FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Cotton lice 508 



Cow, great yield from, in milk and butter 210 



Cow, biirliiim, reiimrUable yield of milk from 395 



Cows liokiiiig up their milk 488 



Crops, alternation of 117 



Crops, state of 382, 448, 511 



Crows, how prevented from ]uillin<^up corn 276 



Currency (ancient) of Virginia 703 



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Daguerrotypc 258 

 Dairies near London 707 



Dairy management 218 ; statements of in Massachu- 

 setts 229 

 Dairy products 250 

 Dairy stock 249 

 " Debt-paying nation " 486 

 Deep culture SO 



" Distemper " of cattle 569, 605, 651, 743 

 Divining red 460 



Dog, to cure from sucking eggs 339 

 Draining (under) 757 

 Dust-hole, alchemy of 261 



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Earth, is the planet becoming colder? 175 



Earth, depth of freezing, in liigh northern latitudes 487 



Earths and soils of Virginia 667 



Eastern Virginia 210 



Edged, (fine) instruments improved in sharpness by 

 magnetism, and by time 102 



Editorial ai tides and remarks, on George Henry Wal- 

 ker d'c'd. 21; calcareous soil of tbe Florida islets 

 41 ; -Randolpii's 'Treatise on Gardening' 41 ; progress 

 of morns multicaulis trade and prospect of prices 60, 

 103, 190 ; Amans Cai rier's diary of feeding silk- 

 worms 87 ; his estimates of expense and profit 91, 

 95 ; cause of blue color of marl 106 ; Geo. E. Har- 

 rison 106 ; the hoax ot the " boluin vpas"' 110 ; the 

 early and consistent advocating of silk-.cuiture by 

 the editor 123 ; Com. Jones' farming 155 ; weeds as 

 manure, and the origin of i lie use 161; ancient i 

 laws, &c. of Virginia 181; borrowers of the Far- 

 mers' Register 188; reprint of vol. 1. 190; hum- 

 bugs, multicaulis seed and Chinese corn 190 ; Smith 

 fund 190; answers to inquiring sub-scribers 191; 

 Loudon's advertised prices for advice 199 ; highly 

 calcareous soils for mulberry and grape culture 222; 

 alleged elfects of slavery on the agriculture of Vir- 

 ginia 235 ; Sir WiHiam Berkeley and his statistical 

 account of Virginia 238 ; tables of silk-worm rear- 

 ing 241 ; climbing of silk-worms 246; twin or okra 

 cotton, and the hiiyh prices of new and valued seeds 

 2.52 ; morus multicaulis seed 254 ; account of Amans 

 Carrier's white mulberry plantation, applied to the 

 circumstances of this country 302; remarks on ob- 

 jections to silk-culture 355 ; marl indicator 360; on 

 dilferent kinds of silk-worm eggs, and the grounds 

 of choice 377; progress of silk culture in Vir2;inia 

 380 ; mulberry crop and prices 381 ; Osage orange 

 seeds 334 ; deficiency of communications' to Farm- 

 ers' Register 413 ; " gigantic clover " humbug 432 ; 

 feeding silk- worms on wet leaves 433 ; importance 

 of proper selection of silk-worms' eggs 444 ; diffe- 

 rence of healthiness of silk-worms from southern 

 and northern eggs 445 ; Hussey's reaping machine 

 455; the puffing system 456; on the abuse of pa- 

 tent-rights 505 ; early introduction (before Perrot- 

 tel's) of morus multicaulis into France, and possi- 

 bly into North Carolina also 507; cattle and milk in 

 Alabama 508 ; morus multicaulis crop and priciir, 

 510; Agricultural Convention of South Caroliiia 

 511 ; season and crops 511 ; green crops for manure 

 556 ; on fraudulent discontinuances of subscriptions 

 and failiu'es of obligation .")64 ; mulberry market and 

 prices 570; the " Chinese tice corn "' humbug and 



deception 572; multicaulis market 636; to subscri- 

 bers 638 : suspension of payment by the banks 639 ; 

 James Wadsworth, a New York farmer 6.53 ; marl- 

 iiig in Sussex, and Philips' marl raising machine 670 ; 

 almost purely calcareous soils of Tropical Florida 

 684; marl near Newbern 687; Grant Thorburn's 

 defence of his " Chinese tree corn " 693; Youatts' 

 ' Treatise on Cattle ' 705 ; the calcareous soil of 

 Tropical Florida, and the fitness of for mulberry 

 trees 764; erasures of subscriptions for non-pay- 

 ment 768 



Eggs 371 



Electro-magnetic power 133 



Emancipation of slaves, eliects of in Jamaica 254 



Emigration to the west 437 



' Essay on Vegetable Physiology,' by Professor George 

 D. Armstrong, complete in 24 chapters. For the 

 numerous particular subjects treated of see the heads 

 of chapters, at pages 10, 14, 65, 67, 169, 172, 203, 

 206, 262, 263,268,^326, 329,332, 420, 423, 426, 462, 

 464, 467, 617, 621, 622, 641 



Excavating by steam 134 



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Farm of E. Phinney, of Massachusetts 531 ; Mr. Ja- 

 mieson's 67S ; of Ross-shire, Scotland 759 



Fann, girass, in England 628 



Farmer of Massachusetts 250 



Farmer of New York, a distinguished one 653 



Farmers' Register,deficiency of communications to 413 



Fanners' Register, conditions of jniblication for vol. 

 vii 255; conditions of for vol. viti 639; reprint of 

 vol. 1. 190; erasures of subscriptions 768 



Farming (improving) profit of 59 ; profits of in Mas- 

 sachusetts 501 ; in Pennsylvania, and compared with 

 eastern Maryland 734 



Feeding milch cows 371 



Fish ])onds in France 214 



Flax, new mode oi' preparing described 22 



Flea, garden 753 



Florida Keys 565 



Flowers, properties of 310 



FluVanna, county of 218 



Free-martins 472 



Fruit trees 554, 756 



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Gardening, Randolpirs Treatise on, republished 41 



Gas, inflammable, discharge of 278 



Geese, as barometers 340 



Glanders and blind staggers in horses 302 



Gloucester, improvements in by marling and marsh 



mud 575 

 Graduates of the University of Virginia, for 1839, 417 ; 



of William and Mary College 418 

 Graft, influence of the stock on 459 

 Grafting 151 



Grass sown on wood-land 221 

 Grass husbandry, improvement of land by 162 

 Grass lands, management of 632, 649 

 Grasses, experiments on 156 ; observations on the 



character and quality of diff'erent kinds 390 

 Green crops for manure 556, 742 ' 



Green manuiing, its advantages for cleansing land of 



weeds and of insects 561 

 Grub-worm 370 



Grubs in the heads of sheep, cure for 363 

 Gypsum 117; cause of its greater value on limed 



"land 489 



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Harrison, George E., of Brandon 107 

 Hay and roots for feeding, compared 241 

 Hay making 162 

 Hay racks 212 

 Heu coops 3fil 



