FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Grave -yards, gatherings from 365 



Grazing system of Kentucljy, improvement produced 



by 314 

 Gregg's system of cultivation 147 

 Green-cropping, a plan of 210 

 Green crops, as manure 235, 531 

 Green manures 382 



Green and dry crops, plouglied in for manure 398 

 Green-sand marl and its eliects on the Pamunkey 679, 



690 

 Guinea and Gama grass 1S7 

 Gypsum, cause of its action on limed land 58 

 Gypsum, long protracted efl'ccts of 582 



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Hay-making 275, 306, 405, 449 



Hay tea, for hogs 106 



Heating water, machine for 661 



Hemp 593, cutting and preparing for market 592 



Hogs', cheap mode of raising and fattening 59 ; report 

 to N. Y. Agricultural Society on 12 ; on the dilfer- 

 ent breeds of 630 ; pens for 132 ; food for 21 ; the 

 comparative dispositions of different breeds to fatten 

 669 ; Woburn, 594 ; Berkshire 501, 506 ; " the lull- 

 bred Berkshires'" 597, 598 



Hollow-horn 480 



Horse, Arab, powers of 363 



Horses, epidemic among 277 



Horses, treatment of 32; water for 84; shoeing of 

 353 ; articles of food for 469 ; importing from 

 France 31 



Ice house, for keeping ice two or three years 22 



Ice mountain of Hampshire, Va. 667 



Independence 534 



Indian Key, massacre at 567 



Insects 444 



Instinct, force of 319 



Iron cottages 646 



Iialy, domestic industry of 145 



Jamaica, crop of 64 



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Kiyogg, the Swiss farmer 670 

 Kyanizing timber 518 



Kyan's anti-dry-rot solution destructive to vegetable 

 life 82 



Lagoon islands, formation of 413 



Lake, bottomless 586 



Legislative aid to agriculture called for 571 



Lightning rods for barns 562 



Lime as manure 10, 300 ; obstructions to 292 ; with 



marsh mud 573 

 Lime, to separate from magnesia 565 

 Lime-burning 193 



Lime-stone in lower North Carolina 257 

 Liquorice 531 

 Lucerne 321, 322, 400 ; culture of 383 ; in France C07 



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Machine for shucking and shelling corn 61 



Magnesia objected to 569 



Malaria and mill-ponds 141 



Mangel wurtzel t>3; culture of 174; experiment of 



feeding to milch cows 96 

 Manures 57, 295, 585 ; application and effects of 14 ; 



experiment in Massachusetts 304 ; importance of 

 2 



670 ; preparation of 186, 588 ; on making 612 ; 

 from leaves 381 ; from stables 229 ; liquid 668 ; 

 green 1, 7 



Manuring 3G3 ; green 93 



Marl, manner and cost of water transportation of 691 



Marl, blue 320 



Marl and marling in South Carolina 301, 341, 502 



Marl and limestone of the Neuse and Trent 253, 257 



Marling, combined with vegetable manures, 574; in 

 North Carolina 500 ; tlie results of, immediate and 

 remote, in the country about Williamsburg 415; 

 investigation of effects proposed 446 ; general que- 

 ries on 489 ; answered as to different farms in Prince 

 George county 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496 ; on the 

 Pamunkey lands 679 



Meadow 126; manuring 126 



Manures of capacity, dry 558 



Mice, antidote against 554 



Milk, different qualities 274 ; that will not produce 

 butter 57; instrument for measuring the richness 

 of 53 



Millet 191, 445 



Mountain, burning, in Pa. 530 



Mud, swamp, for manure 293 



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New Hanover (N. C.) general appearance of lands 246 

 Nitrate of soda as manure 128, 586; natural produc- 

 tion of 613 



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Okra soup 550 



Orchard destroyed by canker worms 553 

 Orchard grass, cultivation of 626 ; aflvantage of grow- 

 ing with red clover 227; grown with red clover 414 

 Overseers, rules for 230 



Painting, with milk instead of oil 236 



Pamunkey lands described 679 



Pasture 562 



Patents, for agricultural purposes, granted in 1839, 157 



Pea, culture of 237, 515 



Peach orchards, annual cultivation, and crops for 539 



Peach trees, 114 ; treatment of 665 



Peach tree worms 571 



Pea-nuts, or ground peas 21 



Peas, field 382 



Pedestrianism extraordinary 616 



Perrine. Dr. Henry, death of, and the sacking of In- 

 dian Key 566 



Petition to congress to equalize (he rates of postage 

 on magazines and newspapers 699 



Physick humbug, the second 380 



Pigs, 303; store, treatment and food of 124; young, 

 food and treatment of 135 



Pine forests of North Carolina 250, 253 



Plants, predaceous and carnivorous 245; excretory 

 powers of 595 



Ploughing, depth.of 137 



Plum, culture of 182 



Pocoson, reclaimed. Judge Gaston's 251 



Potato ground for next season 591 



Potatoes, (sweet,) to keep in warm weather 597 



Potatoes, (Irish,) raised from slips 646 ; from the seed 

 556; culture of 259; planting of 449; experiment 

 with 236; Irish and sweet, cultivation of 119; Ro- 

 han 622; digging 590 



Poudrette 32 



Poultry 340, 553 ; raising 600 ; boiled food for 559 



Prince George county, observations on the earliest 

 marled district of 485; and in relation to queries 

 and answers on 497 



Promiscuous remarks 52 



Prong-hoe, description of 234 



