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FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



PufT direct, editorial, 571 ; by agricultural papers 284 

 Pumpkins, preservation of 228 

 Pumps, frozen, to thaw 191 



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Queries and answers on marling in Prince George -1D7; 



on the borders of the Pamunkey 683, 684, 687, 



688, 689 

 Questions and suggestions 652 



R 



Rails-roads and canals, improvement by 420 : in Vir- 

 ginia 543 



Rape, culture of 239 



Rat-catching 535 



Reaping machine, Hussey's 294 ; 634 



Red-root, in clover seed 177 



Reel, silk, a simple and cheap one 188 



Remittances by mail to publishers mr.y be free of 

 postage 125 



Review of ' Maison Rusiiqiie,' Art. "Vers-a-soie" 213 



Rice, culture of near Wilmington, N. C. 243 



Ridge-lands of eastern Virginia, described ICS 



Roller, trampling 680 



Rolling, a protection from the fly 262 



Root culture 5, 28, 96, 231, 2S6; at Mount Airy 13G 



Root crops 238 



Rotation, four-shift, with pea fallow added 1 ; five- 

 field and grazing 183 ; remarks on Mr. Selden's 

 change of 511 



Rotations, new schemes of proposed 1,7; remarks on 

 the different schemes of 121, 337, 577 



Rotations, proposed change from the four-shift 111 ; 

 the fiveshilt 122 ; of crops, in Europe 165 ; in Ita- 

 ly 627 



Ruta baga 223 



Ruta baga, hoeing of 410 



Rye in wood-land 299, 400 



Salt, use of in agriculture 32 



Sassafras bushes 622 



Savannas of North Carolina 24S, 252 



Scalding seeds 390 



Scioto bottom lands, remarkable fertility and chemical 

 composition of 110 



Seeds, to save 296 ; protracted vitality of 551 ; causes 

 of Iheir not germinating 35 ; presented by Mr. James 

 Ronaldson 255 ; from South Florida 168 



Sheep, profits of 408 



Sheep breeding 599 



Siberian life on the Kolyma 648 



Silk culture. A, B, C of 53 ; northern, report of 370, 

 396; earliest notice of in Virginia, 1840, 377; re- 

 ports of experiments of 27, 34 ; modern European 

 improvements in 280 ; compared with corn-cul- 

 ture in profit on poor soils 17 ; near Norfolk, Va. 

 254; in Delaware, practical results of 142; mo- 

 dern French mode and opinions of from 'Maison 

 Rusiiqve' 213; in Brunswick 402; in Italy 587; 

 estimates of profits of in Virginia 119 ; suggestions 

 to persons about to commence 117; in East Ten- 

 nessee 186 ; forcing system and healthy cocooneries 

 of D'Arcet, account of 77 



Silk manufactured by Mrs. Anderson, of Gloucester, 

 and presented to Gen. Washington 222 



Silk, reeling 14 ; on the necessity of proper instruction 

 in 140 ; operations in Philadelphia 540 



Silk reels, caution against 500 



Silk Society of Norfolk, proceedings of 36 



Silk-worms, rearing near Paris, report on 343; fail- 

 ures ot this season's 510, 537 ; causes of failures in 

 rearing 617, 623 ; reared in open air 573 ; spaces 

 proper for 102 



SUlc-woims, wild, of Assam, ami their products 503 



Silk-worms' eggs, preservation and retarding the hatch- 

 ing of 33 ; the new theory of retarding the hatching 

 o(, and causes of failures in rearing— discussed 674, 

 675, 678 ; the retarding the hatching of, the cause of 

 failures in rearing 545; method for retarding the 

 hatching of 649 ; number of different kinds to the 

 ounce 95 



Slave-hunting in New Hampshire 443 



Slaves, management of 42G 



Soap, to make 25 



Societies, agricultural or silk-cultural, advice to 39 



Soils, their compositions and qualities 387 ; of Eastern 

 Virginia described 168 ; of Kentucky, and the rich 

 lands around Lexington 350 



South Carolina, the times in 318 



"Southern Magazine" proposed to bo published 634 



Speculation in eastern lands 516 



Squash, large 59; cidture of 319 



Stables, dirty, ill effects of 229 



Steamer, cheap, for roots, &.c. 167 



Stoves for negroes' houses 212 



Strawberry, culture of 667 



Stucco wash 560 



Sugar versus cotton 22 



Sugar-beet, culture of 174, 223 



Sun-flower plant 480 



Sun-flower seed oil 410 



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Tarring trees, to protect them from the canker worm 

 538 



Temperature and weather during rearings of silk- 

 worms, by Potomac company 18 



Ticks on sheep, to destroy 211 



Toads, useful 294 



Tobacco, duties on, payable in Europe 631 



Tobacco convention, proceedings of 270 



Tobacco planters of Dinwiddle, proceedings of 6C2 



Trenching 673 



Tropical plants, governmental obstruction to their in- 

 troduction into Florida 28 



Tuipentine and tar business in Noith Carolina 251 



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Universe, an idea of 1S4 



University of Virginia, graduates of 418 



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Valley of Virginia, manners of primitive settlers of 656 



Vegetable kingdom, remarks on 386 



Vine, Isabella grape 162 



Vines, trimming leaves from 35; calcareous soils re- 

 quired for 145 



Vineyards and wine making, 'Journal of a recent visit 

 to the principal vineyards of Spain and France,' 427, 

 450 



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Washington, his letter to Mrs. Anderson, on receiving 



her present of silk cloth 222 ; correspondence with 



Col. Carrington 560 

 Waste lands of France 600 

 Water, stagnant 503 



Water-power, novel, constructed by the Shakers 549 

 Weather, cold, of January 1840, 63 

 Weeds, extirpation of 173, 672 

 Wheat, after oats 512 ; the wonderful Californian, or 



many headed 568 ; contract concerning proposed 



and discussed 610 

 Wheat, old, preferred for seed 669 

 Wheat culture 554 

 Wheat land, treading of 679 

 Wheat-sowing 562 



