FARMERS^ REGISTER— INDEX. 



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ble for the dairy, remarks on 766; list and descrip- 

 tion of a number 768; milch, the management of 

 553; the best breeds for milk 553; products of in 

 milk and butter 553; pasture for, and other food best 

 calculated to increase or improve their milk 554, 

 555, 556; sea weed for cows 556; salt, benefit of in 

 their food 557 



Craven, John H. report on his farm 226 



Cream, raised by heat 286 



Croom, H. B. on the agriculture, soil and products of 

 Middle Florida 1; on the several species of cotton 

 59 ), 769; on Egyptian cotton 770; on Florida cotfee 

 an I okra710 



Ciossinggrain, and thereby obtaining newand valuable 

 va.-ieties 480 



Crows, to kill with arsenic 24; more beneficial than 

 injurious to corn planters 243 



Cucumbers, culture of 323 



Cultivation, exhausting or improving 9 



Cultivation and consumption of the United Kingdom 

 213 



Cunningham Grape, account of by C. Woodson 310 



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Dairj% situation and buildings proper for 585; utensils 

 for 586; management of milk, cream and butter 586 



Dairy business and fattening animals, comparative 

 profits of 313 



Deformities produced by darkness 238 



Devon breed of cattle described 194 



Dew, Professor, letter from to the editor, prefatory to 

 hie Essay on the Usury Laws 97; on interest of mo- 

 ney, and the policy of laws against usury 98 



Diary of the weather 60; for quarter ending with Sep- 

 tember 446; ending with December 1834, 555 



Discontinuances of subscribtions, improper and fraudu- 

 lent in certain modes 192 



Diseases of wheat, uncertainty and general errors re- 

 specting 278 



Diseases of cattle, want of knowledge of among farm- 

 ers 293 



Domesticated fish 153 



Draining, remarks on 59 



Drag log, or drag-roller 751 



Draught, treatise on the principles of 623 



Dried fruit, to preserve from insects 533 



Ducks, success of plan of raising 409, [see plan in 

 Vol.1.] 



Dupuy, W. J. on the suitableness of sheep Imsbandn,- 

 for middle Virginia 656 



Dutch ashes as manure, use and value of 167, 432; 

 chemical analj'sis of 168 



Du VaJ, J. on the propriety of the names of corres- 

 pondents being signed to communications 690; on 

 keeping Irish potatoes 660 



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Editorial remarks — on the ofl^spring of hybrid animals 

 3; on the value of yellow locust seed 3; opinions of 

 old authors on tobacco 11; changes of volcanic pro- 

 ducts to fertile soil 12; on the periodical returns of 

 the American locust 37 and 126; on Mr. Curwen's 

 diary of his harvest labors 52; reports of crops and 

 seasons 63; cheap edition of the Farmers' Register 

 proposed 63; and abandoned 256; Tunicata corn 75; 

 on gathering fodder (from corn) as practised in Vir- 

 ginia 92; tornado of June 1834, 122; Richmond 

 and Fredericksburg railway 124; pine bug or worm 

 125; reaping with tne scythe in England 132; on salt 

 and carbonate of soda as manures 137; Mr Coke's 

 farming 142; on the discovery of calcareous rock in 

 Prince Edward, and ot the green sand in the lower 

 counties of Virginia 154; impolicy of inspections of 

 gypsum 180; abuses i» discontinuances of subscrip- 

 tions 192; condition and prospects of the College of 



William and Mary 239; objections to frequent expres- 

 sion of editorial opinions 239; partridge pea 255; on 

 the ambiguous signatures to communications 256; the 

 papers and procedure of the Highland Society pio- 

 posed as an example to the agricultural societies of 

 this country 266; causes of unprofitable tillage in 

 Virginia 266; "Bubbles from the Brunneus" 272; on 

 the diseases of wheat, and their uncertain nomen- 

 clature 278; on the petition for a change in the law 

 of enclosures 283; on the value of bone manure 319; 

 on cheat and spelt, and the introduction of the latter 

 in this country 325; on the use of periodical jour- 

 nals to the western planters 327; on the removal of 

 restrictions on trade in England and in the United 

 States 336; Professor Rogers' apparatus for anal- 

 yzing marl 365; on the three and four-shift rotations 

 380; Cunningham and Norton grapes, and failure in 

 vine culture "in the United States 381; on the peti- 

 tion for a change in the law respecting enclosures, 

 and the peculiar oppression of that law on the poor 

 402; vine culture, and the probable need of a calca- 

 reous soil for vines 404; cheat controvery 408; le- 

 gislation needed for the promotion of agriculture 

 418; review of the transactions of the Sociiie Roy- 

 ale et Ccntraled'./lgnculture, 432; crystallized carbo- 

 nate of lime found in marl 444; Artesian wells of 

 Alabama 455; prairie soils, samples desired 455; 

 British Association 456; typographical errors 456; 

 comparative statement of the three and four-shift 

 rotations 466; moth weevil moving northward 466; 

 improvement of wheat fan described 485; on the 

 experiments necessary to settle the question as to 

 the gain or loss of gathering fodder 4S6, 487; hum- 

 ming bird made tame 496; on the action of quick- 

 lime in connexion with putrescent manures 497; the 

 value of the writings oi John Taylor of Caroline, 

 particularly his Inquiry, ^c. 510; spade culture in 

 England 513; the effect of smuggling on the re- 

 strictive system 516; the importance of geological 

 surveys to Virginia 517; on the Norton Grape 520; 

 on the change required in the proceedings of agri- 

 cultural societies 523; on sprouting the seeds of ce- 

 dar, and transplanting for hedges 52C; on the pre- 

 paring bones for manure 562; on the effect of expo- 

 sure of lime to the air 602; on the effects of expo- 

 sure to wot and heat on gypsum 603, 631; on Mr. 

 Woodson's report of experiments on the losses 

 caused by gathering fodder, and reaping green wheat 

 610; the general results of the law of enclosures on 

 interests of Virginia 610, 611; on the obstacles to 

 the improvement of lands naturally poor 614; notice 

 of the Tenne-i.tce Fanner 622; on Artesian wells, and 

 anticipations of their future benefits C3(t; constitu- 

 ent parts of gypsum 632; on the expense of water - 

 bone marl 637; on the objections to communication'? 

 to the Farmers' Register being anonymous CoO; on 

 the translation of the account of vine culture near 

 Paris 693; on the labors of Mr. Blacker in Ireland 

 706; the season and weather of first quarter of 1835 

 776; thefts committed in post offices 710; on the re- 

 cent enactments of the legislature of Virginia, af- 

 fecting the interests of agriculture 711; on the com- 

 mittee of agriculture ani manufactures, and its re- 

 port on the petitions for a change of the law of en- 

 closures 711; on misapprehension respecting edito- 

 rial comments 712; on the calcareous constitution 

 of prairie soils, and speculations on the cause of 

 their peculiar features 716; the difliculties attending 

 the absence of carbonate of lime in soils 728; Chi- 

 nese mulberry, not to be preserved by propagation 

 by seeds 738; on the state and prospects of the Far- 

 mers' Register 765; on Mr. Lewis' lime kilns 769; 

 mountain locust (robinia pseudacacia) supposed to 

 be a native tree of lower Virginia 770; on the im- 

 provements of small farmers in Ireland 775; season 

 m April 1835, 776 



"Editorial communications, "' how to construct 581 



Eels, singular habits oi 1S7 



