FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Partridge pea greatly injurious to wheat crops 126 

 Pastures, on hard or light stocking oi'335 

 Paulding, J. K. on rural enjoyments in town 510 

 Peach trees, to preserve from worms 687 

 Pea, Indian, the valuable qualities of 752; varieties de- 

 scribed, and their comparative advantages 752, 753 

 Peas, (field) a volunteer growth of after wheat 317 

 Peat, how found, and chemical characters of 735 

 Petition to the legislature of Virginia for a change of 

 the law of enclosures 2S3; letter introductory to, 

 from J. M. Garnett 283 

 Petition of stock-owners, in support of the present po- 

 licy of lawful enclosures 426 

 Petition for an amendment of the law respecting en- 

 closures on the margins of the navigable tide-waters 

 of James River 450 

 Phalc-ena devastator, parent of the cut-worm, account 



of 515 

 Piggeries, Mexican, account of 365 

 Pine, remarks on its value by N. E. Read 533 

 Pines, botanical description of the several kinds grow- 

 ing in the southern states 745 

 Planariae, account of 191 

 Plant, aerial 222 

 Plants, new, discovered 170 

 Plants, their excretory powers 157 

 Plymouth, Mass., on the soil and culture of 467; its 



vines and fruits 467 

 Ploughing, inquiry concerning 598 

 Poor lands, on the condition of the farmers on, and 

 the obstacles to their making profit or improvements 

 612, 614 

 Pork business in Cincinnati, account of 550 

 Pork and bacon, difference of weight and vahie, and 

 of the comparative profits of selling hogs in both 

 forms 687 

 Post offices, thefts committed in, of subscription mo- 

 ney 710; means to lessen the liability to 711 

 Posts, on the preservation of by N. E. Read 533 

 Potato, (sweet,) account of its earliest introduction 

 into Europe 677, modes of preserving in winter 532, 

 578, 661 

 Potato, (Irish,) its earliest known use, and old opin- 

 ions of its qualities 677, 678, 679; poisonous quality 

 of the skin 680; various uses of 680 to 683; effects in 

 family economy, and on populationj 683, 684; ex- 

 periments on the culture of in Ireland 504; good 

 food for sheep 162; when frozen, to restore 191; im- 

 portant result of an experiment in the culture, made 

 in Scotland 287; singular management of on wet 

 land 424; the difference of cut and un-cut for plant- 

 ing 449 

 Potato blossoms, prize experiment on the effects of 



their removal 318 

 Potato crop, recent failure of in Britain and Ireland — 



supposed causes and remedy 759 to 761 

 Prairie soils, from Alabama, analysis of 715, 716; sup- 

 posed with the stepjHs and pampas to derive their 

 peculiar features from containing a large proportion 

 of calcareous earth 716 

 Prairies of Alabama, account of 182 

 Pruning trees, rules for 247, 702 

 Productions, animal and vegetable, great difference of 



on the alluvial and highlands of Louisiana 700 

 Public works, proposed for North Carolina 81 

 Putrefaction of vegetable matters 730; products of at 

 surface of the earth 731; and under water 734 



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Quail, or Virginia partridge 59 

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Radford, Wm. his address to the Agricultural Society 



of New London 490 

 Rail road of Portsmouth and Roanoke, its progress 



413; of Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac, 



state and prospects of 124, 374, 468, 525; address 

 from the commissioners on 526; of Charleston, in- 

 crease of transportation on 741; proposed from Fred- 

 ericksburg to the Ohio 384; proposed to connect the 

 lower Mississippi and Chesapeake, plan of and re- 

 port 427 I ' f 



Rail road, undulating, objected to 729; portable, plan 



of 729 

 Rail roads, speculations on their effects on commerce 



and commercial towns 184 

 Rail roads in the United States, list of 468 

 Railways, rapid travelling on 455, 515; British, profits 



of 423 

 Rape, culture and advantages of in Flanders 772 

 Rats, destroyed by suphuretted hydrogen 165 

 Read, Nicholas E. on agricultural so'cieties and the 

 Farmer's Register 531; preserving sweet potatoes 

 533; dried fruit 533; value and uses of the pine tree 

 533; on the advantage of wood for fuel bein"- dry 

 5r;5; on the construction of fire places 619; on the 

 discovery of marl in Charlotte county 712 

 Reaping with the scythe in England, account of its 



introduction and manner 132, 134 

 Reaping (or gathering) machine, for wheat described 



Reaping machines, remarks on 135 

 Red lands of the South West Mountains, observations 

 on the peculiarities of the soil, and the mode of cul- 

 tivation and improvement 233, 315, 705 

 Remarks on the papers of No. 9. viz: Hall on manure, 

 articlesby N. E.Read 743— agricultural education- 

 horizontal ploughinga-diseases of wheat, &c. &c 

 744, 745 » 



Report on the farms of Messrs. Rogers, Craven, and 



Meriwether, in Albimarle 225 

 Reports of the season and state of crops 326 

 Review of an address delivered by Jeremiah Spofford, 

 before the Agricultural Society of Essex, (Mass.) 

 299; ignorance displayed in the address in respect 

 to the situation of the southern states 301 

 Review of the Memoirs of Oberlin 370 

 Rice, (wild) of the lorthern lake described, and its 



introduction recomnended, by E. F. Noel 604 

 Richardson, R. P. onlime as a medicine for horses 775 

 Road law of Virginia, (No. I.) extracts from 441; ob- 

 jections to the inequality and injustice of the tax 442; 

 No. II. 511, its gratest tax paid indirectly in the 

 cost of travelling m 511; usual improper appoint- 

 ments of surveyor!, and the effects 511; ignorance 

 displayed in the usual modes of draining and re- 

 pairing roads 511,512 

 Road law, its evils, and hints for its amendment 535; 

 the propriety of a state engineer being appointed to 

 superintend road naking g'enerally 536 

 Road making, Macafam's plan 185 

 Rogers, Professor Vm. B. discovers green sand in 

 marls of lower Vrginia 129; his analysis and de- 

 scription of the ]\bw Jersey green sand, or "marl" 

 as there called 13,- continuation of his observations 

 on the green sandand lower tertiary formation, and 

 upon the calcareois marl of Virginia747to 751; de- 

 scribes his apparahs for analyzing marl and other 

 carbonates 364 

 Rogers, John, reporton his farm 231; remarks on his 



management and inprovements 234. 

 Root culture, advante^es of 702 



Rotation of crops, thee-shift and four-^hift, compari- 

 son of, and objectons to the latter 464; remarks 

 on by J. WickhamJSO; comparative advantages of 

 the two considered, by Hill Carter 657 

 Rural enjoyments intwn, by J. K. Paulding 509 

 Rust in wiieat and otier plants, opinions as to the 

 causes, and remedie;417, 561 



Salt as manure, its ineficacy 137, 385; decomposed, 

 its value as manure 137; recent discovery of the 



