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 ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot VOL. IV. PETERSBURG, VA. PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR, 1837. TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. A Acid in wood-its effects on salt and butter 414 Agricultural Convention of Virginia, result of their petition 52-remarks on and suggestions for the one proposed 434 Agricultural Convention of New York, sketch of its Agricultural Establishment at Moeglin, in Prussia 167 nature and value of 93 Agricultural reading, its value 492 Agricultural Society of Buckingham, proceedings of 539, address to 540 Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, address to 547 Asparagus, culture of 153 B Barclay, Robert, of Ury, account of his labors and "Barrens," western, description of 463 Bees, war with 476 Beet (sugar,) soil and climate for 252-culture of in Big head, disease of horses, to cure 379 Blight in pear trees, cure of 395 Broom corn culture 58, high prices of the product 754 Broths, chemical composition of 145 works on 95 C 613-of New England, observations on 752, Chinese Cabbage, common, culture of, 399-Savoy 402 545-of the U. States, anticipated changes in 251-Calcareous manures, remarks on 57-reviews of new of the western states 42-of Java, (sugar and indigo) 591-of Virginia, some peculiar advantages of 127 -causes of its long-continued decline, and present depression, No. I, political canses-prevalence of party spirit 702; No. II, causes presented in errors of practice 725 Agriculture, the aid to by the legislature of New York, stated, and the effects, No. I., 634, No. I1, 689. Remarks thereon, 634, 692 Agriculture, professorships of in France 639 Carbonic acid gas reduced to a solid state 560 Charlotte, and adjacent counties, rough notes upon Agriculture, poetical extract from an old work on 486 Chickens, raising 302, 398 Chinese mulberry fraud 558, 625, the defence of Mr. Cider, its value defended 623 Climate of the eastern side of North America, why colder than the same latitudes in Europe 599 Clover 554-fertilizing effects of 240-after corn 188 -considered as green manure for tobacco land 385 -salivating effects of 105-prevented by being mixed with other grasses 220 Clover and gypsum not sufficient for durable improvement 5-on the results of their long-continued applications, without other manure 317 Clover, crimson, 221 Coal, anthracite, product and consumption of 399 Cocoons, demand for 133-on raising two or more suc- Coke, manufacture of 432 Cold weather 185 Cold, prevalence of in South Carolina 10 College of William and Mary, prosperous state of 510 Combined labors and talents, as necessary and as likely to be advantageous in agriculture as in other things 738 Comfrey, prickly, a new food for cattle 216 Commercial Reports, monthly, 58, 126, 192, 254, 319, 446, 575, 639, 711, 765, Contributions in writing to the Farmers' Register, culpable failure to furnish 746 Contributors to the pages of the Farmers' Register, appeal to 510 Copper in Virginia 343 Corn, Indian, native country of 107, harvesting of 117, 547-cultivation of 554, in Botetourt 43-experiments on cultivation of 635-made profitably without tillage by covering with leaves 763---the greatest land killer 33-distance for planting of 622, 709successive crops of on the same land 475-early housing of 108, 201-the advantage of keeping in the shuck or husk 484 Corn, green, to preserve for boiling 59 Corn and cob crusher and grinder 44 Correspondence, private, extracts from 190 Cost of improvements or new investments in agriculture rarely estimated 733 Cotton and the cotton trade 59 Cotton bales, quick work in packing 458 Cotton seed oil, on the value and manufacture of 685 Cut worm, remarks on, 431-origin and habits of 563 Early bearing of apple and pear trees, to promote 234 Editorial articles and remarks---on tobacco plant beds 3; condition of emancipated slaves 4; marble found near Gaston 30; the usual recommendations of patent machines 44; the operations and opinions of the "abolitionists" 49; effects of marl on cotton 53; the result of the petition of the Agricultural Convention, and the gross neglect by the legislature of the claims and interests of agriculture 53; chemical changes in sugar cane 66; inspections-poor laws-slavery queries 68; "marl" of new Jersey (or green sand) and erroneous opinions thereon 86; Eastern Shore railway 94; early housing of corn 109; French weights and measures 119; silk business proposed in Petersburg, and recommended for lower and middle. Virginia 126; Professor Kenwick's edition of Puvis on Lime 134; labors of Sir John Sinclair 141; supposition of Hessian fly and moth weevil existing in France 170; the "John Francis" letter and fraud 183; pine "limestone" lands of Florida 188; the patent law 197; the argilaceous soils of France, and M. Puvis' opinions thereon 202, 209, 211; magnesian soils, and M. Puvis' essay and opinions thereon 212, 216; Van Mons' theory 222; anticipated changes in the agriculture of the United States-silk-and beet sugar 251; marly or gypseous earth of Geneseo, N. York 252; season and wheat crop 255; accounts and collections 255, green sand and marl, and prevalent errors thereon 276; use of farming notes 286; pisè and mud wall, controversy 290; public works in aid of transportation 312; implement for milking cows 316; general unfitness of the wheat made in 1836, for seed, 319; season and state of crops 320; silk culture in pauper houses 335; Dawson's views of manuring 335; brining and liming seed wheat 342; controversies between correspondents 343; factories of Richmond and Petersburg 368; fraud and puits of the "Waterloo Cæsarean Cabbage" 330; putis of Virginia land at London auctions 38; raising two or more successive crops of cocoons in a year 381; new and rare varieties of native grasses 384; agricultural convention 436; artesian or bored wells 438; green sand, and mode of detecting its presence 474; effect of long continuation of exhausting tillage 475; the overflow of Solway moss 504; prosperous state of William and Mary College 510; John Carter's grapes and wine 510; appeal to all who have been and all who ought to be contributors to the pages of the Farmers' Register 510; errata 512; on the Whitmarsh mulberry fraud 558, and 625; on the chemical nature of different soils, and their degrees of fitness for certain plants 561; contributors to the Farmers' Register and those who are not 578; on the account of legislative action in New York in aid of agricultural improvement 634, 692 on the animal matter in shells, and Sir John Sinclair's opinions of their value 640; clover on the calcareous prairie lands of Alabama 655; proceedings of the agricultural conventions in New York and Virginia contrasted 701; the exclusion of party politics from the Farmers' Register 702; the Chinese mulberry not reproduced from its own seed 711; losses of numbers and of the indexes of the Farmers' Register 712; on the mob and iot in New York, to lower high prices 741; on the true theory of the operation of speculation in, or "monopolizing" of grain, and the false theory which is generally received thereon 754; the supposed injurious effects to land of magnesian lime 750; on the loss by fire of the Petersburg Rail Road Company 759; suspension of list of patents 765; the recent enactments of North Carolina in aid of the improvement of the state, by railways 766; and by draining the swamp lands 767; to subscribers on the closing of vol. IV 768 Electric, shock from a sheet of paper 266 Experiments with mixtures of ashes, gypsum, lime &c., applied to corn when planted 425 Flax bleached, a new discovery 395 Florida coffee, the fraud in recommending 708 Flour market of Richmond 458 Forest scenery of America described 580 Fowls, domestic, on the species and varieties of 657, to fatten in a few days 260 Fragments of a memorandum book-notes of farming Frosted plants, recovering 53 Fruit trees, directions as to their transplanting 751- Gas lighting 486 G Gases, effects of on vegetation 197 Geological survey of Virginia, report of its progress in Geological survey of Maryland, extracts from reports Geological survey of New York 29, 352 Geology, practical uses of 302 Geology of the country around Gaston 30 Germination of seeds, facts respecting 221, in ice 232 Grain, importation of 6, quantity 725 Grain, distillation of, amount, and effects on prices 638 Grape, Willcox, and other seedlings 419 Grass alone inadequate for improving lard 5 Grass land, to be brought from arable, management of 664 Grasses suitable for South Carolina 581 Green sand, its effects as manure 579-compared with 276 Grinding old garments into new 492 Ground pea (arachis hypogaa) the property possessed Gypsum, action of as manure 129-effect not lessened Gypsum discovered in Prince Edward county 34-the Labor, the respectability of 358 -a Leaves, mode of delineating exactly and easily 531 Life, duration of, of slaves and free negroes 478 Lime spreader, a newly invented implement 624 Gypsum in New York, (so called) erroneous facts and Liming with oyster shells 14-in Fairfax 108, 378 M |