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Excerpt from The Farmers' Register, 1840, Vol. 8: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Improvement of the Practice, and Support the Interests of Agriculture Editorial notes and remarks on the tropical plant scheme of Dr. Perrine 28 on the proper procedure for the Silk Society of Norfolk, and agricultural societies in general 39; sources of error in compar ing products of different kinds of corn 51; on the galactometre 54; the management of silk-worms in their early stages 55; on Hussey's machine for shucking and shelling com 61; cold Weather of January 63; d'arcet's forcing system of silk-cul ture 77; number of silk-worms' eggs to the ounce 95; on the spaces for silk-worms, and the gross blunders of Dandolo's translators and their copyists 102 chemical composition of fertile soils from Sci oto 110 Suggestions to persons about to commence silk-culture 117; postage on remittances 126; an establishment for reeling silk 140; calcareous soil for vines 145; Guinea and Gama grass 188; Mr. Hicks' silk reel 188; on the errors and blunders of the translators of Dandolo, and their copyists 188; on modern French silk-culture and opinions thereon, in Maison Rustigue' 213 on thick or thin plant ing of corn on rich land 221 on Washington's let ter to Mrs. Anderson 2 2; the prong-hoe 234; Mr. Ronaldson's seeds 255; editorial putts and advertise ments 284; on the evils of governmentbanking 697; on marling in South Carolina and Dr. Johnson's stric tures 302, 408; on mailing in South Carolina and erro neons reasoning in regard to marling 342, 343; earliest notices of silk-culture in 1840, in Virginia 377; the second Pliysick humbug380; on thoerfects of marl ing in the country about vvilliamsburg 418; ne gleet of Farmers' Register 445; proposed investiga tion of effects of 446: marling in North Carolina 500; on the means for diffusing knowledge on marling in South Carolina 502; on the oppression of the fence law, and means for relief 504; general failure of silk Worm rearings this season 510 confusion of names of msscs 517, 1551 on the death of Dr. Perrine 566. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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