FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Vegetation, remarks on 530 



Vermin on plants, to destroy 34 



Vetches and other green vegetables ploughed in as 

 manure 382 



Veterinary practice — removal of a large wen 28 



Vine, treatise on the culture of, by N. Herbemont 471; 

 general account of, and its culture in the environs of 

 Paris 693; various species of, and their peculiarities 

 described 693, 694; propagation of, by seeds and by 

 slips 694; by layers and by grafting 695; pruning of 

 eii espalier 695, 696; and when propped 696; culture 

 at Fontainebleau and Thomery 696 to 698; enemies 

 of 698, 699; culture of near Richmond 351; in Rock- 

 bridge, reported by John F. Caruthers, 381; in Ply- 

 mouth 467; general want of success in the United 

 States 381 



Vines, the coiling system of cultivating in pots 508 



Vines, foreign, found unprofitable in New York, at 

 Loubat's vineyard, and abandoned 614 



Vineyard, on the selection of suitable soils for 314; 

 of "Hermitage, its soil and situation 405; of CIos de 

 Vougeaud, soil and culture of 574 



Virginia, essay on the climate of 214 



Volcanic products, their change by the operation of 

 time, to fertile soil 12 



Volcanic island, newly formed, account of 267 



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Wallace, J. R. on the action of gypsum in quantities 

 unusually large 617; on the cultivation of corn 618 



Waste lands, quantity of in Great Britain and Ireland 

 703 



Water, conversion of salt to fresh 413 



Water cart, description of a cheap and useful one 132 



Water furrowing, on the benefits of, by R. D. Key 

 320 



Weather, diary of, for April, May, and June 1834, 

 246 



Weather, diary of, for July and August, 1834, 246 



Weevil, (moth) the depredations prevented by the use 

 of myrtle 156; its appearance in Massachusetts 466 



Weights of cattle and sheep, live and dead 163, and of 

 different breeds 461, 462 



Weights, modern, (French,) account of 508 



Wells, Artesian, or overflowing, remarkable varia- 

 tions of one at Rochelle, 509; great quantity of wa- 

 ter obtained at Tours 508; one remarkable for its 

 supply of water 630; manner of boring them in Ala- 

 bama described 630; general observations on 420 



Whale chase, account of 220 



Wheat, on reaping before the grain is hard — account 

 of the practice and its advantages 35 



Wheat, new species of 224 



Wheat, diseases of 278; smut balls or pepper brand 278; 

 smut or dust brand 280; grain worm (vibrio tritici) 

 281 



Wheat, on rolling 456 



Wheat on clover, considerations respecting 423 



Wheat on bedded land, improvement in seeding 390 



Wheat, remarks on its supposed reversion into grass 

 in England 126, 324; the opinion compared with 

 those concerning cheat and spelt in this country 325 



Wheat, what soils suitable, and unsuitable for 513 



Wheat cut green, the loss tested by experiment 610 



W heat seeding of 1834, memoranda of the operation 

 673 



Wheat shocks, proper mode of constructing 56 



Wheat fan of Sinclair and Moore, improvement and 

 performance of 485 



Wheatinsect, description of 548 



White washing improved by using skimmed milk 404 



Wickham, J. his remarks on the three and four-shift 

 rotations 380 



Wild onion, mode of treating 153 



William and Mary College, its state and prospects 239 



Wind, velocity of under different circumstances 32 



Wine making, treatise on 474; causes of failure of in 

 the United States, by N. Herbemont 478 



Wine, Herbemont's trial and report of, by N. F. Ca- 

 bell 648; sparkling Champagne or white wine of Ai, 

 directions for making 435; preliminary remarks 434 



Wines of Europe, management and adulterations of 

 404 



Withers, R. W. his remarks on the calcareous region 

 of Alabama 637 



Worm in pine timber 125 



Worn lands, on the improvement of 190, 382 



Wood snapping in the fire, to prevent 4 



Wood for fuel, importance of its being dry, by N. E. 

 Read 534; quantitj' required to burn lime, sup- 

 posed mistake in 769 



Woodson, Charles, or the management of slaves 248; 

 fruit without kernels 249; ill effects of transplanting 

 trees 249; onbots in horses 250; on rearing fruit trees 

 203; on the Woodson and Cunningham grapes 311; 

 on insects, and their destroyers 352; states experi- 

 ments of the loss of corn from gathering fodder 609 



Woodson grape, accomt of 310 



Worms and crows, ard their operations on corn 243 



Worms and insects destroyed by spirits of turpentine 

 424 



Worms in horses, to c'estroy 552, 775 



Yoking of oxen by ;he horns 332; figures of 464 

 Yucca Filamentosa,i material for cordage 6 



