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of soil 146; plantations 147; cultivation and pro- Key, R. D. on water furrowing 320

Locust, yellow or wild, high prices of the timber 3
Locust, American, (cicada septemdecem) remarks on
on its remarkable habits 37, 126; account of 322
Locust, (the African,) its habits and destructive rava-
ges 69

Locust,honey (Gleditschia) and mountain (robinia pseu-
dacacia) native or foreign in lower Virginia? 770
Long horned breed of cattle described 198
Loss and gain in farming, remarks on 166
Louisiana, quantity of inundated lands of 766
Lower Virginia, causes of the depressed condition of

95

Low-grounds, cultivation of 88

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Macaire, remarks on his discovery of the excretory
powers of plants 157

Machine for sawing and boring, Hamilton's 97; for
getting out staves for barrels 277; Flagg's for riving
and drawing shingles 340; for knitting 753; for reap-
ing wheat, Hussey's, its operation described 593
Machines, thrashing 348; Clark's machine-Wright's
348; performance and cost of several kinds 348;
Cooley's described by Wm. Carmichael 364
Malaria, extracts from Professor Magill's Three Lec-
tures on 20

Mange in hogs cured by sulphur 352

Manual labor department of the Lane Seminary in
Ohio, account of 76

Milk sickness, a village on the Mississippi depopula-
ted by 308

Milk and cream, management of 586; churning 588
Mills, Haxall's and Chevallie's, in Richmond, power
of 141

Mill ponds, advantageously substituted by canals 579
Millet, its small value as a crop 304

Mine, the deepest in Great Britain, statements re-
specting 582

Minge, C. H. his estimate of expense of his second
year's work in using water-borne marl 636
Mississippi, a flood in described by Audubon 6
Mole, notice of 187

Moles, to destroy in gardens 128

Mongrels between a dog and she wolf 79

Moon, remarks on the influence of on vegetation 400,

ral features 390

Mud a material for compost manure 561
Mulberry, Chinese [morus multicaulis] not propagated
from seed 433; on means for acclimating 736; re-
marks on its culture in the United States 737, 738;
remarks on its value in France 774; only a variety
of the white mulberry, and its kind only to be pre-
served by being propagated by grafts or slips 774
Mulberry leaves, analysis of 755

Mule, history and qualities of 73; breeding, on the
farm of J.T. Kilby 3; the colt of, its death 389
Myrtle, the wild or candle-berry, a remedy against

weevil 156

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Manure, materials for on southern plantations 5; on
collecting materials for 80; from marsh mud 93,
528; liquid, importance of in horticulture, and of soot
as an ingredient 289; putrescent, on applying on, or
beneath the surface 715; from hogs, the making of
282, 528; ashes 314; lime, (in Pennsylvania) 311; of
green vegetables ploughed in 266, 382; putrescent,
on their fermentation, preservation, and application
497; putrescent, remarks on by J. M. G. 640; at-
traction for them by the soil, and propriety of top-
dressing 642, 643; observations on by J. B. in reply
to J. M. G's. strictures 669; applied to the surface
671; beneficial to but a limited extent on poor land
672; farm-yard 528; compost heap 528 ;application of,
directions for 529; putrescent, on the action of, and
chemical changes of in the soil 726; of fish, in Rhode
Island 740; liquid, management and use of in Flan-Nut bearing pine, notice of by W. B. Lockhart 350
ders 771, 773

Names of correspondents should be signed to commu-
nications 660, 661

Marl, effect of in Charles City and Caroline 255
Marl and carbonates in general, Professor W. B. Ro-
gers' apparatus for analyzing described 364; its pe-
culiar advantages 365

Marl, cost of a year's labor in digging, and carrying it
on water, by C. H. Minge 636
Marl and marling in Hanover 389, 644; in King Wil-
liam, King and Queen, and Essex counties 644
Marl, its effect in increasing the price of land in New
Jersey 710

Marl, (or calcareous earth) found in Charlotte county,
described by N. E. Read 712

Marsh mud as manure 93; its effects on vegetation 409
Measures, modern French, statement of 505; general
rule for 506; linear, superficial, and of capacity 506
solid measures, of time and of the circle 507; com-
pared with ancient measures 506, and English 507
Mechanics-ought to be understood by farmers 293
Melons, on ridging the ground for 23

Merino sheep, general account of, and their manage-
ment according to the Mesta in Spain 583
Meriwether, Wm. H. report on his farm 230
Metals, preserved from rust by the application of chem-
ical science 470

Mice, prevented from eating seeds sown in drills 414
Milk, account of the various modes of adulteration in
Paris, and the means for detecting the frauds 28
Milking cows, the proper and improper modes 222

Noel, E. F. sends account of wild rice, and proposes
its being introduced as a product of agriculture 604
Norfolk, (in Virginia) its facilities for commerce con-
trasted with those of Wilmington and other southern
towns 150

Nullifier, short horned bull, imported 392

Oak, Golenos, its remarkable size and value 140
Oat, skinless, its productiveness and value 161; notice
of by W. B. Lockhart 350

Oberlin, John Frederick, review of his life 370
Oil, from cotton seed suitable for lamps 90; from rape,
recent progress of its manufacture in France 771′
Onion, wild, its injurious effects as a weed 3; to de-
stroy-causes of its spreading 328

Onions, to prevent sprouting when stored 163; descrip-
tion of a mode of cultivating 599
Orange, on the cultivation of 725
Orchard grass, queries on 775
Orchards in quincunx order 757
Otter domesticated 422

Ox, remarkable size of one 35

Ox-carts, directions for making and using them by E.
Oxen, on the proper qualities and management of 330;
F. Noel 349
modes of yoking or harnessing 332; by the horns in
Cuba 657; shoeing 333

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Painting houses, usual errors in 166

Pamunky mode of cultivating corn, remarks on 709

Partridge pea greatly injurious to wheat crops 126
Pastures, on hard or light stocking of 335
Paulding, J. K. on rural enjoyments in town 510
Peach trees, to preserve from worms 687

Pea, Indian, the valuable qualities of 752; varieties de-
scribed, and their comparative advantages 752, 753
Peas, (field) a volunteer growth of after wheat 317
Peat, how found, and chemical characters of 735
Petition to the legislature of Virginia for a change of
the law of enclosures 283; letter introductory to,
from J. M. Garnett 283

Petition of stock-owners, in support of the present po-
licy of lawful enclosures 426

Petition for an amendment of the law respecting en-
closures on the margins of the navigable tide-waters
of James River 450

Phalana devastator, parent of the cut-worm, account
of 515

Piggeries, Mexican, account of 365

Pine, remarks on its value by N. E. Read 533

Pines, botanical description of the several kinds grow-
ing in the southern states 745

Planariæ, account of 191

Plant, aerial 222

Plants, new, discovered 170

Plants, their excretory powers 157

state and prospects of 124, 374, 468, 525; address
from the commissioners on 526; of Charleston, in-
crease of transportation on 741; proposed from Fred-
ericksburg to the Ohio 384; proposed to connect the
lower Mississippi and Chesapeake, plan of and re-
port 427

Rail road, undulating, objected to 729; portable, plan
of 729

Rail roads, speculations on their effects on commerce
and commercial towns 184

Rail roads in the United States, list of 468
Railways, rapid travelling on 455, 515; British, profits
of 423

Rape, culture and advantages of in Flanders 772
Rats, destroyed by suphuretted hydrogen 165
Read, Nicholas E. on agricultural societies and the
Farmer's Register 531; preserving sweet potatoes
533; dried fruit 533; value and uses of the pine tree
533; on the advantage of wood for fuel being dry
535; on the construction of fire places 619; on the
discovery of marl in Charlotte county 712

Reaping with the scythe in England, account of its
introduction and manner 132, 134

Reaping (or gathering) machine, for wheat described

222

Reaping machines, remarks on 135

Plymouth, Mass., on the soil and culture of 467; its Red lands of the South West Mountains, observations
vines and fruits 467

Ploughing, inquiry concerning 598

Poor lands, on the condition of the farmers on, and
the obstacles to their making profit or improvements
612, 614

Pork business in Cincinnati, account of 550

Pork and bacon, difference of weight and value, and
of the comparative profits of selling hogs in both
forms 687

Post offices, thefts committed in, of subscription mo-
ney 710; means to lessen the liability to 711
Posts, on the preservation of by N. E. Read 533
Potato, (sweet,) account of its earliest introduction
into Europe 677, modes of preserving in winter 532,
578, 661

Potato, (Irish,) its earliest known use, and old opin-
ions of its qualities 677, 678, 679; poisonous quality
of the skin 680; various uses of 680 to 683; effects in
family economy, and on population 683, 684; ex-
periments on the culture of in Ireland 504; good
food for sheep 162; when frozen, to restore 191; im-
portant result of an experiment in the culture, made
in Scotland 287; singular management of on wet
land 424; the difference of cut and un-cut for plant-
ing 449

Potato blossoms, prize experiment on the effects of
their removal 318

on the peculiarities of the soil, and the mode of cul-
tivation and improvement 233, 315, 705

Remarks on the papers of No. 9. viz: Hall on manure,
articles by N. E. Read 743-agricultural education-
horizontal ploughing-diseases of wheat, &c. &c.
744, 745

Report on the farms of Messrs. Rogers, Craven, and
Meriwether, in Albemarle 225

Reports of the season and state of crops 326
Review of an address delivered by Jeremiah Spofford,
before the Agricultural Society of Essex, (Mass.)
299; ignorance displayed in the address in respect
to the situation of the southern states 301
Review of the Memoirs of Oberlin 370
Rice, (wild) of the northern lake described, and its
introduction recommended, by E. F. Noel 604
Richardson, R. P. on lime as a medicine for horses 775
Road law of Virginia, (No. I.) extracts from 441; ob-
jections to the inequality and injustice of the tax 442;
No. II. 511, its greatest tax paid indirectly in the
cost of travelling on 511; usual improper appoint-
ments of surveyors, and the effects 511; ignorance
displayed in the usual modes of draining and re-
pairing roads 511, 512

Road law, its evils, and hints for its amendment 535;
the propriety of a state engineer being appointed to
superintend road making generally 536

Potato crop, recent failure of in Britain and Ireland-Road making, Macadam's plan 185
supposed causes and remedy 759 to 761

Prairie soils, from Alabama, analysis of 715, 716; sup-
posed with the steppes and pampas to derive their
peculiar features from containing a large proportion
of calcareous earth 716

Prairies of Alabama, account of 182
Pruning trees, rules for 247, 702
Productions, animal and vegetable, great difference of
on the alluvial and highlands of Louisiana 700
Public works, proposed for North Carolina 81

Rogers, Professor Wm. B. discovers green sand in
marls of lower Virginia 129; his analysis and de-
scription of the New Jersey green sand, or "marl"
as there called 131; continuation of his observations
on the green sand and lower tertiary formation, and
upon the calcareous marl of Virginia 747 to 751; de-
scribes his apparatus for analyzing marl and other
carbonates 364

Rogers, John, report on his farm 231; remarks on his
management and improvements 234

Putrefaction of vegetable matters 730; products of at Root culture, advantages of 702
surface of the earth 731; and under water 734

Rotation of crops, three-shift and four-shift, compari-
son of, and objections to the latter 464; remarks
on by J. Wickham 380; comparative advantages of
the two considered, by Hill Carter 657
Rural enjoyments in town, by J. K. Paulding 509
Rust in wheat and other plants, opinions as to the
causes, and remedies 417, 561

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Rail road of Portsmouth and Roanoke, its progress Salt as manure, its inefficacy 137, 385; decomposed,
413; of Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac, its value as manure 137; recent discovery of the

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process 137; remarks on the alledged discovery, and Stone fences, queries concerning their construction 496;
probable benefit to agriculture 386 to 388

Salt meadows, queries on 775

Sassafras, difficulty of killing 240

answered 608, 692

Subterranean village of ancient construction, found
in Georgia 401

Schools for instructing farmers' sons in the physical Sugar, raw, improved process for obtaining 140

sciences, importance of providing 290
Scott, Henry E. on gama grass 312

Season and crops on the Lower Roanoke, in June, 122;
in Buckingham 124; Gloucester 126
Seasons and crops, notices of 189

Season and weather of first quarter of 1835, remark-
able for cold and wet-effects of on crops 710
Selden, John A. on the four-field rotation, and Turkey
wheat 385

Serpents in South America, singular habits of 392
Shark, conjugal affection of 171

Sugar, production of in Algiers 434

Sugar cane, cutting down and wind-rowing to protect
from frost 547

Sugar maple, on the cultivation of 221; its seed col-
lected by the woodland mouse 221
Surry, improvements in 468

Swine, management of in Nassau, a country without
fences 274

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tained in an acre of land, at various given distances
592

Sheep, age of, how known by their teeth 8; of Ne-Table showing the number of spaces, or squares, con-
paul described 28; killed by cats 75; diseases of 89;
of Meade's Frederick stock 126; the breeds &c. at
Holkham 144; the points by which they are to be
judged 449; on wintering 647; oats for, cut green
and cured 753; produce most wool in cold climates
090; the choice for breeding 761

Sheep husbandry, the suitableness for middle Virginia,
by W. J. Dupuy 656; on the profits of, by James
Wilson, in lower Virginia 659; hints on 701
Shells, on the snowy mountains of Thibet 80
Shelton, W. on herds grass 656

Shepardia, or buffalo berry, account of 739
Short horned breed of cattle described 196
Silk culture in France, profits of 537; returns for each
of the several different parts of the business 539
Slaves, on the management of, (by Charles Woodson)
248; estimates of the expenses and profits of rearing
253; remarks on their prices and value of their la-
bor 763; hints in relation to their dwellings and
clothing 703

Slippery elm, flour of 439

Smugglers teaching the folly of restrictions on trade

516; their use of dogs to transport goods 516; amusing
anecdote of success 517

Smut balls, or pepper brand, in wheat, the cause, and
remedy 278

Smut, or dust brand, in wheat, cause-and remedy
230

Snake, suspended while alive by spiders 723
Soil, natural products of, and chemical characters 733;

acid 734

Soils, qualities of derived from the rocks intermixed
713, 714; queries on the constitution of 727
South West Mountain lands, description of the soil,
culture, and peculiarities of, by J. Barbour 705
Soot as manure 222, 289

Southern states, observations on the present condition

of 9

Tannier a valuable vegetable for the table, account of

25

Tar from pine 533

Taylor, John, of Caroline, the value of his writings

and services 510

Teasels, a profitable crop 352

Tennessee Farmer, a new periodical 622

Temperance, the advantages of in harvest labors 57
Temperature of the earth at various depths beneath
its surface 453

Thrashing machine, Bagby's, account of 326; Kitch-
en's, performance of reported 484
Thrashing machines, remarks on 494
Ticks on cattle, destroyed by brimstone 401
Timber, on the preservation of by corrosive subli-

mate 321

Tobacco, account of its origin and use 10; opinions
concerning of several old authors 11; hints on the
management of, by J. K. 8, 10; cutting and curing
223; reasons for not cutting it until fully ripe 400;
stripping and pressing 600, 601; the effects of the
crop on the agricultural interests of Virginia; use-
ful hints on the management of for market 746, in
hogsheads on board of bateaux, frequently injured
by weather-plan for its protection 605; good crop
of from Nottoway 156

Tobacco flies, to prevent the ravages of 552
Tobacco plant beds, on preserving 224
Tomato catsup 427
Tobacco planters, short rules for 466

Transplantation of trees, ill effects of, by C. Wood-
Trade in foreign corn of England, account of 173

son 249

Trees barked by mice, &c., means to cure 4
Turkeys, success in rearing 409

Turnip fly, its origin, and means to prevent its rava-
ges 219, 220

Tusser's Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie, re-
view of, and extracts from 26