FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Piggery, account ofSl; and feeding manugeineut 5()7; 



an extensive one 734 

 Piles, blind, certain cure for 102 

 Plants, cross fecundation of 27 

 Ploughii:g 5S5 

 Ploughs 585 

 Poll evil, cure for 535 



Potato ^svveet,) plants started in hol-beds 554 

 Potato. Irisii, culture of 321, C02 

 Potato, Rohan 27 

 Potatoes, sweet, modes of keeping through winter 80, 



211. 577,435 

 Potatoes, Irish, from slips 226 

 Potatoes, planting seed-ends of 360 

 PouJrette 503, 645 

 Poultry 212, 4S7, 488 

 Princeana, No. 2. 55 

 Private correspondence 564 

 Prolific corn 80 

 Promiscuous remai'ks on various matters in farming 



414, 500, 601, 754 

 Pruning 368 



Pumpkin seeds, effects of as food 656 

 Pumpkins, how to dry 75S 



Queries, on chinch bug and oat lay 45G 

 Quince tree, propagation and cultivation of 503 



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Railway, Raleigh & Gaston 3S8 



Railways of Belgium compared with those of the Uni- 

 ted States 449 



Raspberries, to train 767 



Reaping machine, Hussey's 45'5,. 534, 587 



Review of 'Essays on the natural history of peat' 37 



Rhubarb plant 533 



Rijad-making 404 



Root-crops, value of 165; culture of 116, 232 



Roots, comparative value of 360 ; compared with hay 

 for stock 241 



Rose bushes 320 



Rotation of crops, principles of applied 609 



Ruta-baga 133, 261 



Ruta-baga crop 753; expense and' profits of 9, ,637; 

 culture of 723 ; yield of three acres 723 



Salt, manufacture of by solar evaporation 457 



Sand, sea, vegetable power of 587 



Scotland, agricultural state of 629 



Sea-weed 689 ; as manure 198 



Season, 443, 448, 511 



Seed 80 



Shaker's establishments and husbandry 259 



Sheep, feeding 220 ; browsing during snoWs 614 ; cau- 

 tion as to their food 127 ; iine-woolled 613 



Sheep ticks 363 



" Short horn fever" 25, 132 /j - 



Silk, essay on the production of, and the peculiar ad- 

 vantages of Virginia lor the culture 140 ; product 

 of 85 



Silk-culture, the editor's course in advocating main- 

 tained 123; superior advantages for, of 'the old 

 southern states 599 ; natui-al and artificial systems 

 of 741 ; peculiar fitness of the United States for S3 ; 

 practical, a statement of 54 ; first trials of 440 ; pro- 

 gress of in the middle states 442 ; near Georgetown, 

 D. C.'SO; in France, diary of a careful experiment 

 87 ; estimate of expen.^es and piofits of same 91 ; law 

 of Georgia to encourage 202 ; bounties paid for in 

 Massachusetts 211; in-ogress of near Philadelphia 

 379 ; progress of in Virginia 380 ; extravagant and 

 sound estimates of 575; the case staled, as to its 

 suitability to the circumstances of Virginia 6S3 ; 



causes of its failure in G^ird, in 1834, 251 ; actual 

 statements and estimates of 654, 735, 740 ; notices ol 

 an account of in France 135 ; in Italy 271 ; in Con- 

 necticut 650 ; in Turkey 412 ; in Canada 431 



Silk-culturists, young, memoranda for 213 



Silk manufacturing 487, 638 



Silk-worm feeding, tables of 24?, 243, 245 



Silk-worms, directions for gearing 288 ; answer to 

 strictures on G. B Smith's treatise on, 111 ; a first 

 experiment in rearing 312 ; led on Avet leaves 433 ; 

 on propagation of 26 ; two-crofi 341, 441 



Silk-worms' eggs, long vitality of 192 ; carelessness in 

 saving 485 ; difference of value according to care, in 

 splection and prese'i-vation ; facts in regard to north- 

 ern and southern stocks 4^4 ; remarks on 377 ; choice 

 among different varieties 377; objections io " mam- 

 moth" 377'; causes of their bad quality 601 



Silk-worms' spinning, fixtures for 341 



" Smith fund," and presentation of plate 574 



Soap from myrtle wax 111 



Soap-making 361 



Soils entirely of lime 499 »' ^ • | ' 



Spaying heifers 412 ' ' ♦ ' 



Staples of old southern states, nev^ species and varie- 

 ties for 680 . ■ ■ ■ . ■ 



Steamihg food for stock 157 



Steam plough 407 " 



Strawberry, culture of 492 



Subscribers, address to 638 



Sugar, history of 515 



Sugar from beets, patent for manufacturing 504 ; pro- 

 gress of in Europe 70 



Sugar-beet 13S, 471 



Slavery, alleged effects ofon the agriculture of Virginia,, 

 affirmed and denied 235 



Suckers 80 



Sulphur, new mode of applying to pknts 112 



Sunshine, daily value of 510 



Sun-flower seed oil 588 



Swamp lands of North Carolina, general account of 

 698, 699, 702, 724, 726, 727 



Swamps, " Jottings down" in the 698, 724- 



Swine, breeds of 158 



Tar, mineral, for protection of walls 283 



Tea-tree 558 



Temperature of the United States 'and Great Britain 

 compared 488 ; of Tropic&l Florida 679, compared to 

 that of Mississippi 680 ^ "• 



Three-ahift rotation, advantages of S'42 



Tide-marshes, ot Maryland, advantages of embank- 

 ing 429 



Tomato plant, a protection against chinch-bugs 495 



Tomatoes, different methods ol preserving and cook- 



. ing 560 



Tortoise, land, sagacity of 654 



'Treatise on Gardening' by Rartdol])!) 41 



Tropical Plant Company 565 ; act to incorporate 357 



Tropical plants, progress of scheme for introducing 40; 

 correspondence on the introduction of 472, 473 



Turnips 360 



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Urate 503, 645 



Vegetable kingdom, retnaiks on 373,' 385' 

 Vegetable Physiology, See ' Essay on Vegetable Phy- 

 siology ' 

 Vegetables, culinary, recently introduced 183 

 Vegetables, green and dry, -clifferent advantages of as 



rnanure 606 

 Vine, emasculation of 112 ; importance of its culture 

 in France 196 ; reipires calcareous soil 222 



