FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Locust, yellow or wild, high prices of the timber 3 

 Locust, American, (cicada septemdecein) remarks on 



on its remarkable habits 37, 12G; account of 322 

 Locust, (the African,) its habits and destructive rava- 

 ges 69 

 Locust,honey (Gleditschia) and mountain (robiniapseu- 

 dacacia) native or foreign in lower Virginia? 770 

 Long horned breed of cattle described 198 

 Loss and gain in farming, remarks on 1C6 

 Louisiana, quantity of inundated lands of 766 

 Lower Virginia, causes of the depressed condition of 



95 

 Low-grounds, cultivation of 88 



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Macaire, remarks on his discovery of the excretory 

 powers of plants 157 



Machine for sawing and boring, Hamilton's 97; for 

 getting out staves for barrels 277; Flagg's for riving 

 and drawing shingles 340; for knitting 753; for reap- 

 ing wheat, Hussey's, its operation described 593 



MacTiines, thrashing 348; Clark's machine — Wright's 

 348; performance and cost of several kinds 348; 

 Cooley's described by Wm. Carmichael 364 



Malaria, extracts from Professor Magill's Three Lec- 

 tures on 20 



Mange in hogs cured by sulpluir 352 



Manual labor department of the Lane Seminary in 

 Ohio, account of 76 



Manure, materials for on southern plantations 5; on 

 collecting materials for 80; from marsh mud 93, 

 528; liquid, importance of in horticulture, and of soot 

 as an ingredient 289; putrescent, on applying on, or 

 beneath the surface 715; from hogs, tlie making of 

 282, 528; ashes 314; lime, (in Pennsylvania) 311; of 

 green A'egetables ploughed in , 266, o82-, putrescent, 

 on their fermentation, presermtion, and application 

 497; putrescent, remarks on liy J. M. G. 640; at- 

 traction for them by the soilfand propriety of top- 

 dressing 642, 643;observatioiionby J. B. in reply 

 to J. M. G's. strictures 669; applied to the surface 

 671; beneficial to but a limitedj extent on poor land 

 672; farm-yard 528; comport help 528 ;application of, 

 directions for 529; putrescent, bn the action of, and 

 chemical changes of in the soilb'26; offish, in Rhode 

 Island 740; liquid, managemen and use of in Flan- 

 ders 771, 773 



Marl, eifect of in Charles City and Caroline 255 



Marl and carbonates in general, Brofessor W. B. Ro- 

 gers' apparatus for analyzing described 364; its pe- 

 culiar advantages 365 I 



Marl, cost of a year's labor in dicing, and carrying it 

 on water, by C. H. Minge 636 | 



Marl and marling in Hanover 389J 644; in King Wil- 

 liam, King and Queen, and Essflx counties 644 



Marl, its eifect in increasing the p ice of land in New- 

 Jersey 710 / 



Marl, (or calcareous earth) found In Charlotte county, 

 described by N. E. Read 712 i' 



Marsh mud as manure 93; its etfe ts on vegetation 409 



Measures, modern French, statement of 505; general 

 rule for 506; linear, superficialJand of capacity 506 

 solid measures, of time and of Ithe circle 507; com- 

 pared with ancient measures 306, and English 507 



Mechanics — ought to be understtpd by farmers 293 



Melons, on ridging the ground fo] 23 



Merino sheep, general account on and their manage- 

 ment according to the Mesta iW Spain 583 



Meriwether, Wm. H. report on hi farm 230 



Metals, preserved from rust by thj application of chem- 

 ical science 470 



Mice, prevented from eating seels sown in drills 414 



Milk, account of the various moles of adulteration in 

 Paris, and the means for detecing the frauds 28 



Milking cows, the proper and in proper modes 222 



Milk sickness, a village on the Mississippi depopula- 

 ted by 308 



Milk and cream, management of 586; churning 588 



Mills, Haxall's and Chevallie's, in Richmond, power 

 of 141 



Mill ponds, advantageously substituted by canals 579 



Millet, its small value as a crop 304 



Mine, the deepest in Great Britain, statements re- 

 specting 582 



Minge, C. H. his estimate of expense of his second 

 year's work in using water-borne marl 636 



Mississippi, a flood in described by Audubon 6 



Mole, notice of 187 



Moles, to destroy in gardens 128 



Mongrels between a dog and she wolf 79 



Moon, remarks on the influence of on vegetation 400, 

 437 



Mortality, comparative, in various places 181 



INIortality, bills of in Breslaw, London and Northamp- 

 ton 254 



Mould, production and chemical nature of 731; extract 

 of 731; carbonaceous 733 



Mountain region of Virginia, remarks on its agricultu- 

 ral features 390 



Mud a material for compost manure 561 



Mulberry, Chinese linonis mulficaulis'] not propagated 

 from seed 433; on means for acclimating 736; re- 

 marks on its culture in the United States 737, 738; 

 remarks on its value in France 774; only a variety 

 of the white mulberry, and its kind only to be pre- 

 served by being propagated by grafts or slips 774 



Mulberry leaves, analysis of 755 



Mule, history and qualities of 73; breeding, on the 

 farm of J. T. Kilby 3; the colt of, its death 389 



Myrtle, the wild or candle-berry, a remedy against 

 weevil 156 



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Names of correspondents should be signed to commu- 

 nications 660, 661 



Noel, E. F. sends account of wild rice, and proposes 

 its being introduced as a product of agriculture 604 



Norfolk, (in Virginia) its facilities for commerce con- 

 trasted with those of Wilmington and other southern 

 towns 150 



NuUifier, short horned bull, imported 892 



Nut bearing pine, notice of by W. B. Lockhart 350 



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Oak, Golenos, its remai-kable size and value 140 



Oat, skinless, its productiveness and value 161; notice 

 of by W. B. Lockhart 350 



Oberlin, John Frederick, review of his life 370 



Oil, from cotton seed suitable for lamps 90; from rape, 

 recent progress of its manufacture in France 771 



Onion, wild, its injurious effects as a weed 3; to de- 

 stroy — causes of its spreading 328 



Onions, to prevent sprouting when stored 163; descrip- 

 tion of a mode of cultivating 599 



Orange, on the cultivation of 725 



Orchard grass, queries on 775 



Orchards in quincunx order 757 



Otter domesticated 422 



Ox, remarkable size of one 35 



Ox-carts, directions for making and using them by E. 

 F. Noel 349 



Oxen, on the proper qualities and management of 330; 

 modes of yoking or harnessing 332; by the horns in 

 Cuba 657; shoeing 333 



Painting houses, utiual errors in 166 



Pamunky mode of cultivating corn, remarks on 709 



