

 Pruning Grape Vines, 412 — Improvement in making Flour, 

 412 — Rearing Silkworms, and Culture of the Grape Vines, 413 — 

 Orchard Grass, 413 — Sheep Husbandry, Nos. I. II. and III. 414 

 Odoriferous Substances offensive to Insects, 417 — Insects Inju- 

 rious to Fruits and Fruit Trees, 417 — Cheese making, 418 — Bay- 

 berry or Myrtle Wax, 419 — Result of Experiments on Wheat, 

 420 — Fall of a Cliff in England, 420 — Natural Hisrory, compris- 

 ing Tame Bat, 421 ; Harvest Mouse, 421 : Viper, 422: Noxious 

 Insects, 422 : House Martins, 423 — Effects of Magnesia in Diffe- 

 rent Forms, on Soils, 426 — Strictures on Magnesian Limestone, 

 428 — Magnesia not Hurtful to Vegetation, 429 — Magnesia and 

 Magnesian Limestones, 431 — Practical Effect of Seasonable 

 Farming, 434 — Coal Region in Berkeley and Morgan Counties, 

 436 — Farmers and Mechanics, 437— Dr. Barton's Address, deli- 

 vered before Rockbridge Agricultural Society, 439— The Pee- 

 wee, 442 — Earl Stimson's Farm, 442 — A Parasite in the Honey 

 Bee, 443 — Mulberry, 443— Splitting Rocks by Lightning, 443— 

 NevvCotton Factory in Richmond, 444— The Sugar Crop, 444— 

 Effect of a Rail Road on the Value of Property, 444— Extracts 

 from Jesse's "Gleanings in Natural History," comprising 

 Bees: Language of Insects---Anecdotes of Bees, 444. 



