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Notices. 



Vol. IV. 



Quantity of rain which has fallen in each month 

 since January i, 1839. 



Inches. 



1st month, 5.03 



2d month .' 3,42 



3<I month, t 1.50 



4th month, 1 50 



5th month, 6.07 



ethmonth,., 3 92 



7th month, 3.51 



8th month 4.64* 



9th month, 2.92 



inth month,. . . .~ .2.83 , 



1 1th month, 3. 10 



* It rained on seventeen different days. 

 Philadelphia Hospital, 12th mo., 1st, 1839. 



New AVorks on Agriculture and HorticuI> 

 tiure« 



Mes.srs. Weeks, Jord.\n & Co., 121 



Washington street, Boston, have in course 

 of publication a series of practical works on 

 the Theory and Practice of Agriculture, Hor- 

 ticulture and Floriculture and Farming and 

 Gardening in all their varieties, also on Swine, 

 Horses, Cattle, Bees, Silk, Beet Root, Sugar, 

 the Dairy, Manures, &c. The works will be 

 by the very best authors, and will be printed 

 and bound in handsome style, and where ne- 

 cessary, illustrated with engravings. Some 

 of the series are already published and others 

 in press. They will be sold separately or in 

 sets as may be desired. 



THE WORKS PUBLISHED ARE 



1. Kenr'ck's Silk Grower's Gdide, a praclical work 

 on the growing of the Mulberry, with some instruc- 

 tions concerning the Silk Worm and its product. 



2. Cobb's Silk Mandal, with twenty engravings of 

 Machinery, Worms, Rools, Leaves, &c. Mr. Cobb is 

 60 well known as a pioneer in the Silk culture, and 

 his e.xperience has been so extensive that hi.s work 

 will be found one of the very best for the American 

 Silk Culturist. 



3. Frpit-Garden Companion, by E. Sayers, a practical 

 Gardener, author of tlie " Flower Garden Compan- 

 ion." The Post says, " Mr. Sayers has proi ed him- 

 self a thorough master of his subject, and his work 



cannot fail to he highly popular with the votaries of 

 that beautiful science.' 



The following are nearly ready or in preparation. 



1. The Economy of the Hog pen, or the Raising and 

 Fattening of Swine, by Henry Coleman, Commis- 

 sioner of Agricultural Survey for the State of Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



2. The Economy of Mandre, or the Method, Materials 

 and mode of applying Manures. 



3. Flower Gardes Companion, new edition, by E. 

 Sayers, author of " Fruit Garden Companion." 



4. Cdltore OF THE Dahlia AND Cactus, a practical 

 Treatise on its Culture, Varieties, situation, descrip- 

 tion of a good Flower, and the management of the 

 Cactus Tribe in a greenhouse and in the room. 



5. Kitchen Garden Companion, by an experienced 

 Gardener. 



6. The Apiary, or Rearing Bees, &c. &c. 



7. Practical Agriculture, for the general Farmer.— 

 By a well known writer. 



8. The Dairy — Cows, Milk, Butter, Cheese, &c. 



9. The Farrier, or a Treatise on raising, keeping and 

 treatment of the Horse, Disease. &c. 



SU" Every one acquainted witli the Agricultural 

 prospects and past progress of our country, feels that it 

 has advanced as much within the past ten years, as it 

 had for the previous half century, and the works is- 

 sued in our Farmers' Library will partake of the 

 spirit of the times. 



td'A notice of the Proceedings of the Cuyahooa 

 County (Ohio) Agricultural Society, will appear in 

 our next. It appears, that a Mr. Lindley of Euclid 

 township, raised on the eighth of an acre two hundred, 

 thirty two and a half bushels of Sugar Beet, equal to 

 one thousand eight hundred and sixty bushels the acre. 

 Expense of cultivation eightdoUars seventy-five cents, 

 or at the rate of seventy dollars the acre. Unfortu- 

 nately, no statement of the mode of cultivation was 

 furnished. It is not yet too late, and we hope that Mr. 

 Lindley will furnish the public through some one of 

 the agricultural journals, a detailed account of his 

 mode of culture, character of the soil, &c. &c. 



Sd" Expenses and Proceeds of Crops— No. II — with 

 several other communications of interest, were not re- 

 ceived by the Editor in season for the present number- 

 They will appear in our next. 



The ^griniltiiral .llmnnac for 1840, calculated fbr the 

 meridian of Philadelphia. This Almanac contains, be- 

 sides the calendar, a variety of useful articles on agri- 

 culture — eight pages of miscellaneous matter. Ap- 

 pended to the Almanac is a catalogue of Implements, 

 Machines, Tools, Seeds, &c. &c., for sale at the Agri^ 

 cultural Wnroliouse, No. 87 North Second street, Phila- 

 delphia. The improved Agricultural Implements are 

 briefly described, and many of them illustrated by wood 

 engravings. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



A monthly newspaper, is published by 



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PETER B. PORTER, No. 97 MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON, DEL. 



The Cabinet is published on or about the fifteenth 

 of every month. Each number will contain thirty-two 

 octavo pages on good paper and fair type. The sub- 

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 One dollar per year payalde in advance. The Cabinet, 

 , by the decision of the Post Master General, is subject 



only to veinapnpi-r postage; that is, one cent on each 

 number within the state, and within one htindred miles 

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 or with the half volume. No. 7. 



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