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FARMERS' REGISTER— TO SUBSCRIBERS. 



editor is ready to admit that his work will sink — and 

 without such, it never could have risen to a station 

 either of usefulness, or celebrity. 



To the fi;reat majority of his subscribers, the editor 

 owes thanks for the readiness with winch their pay- 

 ments have been made, though payment in advance 

 was not reqiured for the first volume. The names of 

 those subscribers who may remain in debt for Vol. I, one 

 month after its being finished, and whose remote places 

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 be improperly included in this measure, by mistake, 

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 able to have their names reinstated. The absolute 

 necessity for such a rule will be apparent to all, and 

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 it may be applied improperly, from ignorance of their 

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 every one applying for it, without payment accompa- 

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 and in many cases to the most remote parts of the 

 United States. Under these circumstances, many 

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In consequence of the transition state of the publi- 

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 tlie last month, it is probable that some of the orders of 

 subscribers have not been executed. Any such omis- 

 sions, or mistakes, will be put right, as soon as made 

 known. The same circumstances have also made it 

 impossible to publish a complete list of payments, for 

 the previous month as usual, on the cover of No. 12, 

 and therefore it will be deferred until No. 1 of volume 

 II appears, which wiU be early in June. The full list 

 of subscribers to volume I, and the general table of 

 contents, will be furnished at the same time. 



Subscribers when WTiting any directions relating to 

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Copies of Vol. I, of the Farmers' Register can still 

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Subscribers who have failed to receive any of the 

 Nos. 10, 11, 12, shall certainly be supplied with dupli- 

 cates, on proper application being made. But when a 

 whole package for any post office has failed, it is re- 

 quested that full time may be allowed for its return 

 from its improper route. In some cases of such fail- 

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 the first package was received: which has been either 

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 dened with the postage. The package of No. 9, 

 (containing the copies belonging to 19 subscribers,) for 

 Gloucester Court House, was within a few days 



of two months on its joiu-ney of 82 miles— and in that 

 time might have passed through Passamaquoddy, or 

 New Orleans, with less delay. 



Those persons who have received the first volume 

 of the Farmers' Register, as compensation for obtain- 

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 ing of subscribers for the next volume, unless their 

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ACKNOAVI.Er)G3IEiVT OF C03IMUKICATI01VS. 



Tlie following articles will form part of No. 1, of 

 vol. II — " Some account of the agriculture, soil, and 

 products of Middle Florida"— "Materials for cordage" 

 — "The wild onion" — "A breeding mule" — "On 

 reaping wheat in a green state" — "Fecundity of a 

 ewe " — " An effectual securitj' against the bee moth " 

 " To prevent the backs of plough horses being galled" 

 — Communications from S. B. of Powhatan, and /. K. 

 of Brunswick. 



CONTENTS OF FARMERS' REGISTER, No. 12. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



On Draining, No. 2, page 705— Notice of the Cultivator, (a 

 new agiicultural journal) 716— Answer to queries on tobacco, 

 723— Hessian Fly— Weevil— Clieat, 723— On Hill-side Ditclie.s, 

 724— Diked Marshes and Malaria, 729— On retaining rain water 

 on hill sides, and preventing washing, 730 — Fanning, and ma- 

 nures of tlie Eastern Shore of Virginia, 731 — On straishtenin" 

 the beds of streams, and the need of legislative aid for drainhig" 

 733 — Canals instead of ponds to suppl.v mills, 734 — Diar}- of the 

 weatlier, 747— Encouragement of agriculture hy the legislature 

 of Virginia, 748 — An improved bee hive, 749 — Extracts from pri- 

 vate correspondence, cmbractng — Farming in Virginia and New 

 York; Queries; Labors and returns of large Farming, 750 To- 

 bacco culture. No. 2; cultivation of the crop, 751 — Prejudices 

 against mavl, and for fences in Virginia, 753 — Harnessing work 

 horses, 754 — Canada thistle, 755 — On cutting fallen v.iieat before 

 it is ripe, 759 — Southern Literary 3Iessenger, 7G1 — Scarcity and 

 higli price of foreign agilcultural books, 761 — The tornado, 763— 

 Eftects, and termination of the tornado, 763 — Cultivation of po- 

 tatoes, 764 — Commercial report, 766 — Terms of the Farmers' 

 Register, vol. 2, 767 — To subscribers, 767— AcknowUlgement of 

 communications, 768. 



SELECTIONS. 



Diseases of poultry, 710— On consolidating light soils, 710 — 

 Use of com in England, 712 — On protecting seed-corn from 

 birds, 713 — On sea ashes as a manure, 714 — Naturalization of 

 fishes, 714— Ale from mangel wurtzel, 715— Tlie extinct Dodo, 

 715— Dry stone walls as a fence, 715 — Vegetation of tlie Pampas 

 of South America, 716— The mouse, 717 — The mole, 718 — On 

 the violet cane, as food for cattle, 720— Cultivation of the pota- 

 to, 721 — Mr. Jefferson's farming, 725 — Daiiy management, 726 

 — Account of common salt, 726 — The cause of farmers, 727 

 — Bone manure, 728 — To destroy rats and birds, 729 — Improved 

 products of gardening and agiiculture, 7.32 — Machine for exca- 

 vating earth, "iJi — The Virginia natural silk worm, 734^To 

 destroy ants on peach trees, 736— Alteration of soils, 736 — 

 Application of manures, 736— Maple sugar, 739 — How to make 

 tlie most of a little land, 740 — Difference between good and bad 

 farming, 740 — Claims of agriculture to legislative aid, 741 — Im- 

 provements in breeding cattle, 741 — Improvements in tillage, 

 742 — Book fanning, 743 — IMangold v.urtzel, 745 — Planting hardy 

 evergreens. 746 — Claying or whitening sugar, 746 — Plaster, 746 

 — Posts, 747 — Sheep, 747 — Leached ashes as a manure, 74S-— To 

 destroy moles, 749 — Weight of live and dead cattle, 749 — The 

 turkey buzzard, 752 — Bird killing, 752 — To prevent milk becom- 

 ing sour, 752 — Tlie fence law, 754 — The use of plaster, 756 — 

 GjTisum not injured by heat, 7.55 — Petersburg and Koanoke rail 

 road, 758 — Large wheat crop, 759 — Soap, 760 — The road law, 760. 

 — Gestation, 765 — Strange mode of curing a vicious horse, 766. 



ERRATUM. 



In Farming in Virginia and New York, p;ige 750, for "farms 

 of the large size, if joiuig, " read "farms of the large size of 



yours. " 



S^riut€€l be^ Mobert MickcUs, 



AT THE SHELLBANK9 PRESS, 



Where the printing of books, pamphlets, and other jobf, can be 

 executed promptly, and in the beet style. 



