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 INDIANA UNOLA N- VOLA VO LIBRARY PETERSBURG, VA. PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR. 1838. 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 B Banks, the several operations of, on agricultural and general interests, 422 Bartram, the self-taught American botanist, 455 Beavers on Nottoway river, 561-proposal to domesticate, 616 Bedding land, 3 Bees, new mode of hiving swarms of, 13 Beet sugar culture, extension of in Europe, 107 seeds 246 Birds, migration of 570 Blight in pear trees 188, 359, 552 Boring for water near London 177, 178 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 Nelson and Amherst, 7, 460-of Campbell, 34 Agriculture, in Calvert, Maryland, 49 Agriculture, and other notices of Warren county, N. C. 228 Animalcules from flint, 53 Bridge of Fribourg, account of 396 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 Burnt earth, its influence on the spirit in wine 264 Burnt clay as manure, its preparation and application 134 C 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. |