FARMKRS' REGISTER. 



Grasses, the produce and nutritive qtialities of various 

 kinds, ascertained by accurate experiments, (App. 

 Afjr. Cliem.) <»>^9 



Grasses of South Carolina 276 



Grasses for sheep, (»!)() 



Grazing, close, denounced 109 — of sheep among grow- 

 ing corn 253 



Grease for vvheel-nxlcs 107 



Green crops, their uses and culture 7.0 



Green Spring lands of Louisa 4 10 



Gypsum, case of retarded action of 322 



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Hail-storms, protection against 486 



Hall's humbug patent for cultivating corn 50 



Hand-saws, to repair 423 



Hay, mode of moving 507 



Heating, Joyce's new mode of, 62 — apparatus for 317, 



520 

 Herring, natural history of 3S7 

 Hoes, 386 — sharpening 424 

 Hogs, management and diseiises of 381 

 Honey, directions for taking, without destroying the 



bees 397 — antiseptic propert}'^ of 520 

 Horse, age of judged by his teeth 357 — description of 



the best form of 512 — velocity of in the race, phi- 



losophicall}' considered 71 

 Horses, singular and fatal disease of 563 — secret for 



taming 158 

 Houses, how moved in America 393 

 Humbug, agricultural, "Chinese" corn 489 

 Humbugs and hobbies, agricultural, essay on 47 — 



some objections to the essay on, 208 — reply to the 



objections 211 

 Hydrogen gas found in leaden water pipes 344 

 Hydrophobia in sheep, 394 



Ice-houses, constructing and filling, 516, 550 

 Improving lands by other means than manuring, as 



burninsT, irrigating, fallowing, &c. (Lect. 8, Agr. 



Ch.) 656 

 Indian rubber, or Caoutchouc 520 

 Insects of destructive kinds 422 



JaufTret's manure 165, 253, 303, 309 



Laws of Virginia, ancient, curious extracts from 558, 

 711 



Lead mine in N. C. 116 



Leaves, manuring with, theory of 458 — statements of 

 effects 463, 563 



Libraries for common schools 357 



Lightning conductors, efficacy of 279 



Lime, as manure, 140 — value of 424, 736 — its applica- 

 tion, 739 — use of in New Hampshire 292 — anec- 

 dote of its use 261 — general want of in the soils of 

 Massachusetts and Maine, the cause of their unfit- 

 ness to produce wheat 102 



Lime-spreader, Smith's, description of 4S7 



Liming in Maryland 2— in Charles City 421— effects 

 in raising value and price of lands 422 



Liming and marling in Matthews county 142 



Locks and aqueducts, selection of stone for 6 



Loin-distemper of hogs 503 



Lucerne 315 



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Machine for ditching and banking 200 — for reajiing i 



159 — lor thrashing, grinding, &,c. 275 

 Machines for sovving grain :iiS I 



Manure, materials for, 355— effects and f-^lue ofi 



383 — the greatest amount to be obtained from given 

 means 361 — quantity to apply to an acre 491 — Janf- 

 fret's discovery of a new mode of making 65, 165, 

 253, 303, 309 — marine vegetable, application and 

 value of 300 — liquid, 73 — of fish 546— compost, of 

 peat 548 — of bones 66 



Manures in general 366— of mineral origin 291,649, 

 (Lecture 7, Agr. Chem.)— of vegetable and animal 

 origin, (Lect. 6, Agr. Chem.) 640. 



Manures (oil-cake and bones,) exported from the Uni- 

 ted States to Europe 344 



Manures of salt-water rivers, inquiries and remarks 

 on 721 



Manures used in Essex, Mass. 99. 



Manures for wheat 157 



Manuring, morals of 151 



Malaria, on the sources of in Virginia, and the means 

 of remedy and prevention 216 



Marl of South Carolina, 111, 173, 265, 324— use of in 

 South Carolina 689 



Marl as manure, inquiries as to the effects, and an- 

 swers 406-7 



Mari-indicator, account of 454— objections to 759 



Marling and liming in New Jersey 56 



Marling in Queen Ann's, Maryland 144 



Married and unmarried life, statistics of 89 



Marsh grass as manure 359 



Marsii-mud as manure, 359, 720, 722, 723 



Massacliusetts, the appropriations and works of, in 

 aid of agricultural improvement 117 



Melons grown over water 111 



Milk, quality of 212— from cows fed with distillery 

 swill 401 



Milk-sickness of the west 313, 533, 719, its supposed 

 cause 719 



Mine, catastrophe in 138 



Moon, philosophical speculations concerning 694 



Morus multicaulis— see "Mulberry, Chinese" 



Mould, formation of 206 



Mowing 309 



Mulberry, account of different varieties, 257, large 

 leaves of different kinds 417 



Mulberry, Chinese, fmorus multicaulis,) its culture, 

 414, 429, 492, 742— its introduction into this conn- 

 try, and diffusion of the knowledge of its value 497, 

 753— when genuine .502— not exempt from the de- 

 predations of insects 502— superior growth in the 

 south 511— the speculation in and high prices 355, 

 503— not well suited for the northern states 521— re- 

 moval of plants 575— in Florida 274 



Mulberry culture, Chinese methods 353 



Mulberry and silk culture, encouraged by old enact- 

 ments of Virginia, 5.59 



Mulberry crop lor silk raising 734 



Mulberry, from seed of the Canton, described 424 



Mulberry seedlings, remarks on 445, from .seed of the 

 Chinese, 316 



Mulberry speculation and mania, 425, 445 



Mulberries on Long island, failure of 445 



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Negroes, dance and .=;ongs of 59 

 New Zealand flax lilly, account of 87 

 North-western states— some of their disiidvanta^es 521 



Onions, culture of 173, 438 



Orange groves of Floiida 709 



Oxen and horses, comparative expense of 545 



Peach crops, prospect of in Delaware 261 

 Peach tree 277, to protect from worms 428 

 Peas, as food lor horses 254 



