FARMERS' REGISTER 



Cooking grain for stock 741 



Corn, advantages of planting early, and coveringdeep- 



ly 110 — difference of planting on grass or stubble 



land 439— harvesting of 135— Baden 48, 173, 342, 



489,—" Chinese," puff of 490 

 Corn-cob meal, and mills to grind it 380 

 Corn, seed, soaked in saltpetre water, incrcdiblr yield 



376 

 Cotton culture 269— manufactories in N. C. 312 

 Cotton, Mexico-Egyptian 488 

 Cotton seed covered by the coulter 303 

 Coulter, a new and good kind 55 

 Cows, milch, 421 — useful instructions regarding the 



milking 446 

 Crops, state of in August 1838, 441 — of Nansemond, 



574 — on the Eivanna 199 — on Eastern Shore of Md. 



767 

 Crow, a bird of prey, 453 

 Culture and products of a lot, through a series of years 



731 

 Cut-worm 261 



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Dahlia, on the propagation of 337 



Dams across rivers, for mills, &c. construction of, 36 



Direct trade and internal police, report on to the Com- 

 mercial Convention, 699 



Ditches, hill-side 110 



Dogs, to prevent their sucking eggs 359 



Drains, covered, mode of filling 18 



Draining, practical etfects of 396, implements for 17 — 

 Johnstone's Treatise on, remarks on 61 



Drought of 1838, 434, 440, 441 



Dry-rot, Kyan's process to prevent 106 



Ducks, 325 



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Earthen-ware, foul and poisonous, 439 



Economy, difference between English and American, 

 372 



Editorial articles and remarks — on agricultural hobbies 

 and humbugs 47; disasters on rail-ways and their 

 causes 57; on Johnstone's treatise on draining, &ic., 

 61 ; to the friends and supporters of the Farmers' 

 Register 63; the degrading of the great farmer 

 Coke, by a title of nobility 70; the bounties of 

 government to agriculture and to printers 83; the 

 wines from Halifax and Scupperong grapes 92; 

 inarl of South Carolina 111; the Southern Com- 

 mercial Convention 112 ; the course of Massachu- 

 setts in aiding agricultural improvement 117 ; Jauf- 

 fret's new plan of niakins; manure 125, 311; on 

 collecting agencies, and their discontinuance 127 ; 

 subscriptions erased 128 ; the preference tor north- 

 <'rn seed -wheat 129 ; the failure 1o answer the 

 lormprquerios on marling 142 ; remarkable natural 

 features of the rouli' of tlio Michigan and Illinois 

 canal ]7{); fibres of certain tropical plants 198; 

 analysis of the S/intee marl, (H. C.) 19S; use of 

 f^ub-carbonate of soild in washing clothes 202; on 

 obj^-ctions to reniaiks on humbugs 211 ; on ttie 

 Chinese treatise on silk-worms 228; state u! the 

 wheat crop 255; on the furnishini;; agricultural 

 books for the use of schools 263 ; marling in South 

 <'arolina 265 ; th.' couiparutive sizes of leaves of 

 flirforent kinds of mulberry ti"ees 275 ; largo size of 

 the native kind 417 ; on the colleges of Virginia, 

 mil the revival isnd importance of William and 

 Mary college 292; covering cotton seed with the 

 lia-row 3i)3 ; on seeillings from Chinese mulbeiry 

 seeds 316 ; the {iroht of rending the Farmers' He<j- 

 ister to southern planters C17, 31S; state of wheat 

 crop 319; on spring whe it 336 ; on tlie arrears oi\ 

 and notices to subscribers 343 ; selection of seeds 

 356; libraries for common sciiOols 357; on Mr. 

 Hicks" silk-culture and results 379 ; on silk-culture 

 in the Unitad State.-;, aiul the apparent general fail- 

 ures 239; tile mulberry speculation and mania 391 ; 



qualities of the Chinese mulberry 392-3 ; on the 

 durability of the etfects of marling 407 ; large 

 leaves of native mulberry and of seedlings of 

 Chinese 417 ; on seedlings of Canton mulberry 424; 

 progress of the mulberry speculation 425 ; on 

 strictures of a correspondent 434; on season and 

 state of crops in August 441; multicaulis trade 

 and mania 445; notices and replies to corres- 

 pondents 448 ; the marl-indicator 454 ; the pe- 

 culiar fitness of Virginia and adjacent states for 

 silk-culture 464 ; on Grant Thorburn's hum- 

 bug 490 ; the moras multicaulis culture, and spe- 

 culation 492 ; on the several claims to the me- 

 rit of making known the value of the multicaulis 

 497; on the speculation 504 ; on the comparative 

 unfitness of northern regions for its growth 521 ; 

 disadvantages of the north-western states 521 ; the 

 milk-sickness 533; sinking of drained swamp lands 

 544 ; on the ancient laws and policy of Virginia 

 558,711; on the proceedings of the Norfolk rom- 

 mercial convention 564 ; advantages of the lands 

 of Nansemond 575; on manuring with marsh mud 

 72!) ; on irresponsihle banking and its consequen- 

 ces 729 ; on the introduction of the morus multicau- 

 lis 753 ; address to subscribers, and the ]iublic 759; to 

 correspondents 767 ; " Smith fund" 762 



Eggs 741 



Elizabeth city lands, improvement of 435. 



Embankments, general directions for 19 ; of sea-shores 

 20 ; lor reclaiming land from the sea 22; for pro- 

 tecting land from rivers 27, 32 ; of lakes 36. 



Embankments from the sea 76 



Enamelled hardware 134 



Farm, experimental, 708, in France 77 



Farm, extraordinary products of a small one 71 



Farm products, statement of, in Fairfax county 1 



Farm Reports — Netherby, Cumberland, Eng. 144 



Farms, proper size of 551 



Farms, small, the profit of cultivating 167 



Farmer's profession, usefulness and respectability of 

 397 



Farmers' Register, Conditions of 63, 767, address to its 

 friends and supporters 63, 759 



Farmers' Register, its suitableness for southern culti- 

 vators maintained 317 



Farming and business habits of Stephen Girard 739 



Farming, successful, on a small scale in Gloucester, 

 194 



Fence and tresspass law of New York, 191 



Fevers, cause and prevention of 506 



Fertility, perpetual, of certain soils, 130 



Fish, as manure, 152, 546 



Flax, improvement in the manufacture of 501 



Flint in wheat-straw 256 



Florida, remaiks on, and general desciiption of, in 

 1838, 524 — climate and products of 273 



Flowers, double, conjecture on the causes of 134 



Flowers, fruits, and trees 337 



I'orests of America 518 



Fruit trees, planting, 576 



Fruit trees, on "rindins." or ringing, to forward the 

 production of fruit 317 



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Garnetf's, J. M. address, remarks on some parts, 93 



Gas, natural, used to light a village 491 



Gate, plan and description of 53 



Gc-olo.ny and geography of New York, 402 



Glanders, communicated from a horse to a man 543 



Gloucester county, and part of Matthews, remarks on 



the soils and agriculture of 179, 193 

 Gold mines, Peruvian, new mode of extracting the 



metal 287 

 Grape and silk culture 92— on the profitable blending 



ol both with dairy business 89 



