TABLE 



CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII. 



Accomac, quantity and value of exports of 255 



Address (extract from) to Society of Husbandry and 

 Manufactures, of Middlesex, (Mass.) 229 



Agricultural convention of N. Y., proceedings of 172 



Agricultural education, essay on the nature and im- 

 portance of 331 



Agricultural excursion into St. John's, Eerkeley, S. C. 

 115, 178, 219 



Agricultural moralities 505 



Agricultural i)eriodicals, credibility of 620 



Agricultural practices on the great Pee-Dee S. C. 636 



Agricultural publications, separate, at the Farmers' 

 Register office 185 



Agricultural report of a Gloucestershire hill farm 150 



Agiicultural Society, (English,) Royal, proceedings 

 of 561 — of South Carolina 621 — of Maryland, pro- 

 ceedings of 574 — of Charlotte, premiums awarded by 

 121 — of Cumberland, address to 274 — of Mason, 

 Cabell and Kanawha, address to 48 — proceedings of 

 in support of a Board of Agriculture 693 



Agricultural Society for the state of Virginia proposed 

 633 



Agriculture, European, notes on 112, 208, 357 



Agriculture of France 263, 323, 391 



Agriculture of England, described by Daniel Webster 

 307, notes to same 312 



Agriculture of Rhode-Island 263, 540, 541 ; Rotch- 

 larm, 641 



Agriculture in Mass. 493 ; of Essex 363 ; in Ken- 

 tucky, 40 



Agriculture and products of south-eastern North Ca- 

 rolina 249 



Analysis of soils 614; of Edisto Island, report on 519 



Animals, sick, treatment of 622 



Apples lor fattening geese 262 



' Arator,' Taylor's, its republication needed 662 , Pre- 

 face to new edition, by the editor of the Farmers' 

 Register 703; the entire work republished 703 to 771 



Arboriculture, report on, 695 



Army worm 660 



Artesian well at Crenelle 85 



Artichokes, Jerusalem 21, 116 



Ashes, value of 302 



Asses, Poitou 679 



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Bacon, to make good 109 



Balloon adventure at night 644 



Bean, culture of 102 



Bean pods poisonous to swine 228 



Beatson's system of cultivation 143 



Bee-moth 57, 355 



Bees 411; Mr. Keith's management of 270 



Beet-sugar 159 ; in Europe 134 



Belting or girdUng trees for clearing land 513 



Birds, usefulness and value of 166, 294 ; importance of 

 protecting 548 



Bloody milk 665 



Blue-grass of Kentucky— poffl praienm, or green- 

 sward 650, 661, 198, 516, 517, 513 



Jbone-dust as manure 621, 670 



Bots and their cure 497 



Bread, bark, in Norway 517 



Breeding, rules for 666 



Buckweat S82, 646; harvesting of 691 

 Biiel, Jesse, notice of 240 

 Bug, striped, 411 ; to destroy 668 

 Bulleting-as a substitute for spaying 141 

 Bushes, on destroj'ing 501 



Cabbage, preservation of 538 



Cabbage plants 530 



Calcareous earth for manure in Loudoun county, and 

 elsewhere in middle Virginia 570 



Calcareous earths and soils 406, 407 



Calcareous soils of South Carolina and Georgia 176 



Calcareous lands of Rocky-Point 246 



Calcareous manures, search for 16 ; general statement 

 of effects of, and directions for their profitable ap- 

 plication 481 



Canals and rail-roads in Virginia 543 



Canker-worm, to prevent 538 — their ravages 553 



Carrots, harvesting of 6 — as food for horses 177 



Caterpillar in the cotton crops 538 



Caterpillars, Shakers' mode of destroying 262 



Cattle, on stall-feeding, 129 — Devon 217 — short-horn 

 or Durham 303 ; cream-pot 562 ; improved in Ken- 

 tucky 195; short-horned (or Durham,) hint to buy- 

 ers of 102 ; Hoven 662 



Celery, culture of 47 ; to preserve throughout winter 

 167 



Charleston S. C. remarks on 244 



Cheese, poisoned 98 



Cherry, wild, grafting on 171 



Chickens, rearing 300 



China, great wall of 108 



Chinch-bug 405 



Cider, directions for making and preserving 622 



Cisterns 620 



Clearing land, directions for 353 



Clover after corn 513 



Clover in corn 447 



Clover seed, on raising and cleaning 547, 626 



Cocoonery, the domestic, described 98 ; best form for 

 108 



Cocoons, perforated, spinning of 404 



Cocoons, curing 32 ; by use of camphor, &i,c. 219 



Coal mines, burning 514 ; explosions in 532 



College of William and Mary, graduates of 419 



Commercial reports 64, 127, 192, 256, 384, 448, 511, 

 575, 635, 699 



Commissioner of patents, his report for 1839, 157 



Conservatory, magnificent 110 



Corn, culture of 255, 279, 369, 444 



Corn, cutting down and stacking 574 ; injury to by 

 stripping the leaves for fodder 110; harvesting ot 

 354 ; experimental crop of 645 ; sown broad-cast 

 400 ; products of different kinds, errors in regard 

 to 51 ; sown for forage 500 



Corn plants, number of on poor and rich land com- 

 pared 221 



Correspondence between the Agr. Soc. of St. John's, 

 Colleton, S. C, and the editor, on calcareous ma- 

 nures for cotton, &.c. 528 ; of Gen. Washington 

 with Col. Carrington, on agricultural subjects 560 



Cotton, cultivafioii of 62; competition of x\merican 

 and East Indian 582, 654 ; Indian 406 ; kidney-seed 

 42; crops of the world 35 



Cotton in India G53 



Cotton seed 83 ; as manure S3. 97 



