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FARMERS' REGISTER— TO POSTMASTERS, &c. &:c. 



unusually lai-ge proportion of original matter — tlius exlii- 

 bitiiig an illustration of the value that may be given to 

 such a joiu-nal by those vrho are most interested in its 

 success. There is good reason to expect a continuance 

 and increase of oiu- corre-spondence. But as such sup- 

 plies must be necessarily irregular, and as the publica- 

 tion of no communication is delayed, merely to equalize 

 the rate of supply, it may be expected that some future 

 numbers may appear very deficient in original commu- 

 nications — and such an occurrence should not be taken 

 as an indication of a cessation of the labors of our cor- 

 respondents, or of a diniinishing value in the publica- 

 tion. Our selected articles are always more in munber 

 than we can find space for, and these of course must 

 •wait as long as tliere are origmal communications to 

 claim precedence in pubUcation. 



DISCOXTINtlANCE OF AGEKCIES, 



We have made but very limited use of agencies, (as 

 stated particularly in a former No.) and find it neces- 

 sary to discontinue all, witliout exception. This step 

 is not caused by the slightest objection to tlie acts ol 

 any of the few gentlemen whom we have authorized, 

 as agents: but because agencies are supposed to exist 

 where none have been autliorized, and paj-ments are 

 made accordingly, instead of directly by mail to the 

 proprietor. After this notice, there will be no agent foi- 

 the Farmers' Register. This annmiciation does not 

 aflfect the continuance of an extra copy being furnished 

 to any person who will obtain four new subscribers, and 

 send their payments in advance — except, that to pre- 

 vent the trouble and embarrassment of opening accounts 

 for such purposes, no claim for the fifth copy will hereaf 

 ter be allowed, except for four names of new subscri- 

 bers, and §20, all sent al one time. Then tlie compen- 

 sation will be immediately allowed, and tlie transaction 

 closed. 



TO POSTMASTERS. 



Notwithstanding the great care used in wrapping the 

 copies of the Farmers' Register, and directing each 

 separate copy to the individual subscriber, as well as the 

 whole package to the proper post office, complaints 

 continue to be made of subscribers failing to receive 

 their copies, and sometunes whole packages miscarrj- 

 by mail, and are never heard of afterwards. With every 

 care that can be used in a publication office, mis- 

 takes in directmg packages must sometimes be made : 

 and in a very few cases only, such errors have been 

 made known by postmasters, and corrected. For such 

 corrections we will always be thankful, and also for 

 immediate information of any minor faults in the mail- 

 ing and securing of packages. But much tlie greater 

 number of failures, which have caused so much loss to 

 our establishment, cannot possibly be owing to any of 

 these causes, nor even to the accidental erasure of names 

 on the packages, m the mails, nor to the total destruc- 

 tion of the wrappers. Even when such rare mishaps 

 occur (if they ever occur,) the names of subscribers re- 

 main — and if their place of residence is not known, the 

 place of pubUcation cannot be doubtful — and we wiU 

 be glad to pay the postage on all miscarried copies (ex- 

 cept of No. 1, of which many were distributed as spe- 

 cimens,) by having them sent by mail either to the 

 publisher, or the editor. 



Though under no such obligation, we have supplied 



duplicate copies in most cases of alleged failures by 

 mail. But there must be some limit or regulation to 

 these supplies — and we propose the following : Every 

 postmaster al whose office copies of the Farmers' Regis- 

 ter are received for subscribers, is requested to keep a 

 list of llieir names, and to compare with that list ilie 

 contents of every package, before delivering any part 

 of it This being done, whenever any subscriber's copy 

 is missing, or the whole package has been lost, and the 

 postmaster (after waiting long enough for the package 

 to return from its wrong route,) will certify the particular 

 loss, we will hencefortli furnish, in all such cases, one 

 duplicate copy for every one so lost. If this plan 

 should be generally approved, it is intended to make 

 this guarantee general (upon certain conditions) for Vol. 

 2. It will therefore be to the interest of subscribers to 

 induce the adoption of the foregoing regulation at their 

 respective post otfices. If any postmaster will not 

 agree to undertake so light a service for the benefit of 

 his customers, it will be for us a sulhcient acquittance 

 from this obligation thus voluntarily offered to be as- 

 simied. 



COMMUJVICATIOKS RECEIVED. 



The following communications have been received, 

 and win be published in No. 10, of the Farmers' Re» 

 gister : 



" Translation from limbic work oti ^Agriculture," (con- 

 tinued) — "Blue Grass''^ — '^Importance of a proper mode 

 of harnessing horses" — "Plain directions for analyzing 

 marl, ^-c" — "On surface draining, ^-c." — " Remarks on 

 the slack coah (or terre-houille) of the Chesterfield mines" — 

 " On the preparation necessary for a crop of tobacco"—^ 

 " Specimens of calcareous manures" — "On Wire Grass"- — 

 "^i Farmers^ Directory suggested" — "Culture of Cot- 

 ton" — " Chemical ^Inalvses of Shells." 



COXTEXTS OF FARRIERS' REGISTER XO. 0. 

 ORIGINAL, COMJir^ICATIOJfS. 

 On the use of Marine Manures, page 513 — Arabic Work on 

 Agriculture, 515 — Necessity for a Law to permit Draining in Vir- 

 gliiia, 51S — Mineral Resources of Virginia, 520 — On the Im- 

 provement of Lands in the Tobacco Region, 534 — Geological, 

 5-29 — Marl Beds in New Kent. &c. 534 — Transportation and Sale 

 of Marl from Middlesex, 534— Cheat from Wheat, 5S5— The 

 Policy of Virginia in regard to Rival Public Works, &c. 535 — 

 New Mineral Manures Proposed, 537 — New Manure, (a substi- 

 tute for Dutch Ashes.) 53S — On Manures from Coal, and Dutch 

 Ashes, 540 — On Manures from Coal, and the Turf of Salt 

 Marshes, 541 — System and Products of Farming in Columbia 

 County. New York. 542 — Cheap Lands in the Tidewater Re- 

 gion of Virginia, 545— Soils and Farming of Fairfax Count- 

 ry. 552 — Thrashing Machines : Albemarle Agricultural Society, 

 553 — Corn Culture of Weyanoke, 553 — Paddling Corn, 554 — 

 Rappahannock Lands and Marl Beds, 555 — Remarks on Sir 

 John Sinclair's Hints &c. on Malaria, 555 and 560 — Pamunkey 

 Mode of Cultivatins Corn, 560 — On Hill-side Ditches, to prevent 

 the Washingof Broken Land, 5G2— Queries Addressed toJames 

 River Farmers, 564 — On the Management of Negroes, 564 — 

 Sowing Clover Seed, 566 — Estimate of the Expense of Liming 

 Land, 567 — Expense of Water-Borne Marl, 567 — Comparison of 

 the Foregoing Estimates, 567 — Extracts from Private Correspon- 

 dence, 563— The Three Field System best adapted to the Cli- 

 mate and Soil of the Tidewater Section of Virginia, 569 — Va- 

 luable Manure : New Jersey Marl, 571 — Diary of the Weather 

 at Fort Monroe, October, November, December and January, 

 573 — John Carter's Catawba Wine, 574— Commercial Report, 

 575 — Number and Increase of Correspondents to Farmers' Re- 

 gister, 575 — To Correspondents & Readers, 575 — Discontinuance 

 of Agencies — To Postmasters — Communications Deferred, 576, 



SELECTIONS. 



Eggs of the Silkworm, 525 — Description of the Valley of the 

 Kanawha, 52-5 — Railroad Accidents, 52S — On Railways, and 

 Hints to Railway Companies, 530 — Persian Method of Manage- 

 ing Silkworms, -542 — Sulphuric Acid Springs, 542— Memorial of 

 the Interna! Improvement Convention of North Carolina, 546 — 

 Old Virginia Georgics, 551 — Hints, fcc. on Malaria, by Sir John 

 Sinclair, 556 — Erroneous Opinions, 564 — Preparing Food for 

 Horses, 566— The Black Tongue, S73— Rot in Cotton, 675. 



