FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Broom corn, profits of rts;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 Eufrland 5S9 — on the making and man- 

 agement of in the dairy district of Scotland 717 



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Cabbages, manure for 97 



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. BiUups 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 Tliistle, 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 463 



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, (dragj of Lord Somerville, figures and descrip- 

 tion of 615 



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

 compared to the three-shift, and in reply to objec- 

 tions 657 



Caruthers, John F. on the vine culture of Rockbridge 

 38 1 



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 19.3— of the Devon breed 194— Here- 

 ford 796 — Short Horned, Dutch, Holderness and 

 Teeswiter 196 — Long Horned 193 — 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— diflbrent methods of 396, 397— the points by 

 which tliey ar'^ 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 se?d, 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 sup))03nd 162 



Cheat, not produced from wheat 163, 400 — reasons 

 for the error 163 



Cheat controversy, remarks on, and plans proposed for 

 its being settled 407, 408 



Cheese, to give to new the flavor of old by inoculation 

 352 — on making in Massachusetts 561 — on the ma- 

 king and management of in the dairy district of Scot- 

 land 719 



Chemistry, important to be understood by farmers 291 



Chickamahomony swamp lands described by C. W. 

 Gooch 649 



Cholera facts 413 



Climate of Virginia, essay on 214 



Clover, its superiority to buckwheat as a green ma- 

 nure, or improver of soil 138 — mode of curing for 

 hay 148 — on the culture of and usual defects of 

 management 170 — in New^ York 692 — improve- 

 ments with in Albemarle 234 



Clover seed, on the time and manner of sowing, and 

 advantage of harrowing for 579, 666 — sown among 

 corn while under tillage 756 



Coal tar, objections to 238 



Coffee, Florida, account of its product and value 552 — 

 culture of 731 — supposed to be okra by H. B. Croom 

 710 — corrected by N. Herbemont 766 



Coke of Holkham, some account of his estate, its im- 

 provement and general management 142 



Cold weather in May 1S34, 79 — excessive in Februa- 

 ly 1835, 648 



Colic in horses 298 



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, Jigave Jlmericana and Yiicca 

 F'ilamentosa 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 

 mode of cultivating (in Alabama) mixed with 

 rice, potatoes, peas and pea-nuts 634 — mode of 

 snving the fodder and stalks 635 — a productive kind 

 obtained by selection,describedby J. M. Garnett496; 

 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 w'eevil 

 390 



Corn tops, the cutting of injurious to the grain 91 — 

 also according to the experiments and report of Mr. 

 Clark and others 243 



Corn-stalks, on tjie 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 3.53 — Sea Island, description of, 

 culture and alter 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 54S — rust in caused by insects 725 



Cotton gin, Whitney's .360 ' 



Cotton manufacture in England, its progress 7.58 



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- 



