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THE FARMERS' REGISTER— INDEX. 



' Essay on Calcareous Manures,' the publication of a 

 new edition announced, as part of this volume of 

 the Farmers' Register 368 [The entire work to 

 form the 12th number of this volume, commencing 

 alter p. 524, and has its separate table of contents.] 



Experiments, agricultural, need of 269 



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Farmers' Clubs, English, proceedings of 124, 322 



Farmers' conversations, scraps of 84 



Farmers' Register, transfer of editorship announced 

 5i)4 



Farming, at VVestover 169 : in Massachusetts, particu- 

 lar results of 111 



Farming of the Rev. Jesse H Turner, requested to be 

 reported, 96 ; account of. No. 1., 127 ; No. II, 150; 

 No. III. 154; IV. 230 ; No. V. (remarks on lime) 

 290 ; editorial remarks m reply to 290 



Farming of Wm. Weaver described 411 



Farms, model, in France 322 



Fence law in Pennsylvania, the enormous and useless 

 cost of 502; of Virginia, its disadvantage and cost 

 to agricultural interests 513 



Fires, frequent causes of 255 



Fisheries, shad 218 



Food and manure, facts on 126 



Forage crops of I' ranee 372 



Forest trees 4()5 



Fowls, domestic, winter management of 415 



Fruit garden 311 



Fruit trees, to forcp their bearing 148 ; on pruning 222 



Gapes in chickens 157 



Gelding animals 252 



Genesee valley, account of its agriculture 403, 410 



Geometers (insects) 324 



Glowworm, a splendid kind 414 



Grafting, new method of 501 



Grain crops (or cereal plants) of France 391 



Grain, on storing 462 ; practical hints 147 



Grapes, exhibition of 4 — Isabella and Catawba, com- 

 parison of 266 



Grass cultiire, essay on 120— artificial, essay on 364— 

 on laying land in 438— artificial, cultivation of 453 



Grasses and grass culture of France 10, 20S— in 

 Franklin county, Massachusetts 13 



Green crops ploughed under 188 



Green-sand earth (or gypseous earth) of James Kiver, 

 experiments with 86; good effects of recently ob- 

 served 252—01 New Jersey, account of the deposites 

 and the use of in improving lands and crops 418 



Grub-worm, salt to destroy 413 



Guano, account and uses of 50, 104 



Gypsum as manurp. report on 270 ; effects of 199; ex- 

 periments with 86 



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Harvest, wheat 304 



Hay, cutting and product of 191 



Hemp, on the fitness of the North Carolina swamp 

 lands for its culture 512; inquiry concerning 492 



Hens, to make lay perpetually 146 



Hessian fly 350 



Hill-side ditches, to prevent washing 390 



Hints and observations on sundry heads 66 



Hog-feeding, facts of 108 



Hogs, Berkshire 76 ; cominonts on several articles 

 respecting 67 ; comparative merits of the Berk- 

 shire and Woburn breeds 15; humbuggery in re- 

 gard to sales 17 ; white 27 ; wild in Louisiana 371 ; 

 Berkshire 29 ; management and breeds of in 

 Middlesex, Massachusetts, 42 ; worms in kidneys 

 of 50 ; experiment in fattening 12 



Horse, geological history of 431 ; shoeing of 479 ; 



trainina; of 341 

 Husbandry of Scotland, improvements of 227 



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Imports and exports of United States, values of from 



1821 to 1841, 367, 368 

 Insects, destructive, account of 267 

 Iron hoops for cotton bales 256 

 Irrigation 193 

 Islands, floating, described 481, 498 



Lambs, to proti^ct from foxes 413 



Lard oil, and stearine 173 



Lands, choice of indicated by the growth 233 ; choice 

 of 321 



Lice on chickens 476; on cattle, &c. 100 



Lime, opinions of northern farmers concerning 178|; 

 as manure, and calcareous formations of limestone 

 region 38; use of in Scotland 223; (or carbonate 

 of lime) as manure, remarks on 298; benefits of 

 304; in lower Virginia 260; magnesian, opposite 

 opinions concerning 131, 132, remarks on 134 



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Mange in dogs, cure of 12 



Mangel wurtzel and Swedish turnips, comparative 

 feeding properties of 50 



Manure," liquid 87, 266 ; manufactured in England 

 498 ; on the making, preserving and applying of 

 136, 477 ; new artificial, 305, 306 ; materials for, 

 the great loss of in Massachusetts 497 ; on making 

 &c., (reply to strictures) 184; urine 219; essay on 

 making, preserving and applying 34 ; preservation 

 of 49 ; salt-marsh grass and mud 81 ; discussion 

 on 110; mineral 437; stable, cow and hog yards 

 23 ; human excrement 23 ; compost of swamp 

 mud, Stc.25; saltpetre 26: experiments with 462; 

 rejoinder to remarks on general management of 

 235 ; animal, on the chemical changes produced in 

 different modes of preparing 339; remarks and 

 inquiries on 100 ; mixed earth and creek mud 188 ; 

 yard and stable dung and tanner's bark 188 ; green 

 crops 188 ; ashes 14G ; artificial 460 ; diflerent 

 kinds of reported upon 2 



Manuring by non-grazing 257 ; by fop-dressing 262 



Marl (so called) of New Jersey, account of its use 

 and effects 418, 488 



Marl beds of New Jersey 445 



Marling executed, extent of in King William county 

 488; estimate of the profit and value thence ac- 

 crued 489 ; in South Cdiolina 190, 519 ; progress of in 

 South Carolina 366 ; beginning and progress of 258 



Marls and soft limestone of .^outh Carolina 486 



Mercantile life, risks of 376 



Molasses made from corn-stalks 498 



Mosquitoes 19 



Murrain in cattle 78 



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Oat hay 416 



Observations and rough experiments— gypsum, green- 

 sand earth, old seed wheat, top-dressing with ma- 

 nure and leaves 86 



Orchard grass 213 



Orchards 416; report on 3 



Organic chemistry, Liebig's, abstract of 395 



Painting houses 143 



Paper money, origin of 130 ; reform of 130 



