The Farmers' Register

THE

FARMERS' REGISTER,

A MONTHLY PUBLICATION,

Devoted to the Improvement of the Practice

AND

SUPPORT OF THE INTERESTS OF AGRICULTURE.

EDMUND RUFFIN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

And he gave it for his opinion, “that whoever could make two cars of corn, or two biades of grass, to grow upon a spot
of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his coun-
try, than the whole race of politicians put together."
Swift.

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. VII.

Agricultural Association, North Anna, proceedings

of 686

Agricultural Society of Albemarle, petition of 616
Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg, addresses to
3, 745; premiums awarded by 753

Agricultural Club of Chuckatuck, proceedings of 287

Agricultural Convention of South Carolina 511

Agricultural geology 494

Agricultural meeting in Massachusetts 200

Agricultural county reports 58

Agricultural periodicals, list of in the United States 283

Agricultural interest 362

Agriculture, importance of 58; legislation for 39;

legislative aid to in South Carolina, recommended

733; in Pennsylvania, and compared with eastern

Maryland 734; system of in Loudoun 383; neglect

of in Guilford, N. C. 455; in Jamaica, condition of

caused by emancipation 276; capital profitably in-

vested in 665

Agriculture and rural economy in France 722
Agriculture and government in Massachusetts 437
Ancient laws and records of Virginia, extracts from

Bots in horses 755

Bread without yeast or leaven 28

Breeding of live-stock, essay on 118, 131; of race

horses, cost of 286

Bricks and brick-making 396

Broom corn 3; culture of, in Salem, N. J. 509; pro-
duct of a crop stated 229

Brooms, manufacture of 28

Brussels sprouts, cultivation of 240

Buckwheat, a safeguard of turnips from the fly 495

Buel, Judge, on death of 638; notice of 695

Building log-houses and fences 340

Cabbages, to make head during winter 342

Calcareous soils, most advantageous for mulberry trees

and grape-vines 221

Calcareous soil of Southern Florida 683, 684; growth
of morus multicaulis on 764

Carrots 254; experiments on 277

Cask, leaky, to stop 419

Cattle, treatment of 153; raising and feeding of 513,

taking care of 134; watering in winter 617; dis-

eases of 705; Hereford, extraordinary sale of 287;

Durham, sales of 175, 338

Cattle market of London 706

Cattle. England Durham short-horns, general account

of 343, 363

Cauliflower, culture of 555

Cedar quarries 555

Cheat 444

Cheese manufactured from potatoes 340

Chinch-bugs 411, 443, 444, 447: in Surry 415

Circular of the Commissioner of the Patent Office in

regard to the transmission of seeds 490

Circulars directing aid to the introduction of tropical

plants 637

Climate of Italy, its severity of cold 196; compared

with that of the Valley and Piedmont of Virginia

350

Clover, early cut 488; gigantic 432

Clover seed, sowing of 495; Pennsylvania mode of

getting out 390

Coal, Geary's patent 685

Coal trade of Virginia 79

Cocoonery, plan of 246; fixtures and management for

silk-worms 288

Cocoons, comparative weights of 377; large 408;

successive crops of in Tropical Florida 567

Coggins' Point farm, the former poor condition, and

earliest subsequent improvements on, by marl-

ing 112

Commerce, southern, decline of 373

Commercial (monthly,) reports 64, 128, 192, 255, 447,
512, 576, 637, 704, 768

Convention, Internal Improvement, of North Carolina,
memorial of 97

Copper mine in North Carolina 486

Corn, on cultivation of 1, 258; mode of cultivation pur-
sued by J. H. Steger, esq. 180; experiment in
planting 117; cultivated for its stalk and leaf, and
not for grain 651; its maturing hastened by ceasing
its cultivation early 588; mode of havesting in
Ohio 473; deep planting of 616

Corn crops, statements of cultivation, expenses and

products of 10, 17, 18; greatest known yield of 742

great product of in South Carolina 211; Maryland
twin, experiment with 201; Chinese tree, defended
by Grant Thorburn 693; Baden 598

Corn, cultivation of 157

Corn cribs and granaries, measurement of 350
Correspondence, private, extracts from 511
Cotton, experiments on the porosity of 491

Butter, making and curing 218; on salting 469; Cotton, sea-island, defects in management of 28

Dutch 526; winter 767

Cotton, twin or okra, 252, 598, 657, 744

deception 572; multicaulis market 636; to subscri-

bers 638 suspension of payment by the banks 639;

James Wadsworth, a New York farmer 653; marl-

ing in Sussex, and Philips' marl raising machine 670;

almost purely calcareous soils of Tropical Florida

684; mail near Newbern 687; Grant Thorburn's

defence of his " Chinese tree corn" 693; Youatts'

Treatise on Cattle' 705; the calcareous soil of

Tropical Florida, and the fitness of for mulberry

trees 764; erasures of subscriptions for non-pay-

ment 768

Eggs 371

Electro-magnetic power 133

Dairy management 218; statements of in Massachu- Emancipation of slaves, eflects of in Jamaica 254

Earth, is the planet becoming colder? 175

Emigration to the west 437

'Essay on Vegetable Physiology,' by Professor George
D. Armstrong, complete in 24 chapters. For the
numerous particular subjects treated of see the heads
of chapters, at pages 10, 14, 65, 67, 169, 172, 203,
206, 262, 263, 268, 326, 329, 332, 420, 423, 426, 462,
164, 467, 617, 621, 622, 641

Excavating by steam 134

Farm of E. Phinney, of Massachusetts 531; Mr. Ja-
mieson's 678; of Ross-shire, Scotland 759
Farm, grass, in England 628

Earth, depth of freezing, in high northern latitudes 487 Farmer of Massachusetts 250

Earths and soils of Virginia 667

Eastern Virginia 210

Edged, (fine) instruments improved in sharpness by
magnetism, and by time 102

Farmer of New York, a distinguished one 653
Farmers' Register,deficiency of communications to 413
Farmers' Register, conditions of publication for vol.
vii 255; conditions of for vol. viii 639; reprint of
vol. 1. 190; erasures of subscriptions 768
Farming (improving) profit of 59; profits of in Mas-
sachusetts 501; in Pennsylvania, and compared with
eastern Maryland 734

Editorial articles and remarks, on George Henry Wal-

Fer dec'd. 21; calcareous soil of the Florida islets

41: Kandolph's Treatise on Gardening' 41; progress

of morus munticais trade and prospect of prices 60,

108, 190; Amans Carrier's diary of feeding silk-Feeding milch cows 371

worms 87; his estimates of expense and profit 91, Fish ponds in France 214

95; 2 of blue color of marl 106; Geo. E. Har- Flax, new mode of preparing described 22

rison 106; the hoox of the bohrn upas" 130; the Flea, garden 753

early and consistent advocaag of Sik-culture by Florida Keys 565

the editor 123; Com. Jones' farming 155; weeds as Flowers, properties of 310

manure, and the origin of the use 161; ancient Fluvanna, county of 218

laws, &c. of Virginia 181; borrowers of the Far-Free-martins 472

mers' Register 188; reprint of vol. 1. 190; hum- Fruit trees 554, 756

bugs, multicaulis seed and Chinese corn 190; Smith

fund 190; answers to inquiring subscribers 191;

London's advertised prices for advice 199; highly

calcareous soils for mulberry and grape culture 222;

alleged effects of slavery on the agriculture of Vir-

ginia 235; Sir William Berkeley and his statistical

account of Virginia 238; tables of silk-worm rear-

ing 241; climbing of silk-worms 246; twin or okra

cotton, and the high prices of new and valued seeds

252; morus multicaulis seed 254; account of Amans

Carrier's white mulberry plantation, applied to the

circumstances of this country 302; remarks on ob-

jections to silk-culture 355; marl indicator 360; on

different kinds of silk-worm eggs, and the grounds

of choice 577; progress of silk culture in Virginia

380; mulberry crop and prices 381; Osage orange

seeds 334; deficiency of communications to Farm-

ers' Register 413; "gigantic clover "humbug 432;

feeding silk-worms on wet leaves 433; importance

of proper selection of silk-worms' eggs 444; diffe.

rence of healthiness of silk-worms from southern

and northern eggs 445; Hussey's reaping machine

455; the puffing system 456; on the abuse of pa-

tent-rights 595; early introduction (before Perrot-

tet's) of morus multicaulis into France, and possi-

bly into North Carolina also 507; cattle and milk in

Alabama 508; morus multicaulis crop and prices

510; Agricultural Convention of South Carolina

511; season and crops 511; green crops for manure

556; on fraudulent discontinuances of subscriptions

and failures of obligation 564; mulberry market and

prices 570; the Chinese tree corn humbug and

Gardening, Randolph's Treatise on, republished 41

Gas, inflammable, discharge of 278

Geese, as barometers 340

Glanders and blind staggers in horses 302

Gloucester, improvements in by marling and marsh

mud 575

Graduates of the University of Virginia, for 1839, 417;

of William and Mary College 418

Graft, influence of the stock on 459

Grafting 151

Grass sown on wood-land 221

Grass husbandry, improvement of land by 162

Grass lands, management of 632, 649

Grasses, experiments on 156; observations on the
character and quality of different kinds 390

Green crops for manure 556, 742

Green manuring, its advantages for cleansing land of

weeds and of insects 561

Grub-worm 370

Grubs in the heads of sheep, cure for 363

Gypsum 117; cause of its greater value on limed

land 489

Harrison, George E., of Brandon 107
Hay and roots for feeding, compared 241
Hay making 162
Hay racks 212
Hen coops 361

Herbage plants, new 3-0

Hoarding system substituted for the borrowing system
of governments 214

Hogs 696; of large size 743; breeding 604; and rear-

ing 578; keeping, feeding and fattening 184, 117,

251; improved breeds of 176; in a fruit orchard

505; on fattening by cold soaked and fermented

food 529; statement of cost and profit in feeding

257; value of their manure 743; considerations on

raising or buying 648

Holkham, the seat of the Earl of Leicester (formerly

"the great farmer" Coke) 534

Holy land, ancient and present agricultural condition

of 647

Horse, treatment of 7; stubborn, how managed 703
Horses, slabbering 584; wild, formerly in Virginia
668; on breeding and rearing for agricultural pur-
poses 719; diarrhea of 756

Horticultural excursion in Greece 223
Humbugs, multicaulis seed, and Chinese corn 190;
the newest and greatest yet announced, "gigantic
clover" 432; Thorburn's" Chinese Tree corn" 572

Hunting in Virginia 668

Hydrangea, changing the color of flowers of 556

Husbandry in China 369

Labor, the great want of in the tide-water country 393
Leaves, the use made of in Italy, for fodder 280
Letters from an agricultural apprentice to his father
535, 539, 590, 594; from a young farmer to Mr. Ja-
mieson 671, 674, 711, 714

Lice on cattle, to destroy 510

Lime 131; as manure 63; effect in improving land

209, 116; suggestions for extending the use of 79;

statement of effects in Scotland 334; for mountain

lands 744

Lime, oyster-shell, alleged inefficacy of 166

Lime for hogs 108

Lime, imported, proposed for lower Virginia 108

Lime and peas as manure 576, 636

Lime-stone in Stokes, N. C 455

Lime-stone (rotten) soils in Alabama 617

Lime-water, anti-septic property of 508

Mammoth silkworms' eggs 320
Manure, farm-yard, essay on management of 401;
Jauffret's, artificial 82; from peat and lime 496
Manures, experiments on 308; (human excrements)
town, 626, 627; of hogs 743; compost, effects of 759

Manuring with rotten logs and brush 110

Marl 80; of South Carolina (or calcareous rock,)

analyses of 78

Marl, boring for, a cheap and convenient mode 78

Marl, blue, 105; color caused by organic matter 106;

its supposed superiority 280

Marl beds near Newbern, N. C. 687

Marl indicator 80; supposed not to be a new species

279; a new species, 359

Marl-raising machine 668

Marling in Sussex 668; Gloucester 575; improve-
ment by on Coggins' Point farm 112; in Prince
George county, first views which led to 659

Marsh mud 105

Meadows, reclaimed, reports and statements on 391

Memoranda of farming 530

Mignonette, cultivation of 558

Milk, city 692

Milk-sickness 527

Millet 474

Morus multicaulis, see Mulberry, Chinese

Mowing 406

Mud for manure 447

Mulberry, opinions of different species 6; compara-
tive values of different kinds 310; Canton 499
Mulberry, Chinese, value of for feeding silk-worms
alone 85; its value for feeding compared with other
kinds 416; the several claims of the first introduc-
tion of 54; introduced from Asia long before dis-
covered by Perrottet 506

Mulberry, Chinese, crop, trade, speculation in, and
prices 60, 62, 108, 109, 403, 510, 570, 636; seed
254, 381

Mulberry culture, counter estimates in regard to its
profits 351; remarks thereon 355

Mulberry leaves, product of 439

Mulberry plantation, Amans Carrier's, expense and
net profits of 302

Mulberry trees on highly calcareous soils 221, 222

Murrain in cattle 755

Mushroom, culture of 436

Mutton 471