TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. VI 



Acacia, or locust, seed, germination of 207 



Address of Dr. Muse, defended from exceptions taken 



78 

 Air. remarkable clearness of, a precursor of rain 133 

 Agricultural publications of elementary and cheap 

 kinds recommended 262, for use of schools 260, 263, 

 762 

 Agricultural Chemistry, Elements of, by Davy, the 

 latest edition republished entire, begining57S. (For 

 the heads of lectures of the above, see table of con- 

 tents, at 704) 

 Agricultural county reports, British, utility of 742 

 Agricultural paper in Wisconsin 215 

 Agricultural professorships 706 

 Agricultural report of survey of Essex, Mass. extracts 



from 96 

 Agricultural school of Templemoyle 341 

 Agricultural notes of a tour in the west 304 

 Agricultural Societies, on proper plan, recommended 



705 

 Agricultural societies and cattle shows, benefits of 



522 

 Agricultural Society of Albemarle, premiums award- 

 ed by 543 — of Charlotte, premiums awarded by 290 

 — of Cumberland, address to 535 — of Rockbridge, 

 address to 538, show and premiums of 725 — of Fred- 

 ericksburg, premiums awarded by 693 — address to 

 76,5 — of Nottoway and Amelia, proceedings of 416 

 Agricultural tour in Maryland, 453 

 Agricultural Surveys, recommended 707 

 Agriculture, progress of 288 

 Agriculture in England, 12 



Agriculture of England and the northern states, dif- 

 ferently affected by natural causes 271 

 Agriculture, Flemish 362, 731 

 Agriculture in France 69, 348 

 Agriculture, government bounties to, in appearance, 



b-ut to printers in reality 83 

 Agriculture of Gloucester county 179 

 Agriculture, legislative aid required for the improve- 

 ment of, and ihe proper direction. No. I, 695 — No. 

 II, 705— No. Ill, 755 

 Agriculture of middle South Carolina 436 

 Agriculture of upper Fauquier 456 

 Agriculture of Tuscany 404 

 Agriculture. Board of, its value as a state institution, 



699 

 Alligator in New York 726 



Animal and vegetable orgdiiization and functions com- 

 pared 136 

 Ar.imals, domestic, changes produced on by the cli- 

 mate of America 717 

 Anti-dry-rot 340, 4S8 

 Apple-tree, not jiropagated by cuttings 77 

 Ailichokes, Jerusalem 94 

 Ashes as manure 97, 299 



Atmosphere, nature and constitution of, and its influ- 

 ence on vegetation — functions of plants. (Lect. 5 

 Agr. Chcin. 627) 



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Baltic sea, change of its water-level 505 

 Banking, irresponsible, a system of plunder, 729 



Barley 204 



Beaver, remarks on 323 



Beavers in Surry county, 174 



Beer, effect of electricity on 1.33 



Birds, the impolicy of destroying them 280 



Blue grass, value of 203 



Blue-mud 734 



Bone manure 66, 165, 365 — abuses of 345 — beneficial 

 effects of, 95 



Bogs and peat moss, hints and directions for their cul- 

 tivation 39 



Book trade of the south, and the furnishing of school 

 books, virtually a close monopoly in the hands of a 

 few great publishers at the north 263, 764 



Breeders of cattle, a hint to 348 



Breeding of bears 415 



Breeding in and in 254 



Budge or tunnel proposed from Dover to Calais 76 



Broken limbs of animals 446 



Buck-wheat cakes 56 



Bulleting, a substitute for spaying 285, 423, 503 



Burdon's ointment 383 



Butter making 372 



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Canada Thistle, and other noxious weeds, their seeds 

 bought and sown intermixed with grass seeds 269 

 Canal, Chesapeake and Ohio, description of 554 — Mi- 

 chigan and Illinois, route of, and description of the 

 country 170 

 Canal and Aqueduct, Alexandria, account of 555 

 Candle-wick, metallic 755 

 Caoutchouc, East India 132 — roofs of 76 

 Capons, 277, 324, 356 

 Carrot, field culture 439 



Cattle, on fattening with different kinds of food, 103 — 



of Essex, Mass. 98 — on cleaning 556— of Kentucky, 



557 — Devonsliire 398- Durham, value of 285 — sale 



of 311, at Holkham 70 



Charcoal, a remedy for diseased lungs in hogs 286 



Chimneys, a suggestion for their improvement 564, 



one oi' immense size, 719 

 Chinese mulberry seed, a humbug 50 

 Chinese treatise on silk and mulberry culture, ex- 

 tracts from 353, English notice of 351 

 Clay soils, most beneficially ploughed after rain 303 

 [ Climate of Louisiana, friendly to longevity 709 



Clover, profit from 434 

 I Clover hay, curing of 396 

 I Clover seed, raising of 201 

 I Coal, origin of 132 

 i Coke, natural, found in Virginia 117 

 I Collecting agencies, suspended 127 

 College, William and Mary, its revival and importance 



293, public exercises and honors of 296 

 Colleges of Virginia and the south considered as works 

 of " internal improvement" 292, reasons lor their 

 being preferred lor soutiiern students 294 

 Commercial Convention, Augusta, remarks on 112 — 

 report of 113 — of Biciunond — remarks on 251 — re- 

 port to from Committee of Commerce 251 — of Nor- 

 folk, its proceedings, and remarks thereon 565 

 Commercial reports, monthly, 61, 127, 192, 320, 384, 



447,511,-576,767 

 Conditions of Farmers' Register, for Vol. VII, 63,767 



