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FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Cotton lands, improved by being overflowed by brack- 

 ish water 191 



Cotton trade 056 



Coiicli, witch, or wire-grass 85 



Coulter plough 226 



Cow, short-horn. Blossom 647 



Cows, period of gestation of 551 ; working of 106 ; 

 holding up their milk 625, 666 



Cranbeirics 83,447; increasing demand for 573 



Cropping on one quarter of an acre 425 



Crops, expenses and proceeds of 82 ; on Eastern Shore 

 Maryland 634 



Crows, a mode of fiightening from corn fields 629 



Cucumbers, to preserve from insects 499 



Cultivation, wonders of 84 



Curculio 181 



Currency, disorders of, and remedy for 237 



Cymliu (or squash) cultiue 663 



Dahlia, propagated by buds or joints 57 



Dailies, Holstein 641 



Dandolo's book on silk-cullure 145 



Dandolo's translators and their folio ivers, remarkable 



and numerous errors of 102, 190 

 Deep and close tillage of corn, experiment of 53D 

 Desert, sandy, of North CaroHna 245 

 Dioncea muscipula, or Venus' fly trap 261 

 Distances proper for various roots 231 

 Divers things 177 



Dogs, wild, of Van Diemen's Land 5S3 Siberian 625 

 Drag-log 226 



Drainage by steam-power 61 

 Drained pond 663 



Draining, the Deanston s)fstem 388 

 Durhams vs. Devonshires 261 



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Editorial notes and remarks on the tropical plant 

 scheme of Dr. Perrine 28 ; on the proper procedure 

 for the Silk Society of Norfolk, and agricultural 

 societies in general 39 ; sources of error in compar- 

 ing products of different kinds of corn 51 ; on the 

 galactometre 54 ; the management of silk-worms in 

 their early stages 55; on Hussey's machine for 

 shucking and shelling corn 61 ; cold weather of 

 January 63 ; D'Arcet's forcing system of sflk-cul- 

 ture 77 ; number of silk-worms' eggs to the ounce 

 95 ; on the spaces for silk-worms, and the gross 

 blunders of Dandolo's translators and their copyists 

 102 ; chemical cojnposition of fertile soils from Sci- 

 oto 110 ; suggestions to persons about to commence 

 silk-culture 117 ; postage on remittances 126; an 

 establishment for reeling silk 140; calcareous soil for 

 vines 145 ; Guinea and Gama grass 183 ; Mr. Hicks' 

 silk reel ISS ; on the errors and blunders of the 

 translators of Dandolo, and their copyists 188 ; on 

 modern French silk-culture and opinions thereon, in 

 ' Maisoa Rusiiqiie' 213; on thick or thin plant- 

 ing of corn on rich land 221 ; on Washington's let- 

 ter to Mrs. Andeison 222 ; the prong-hoe"234 ; Mr. 

 Ronaldson's seeds 255; editorial putis and advertise- 

 ments 284 ; on the evils of government banking 097 ; 

 on marling in South Carolina and Dr. Johnson's stric- 

 tures 302, 408; on mailing in South Carolina and erro- 

 neous reasoning in regard to marling. '542,343; earliest 

 notices of silk-culture in 1840, in Virginia 377 ; the 

 second Physick humbugSSO ; on the eifects of marl- 

 ing in the country about Williamsburg 418; ne- 

 glect of Parmeis' Registei' 4-!5; iiroposed investiga- 

 tion of eO'ects of 446 : marling in North Carolina 500 ; 

 on the means for diffusing knowledge on marling in 

 South Caroliiia 502 ; on the oppression of the fence 

 law, and meaii;, for relief 504 ; general failure of silk- 

 worm re«riugs this season 5 10 ; confusion of names of 

 rrasses 517, 051 ; on the death of Dr. Perrine 566; 



many-headed Califoinian wheat humbug 568, 601 ; 

 on old seed wheat 569; on the calcareous earth of 

 Loudoun and elsewhere in middle Va. 570 : edito- 

 rial puli' direct 57! ; experiment ol rcaiiiig silk- 

 worms in open air 573 ; on puffs of salesmen of the 

 " full-bred Berkshires" 597 ; on the formation of a 

 state agricultural society in Va. 633; new theory 

 of retarding silk-worms' eggs 674 ; treading of wheat 

 land, and trampling roller 679; on the petition to 

 equalize the rates of postage, 700 ; on Taylor's 

 Arator, introductory to the new edition 662; on era- 

 sures of subscriptions without orders 772 



Egg-hatching by artificial heat 43 



Eggs, their shape indicative of sex 511 



Emancipation in Jamaica, effects of 1G6 



Embankment of a kingdom from the sea 647 



Epidemic among horses 277 



Excogitations 47 



Experiments, on making 45 ; with artificial manures, 

 reporting upon 596 



Explanations (by Fairfax) 45, 404 



Fallow, winter 143 



Farm-yard, plan of 126 



Farmers' life and duties 292 



Farmers' Register, pecuniary profit of reading 445 ; 



addi-ess to subscribers to 638; conditions of for 



next ensuing volume 639 

 Farming, Kentucky and Eng'ish 5 

 Farming, system of J. Sheimer 293 

 Farms, in Scotland, Strathncver, Norwich and Cul- 



raaily, reports of 65 ; Gloucestershire hill farm 150, 



198; Gloucestershire vale farm 285; small, of 



Belgium 506 

 Fence law, oppression of, and dawn of relief 504 

 Fences, different kinds of 23 

 Filatui-p, model, in Philadelphia 349 

 Financial prostration of the country, causes of 141 

 Fior-in grass, review of Dr. Kichardson's account of 86 

 Fish of salt water-, naturalized in fresh-water ponds 



619 

 Florida, Southern, delightfulness of its climate, and 



governmental abuses and neglect of 142; unhealthi- 



ness and sterility denied 146 

 Florida islets, fi'opical products of 565 

 Flower-beds 197 

 Flower garden, edgings for S67 

 Flowering, premature, of fruit trees and shrubs 55 

 Flowers, sale of 95 



Fodder, on pulling 279; curing and stacking 584 

 Food for stock 663 

 Fox-hounds, high pi-ices of 508 

 France, soils and climate of 222 

 Frosts, late, to preserve fruit from 646 

 Fiuit, preservation of 58 

 Fruit-trees, cultivation of 357 

 Fuel, economy of 658 

 Furnaces, hot air 338 



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Galactometer 53 



Garget 239 



Generation and reproduction of plants and animals, 

 atialogy of 385 



GeoloH;ical features of New England ; speech of Dr. 

 C. T. Jackson 152 



Goat, the shawl, account of the introduction into Eu- 

 rope and Australia 551 



Grafting upon the roots of apple and pear trees 425 



Grape, large seedling raised by Van Mons 101 



Grape vine .339 



Grape-culture 295 



Grass seed, sowing on wood-land 694 



Grasses, artificial 575 



Grasses, name*, of, confusion of S69 



