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II??1-, ?the unfavorable season, and the failure of most of his staple crops, to $1,176 13? thus more than doubling its pro lucts, by judicious management, in three years. His expenses duri ig the last year for labor, dung, and freight, amounted to $254 72, thus leaving him a nett profit of $912,41, or more than ten dollars per acre per annum. U'e will quote Mr. Leonard's statement of the means ho adopted thus to double the fertility of his soil. ' My farm," says he, "was in so low n condition that it would not produce more than ten bushels of rye, or twenty of corn per acre; and as I had no other income but what 1 could make upon this poor farm, I set about farming in enrnes'. 1 found it was va<n to attempt improvement wiihout manure; so I contrived to get about f ur hundred loads a year, three hundred of which 1 made in the following manner. I have marl, though of a very inferior quality. I cart about one hundred loads of this into my barn yard, and by yarding rny cattle mr,n it throuoh the season, contrived to in cease it to two hundred loads. I also cart about fifty loads to my hog pen, on which 1 keep my hogs the year round. In this way I got one hundred loads more, which is excellent for potatoes, corn, &,c., and as my farm is situated near the bay, I ob ain from New York annually, from fifty to seventy-five loads of the b st stable dung at about one dollar per load on delivery, and by mixing it with the earth. &c., make up the four hundred loads. By this treatment I find my land improves rapidly, and my income in like proportion. But I am sorry to say that many farmers among us who are still pursuing the old land kiliing system, scarcely making both ends meet. 1 might say something concerning the beneficial results of undraining, and of lime as a manure , but I conclude for the present." This communication affords a worthy example of prudent industry and good man. ngement, and shows that a poor farm well inanag'd, may be rendered more productive than many a good farm now is, under bad management, Albany Cultivator. From the Charleston Mercury. The Convention* Messrs. Editors?The Agricultural Convention about to be held in Columbia during the next session ot the Legislature, our planters should regard with more than com' ? | won ravor. t ne crisis urgrs mem iu centrate, in that assembly, ah tneir energies both moral and intellectual, for never was there a time so fraught with gloom and boding to their substantial interest. Since we have been converted into a stock-jobbing people, may we date our misfortunes. The planting capital, which of all others to be successfully Invested, requires certain rather than unoqual profits, however large, has been operated upon by the expansions and contractions of a money market,under the control of those, who can only hope during the fluctuations of trade, to amass large fortunes from the use of their credit and th.-ir funds. Prospects have been tied out, so as to entice some of our sober farmers to venture nearly their all in the scramble for tock-jobhing eminence, while other capL talists anticipating the sudden rise of prop, erty in val le, after the abolishment of the National Bank,bought lahds and negroes; and to realize profits on re-sales, have forced prices to artificial and unwarrantable standards ; so that, while the price of negroes, of lands, of houses and rents, has been increa. sed by the over-issues of the Banks at home, our staple articles have been regular led by a'foreign demand ; and in this way, the measure of the planter's expenses have doubled, whib* his ability to pay for what he consumes, remnins the same, or has dimtnished. Let the Banks issue ever so much paper, this will benefit the Cotton Planter liille ; for over issues, that is, issues very far oIjovc the value of the annual crop, or the whole amount of the State's productive labor, only increases the prices of articles of domestic exchangeable value, such ss ar. ticie of living ; and add nothing to the price of Cotton, that depends on a foreign demand. -it r% . i Ills IS IIOl HI!. urrui puujs nu%? uccu taken Jo persuade the planter thai he is rich ; that he has spare money to venture in trade; nod that his patriotism and his interest alike call on him to draw a part of his capital from agriculture to invest it in stocks. Now of all persons he is least fi ted for trade or stockjobbing, for banking or brokering : he is too honest, too simple, and hos too much heart for 44 that sort of thing" : his occupation is to till the earth, which claims at his hands a devoted labor, whh all the skill, science and money he can expend to revive its fertility. Thnt indeed is a fatal j>oJicy, wliich draws the capital of the planters from agriculture, in an indebted State like ours, whose soils are nearly exhausted of their fertility ; and where whole Districts have been abandoned, that may be made productive, by not very larg inves'ments of lime and labor. The agricultural is our commanding interest; and to its improvement a tone, can we look for the means of relieving us from our present embarrassments ; for nothing else that w e produce in South Carolina, except Cotton and Rtce, will enable us to pay our foreign debts, and io part the debts of the Union. Let us not be deceived then ; we are not that prosperous people M the orators" would have us. Where are the increased sources of our wealth ? Has South Carolina, like Georgia, recently acquired an ex-, tensive fertile country, and a consequent in- ] crease of population and resources? Have new articles ol agriculture or manufacture, to any importum extent, been produced among us ? on the contrary, has not a considerable portion of our negroes been sent to tho West and South West, <md our ablest hands put at work on Ra 1 RoaJs, which, as yet, have give.; little, if any, profit to the Stockholders 1 Grant that our importations have near y doubled : that Charleston and the inland towns hud done an extensive business ; looking to the alarming fact that our crops must have diminished, how can we be prosperous ? We arv only so in dress end equipage, in sumptuous living and wild excess. True, the firmer now dresses in broadcloth, nnd partakes of luxuries, that ! he never dreampt of before, but how is he < to pay for them ? Search the Court records j for the nnddle and upper country for an an- i swer. Added to this you will find, that ow ! ing to the accomodations extended to country dealers by city merchants, who have < over-stocked themselves with goods, the i hard working farmer has been tempted with ' luxur'es at his own doorway ; and to pay < for them, or to avoid the Courts, he has les- i sened his provision culture and planted < more Cotton : so that between a diminished provision crop, and a npt much greater yield I of Cotton than before, he is in a fair way I to ruin. i Sir, we are good natured people,fond oftho State, and easily excited by appeals to our patriotism. We have been wrought on to lend our time and means in aid of the wildest schemes. No sooner does one plan of pretended State aggrandizement fail, than another is suggested. Not looking for a moment at our internal wants, the improvement of our rivers, roads, bridges, ferries, canals, we are taught to believe that tho opening of one or two highways, through which articles of foreign 1 ?bor can he irnnsported to Charleston, will enrich the whole State, the planters and all. And tl>en we are to have a direct trade ! as if trade will not direct itself. How can we have a direct trade while we aro indebted to the North ? i How can we throw off our fetters, when we owe for the very bread we eat ? The planter (and so can the State) who raises his own provisions, and is not indeb:ed, may hold back his Cotton, ship or cause it to be shipped when lie pleases, but when he has Corn to buy and is in debt, he raises his Cotton crop for his creditor. If not so ?if the planter is not indebted to the North, why should not the patriotic Charleston merchant export the bulk of our Cotton dired to England? The truth is plain : we are indebted to the North for necessaries, and she will send our Cotton where she lis' teth ! It is time, then, that our planters should open their eyes. They have been long enough charmed by the names of big men. They, of all others, have a stake in this cris!s. They have been saddled with Stale responsibilities to a large umount, in which ihcy had no lot or profit, and their lands and negroes are plnrfged for the fulfilment of t:.em. Where else will the greater part of ihe State's revenue coma from ? Not the Stock Companies for they are exempt from taxation. Bearing thpse important relations to the S:ate, as her tax payers and the producers of her real wealth, the planters should be gin to think and act for themselves; and demand of the Legislature such enactments as will enable them to bear her burdens, and maintain her character for good faith unimpaired. They should demand of the State ?not that she would loan the money, or charier a stock-jobbing company, or en. dorse the liabilities of the planters, but that she must encourage domestic lubor?improve our roads and water courses?open new ways to market places by land and I water?extend bounties to manufacturers | and new cultures?establish an agricultural professorship and districts schools for the education of our children?cause by discreet appropriations of money, the hidden sources of our mineral wealth to be developed?re. form our police laws-?refuse licenses to the retailers of ardent spiri:s?keep our ngri~ cultural State from entering the lists with money changers and stock-gamblers ; and, lastly, so foster every domestic interest, that producing our own articles of prime neces. sity, we shall be able to spare a large part of our income to extinguish our liabilities at home and broad. PLANTER. Culture of Strawberries. Mr. Dille, Editor of the Farmers Re. gis'.er, at Newark, Ohio, gives the following method of cultivating the Strawberry, which he has practised with great success, Mr. Dille says We have been requested by several of our friends, to give our system of raising strawberries, in detail. As we have been very successful in this culture, at least feel a confidence in our mode of proceeding. As a matter of course, the preparation of the soil must precede the planting. It is not the richest but a proper so I that is required. New land is generally in a right condition. If it be old, to a bed of 50 feet long by 20 in breadth, give about four or five cart loads rotten wood or leaves and wood from the woods, six cart loads ot cow or hog manure well rotted, put this upon the soil and spread it in deep, mixing it well from the surface down. In spreading see ihat the eaith is all loose and mellow so that the roots will have no difficulty in striking wide and deep. Instead of a high bed, which will be dry, make it low enough to receive ond retain the rains which may fall, but not so as to I have standing pools upon it. A dam is raised around the beds, or earth, which is broken down after the fruit begins to form that the bed may bo reasonably dry whilst ; it is ripening. A dry bed and dry weather give the sweetest and most fragraut fruit. Choice of Kinds.?We have cultivated the common scarlet, the English scarlet, Keen's seeding, and the wood or field straw, berry. The first bears best with us, the last bears well and is the most delicious. Time of Planting.?March, April, May, August,September or Octobor. We would advise in this country that plantations should be made in April or September.? Our planting in March has sometimes fail- j ed, and it is desirable that the plants should 1 have extended their roo:s well in the earl!; 1 before the frost comes on in winter. H(ince 1 September would be preferable to October, lor Autumnal planting, and better than Au. 1 gust, as there is a great probability of the 1 new plantation being well watered by the ' fall rains. 1 After Culture.?Keep the ground always I loose or mellow and free from weeds. Let i nothing else, unless it be some shrubs, as 1 roses, &c. be permitted to grow, on the f ground with the plants. After the runners 1 have covered the bed with young plants our I method is to go through the beds with a) r ipade, and turn up ihe earth, plants and all p )ne spade width, burying the plants com. c jletely under, and then leaving a spade's c width, and so on till we pass through the c 3ed in one direction. n This we do twice a year, in the bed h with the spade the other way so as to leave a he plant in little squares in the bed, 11 when their will be just about enough to co- * ver the ground properly, and by this means ii [he earth will always be kept mellow. The t spade should be about seven inches wide. I' After this operation in March let the bed r be lightly covered with tan bark, forest r [eaves or short straw, for the fruit to rest ' upon and keep clean. Oat straw should t not be used as it is apt to mildew the fruit, g This covering should be spaded in as a ma- s nurc in August. 1 When in blossom you can easily deter- < mine what poriion of your plants are bear- 1 ers. Those which will not bear produce 1 large flowers, with long showy stamens, t holding high there black authors. Whilst ' those which will bear have short stamens < and a great number of pistils, and flowers 1 are every way less showy. If the non 1 bearers are very numerous, many, not nil, 1 should be pulled out. If the weather is | drv during the flowering season the beds I ~'J e? o . shoold be slightly watered every evening, < to set the fruit, but when it begins to ripen 1 keep them dry as possible. The beds should be about three feet wide I for the convenience of gathering the fruit < without tramping down the soil. Never I use stable or horses manure, unless it be i well rotted. In spading, select the plants to j turn under and keep a succession of new i ones for bearers. I The following may explain why so few i people succeed in cultivating strawberries, ' and also, why bed last so few years in good bearing state. Cincinnati, June 21th, 1839. Mr. HammondIn your paper of this morning, you give an extract from the New York Journal of Commerce, which it ap- . pears that a person in the vicinity of that ( city, 4*th? present s? ason sold $240 worth of strawberries from one acre of ground." Mrs. i Arbigust, for several years from strawber. ries, made at the rate of $1000 per acre, | from her garden, in 'he vicinity of this city. She raised the variety called the Hudson, and they measured from 2 to 5 inches in circumference. For many years she was the only person in this vicinity, aware of the fact, that in this and mos: other straw borry, there are two classes of plants?ihe one defective in the male, and the other in the female organs; and that an acre of either kind separate, would not produce a perfect fruit. In running, the barren, or male vine, forms ten new plants, where ihe female forms one ; and the laiter soon disappear. She is the only person, with the exceotion of her children, that 1 have ever met with, who can tell the male from the female, when out of blossom, they can be distinguished at n distance of twenty, tat* This subject is, even now, but partially understood ; and with the care us<*d by Mrs. Arbigust, in the vicinity of New York an equal yield may be obtained. N. LONG WORTH. Cincinnati Gazette.] Gathering and Preserving Seeds. It v ill soon be time to think about guth. ering seeds of many kinds for next year. There are but few people who consider that plants, as well as animals, may be much improved by selectinfr muai penucfoctly grown, and earliest seed. The next year's crop will not only, by this means, be increnscd in quantity,but its quality will also l>e improved. All kinds of seeds that grow in husks or pods should be strung up and suspended from the ridgepole or a rafter in the garret, where they will be out of the way of mice, and where they will dry grad- I ually. Great care should be taken to keep them from an excess of moisture, which 1 will cause them to mould, and destroy the 1 germinative principle; and, on the other I hand, they will not be so good if they are shelled out (especially if it is done before 1 they arc perfectly ripe) and placed in the sun, or any situation where they will dry 1 very rapidly : they thus become shrivelled, 1 and will not so readily vegetate, al: hough 1 the vital principle may not be destroyed. 1 The seeds of squashes ; pumpkins, cucum- s bers, melons, &c. should be carefully clean- 1 ed from the pulp which surrounds them, 1 and then placed in a situation where they 1 will dry gradually, being every day slirred ( up or turned, to prevent their moulding. Seeds, after being thus prepared, may be preserved ft r almost any length of time in * a perfectly good state, by packing them in 1 pulverized charcoal and keeping them in a 1 dry place, or stopping them entirely from * the air in a glass bottle. Maine Farmer. ( THE TOMATO PLANT A PROTECTION FROM 1 CHINCH-BOO AND BUCKWHEAT FROM THE 1 TURNIP FLY. [ To the Editor ofthe Farmers' Rogister. i Indian Creek, Lancaster, Aug, ltht 1839. 1 The chinch bug has made usjappearance j in this county, but too late 1 hope to injure I very materially the growing crop of coru, i which is now, by far the most promising 1 i have ever seen in this region. If this little insect is as destructive as it has been rep- \ resented to be, to wheat, oats and corn, i should I live to the next seedling and plant- | ing season, 1 for one shall seed and plant i with serious apprehension of reaping and i! gathering a short crop. Perhaps 1 have i done wrong to entertain and express such v npprehension, I write us if I had forgotton o there is an olLwise and omnipotent being s who never uses his chastening rod but for n the good of his intelligent creatures ; and i V am convinced when the destructive insect s lias done that14 whereunto it was sent," it p will disappear, and not till then, and that u here is a * thus far" for it to go, and41 no g "arther." But, sir, while i entertain this a )pinion, I feel it to be my botinden duty ai o use every means to repel this destructive c< nvader of our fields. So far as 1 am in. tfi ormed all efforts heretofore made have had c< to good effect. A fact was a few days ast stated to me by a gentleman of this eni ounty, which I think ought to be communi- hat ated to you as the editor ofa valuable agri- ant ultural paper, in order that the information J lay be made general. The gentlemen al. cor jded to last sprinti carried out and manured use piece of ground with ashes and scrapings mu rom around his kitchen a. d yard, in which ? rere a quantity of tomato seed vegetated ; i working his corn he left standing between A he hills of corn, plants on about an acre of Mid ; now the fact intended to be com- cor nunicuted is, that in all this acre of land mo iot one stalk of corn has been touched by he? he chinch- bug, while all around about has pe) ieen fired or rather sucked dry by his in- mc iect. About two acres were manured with ( ishes and scrapings, and the gentleman a , hinks the tomato plants alone protected the :orn among which they grew, there being bu< 10 difference in the land, or quality or quanity of the manure applied. I mentioned his statement to a gentleman in Northumjerland, who seemed to be at once convin- CIC :ed that the tomato plums protects the corn, cn "or said he," I know that the little bug which is so destructive to cucumber vines pe will never show itself on them if tomato -i .1? >1 i i 8 1 plants are growing among mem. t nave g Ihus, sir made to you the above statement :o use as you please. Gut I do not stand mi sponsor for the tomuto plant. As the turnip sowing season is near at band, I will men'ion (as worthy of notice at least,) that a gentleman residing not far from Baltimore told me that to mix or sow tQ a small portion of buck wheat with turnip seed would certainly prevent the fly (which CQ is often so destructive to early sown turnips) ^ from injuring them. He said that the fly ^ greatly preferred feeding on the buck wheat, and would not touch the turnip as long as - ; there was any wheat for it to feed on. co Respcci fully yours, Ralph Edmonds. ' From the American Farmer. Canonsburg, August 16th, 1939. ty Mr. J. S. Skinner?As the season of Pc Tomatoes is at hand, I will send a lew ro? a(^ cipes for preserving them for winter use : fo Take tomatoes, say half peck, when ripe, but not too soft, skin them and cut them in ? two, leaving the seeds or not as you like; m, lay them on a dish, (I do not mash them ;) then tuke two quarts of strong vinegar, put fc one tablespoonful of allspice, the same of J>|( powdered ginger, the same of clovos, the T same of salt, half.tablespoonful good cayen- t'c ne pepper; put all (except the tomatoes) in fi'the vinegar; boil it in a very clean brass or bell-metal kettle for about half an hour? 9h then strain it through a sieve, put it again fo on a slow fire, and when it begins to boil, put in some of the tomatoes, but do not ur crowd them, VVlien they look clear take th them out carefully with a skimmer, and lay th them on a dish ; do so until you havo them ru all done, and when co'd put them in glass a( or white earthen jars with the vinegar in al which they were boiled. Dip writing pa~ gi per in brandy or strong vinegar, and put w over them : ?? * ihein tight, and put in a gi cool dry place. It is excellent with fn.sh ?<or any other kind of meat. ui Another?Take tomatoes when ripe, skin ai them, cut them in two, lay them on large ei dishes, put them in the sun to dry, turn tl them often, and when suffi iently dried f< in the sun, put them in a dry pluce. They si should be exposed to the sun after a damp n spell of weather. When stewed or cooked in any way, they are almost as good as when jr first taken from the vines. p( Another and caey mode of keeping To ma- ^ toes?Make a strong pickle of salt and water that wi>i bear an egg, make it cold, strain it into a crock on small keg ; take ripe to- s matoes, fill the crock or cage, pour the ^ pickle on them, and cover it with a thin gl stone to keep them under the pickle. In w the winter when you want some for use, put them in celd water tho night before, ^ and in the morning change the water until .ij oh na wan# tliam TKnn llllsjr UIU Q9 linou UO JUu nuin inuiii* A it^u ^ cook them, or cat them raw with vinegar, pepper and salt. J il cheap and excellent dish?Take cold cooked meat ofany kind, chop it fine, season w with salt, pepper, and a little but er and 3pice if you like. Then take stale bread ct say one-third to two of meat, soak it in D| milk or water taking care oot to make it loo wet; mix altogether; then take four or six large ripe tomatoes, skin them, chop ^ ;hem fine put them with the meat and bread, mix them well together, put in a deep dish, se ind bake it in a slow oven on a stove for CQ >ne hour; eat with gravy or not as you like. Another?Take cold cooked meat, chop fine, season with pepper, salt* and butter, ? [ifthe meat is not fa:); boil some potatoes, mash them, put one-third to two of the meat, so mix well together, put in a deep dish, bake ul ilow three-quarters of an hour. Ji? In your large cities there is a great deal ? >f provision thrown away by cooks that ,a might be inaue into wholesome and palata- ea >le dishes. All the above dishes I have a made. If our housewives would look more n nto their larders, they might save their S? lusbands some dollars in the course of the 1 fear. As this hint comes from an old lady, Pri hope my fair countrywomen will not take P t amiss, but pront tnereoy ; ana 10 maKe jp, | will give ihem another recipe. tai To preserve tomatoes in sugar, take them *a vhen ripe, but no: too soft, skin and cut them ' u n two, taking out the seeds?take for one *c lound of tomatoes three-quarters of a pound in >f sugar, loaf or browt, ; loaf is best to keep ro hem.?First take two fresh lemons, cut an hem in thin slices, put them in one quart of sul rater boil them until soft, strain the seeds *? ?uf, add the sugar, let it boil for half an hour ? lowly, then put in as many tomatoes as ot to crowd them. Let them boil until lear, then take them out carefully with a 1 lf fcimmer, lay them on a large dish, then Pr' ut more in and boil them the same; do so ntil all are done. When cold put them in W lass jars?If there is not syrup enoujjh to wo over them, make a litilo men. When grc II is cold, dip white writing paper in brandy, tun over them with if, put double paper over the tern, tie them tight, and keep them in a so* ool dry place. 1 I hope that our young housewives will a g Icavor to be the mothers of invention, and ie the credit of making their own recipes 1 cookery. [f you think the above recipes worthy a Tier in ihe Ladies' Department of your iful and valuable periodical, you will chobligo E. M. P. Darby. SILK CULTURE. " regular bite or a rale transaction. Mr Beach of Accomack, Virginia, has ttraded with a good and responsible n to deliver him next May, 80,000 ^reen llthy will matured buds at 1 1-4 cents bud, and expects to contract for 50,000 >re. The Hon. H. A Wise intends building cocoonery and planting trees next year For that purpose he has bought 80,000 ds. In th se facts there is no mistake. " American Farmer. silk culture in north carolina. Messrs. T. G. Br ought on <Sz Son?Enised is a skein of silk spun by the double :>p white silk worm. Your acceptance it will oblige me. At a very trifling oxnse, my family have reared nearly 20,000 k worms of the same kind as those which un this skein. Two hands have been iployed about 20 days in attending to v worms ; and sould I confirt the whole the coeonns in sowing silk, I should reali nearly $200.?The eggs however are nre valuable at present, and as they are demand I shall allow almost all the worms come out, with the view of saving the gs. This evening 1 took 500 of the hard coons to the Post Office to see how much ey weighed, and found that they weighed i 3_4 ounces. On ti?e 10th of June last y worms were hatched, and on the 14th 5t. they commenced spinning their coons. Thus, at the expense of less than JO, counting lime nnd every thing, I have ade nearly $200 in 4 weeks. " My object at first was amusement mere; afterwards I concluded to mukc the exriment whether silk could be trade with Ivantage in Carolina, aad the result speaks r itself, u My worms were fed on the morus albu -or the common white mulberry?and y greatest labour was in the collection ol e leaves. Mad I been prepared with a w of the Morus Multicaulis, mv' troue would have been greatly diminished his tree must continue to be a valuable nr:le for years to come ; we are now satisid that silk can be raised advantageously, id for the purpose of raising silk only, I ould think they ore destined to be valuable r some years.?Nor. Her. The Silk Business.?In the midst of the liversal depression in the price of cotton e enquiry naturally presents itself, whethei e southern planter is to be exposed to the linous expedients of the Bunk of Englant id the monied monopolies, without the >ili'y to savo himself. Must he go or 'owing cotton, as the only productior orthy of his attention 1 Or have the rowers of both wheat and cotton no re?iire? 7 We answer that there is a remedy ad one worthy of seiious and immediut tention. Instead of expending evi-rv en gy in the production of the.-.e articles lc le farmer and planter set apart a few acre >r the production of silk, it will yield a fa ifer and surer as well as a more vuluab! num. An acre of land or a less quantity, hat ig thereon growing 10,000 trees, with pre er management might, the first year, yiri jfficicul foliage at Jeu?l to feed 150,00 orms. Three thousand worms well fed may con ime 100 lbs. of foliage, and make on jshel of cocoons of ten pounds weight, an ifficient to make one pound of reeled silk orth six dollars Der oound. if well reel?d " It is on all hands granted, and hus bee imonstrated by actual experiment, lbs e expense of picking leaves, feeding th orm and reeling the silk by skilful man *on;ent need not exceed two dollars tin )und. li the above data are correct, the resul ou'd be 50 lbs. raw silk at 96 $300. Here is a plain statement, which may b< trofully anahsed, rated under the actua off', and every man knows that raw si'l Hst find for years readv buyers.?Europe >es not produce a sufficient quantity foi >me consumption, and if a supply couli i had, the demand would be trebly incread. We throw out these thoughts for tin insideration of those interested. Philadelphia Post. Moans Mcjlticaulis.?The Norristowr erald says :-Our exchange papers contair mo accounts of sales of this valuable iret prices greatly exceeding those sold at s rresnnndinf? season last vear. The Nor. I n k Beacon says that two thousand trees ve been sold in that pLce at fifty cents ch ; and the Lancaster Union says, that of has been sold in that city at one dollar ch ! At Carlisle trees are selling at 50 nts, and it appears that in Maryland arid rginia good trees readily command thai ice. Those who intend purchasing for mting next season, would do well to make ntracts for trees early, as they will cernly advance in price?besides, the ad. ntago derived from securing them well ring the winter would be greater than mid be obtained by the purchasing oftrees the spring, which have been bandied m one auction room or s'ore house to other during the whole winter, or have EF red for want of moisture or by exposure the atmosphere, even if such trees could procured at one fourth of the price, lousauds of trees were destroyed last win. by improper management; many of m were sold at auction at doublo the ces paid for them in the fall. Mulberry Sales.?A gentleman in hatly, wtio purchused last spring $350 rth of Mulberries, has just sold the crop >*ving therefrom, to be delivered next aunn, for $1800 !?being an increase upon outlay of $1450. The trees are of asted kinds. Ibid. The Snow Mill, Md. Banner states that ;entleman of that village has sold a lot of ihrifiy morus multicaulises at two dollars per tree. They were choice trees, grown from roots set out last spring, and are now six feet in height. The silk Farmer reports the following among other sales of trees. Mr. L. I. Cox, of Baltimore,sold 25,000 averaging 31-2 feet at 40 cents (over 111-2 cents per foot) the root thrown in , payment in full made on signing the contract Mr. Carter Harrison 30 miles from Richmond, sold 500 from last spring's cuttings at $1,16 each,cash down. At Che8tfcrtown, Md. a sale of 900 roots was made at $900. At Westchester, Pa. a sale of 18,000 trees at 10 cents per foot. [Advertisers of trees do not commonly, yet, state their prices. There are, however, some exceptions; a largo lot is advertised in the National Intelligencer, and another in the Richmond Enquirer, each at 2 cents the bud, a lo* to Raleigh at the same price, one in Fayctleville at a cent a and half, and one in Prince George's county Va. at from three quarters of a cent to a cent. These are ail the recent advertisements in which we see the prices stated, and in all, except the last the time for taking the prices named is limited to about the close of the present month. Prices have,been gradually rising 6iaco the first ales in the early part of summer, natwithstond* inf the depression in the money market. Efforts' hare been made to keep them down by a few persons who contracted last year to deliver trees the present season at 10 or 12 cents, and who in consequence of the failure of their cuttings to grow are obliged to buy at present prices to fulfil t.eir engagements. But they might as well attempt to keep down the tides of the oc ^an by the pressure of their hands. The article is now so extensively diffused that nothing but the extent of tho demand can materially affect the price. In some aspects of the matter it might, perhaps, be desirab c to see the price lower ; but, upon ttho whole, tho benefit a cruing to tho country from the high prices excoeds the injury, ?if indeed injury there bo at all. The high prices stimulate production, while they draw ten , times the attention to the subject which it would yet, otherwise attract; and the more it is looked into by men of entcrprize and reflection, the moro ! rapidly will the trees be bought and the silk r culture extend, as experience abundantly proves, i Besides, the highest prices are so low compared , with the profits of the silk culture that no judi. cious purchaser can lose by them. Indeed there is no other investment which a farmer or planter 1 can mak9 with the same prospect of good profit) i and this is the very, the only consideration that keeps up the price. If, thorcfore the rapid in* 1 creaso of the productive wealth of the country, and the saving of the more than twenty millions t of moucy now sent annually abroad foi the pur* , chase of silks would bo an advantage, the high r price of Moras Muliic&ulis is certainly, upon the ? who'o, no disadvantage. It injures none, while 1 it benefits many directly, and the whole country ? I* in not liko the factitious and 1 temporary valuo sometimos put upon article*, 1 like "tree corn* little known and lew valued 5 where they are known. Ed. Cii. Gax.] ? M HI An article in the National Gazetto after quo. [ ting the published sales of Morus Multicaulie i for last week, adds as follows, it From the foregoing it will be seen that a the sales of tre is r<'[)orted In a single week r exceed 30,000, and hat prices are contin* e ually adavneing. in the face of a pressure for money severe enough to depress tho r? price of both flour and cotton. The selling season is moreover not half gone, yet at ,j least one.quarter of all thejrees in the coun0 try have been sold, some of ihem two or three times. At this time last year, no one i. thought of buying trees ; but now, before 0 they are half grown, and before the purcha. d ser can tell what size the trees he is buying : will altain to, the demand at home and at |# the West is rapidly taking the stock off the n grower's hands. The naked fact is this : the people of this e country have become so thoroughly satis. ? fled of the great profit to be realized by f? growing silk, that the mighty movement in that direction, which is now urging on all t classes to embark in it, cannot be repressed until our whole country is luxuriant with 3 mulberry frees ; nnd the day is fast approa. | ching when, in advertising a farm for sale, c it will be as indispensable a recommend* 3 ation to it to say that it contains five, ten, P or twenty acres of Multicnulis trees, as that | it contains as many of mu?dow or wood* . land. We import $25,000,000 of silk { every year; if we pay for it in raw silk, as we first exported our raw cotion, it will require two thousand millions of Muliicaulis ( trees to produce that quantity of silk?and 4 thfy must be good trees also. When wo pay in raw silk for our importations of tho manufectured article, we have the markets of France and England open to us. They ' alone import annually nine millions of t pounds of raw silk. If sdk then, be so | great a staple of Europe, nothing but the la. | ztmss of Americans prevents us making it ^ a staple with us, and the reader knows well I that we are not a l;i2y people. We have now the steam power, tho cotton power, | the tobacco power, and a multitude ofoth. er powers, all affording their respective amounts of comfort to the People of this country. But we lack one power yet; I mean the power?that power which has fed half China and all Italy for so many hun. dred years?that army of lit ing machines, whose collective potency the shallow, and brainless, and ignorant croakers of the day have not the smallest conception of. Let I them read and learn. Silk Market.?Philadelphia, Aug, 31. Cocoons $2 50 to 85 p<*r bushel; the demand exceeding the supp'y. Silk worm Eggs, $10 per ounce of clear eggs. American Reeled Silk, 85 50 per pound. Brooks's Reel for reeling und twisting s.lk, 835 to 40. Dennis's Reel, about 830. Gay's complete Silk Machinery, 8400# Cheyney's Reel. 80. Piedmontese or Italian Reel, $15. Silk Farmer. A severe and fatal dysentery, accompanied in some instances with symptoms of cholera, has broken out at S^ingfiold Vt.