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CONTENTS OF THE FARBIERS REGISTER, NO. X. VOL. Vlll. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Editorial remarks on Berkshire hogs - 

 The wonderful Californian wheat 

 Causes of the failures in rearing silk-worms - 

 Remarks upon the iailures in silk culture of 

 this season, and on the tlu'ory of G. B. Smith 

 An elfectual mode of frightening crows from 

 corn-fields - - - - - 



Remarks on different breeds of hogs - 

 Rohan potatoes and sassafras bushes - 

 A state agricultural society for Virginia 

 Crops, reaping machine, Sic. 

 Publication of the " Southern Magazine" 

 Monthly commercial report - - - 



To subscribers, in regard to Conditions of t!ie 



Farmers' Register for vol. ix. 

 Conditions of the Farmers' Register for vo- 

 lume ix. - 



SELECTIONS. 



Rotation of crops . - - - 



Plaster of Paris . . . - 



Cultivation of cotton in British India - 

 Curing and stacking fodder - - - 



Independence .... 



"Shipped in good order and well conditioned" 

 Manures . . - - - 



Extraneous manures — nihatc of soda 

 A bottomless lake . - - . 



Extracts from " Observations on the culture of 



silk" 



On digging potatoes - - - - 



Mode of harvesting buckwheat 



Potato ground for next season 



Cutting and preparing hemp for market — with 



its prices ior the last eight years - 



Pass 

 597 

 610 

 til7 



623 



629 

 630 

 632 

 633 

 634 

 634 



m5 



638 

 639 



577 

 582 

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 584 

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 586 

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587 

 590 

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592 



Page 



Rail-roads in the United States - - 593 



V/ild dogs of Van Diemen's Land - - 593 



Hemp 593 



Woburn hogs . - - - - 594 

 Observations on the excreting powers of 



plants, &c. ----- 595 



Reporting experiments with artificial manures 596 

 A good way to keep sweet potatoes in warm 



weather .... - 597 



"The full-bred Berkshires" - - - 597 



Sheep breeding .... 599 



Henery — not Henry .... 600 



The waste lands of France ... 600 



Lucerne in France ... - 607 



On making of manures ... 012 



Native nitrate of soda ... giS 



Chemical combinations — analysis of soils - 614 



Pedestrianism extraordinary ... 616 



Salt-water fish natuialized in fresh water ponds 619 



Credibility of the agricultural press - - 620 



Domestic conveniences — cisterns - - 620 



Bone ilust for the cultivation of grain - 621 



The state agricultural society of S. Ca. - 621 



The treatment of sick animals - - 622 

 Receipt for making cider, and preserving it 



sound for years . - - . 622 



Cows holding up their milk ... 625 



Siberian dogs - . - - . 625 

 Cidtivation ofdactylis glomerata, or orchard 



grass ..... 026 

 Raising and cleaning clover seed — clover ma- 

 chines ..... 626 

 Of the courses of crops ... 627 

 Tobacco — duty on it payable in Europe - 631 

 Xotes of agricultural practice on the Great 

 Peedee, S. C. - - - - - 636 



