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FARMERS' REGISTER— COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



tion with his different kinds ol' stock, may be so 

 regidated, as to have them bring Ibrlli their young, 

 under the most favorable circumstances. 



Mares go a {ew days over eleven months, Avith 

 foal. 



Cows go about forty weeks, or ten lunar months. 



Ewes bring forth at the end of five months. 



Goats, at four and a half months. 



Sows at four months. 



The term of incubation, or time which different 

 foAvls set upon their eggs, before hatching, is as 

 follows: 



Swan sets six weeks. 



Turkey sets thirty days. 



Goose, from twenty-seven to thirty days. 



Duck, li'om twenty-seven to thirty days. 



Hens, twenty-one days. 



Pigeons or Doves, fifteen days. 



STRANGE MODE OF CURING A VICIOUS HORSE 



I have seen vicious horses in Egypt cured of 

 the habit of biting, by presenting to them, while 

 in the act of doing so, a leg of mutton just taken 

 from the fire: the pain which a horse feels in biting 

 through the hot meat, causes it, after a few lessons, 

 to abandon the vicious habit. — Burckhardfs Tra- 

 vels. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Sir: — There were some shght indications of a 

 favorable change in the aspect of conunercial af- 

 fairs last month; but they were merelj' momentarv, 

 and the distress which lor some time past pressed 

 heavily on the communities of the large commer- 

 cial cities, has at length reached our ou'n. 



Heretofore the efiect wtis felt by us in the di- 

 minirtion of our intercourse with the northern states, 

 in the reduced demand existing in them for our 

 products, in the difficulty of making remittances, 

 and in losses sustained by our merchants from 

 failures in the large cities. But the pressure has 

 now reached Virginia. Her monied institutions, 

 which for some time past have been prudently 

 granting very moderate facilities, now find it ne- 

 cessary not only to withhold them, but to reduce 

 those which previously existed. This conunen- 

 dable caution renders our banks safe, and none 

 sustain a liigher credit; but the distress on the 

 community is great and increasing. 



The disastrous fate of several banks in the ad- 

 joining states, is a warning to others. The fre- 

 quent transmissions of specie from one place to 

 another, show that even the most favored institu- 

 tions require strong efforts to sustain their credit 

 unimpaired. These demands for specie first at 

 one point, then at another, cramp the business of 

 all banks, and reduce the circulating medium 

 beloAv its ordinary ratio. Rumors, the most un- 

 founded, are circulated by the thoughtless or the 

 designing; and the timid or credulous holder of 

 bank ])aper, is made the dupe and the prey of the 

 knowing mone}'-dealer. 



The prices of produce and rates of exchange 

 are very unsteady. Flour has again fallen from 

 S5 to 4 3-8 — Tobacco has also declined in price — 

 Cotton, now worth 12 to 13 cts. is the only article, 

 the price of which is supported; and this probably 

 will soon partake of the general depression, unless 



sustained by a continuation of orders on European 

 account. Exchange on England, which had 

 reached 5 per cent premium, is again verging 

 down towards par. The coal trade, a most im- 

 portant one to James River, has declined very 

 greatly, in consequence of the suspension of ex- 

 tent:ive iron works and other establishments, at the 

 north, which consumed large quantities of that 

 fuel. The business of manufacturing tobacco, 

 which employed many hundred, nay, some thou- 

 sand hands, has been reduced to a mere fraction of 

 what it was. Thus the workmen engaged in 

 various occupations, and also numerous coasting 

 vessels, are thrown out of employment. 



But I am weaiy of the repetition of these un- 

 pleasant subjects, and refer you to the annexed 

 remarks from an English paper. 



3Iay lOth, 1834. x. 



"The American Trade. — The unparallelled em- 

 baiTassments amongst the commercial classes of 

 the United States, have produced a great stagna- 

 tion in the trade between this countiy and that 

 recently flourishing republic. The numerous fail- 

 ures which have occurred in New York, Philadel- 

 phia, Baltimore, and the other cities of the union, 

 have been felt both directly and indirectly in Eng- 

 land. Directly in their effect on individual firms, 

 and indirectly in their efiect on the general state of 

 credit. 



There is of course, a great indisposition on this 

 side .of the Atlantic to risk goods or to enter into 

 commercial transactions at present, in a countiy 

 in which undoubted solvency and unblemished in- 

 tegrity are no securities against embarrassment 

 and ruin, and the commercial classes on the other 

 side find too much difficulty in meeting their en- 

 gagements in tlie piesent disordered state of trade 

 and suspension of credit, to have either disposition 

 or ability to extend their concerns. Thus the 

 prospects of a vast and profitable trade Avith the 

 United States, which only a few months since 

 seemed so bright, have been clouded, and it is 

 impossible to tell when the cloud Avill pass aAvay. 

 A rancorous spirit of party seems to have destroy- 

 ed eveiy thing like reasonableness in the govern- 

 ment. Under these circumstances, the close and 

 intimate connection between the American Repub- 

 lic and the British Empire, compels us to endure 

 a considerable share of the inconvenience result- 

 ing from the emban'assments of our trans-atlantic 

 friends and customers. The exports of iron, wool- 

 len goods, cutler}^, hosiery, and we have no doubt 

 of all other articles, have received a severe check, 

 from Avhich they will not recover until the Ameri- 

 cans and their government recover their senses. 

 When that Avill be it is impossible to guess, for up 

 to the latest accounts, the exasperation of all par- 

 ties seem only to be increased by the increasing 

 miseiy of every class of the people. Each party 

 lays the blame on the other, and none does any 

 thing to restore pubhc or private confidence." 

 London Courier. 



A Card. — X. requests that the printer will not 

 corrupt his meaning, as he has done in some in- 

 stances. The last and most flagrant one is in 

 page 704, where " the usual competition of our 

 mcTchants," is made 1o read "the usual corruption 

 of our merchants! " 



