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Acid carbonic, production of in a liquid state 702

Acid soils, objections to their existence 640-evidence

in support of 729

Agricultural improvement, obstructed by prevailing
habits and opinions-by P. W. Harper 284
Agricultural journals, general value of 327-their uses
to the cultivators of the rich western lands 327

Agricultural journals, French 432

Agricultural prospects of Virginia 762

|Aphis, or blight, remarks on 438

Appomattox upper, advantages of improving the navi-
gation of 572-report of the engineer thereon 573

Apprentices to farming recommended 161

Army worm, account of its habits and devastations

form and sustain them 564

Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, address to by Dr.
R. R. Barton 5/8

Audubon the American naturalist, account of 78

on the present condition of 352-its connexion with Blinkers (or blinds) for horses objected to 273

other sciences 713-fire-side reflections on of a "Blue grass" excellent for hay 649, 650

Buckinghain farmer 177 its improvement in Bava- Boat bridges for rail roads-notice of those in Ger-
ria by the policy of government 167-on the plea-
sures of 425-on the improvement of, address on
to the Agricultural Society of Charlotte 367
Agriculture of Rhode Island, general account of 739
Agriculture Société Royale et Centrale de, review of its

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Bone manure, effect of on turnips 92-other accounts
196-prize report of experiments on the effects of 318;
observations on 319-prepared in New York, and
exportation to England 347—inquiries and remarks
on by John Wickham 379-on its value 562-mode
of preparing and applying by J. H. Gibbon 563

Bones fossil, the immense quantity in Siberia 80

Bones, horns, &c. effects of as manure 409

Book farmers, an apology for 17

Bots in horses, not injurious 250, 251

Boulware's Wm. address to the Agricultural Society of

King William and King and Queen 481

Bread, machinery for making 168

Bread made of wood, the rationale and the process

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Broom corn, profits of its culture 432
Broom grasses, botanical description of the different
kinds 745

Buckwheat and millet, queries on 80

Buckwheat, considered as a green crop and compared
with clover 303-its cleansing effect when made a
preparing crop 138

Buckwheat straw furnishes a blue coloring matter 616
Bull, on the proper qualities of 209-mode of fixing
to prevent damage from when vicious 210
Butter, how made in Chile 37-successful manage-
ment of in Massachusetts 561-making and preser-
vation of in England 589--on the making and man-
agement of in the dairy district of Scotland 717

Cabbages, manure for 97

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Cabell, N. F. reports the product of a remarkable crop
of corn 659-a trial of Herbemont's wine 648
Calcareous deposites on the borders of Piankitank Ri-
ver described by A. Billups 348

Calcareous earth, abundant in the prairie soils of Ala-
bama 716, 717-supposed to be the cause of the ab-
sence of trees on the prairies, pampas and steppes 716
-none present in nearly all the lands now or for-
merly under trees in Virginia and elsewhere 716
Calcareous region of Alabama described by R. W.
Withers 637

Calcareous rock discovered in Prince Edward by W.

S. Morton 154

Calculating machine, account of Babbage's 240
Calf, extraordinary size of 238

Calves, treatment and rearing of 269-on feeding for
veal 329

Canada Thistle, on its effects as a weed and means to
check its extension 29-its first appearance in Mary-
land 30

Canals in the United States, list of 468

Caoutchouc on India rubber, account of its recent
conversion to various economical uses 414
Carbonate of lime crystalized, found in marl 444
Carmichael, W. on Cooley's thrashing machine and
Eastern Shore improvements 364-describes a pro-
ductive kind of corn 604

Carrots, premium crop of and the culture 754

Cart, (drag) of Lord Somerville, figures and descrip-
tion of 615

Carter, Hill, on the advantages of the four-shift rotation

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Commercial reports, monthly 63, 125, 181, 247, 391,
443, 520, 578, 639, 709, 776
Cooking animal food, loss of weight by 171
Cordage materials for, Agave Americana and Yucca
Filamentosa 6

Corn, (Indian, or Maize) native country of 75—on
the manner and expense of cultivation 65, 10, 701-
mode of cultivating on the Pamunky objected to
466-the mode of cultivating by J. R. Wallace 618
the harvesting of 661-greater shrinkage afterwards
of grain from which the fodder had not been re-
moved 662-its being topped considered 422-a new
inode of cultivating (in Alabama) mixed with
rice, potatoes, peas and pea-nuts 634-mode of
saving the fodder and stalks 635-a' productive kind
obtained by selection,described by J. M. Garnett 496;
and by W. Carmichael 604-a remarkable crop of
in Buckingham, stated by N. F. Cabell 659-large
products of, and remarks on 638, 639-the impro-
priety of hilling 155-salted to guard from weevil

390

compared to the three-shift, and in reply to objec- Corn tops, the cutting of injurious to the grain 91-

tions 657
Caruthers, John F. on the vine culture of Rockbridge
381

Cattle, Mr. Coke's at Holkham 142-extensive sales of
in England 165, 170-on the breeding, rearing, fat-
tening and general management of 193-on buying
and stocking a farm with 207-description of the
wild breed 193 of the Devon breed 194-Here-
ford 796-Short Horned, Dutch, Holderness and
Teeswater 196-Long Horned 198-Galloway breed
199-Highland breed 200-Ayrshire breed 201-
Kyloes or Isle of Sky breed 201-Alderney breed of
301-on soiling, advantages of 393-stall feeding
395-different methods of 396, 397-the points by
which they are to be judged 446--on grazing for
profit 333--artificial food for 457-stable manage-
ment of 459-rules for the sale of 460---weights,
live and dead 462-table of prices 463
Cedars, remarks on sprouting the seed 536-transplant-
ing for hedges 536-hedges of, management of, by
John Taylor of Caroline 536-on raising them from
the seed, and transplanting 640
Celery, the mode of cultivation directed 603
Cement, newly discovered, forming an artificial stone

702

Cheat supposed to be produced from wheat 60, 162-
causes supposed 162

also according to the experiments and report of Mr.
Clark and others 243

Corn-stalks, on the value and mode of using as food
for cattle 728

Corn laws of England, their appoaching termina-

tion 336

Corn trade, foreign, of England, account of 173
Cotton in Florida 2-account of its introduction into
the United States, and progress of its culture 353—
the several species 353-Sea Island, description of,
culture and after management 355 to 359-short sta-
ple, description and management of 359-value of
cotton as a product 362-observations on the crop
of 1834, and on the crop in general 122-the several
species described by H. B. Croom 590, 769-re-
marks on Mr. Spalding's essay on cotton 591-Egyp-
tian, remarks on 770-rot in, supposed cause of,
and the introduction of the Petit Gulf kind as a rem-
edy 548-rust in caused by insects 725
Cotton gin, Whitney's 360

Cotton manufacture in England, its progress 758
Country pleasures, letter from a boy to his friend in
town 764

Cow producing four calves at a birth 374-the proper
qualities for breeding 210

Cows, diseases of 89-worked in Nassau 276-valua-

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Dairy, situation and buildings proper for 585; utensils
for 586; management of milk, cream and butter 586
Dairy business and fattening animals, comparative
profits of 313

Deformities produced by darkness 238

Devon breed of cattle described 194

Dew, Professor, letter from to the editor, prefatory to
his Essay on the Usury Laws 97; on interest of mo-
ney, and the policy of laws against usury 98
Diary of the weather 60; for quarter ending with Sep-
tember 446: ending with December 1834, 555
Discontinuances of subscribtions, improper and fraudu-
lent in certain modes 192

Diseases of wheat, uncertainty and general errors re-
specting 278

Diseases of cattle, want of knowledge of among farm-

ers 293

Domesticated fish 153

Draining, remarks on 59

Drag log,

or drag-roller 751

Draught, treatise on the principles of 623

Dried fruit, to preserve from insects 533

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Vol. I.]
Dupuy, W. J. on the suitableness of sheep husbandry

for middle Virginia 656

William and Mary 239; objections to frequent expres-
sion of editorial opinions 239; partridge pea 255; on
the ambiguous signatures to communications 256; the
papers and procedure of the Highland Society pro-
posed as an example to the agricultural societies of
this country 266; causes of unprofitable tillage in
Virginia 266; "Bubbles from the Brunnens" 272; on
the diseases of wheat, and their uncertain nomer-
clature 278; on the petition for a change in the law
of enclosures 283; on the value of bone manure 319;
on cheat and spelt, and the introduction of the latter
in this country 325; on the use of periodical jour-
nals to the western planters 327; on the removal of
restrictions on trade in England and in the United
States 336; Professor Rogers' apparatus for anal-
yzing marl 365; on the three and four-shift rotations
380; Cunningham and Norton grapes, and failure in
vine culture in the United States 381; on the peti-
tion for a change in the law respecting enclosures,
and the peculiar oppression of that law on the poor
402; vine culture, and the probable need of a calca-
reous soil for vines 404; cheat controvery 408; le-
gislation needed for the promotion of agriculture
418; review of the transactions of the Société Roy-
ale et Centrale d'Agriculture, 432; crystallized carbo-
nate of lime found in marl 444; Artesian wells of
Alabama 455; prairie soils, samples desired 455;
British Association 456; typographical errors 456;
comparative statement of the three and four-shift
rotations 466; moth weevil moving northward 466;
improvement of wheat fan described 485; on the
experiments necessary to settle the question as to
the gain or loss of gathering fodder 486, 487; hum-
ming bird made tame 496; on the action of quick-
lime in connexion with putrescent manures 497; the
value of the writings of John Taylor of Caroline,
particularly his Inquiry, &c. 510; spade culture in
England 513; the effect of smuggling on the re-
strictive system 516; the importance of geological
surveys to Virginia 517; on the Norton Grape 520;
on the change required in the proceedings of agri-
cultural societies 523; on sprouting the seeds of ce-
dar, and transplanting for hedges 536; on the pre-
paring bones for manure 562; on the effect of expo-
sure of lime to the air 602; on the effects of expo-
sure to wet and heat on gypsum 603, 631; on Mr.
Woodson's report of experiments on the losses
caused by gathering fodder, and reaping green wheat
610; the general results of the law of enclosures on
interests of Virginia 610, 611; on the obstacles to
the improvement of lands naturally poor 614; notice
of the Tennessee Farmer 622; on Artesian wells, and
anticipations of their future benefits 630; constitu-
ent parts of gypsum 632; on the expense of water-
bone marl 637; on the objections to communications
to the Farmers' Register being anonymous 660; on
the translation of the account of vine culture near
Paris 693; on the labors of Mr. Blacker in Ireland
706; the season and weather of first quarter of 1835
776; thefts committed in post offices 710; on the re-
cent enactments of the legislature of Virginia, af-
fecting the interests of agriculture 711; on the com-
mittee of agriculture and manufactures, and its re-
port on the petitions for a change of the law of en-
closures 711; on misapprehension respecting edito-
rial comments 712; on the calcareous constitution
of prairie soils, and speculations on the cause of
their peculiar features 716; the difficulties attending
the absence of carbonate of lime in soils 728; Chi-
nese mulberry, not to be preserved by propagation
by seeds 738; on the state and prospects of the Far-
mers' Register 765; on Mr. Lewis' lime kilns 769;
mountain locust (robinia pseudacacia) supposed to
be a native tree of lower Virginia 770; on the im-
provements of small farmers in Ireland 775; season
in April 1835, 776

Dutch ashes as manure, use and value of 167, 432; |
chemical analysis of 168

Du Val, J. on the propriety of the names of corres-
pondents being signed to communications 690; on
keeping Irish potatoes 660

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Editorial remarks-on the offspring of hybrid animals
3; on the value of yellow locust seed 3; opinions of
old authors on tobacco 11; changes of volcanic pro-
ducts to fertile soil 12; on the periodical returns of
diary of his harvest labors 52; reports of crops and
seasons 63; cheap edition of the Farmers' Register
proposed 63; and abandoned 256; Tunicata corn 75;
on gathering fodder (from corn) as practised in Vir-
ginia 92; Tornado of June 1834, 122; Richmond
and Fredericksburg railway 124; pine bug or worm
125; reaping with the scythe in England 132; on salt
and carbonate of soda as manures 137; Mr Coke's
farming 142; on the discovery of calcareous rock in
Prince Edward, and of the green sand in the lower
counties of Virginia 154; impolicy of inspections of
ps um 180; abuses in discontinuances of subscrip- "Editorial communications," how to construct 581
tions 192; condition and prospects of the College of Eels, singular habits of 187

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