FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Faiining of J. F. Edmunds, same account of 211 — of 



Richard Sampson, 364— of Mr. Steenrod 616 — in 



Loudoun 5J>3 

 Ferret, notice of 392 

 Fi;r, account of 393 

 Filberts, to keep sound, 675 

 Filth, police of in towns, an<l its bearing on comfort, 



decency and health, 160, 166 

 Filth of towns, 293 

 Fishnjii- with buck-eye 398 



Flavors, foreign, on communication of to fruits 647 

 FJax, New Zealand. 173 

 Flies, to keep from horses 552 

 Flies, Italian method of keeping them from houses, 



246 

 Flora, American, 153 

 Flour rioters in New York 49 

 Flowers and plants, in rooms, management of 663 

 Fly in turnips 290 

 Fodder, loss sustained by stripping from corn-stalks 



482 

 Food, and its loss in cooking 611 

 Food, human, 601 



Forests, effects of on the size of river currents, 399 

 Four-st)ift rotation 247 



Frogs, apparent descent of from the clouds 254 

 Fuel, economy in 749 — dispensing with coal for 695 



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Gardening and rural improvement generally, summary 

 view oi' the progress of. 494 



Garnett, .Tames M. his proposal to publish "The Hus- 

 bandry and Horticulture of the Atlantic States" See. 

 445 



Germination of old seeds 456 



Goochland lands, general description of, 362 



(Jrain-worm 312 



Grape culture, observations on 430 — in South Carolina 

 378 —in North Carolina 636 



Grapes on town houses 675 



Grass, and grazing on arable lands 754 



Grass crops, importance of 171 



Grasses, artificial 214 



Grazing farms of the mountains 605 



Green crop system 290 



Green-sand, its effects 5 — queries to ascertain the 

 effects of 511 



Gypsum, use of, 180 — English opinions concerning 

 484 — effect of in liiiht dressinjcs 36 



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Hay, clover, improved method of making 257 



Hay, meadow, on making, 258, another mode 258 



Hay. salt-marsh, for manure 125 



Hedges, 54, 86 



Hill-side ditches to prevent washing 3, 143, 302, 752 



Hogs, fattening of 455, 644 



Hogs, on the breeding and rearing of, 642 — feeding 

 and fattening 644 



Hoilow-horn 459 



Horizontal ploughing 302 



Horse, management of 109 



Horses, past and present state of 199 — injured by eat- 

 ing corn from new-ground 303 — race, 648 — wild, 

 taming of 481 



Horticulture, first principles of 580 



Hot blast, in iron works 750 



Houses for meat made rat-proof 553* 



Husbandry, Flemish, 537, 5SS 



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Implements of husbandry, the various kinds 394 



Iron, effects of sea-water on 255 



Iron mine in Chesterfield, account of a visit to 361 



Iron ore, Deakin's improved blast for smelting 691 - 

 Ivy, the Irish or giant 292 



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Kidney-beans 261 



Kitchen gardens, the cropping of on fixed principles, 



306 

 Kyan's process for preventing dry-rot recommended 



for railway timbers 243, 547 

 Kyanizing wood for garden and other purposes 262, 



638 



Labor, slave and free, compared 746 



Laburnum seed 255 



Leaves as manure 483, 758, 665 — the increasing use of 

 665 



Legislation of Virginia — stay law — refusal of aid to ag- 

 riculture, 190 



Lime, 613 — increased use of in Maine, 453 — utility of 

 in preserving fence-posts 227 — alleged disappearance 

 of after its application 373 — as manure for potatoes 

 750 — difference of kinds, 605 — use of in Fairfax 605 

 — oyster-shell, benefit and profits of using, 218 



Limestone (or hard marl) discovered near Charleston 

 South Carolina 597 



Limestones of Rockbridge county 669 



Listing corn land 178 



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Machine for planting corn 758 



Machine fur drawing up stumps of trees 374 



Malaria and autumnal diseases, remarks on the causes 

 and means of prevention 41 



Mangel wurtzel 294, 676 — the leaves should not be 

 pulled 294 



Manufacturing and mining companies, general law re- 

 gulating 144 



Manure, making of 3 — means of making large qiianti- 

 ties, and manner of applying it, 77, 746 — abundance 

 of resources for 122 — for wheat 390 



Manure, stable, the waste and destruction of, as usu- 

 ally made, especially in towns 168 



Manure, farm-yard, particular mode of applying 38 



Manure, a new kind 397^-used in France 1S2 



Manure, of corn-stalks, estimate of the worth of 444 



Manure, green, buckwheat, 219 



Manure, stimulating 760 



Manuring, 204 



■Manures, 193, 195, 553 — nature and application of 

 297— experiments of diilerent kinds on turnips 309 



Alare's twins of different r?ces 208 



Marine spring off the coast of Florida 311 



Marl, queries to ascertain the effects of 510 — experi- 

 ments of the efiifcts of 511 — nature of in Surry coun- 

 ty, 5 — marl found throughout an extensive region of 

 South Carolina 693 — carried from Virginia to Con- 

 necticut 506 — in Delaware 743 



Marling, plan for procuring a general report of the 

 practical effects of 509 



Marling at Shirley, efi'ectof 247 — ^in New Jersey 743 



IMarling peach trees 482 



Marsh, embanked of Shirley, progress of sinking and 

 loss 40 



Marsh effluvia 142 



Marsh lands on the Chesapeake 208 



Marshes, salt, and malaria 142 



Marshes, insaiubriety of 460 



Mecklenburg county, natural advantages of a part of 

 of 4S3 



Mill ponds advantageously substituted by canals 1,3 



Mine, deepest in Great Britain 209, 3('7 



Miscellaneous remarks on practical agriculture, 560, 

 666, 746 



Mistake, explanation of 254 



