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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 cars of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot
of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his coun-
try, than the whole race of politicians put together."
Swift.

INDIANA UNOLA N-

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LIBRARY

PETERSBURG, VA.

PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR.

1838.

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Agricultural Convention in Virginia, failure of, 63 Agricultural Convention of New York, proceedings of 28, 762

Agricultural improvement, governmental action in aid of, 449-by small farmers, 101

Agricultural Survey of Massachusetts, remarks on, 253 Agricultural Societies, Arthur Young's opinion of, 602 Agricultural Society, Central, proceedings of, 614 Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg, proceedings of, 609-Address to, 649

Agriculture, the morals of, 304

Asparagus, culture of, 37, 398, 662

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Banks, the several operations of, on agricultural and general interests, 422

Bartram, the self-taught American botanist, 455
Beans, to harvest 558*

Beavers on Nottoway river, 561-proposal to domesticate, 616

Bedding land, 3

Bees, new mode of hiving swarms of, 13
Beet sugar, 695, 552-bounty for, 47-full directions
for manufacture of, 91-fabrication of in France,
150, 374, 428

Beet sugar culture, extension of in Europe, 107
Birds, remarkable attraction of, 398-to keep from

seeds 246

Birds, migration of 570
Black-weevil 551

Blight in pear trees 188, 359, 552
Bone manure 90, 183, 250
Book farming 607

Boring for water near London 177, 178
Bots, or grubs in horses 457
Bread baked by steam 286

Bread as food for cattle and horses 90

Agriculture, some of the common errors which serve Bricks, difference of wet and dry in masonry 298 to depress it, 187

Agriculture connected with physics, 278

Agriculture in Maryland, improvement of, 124
Agriculture of Virginia, prospects of, 127

Agriculture of Nelson and Amherst, 7, 460-of Campbell, 34

Agriculture, in Calvert, Maryland, 49
Agriculture of Halifax, Virginia, 117
Agriculture of western New York, account of, No I,
441-No. II. 555

Agriculture, and other notices of Warren county, N. C.

228

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Animalcules from flint, 53

Bridge of Fribourg, account of 396
Bridges 72

British opinions on the Essay on Calcareous Manures,' and the original discovery of one of its po

sitions 380

Buckwheat as a green manure 219
Bud, each one has its roots 640
Bull, short-horned, Mr Booth's 383

Burnt earth, its influence on the spirit in wine 264 Burnt clay as manure, its preparation and application 134

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Calcareous earth, action of in preserving putrescent

matters 154

Canal boats, experiments on, at high velocities 79 Canals, resistance to motion in, relative to velocity 575

* The eight pages (signature 71) which follow 552,

"Animalized carbon," identity of with prepared hu- were numbered incorrectly, by mistake of the printer.

man excrements, 251

Animalized carbon, Lance's, 250-Owen's, 397

Apple trees, new method of propagating, 206, 213 Apples, to keep sound, 181

Arable land, 564*

All theart icles on them are here marked (thus *) and the references are made to the proper numbers for those pages. The reader can make the corrections required, by referring to the preceding and succeeding pages.

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