THE FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



Patent machines 90 



Peach trees, preservation of 477 



Peas, field or Indian 251, 323 



Peaty ground, mode of imoroving 378 



Plant-lice 328 



Plants, on preservation of races of by seeds 51 ; on 



improving races of 101 

 Plough, improper use of in cultivation of corn 475 

 Plough, steam, 457 

 Poisons, hints on 31 

 Polar plant, or vegetable compass 476 

 Potash, crude, recommended as manure 305 

 Potatoes, (Irish) culture and keeping 17, 131 ; raised 



from seed 64 

 Potatoes, sweet, another mode of keeping 187 

 Potatoes and oats in new land 206 

 Poultry, inquiries concerning 458 

 Prairies, western, some account of 189 

 Pruning fruit trees 222 



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Raspberiy, culture of 490; ever-bearing 482 



Reaping machine, of McCormick, its operation de 

 scribed, and use recommended 503 



Red river, removal of obstructions in 144 



Reports to Board of Agriculture — on live stock, fruits 

 and fruit trees and vines 241 ; on the most impor- 

 tant recent improvements ot agriculture 257; on the 

 Brandon farms and (arming 274 ; on Nansemond 

 county 298, 461 ; on Elizabeth City county 335 ; on 

 the agriculture of Prince George county 383,389; on 

 the agriculture of Rockbridge county 458; on the 

 obstacles to agricultural improvement caused by the 

 legal policy of Virginia 5il 



hoots as food 251 



Rotation of crops, remarks and inquiries concerning 94; 

 answer to inquiries 115 ; remarks on ditferent kinds 

 of 175 ; argument for 299 ; rejoinder in opposition 

 to the doctrine 354; replication on 399; the best kind 

 for Kentucky 148 



Rotation discussion, proposed to be resumed 499 



Rust and mildew, report on 407 



Rye, winter, for winter and early spring feed 369, 415 



Salt marsh grass and mud as manure 81 



Salt mine in Washington county, Va. 21 



Saltpetre as manure 26 



Sandy Po;nt farm and farming (No. V.) 97, 217 



^assafras bushes 252 



Science and agriculture 342 



Sea devil, caught at Charleston 268 



Season and crops 368 



Seeding on greensward furrows 440 



Seeds, influence of their origin on the quantity and 

 quality of crops 307 ; on changes of 473 ; of flow- 

 ers, how to sow 138 ; onions 139 ; of mangel wur- 

 zel 139 



Seeds and seedsmen, remarks on 138 



Sheep, to guard from dogs 205; essay on proper ma- 

 nagement of in Kentucky 159 



Sheep husbandry 82 



Silk-culture of East Tennessee 119; near Baltimore 139 



Skippers in bacon, to prevent 6 



Slavery, white, in Great Britain 375 



Slippery elm, flour of 70 



Slugs destroying cotton, and suggestion of a reme- 

 dy 310 



Soap, receipt for making 69 



Soils, remarks on 87 ; sandy, improvement of 447 ; of 

 Delaware, and their formation 446 ; marshy, of De- 

 laware 450 



Sorrel, apparently nourished by marl 401 ; and the 

 mistake corrected 402 



Spelt or darnel 7, 8 



Squineis, emigration of, indicating a severe winter 492 



Stall-feeding 341 



Stercorized bark, &c. new resources for manure 158 



Sugar, the production of 106 ; from corn-stalks 188 



Sugar beet 135 



Swamps, drainage of, opposed by the legal polic)' of 

 Virginia 515 



Tetter, cure for IS 



fopdre^sing on clover 86, 262 



Trees, natural chans^i's and successions of growths 361 



Turner, J. H., letter of 436 



Urine 219 



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Washington, General, letter o! instructions from, to his 

 overseers 484 



Weeds, to kill 501 



Weevil (black) French receipts for preventing 207 



Wells, Artesian, in France, 240 ; Alabama 495 



Wheat, on the adaptation of particular kinds to parti- 

 cular soils 89 ; on rolling in the spring 192 ; times of 

 ripening of, in sundry years, and in ditferent parts of 

 lower Virginia 282, 394, 498; Mediterranean 511 



Wheat crops of Virginia, causes of deterioration of 140 



Wind f)ump for marl pits 236 



Wire grass, growth of, kept down by top-dressing with 

 leaves, 253 



Wood asties, their power of igniting 377 



Worms in the heads of siieeji 497 



Worms, to kill 415 



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