FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Peat, 18 



Peat-ashes, as manure, old article on 214 



Persimmon tree and beer 58 



Pise buildings 322 



Pig, statement of cost and profit, 250 



Pigeon roosts in the west 366 



Planters' Society of Monticello, S. C. proceedings of 

 199 



Plants, lost species of 174, phosphorescent 129, grow- 

 ing under glass 139, fibrous leaved, 289, their or- 

 ganization, and chemical constitution of, and the sub- 

 stances found in them (Lect. 3, Agr. Chem.) 559 



Ploughing deep 164, 418 



Poor Richard's Almanack, or the "Way to Wealth" 736 



Potato (Irish,) preservation of 575 



Potatoes, sweet, inquiries in regard to keeping, 502 



Poudrette, manufacture of in New York 201 



Poultry, domestic, on rearing 118, 278, 376, 741 



Prairies, formerly existing in the valley of Virginia 

 319 



Primiogeniture, law of, how affecting agriculture 126 



Princeana, 511 answer to, 757 



Pruning trees 254, in summer 256 



Pump logs, best timber for 203 



Pumpkin, citron, 286 — Spanish cheese, 542 



Pumpkin seed oil 405 



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Queen bee, her existence questioned 428 

 R 



Rabbit, account of its habits 507 



Rabbits, profit of their keeping — management of 374 



Rabbit-warren, account of 313 



Raft in Red river 16, 377 — removed 174 



Railway, Baltimore and Ohio, account of 555 — of 

 Philadelphia and Reading, description of, 691 — of 

 Danville and Pottsville, 692 — Philadelphia and Co- 

 lumbia 755 — Lancaster and Hanisburg 755 — Ston- 

 jngton 756 — Boston and Providence 756 — Boston and 

 Lowel 757 — Lowel and Nashua 757 — Portsmouth 

 and Roanoke, report of the President and Directors 

 330 — Eastern Shore, remarks on 246 — Louisville, 

 Cincinnati and Charleston, and Bank Company 437 



Railway, branch to Deep Run coal-pits 447 



Railway bridge across James river 415 



Railway steamer, 4 



Railways, disasters on, and their causes 56, 57 



Railroads and steamboats, 131 



Rat-proof meat-houses 109 



Rats in grain, 501 



Rents, prices of in Ireland 154 



Rhubarb, culture of 426 



Rice, first introduction into South Carolina 214 



Root culture 426 



Roots compared with hay in value as food 250 



Rotation of crops for grain farms 177 



Ruta Baga 264 



Saintfoin 316 

 Salt hay 97 



Saltpetre-water, used to soak seed-corn 502 

 Sassafras, experiment to destroy 109 

 Sea ore, or ware, as manure 435, 722 

 Season and state of crops in October 1838,510 

 Seed trodden in 418 

 Seeds, selection of 356 

 Sheep husbandry 546 

 Sheep, Etall-feeiling of 267 

 Sheep-worm 418 

 Shell-fish, disease among 207 

 Silk-convention, account of proceedincs of 7 !5 

 Silk culture, report of a first tiial in Virginia ;>7i'?, re- 

 marks tliereon 379 

 Silk culture 401 — estimates of value of 259 



Silk culture in New Jersey 355 



Silk culture of the United States, general remarks on 

 389, affected by speculations in mulberry plants 392 



Silk culture, its state in the north and prospects in the 

 south 449 — reasons for being best suited to the 

 southern states 464 — statements of, 557 



Silk culture, Treatise on by G. B. Smith, No. 1, 4 

 No. 2, 481— No. 3, 513 



Silk-worms, directions for the management of, accord- 

 ing to European practice, 464 — extracts from old 

 Chinese works on their rearing and management 

 228 — fed with wet leaves 400 — fed on rice 174 



Smoke burner 414 



Snow-owl, 725 



Soap suds as manure, and to destroy insects 127 



Soapers' waste as manure 744 



Soil, frozen, of Siberia 420 



Soil, geological origin and formation of 248 



Soil, the part it acts in the process of vegetation 726 



Soils, their constituent parts, and the mode of ana- 

 lyzing described at length, and the means of im- 

 provement (Lect. 4, Agr. Chem.) 615 



Soils, relation of to manures 152— capabilities of, 266 



Soup-making 575 



Sowing early, produces less straw, compared to the 

 crop of grain 740 



Spring-wheat humbug, 335 — remarks on same 336 



Squashes turning to pumpkins 427 



Steam canal boats 238 



Steam power 400 



Stone-cutting chisel, 279 



Stone fence, the building of, 284 



Straw, as top-dressing for young clover 112 



Strictures and remarks on former articles 433 



Subscribers, delinquent, plan proposed for dunning 

 them 342 — remarks on 343 



Subscriptions erased for non-payment, 128 



Subsistence and occupation, the laws of 7 



Subterranean river 253 



Subterranean travelling 247 



Suckf rs on corn 254 



Sugar, beet, manufacture of, 201 



Sugar and cotton regions of the United States 418 



Sun-fiower culture 207 



Survey (engineer's) from the Dismal swamp canal to 

 Winy aw bay, 408 



Swamps, and swamp mud 398 



Swamp land, its sinking after being drained, 544 



'•Swathing" wheat, in reaping, better than "handing" 

 347 



Tar, the commencement of its production in this 



country 215 

 Temj^erature of the interior of the earth 283 

 Toad, account of its habits and usefulness 373 

 Tobncco, its culture proposed to be substituted by 



other new crops in Eastern Virginia 747 

 Tobacco trade 160 

 Trade of the west, by the James river and Kanawha 



improvement 5 

 Trees, ages and sizes of 175 

 Tropical plants, Dr. Perrine's plan for introducing 84, 



19S — remarks on 85 

 Trough for pigs 503 

 Turnip drills, 278 



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Vegetable physiology 266 



Vegetables which have formerly covered the eaiih at 

 ditierent epochs oi' its formation 325 



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Washing clothes aided much by us? of sub carbonate 

 ol' soda 202 



