FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Enclosures, law of, remarks on 59, 61, 345, 455; com- 

 mentary on the same, showing its entire inetHciency 

 346; its" general results on the interests of Virginia, 

 exemplified by the scarcity of, and large annual im- 

 portations of all the products of grazing 610, 611 



Engine, Avery's rotary steam, operation of 755; 



Engineers' labors, dearly paid for in South Caiolina 

 444 



Entomology — the knowledge of insects, important in 

 a farmer's education 291 



Ergot, or spurred rye, its poisonous qualities and ef- 

 fects 87 



Essay on Calcareous Manures, review of it in the 

 Genesee Farmer 632 



Ewe, remarkable fecundity of 4; 



Excretory powers of plants, remarks of 137 



Experiments proposed by De Candolle 149 



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Farmers' business, the necessity for system in, and at- 

 tention to 379 



Farmers' Register, influence ot 238; on its effects 495; 

 general remarks on its state and prospects on closing 

 the 2nd volume 764 



Farming in the Valley of Virginia, on the lands of 

 Robert Page, Henry S. Turner, and Bushrod Tay- 

 lor 14 to 17 



Farming, state of in Campbell county 123; in Norfolk 

 county, (Va.,) its low state 247 



Farms, (small,) and landed property in Ireland, on the 

 management of 706; great improvements produced 

 by Mr. Blacker 706 to 709^also at 724, 775 



Farms, experimental and pattern, recommended 62 



Feathers, on their being plucked from living geese 

 308 



Feeding horses 3S; on steamed food 40; fodder 41; dry 

 food 42; soiling 43; winter food 45; expense of 49 



Fellenburg, his agricultural and scientific school at 

 Hofwyl 25 



Fence (board) supported aboye ground 606 



Fence law, evils of 256, 311, 399, 564; expense of 388, 

 389, 448 



Fences, petition to dispense with 450; granted on cer- 

 tain navigable rivers by law 711; benefits to be ex- 

 pected 711 j 



Fences, stone, directions for building 608, 692 



Fencing, cost of caused by law 572 



Fermentation, chemical account of 498, 729; applied 

 to manures 498; to what extent necessary for ma- 

 nure 500; improper practices in regard to .502, 503; 

 proposed means of lessening loss from 503; effects 

 of the process of fermentation on hard and coarse 

 vegetable substances 504; on the manure of summer 

 cowpens, both ploughed in land left on the surface 

 503 I 



Fermentation of vegetable sujistances, general action 

 of (translation from Berzelius) 729 



Fife, J. on the effects of heat on soil 675 



Filberts, American 692 



Fire places, on the the proper construction of by N. 

 E. Read 619 ( 



Fire wood, the advantage of Splitting when green 662 



Fires, on extinguishing 685 j 



Flax, culture of in Flanders '771 



Flax, New Zealand, value aid price of 119 



Flies hatched in a man's no^rils 222 



Flies, how to kill 552 



Florida, Middle, account oflits agriculture, soil, and 

 products byH. B. Croomll 



Florida coffee, culture of ^51; not okra, nor coffee 

 766 



Flower, hybrid between the rose and peach blossom 

 554 



Flowers, valuable kinds 7.36, 737; kinds suitable to be 

 raised in dwelling houses 606 



Fodder, general remarks ot the supposed loss caused 

 to the corn by the usual mode of gathering 485; ex- 



periment on 486; remarks on this and other ex- 

 periments for this pui-pose 486; experiments of the 

 effect of its being gathered as usual by C. F. Wood- 

 son 609 

 Fodder (corn) on curing 699 



Food for cattle, remarks on 189; artificial for cattle 

 457; raw and prepared, experiment to test the com- 

 parative value 237, 288; same for hogs 263, 288, 289, 

 305 

 Four-field rotation, remarks on by John A. Selden 385; 



and by John Wickham 379 

 Free martin, general account of 211 

 Frost, severe, the beneficial effects on land 666 

 Fruit without kernels, by Charles Woodson 249 

 Fruit trees, thoughts on rearing by Charles Woodson 

 309; the proper manner of packing them for ex- 

 portation 80; how preserved from hares 181; on the 

 cultivation of 368; to free from moss and insects 187 



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Galloway breed of cattle 199 



Gama grass, experiments on 316; some account of its 



culture and product by Henry E. Scott 312; its'man- 



agement and value for forage 616; its growth and 



value 415 



Gai-nett, J. M. his address to the Agricultural Society 



of Fredericksburg 491 

 Garnett, William, his address to the Norfolk Agricul- 

 tural Society 523 

 Gardens, floating (of Cashmere) described 18 

 Gas, burning for light, discovery and introduction of 



685 

 Gas, inflammable, natural works of 761 

 Geine, nature and chemical characters of 732 

 Gelatine, D'Arcet's apparatus for extracting 140 

 Gnat, its singular mode of disposing of its eggs 554 

 Geological speculations on the formation of the beds 



of fossil shells, &c. of lower Virginia 645 

 Geological surveys, importance of to Virginia 517 

 Geological survey of Virginia, report to the legisla- 

 ture of Virginia recommending, and stating the ad- 

 vantages to be derived therefrom 688; law author- 

 izing its commencement 692 

 Gestation, period of in the cow 212 

 Gold region of Vii-ginia, some account of 242; geolo- 

 gical description of 407; mines 406 

 Gooch, C. W. on the Chickahomony low grounds 649; 

 on blue grass and herds grass 649; grass husbandry 

 650, 651; on the soils and agriculture of Henrico 

 county 652 to 656 

 Grafting, singular application of 612 

 Grain worm (vibrio triiici) in wheat 281; its progress 



in the northern states 723 

 Grapes, Cunningham and Norton 381; mistaken opin- 

 ion of the latter 520 

 Grapes, what kinds suitable and unsuitable to the cli- 

 mate of Virginia, by D. N. Norton 519; gathering 

 and preservation of 699 

 Grass, ribbon, description and value of 437 

 Grass husbandry recommended 650 

 Grass husbandry of Rhode Island 739, 740 

 Green crops, turned in as manure, report on 266 

 Green house plants, general observations on 139 

 Green sand, account of its discovery in lower Virginia, 

 by Professor W. B. Rogers 129; the fossils found in 

 the green sand formation 130; New Jersey green sand 

 (called there, marl) its chemical analysis 131; its 

 value as manure 131 

 Green sand formation of Virginia, further observa- 

 tions on by Professor W. B. Rogers 747; lower ter- 

 tiary of Virginia 743; particular shells, character- 

 istic of 749 

 Gramina (grasses) general characters of tlie order of 



325 

 Grazing in common, by law, remaiks on its effects 607 

 Grubs or bots, not injurious to horses in the manner 

 usually believed, by C. Woodson 250, also 251 



