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FARMERS' REGISTER— BOOTH'S THRASHING MACHINE, fee. 



nnd freely. Uniformity of practice would soon be 

 tlie result amonsi; our Ihrniers, planters, and gra- 

 ziers, instead of having almost as great a diversity 

 of methods to accomplish their olyects, as there 

 are brains concerned in contriving them : our 

 lands, with every thing on them, would soon be 

 managed in the best and most profitable manner • 

 a certain and rapid advancement in our profession 

 would keep pace with our active zeal to improve 

 it: — every succeeding meeting of our society 

 would be held with greatly increasing interest ; 

 and, instead of exhibiting, as it did on the two pre- 

 vious occasions, some strong marks of premature 

 old age, it would continue to flourish far beyond the 

 life time of any of its present members. 



Let us then determine, my friends, that weivill 

 persevere; that we iO(7/ discharge our respective 

 duties to our Society with renewed zeal and activi- 

 ty ; and that it shall not be our tliults if the iVgri 

 cultural Society of Fredericksburg, by being suf- 

 fered to go down, shall aggravate the stigma so 

 frequently, and often too justly, cast upon us Vir- 

 ginians, of never persevering in any good word or 

 work. 



booth's TIIRASIITNG MACHtKE. 



To the Editor of the FiU-mer.s' KeL-isier. 



Believing it to be a matter of importance to the 

 agricultural interest of our country, that a knov/- 

 ledgeof the existence of such implements and ma- 

 chines, as have been introduced into its difTerent 

 sections, and, after sufficient test and trial, are 

 generally approved of", should be extensively dif- 

 fused — we beg leave to recommend, through the 

 Register, to our brother farmers, Douglass' thrash- 

 ing machine, as noio improved, made and sold, by 

 Mr. Z. Booth of the City of New- York, together 

 with his horse power. ^Ve sj)eak particularly of 

 the improved machine, and horse power — lor when 

 Ihey were first introduced among us, some years 

 ago, by Mr. Booth, they were of comparatively 

 little value — but the experience and experiments 

 of some of our farmers into whose hands they have 

 jl'allen, communicated to the patentee, together 

 with his own progressively imjtroving knowledge 

 iOn the subject, has enabled Mr. Booth, in our 

 judgment, to put his machines and horse powers 

 "up to a very great degree of perfection. The im- 

 ■proved four-horse power machine will, with ordi- 

 nary wheat, and ordinary care and exertion, thrash 

 ^lean from the straw, and wifii ease to the horses, 

 say from twenty to twenty-five bnshels per hour: 

 with prime wheal, and extra exertion, it may be 

 put up to thirty bushels in the hour. 



Upon the whole, we think highly of this machine, 

 and therefore recommend it to the attention of our 

 brethren in the grain growing sectionsof the Union, 

 as being, in our judgments, equal, if not superior 

 to every other similar implement that has yet 

 come underour observation and knowledge. We, 

 each of us own, and work one of them. 



EDW. TILGIiaiAN, THOMAS B. COOK, 

 K. TII>GHMAIV, WM. C. TILGHMAN, 



CHAS. C. BROWNE. 



Queen jJnn's County, Maryland. 



TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 



In consequence of ilie many copies wliich have been 

 lost by our city subscribers, and the consequent loss to 

 ourselves in furnishing duplicates, it is found necessary 

 to change the manner of delivery, which the publisher 

 had voluntarily adopted for the accommodation of those 



who reside in the city of Richmond. They will in fu- 

 ture receive their copies at the office of the Farmers' 

 Register, 



Subscribers who have been furnished with two copies 

 of any one No. in consequence of the first having been 

 delayed on the route, will please to return such extra m 

 copies, by mail, if no cheaper mode of conveyance offers. 1 



Notwithstanding all our care, some copies are defec- 

 tive or imperfect in consequence of mistakes of the 

 binder. Those who have received or may hereafter re- 

 ceive such defective copies, will please to return them, 

 marked on the cover " defective," and perfect copies im 

 shall be immediately sent to replace them. Every such ■ 

 imperfect copy retained by a subscriber, will cause the ■ 

 loss of one other certainly, and perhaps of an entire " 

 volume. 



Complete sets of the back numbers of the Farmers' 

 Register can still be furnished to new subscribers. 



Ten cojiies of No. 2 are wanting, for which seventy 

 five cents each will be paid on their being delivered to 

 the publisher. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



The following communications have been received, 

 and will appear in No. 9 : " Legislative Jlid required for 

 Draining''^ — " Translation from the Arabic'''' — " On Ma- 

 rine Manures'''' — "Estimate of the Cost of Limin g on James 

 River" — " Estimate of the Cost of wnter-horne Marl" — 

 " State Poliey in respect to the Rail Roads from Roanoke 

 into Virginia" — "Hill side Ditches, to prevent Washing, 

 SfC."^-" J^cic Jlrtificial Manure proposed for the Coal Re- 

 gion" — " Diary of the Weather" — " Transportation and 

 Sale of Marl from Middlesex" — " The Three Shift Sys- 

 tem, the best for the Tideirater Section of Virginia" — and 

 " Soils and Fai'ming of Fairfax County." 



COKTEiXTS OP FARMERS' REGISTER, Ko. S. 

 ORIGINAL. COMMUNICATIONS. 



Horizontal Ploug-hing, and Hillside Ditches, 449 — Moth Wee- 

 vil in Corn and Wheat, 450 — Law of Enclosures in Virginia, 

 450 — Culture of Cotton, 452 — Legislative Encouragement of Ag- 

 riculture, 45i — Native andForeign Grapes, 454— Tillage of In- 

 dian Corn, 459 — Literary Market of the United States, 460 — 

 Phiuuhing in Cornstalks, 4()1 — Clearing and Cultivating New 

 Land", 46r— Salivating Effect of Clover''Hay, 4G2— Magnesian 

 Marl of Hanover, 402 — Experiment on Moth Weevil, 4fi3 — Fe- 

 cundity of Insects, 464 — -Crops Made in 1789, 464 — Memoranda 

 and Scraps from a Traveller's Note (on North Carolina,) 467—^ 

 Geological, 473 — Queries on Buckwheat, 477 — Rotation Suita- 

 Ijle to Rockbridge Farming, 485 — Comparative Products of 

 Rare-ripe and Common Large Corn : Exliausting Efiectsof 'I'ur- 

 nips, 48S— Surface Manuriiig, 488— The Right of Grazing in 

 Common, 490 — Extracts from Private Correspondence, embra- 

 cing Planting in Georgia, Three Shift System, &c.. Horn- 

 blende and otlier Supposed Manures, Gama Grass on Roan- 

 oke, Gama Grass Seed and Byefield Hogs, Arabic Work on Ag- 

 riculture, &C.490 to 49 J— Commercial Report, 493— The Propa- 

 gation and Culture of the Vine, 49.3 — The Chinese Mulberry 

 Propagated by Cuttings, 503 — fjeology and Muieralogy of Vir- 

 ginia, 534 — Coal in Prince Edward, 506 — Sugar from Beets, 507 — 

 Frost 'in Late Tobacco, 503 — Farming in Central Virginia, 508 — 

 Experiments with Early CJathered Corn, 509 — Annual Address 

 to the Members of the Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg, 

 50D — Booth's Thrashing Machine, 512 — To our Subscribers, 

 512 — To Correspondents, &c. 512. 



SELECTIONS. 

 Undulating Railway, 464 — Increased Safety on Railways, 465 — 

 New Process for Generating Heat, 466 — Steamboat Disasters, 

 4G7— General View of Internal Imjirovements in North Caroli- 

 na, &c. 470 — Public Works in Virginia, 472 — Agricultural 

 Scliool, 474 — Food for Swine and Cattle, 475 — Importance of 

 Chemistry to Agriculture, 475 — Culture of Potatoes, 476 — Birds 

 and Inserts, 476 — Dn'ections for Rearing Silkworms, 477— Ma- 

 nnrin? Fallows for Wheat, 485 — '1 ravelling by Steam on Com- 

 mon Roads, 489 — The FirstWheat in New Zealand, 489— Loco- 

 motive Ent;ines on Railways, 495— On the Rot in Cotton, 496 — 

 Remarks on Long-Leaved Pine, 496— Remarks Respecting 

 Preston's and King's Salt Works, 497— The Gold Mines of Vir- 

 einia, 501-2— Effect of Gypsum and Clover, .507. 



