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Table Of Contents of Farmers^ Register, .7^>. 4, l^oh J^II. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Experiment with Maryland twin-corn - 

 Essay on Vegetable Physiology, Chap. VII 



Ctiap. VIII 

 On the improvement of land by lime. Culti- 

 vation of corn 



Eastern Virginia 



Successful mode of keeping sweet potatoes - 



The countv of Fluvanna - - - - 



On the importance of calcareous soil for grape 



and mulberry culture - - - - 



OUa Podrida 



Alleged etfects of slavery on the agriculture of 



Virginia 



Comparison of the agricultural management 



and economy of Virginia and of New England 



Remarks on the character of Sir William 



Berkeley _ - 



Plan of a cocoonery and fixtures for the spin- 

 ning of silk-worms 



The twin or okra cotton . - - - 

 Loin distemper in hogs - - 



Conditions of the Farmers' Register 

 JMonthly commercial report - - - - 



SELECTIONS. 



Irrigation of Lombardy . . . - 

 Temperature of Italy ---.-- 

 Importance of vine-culture in France - 

 Sea-weed, (alga marina,) as manure - 

 Editor of the 'Gardener's Magazine' - 

 Proceedings of agricultural meeting in Massa- 

 chusetts 



Law of Georgia for encouragement of silk- 

 culture 



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A good cow and good butter 

 Amount of bounty paid for silk in Massachu- 

 setts 



Sugar-beet for milch cows . - - - 

 Produce of a prize acre of corn in South Caro- 

 lina 



Hay-racks ------- 



Poultry 



Cultivation of water-melons 

 Memoranda for young silk-culturists 

 Cultivation of madia saliva, as an oil-plant - 

 Fish ponds in France - - - - ' 

 Example of the hoarding system, subsfituted 

 for the borrowing system of governments - 



Irrigation in Spain 



Management of the dairy' - - - - 



Feeding sheep 



Preparing wood-land for sowing grass-seeds - 

 Advantages of highly calcareous soils for mul- 

 berry trees and grape vines ... 



Horticulture in Greece 



Irish potatoes from slips .... 



Broom-corn crop 



Dairy husbandry 



Report on root-culture 



Gov. Berkeley's account of Virginia in 1671 - 

 Cultivation of Brussels sprouts - - - 

 Comparative cost of hay, roots, &c. for feed- 

 ing stock ------- 



Tables of silk-worm rearing 



Dairy stock 



Remarkable dairy products. A Massachu- 

 setts farmer 



Feeding and fatting swine. Apples as food - 

 Price of morus multicauhs seed - - - 

 Etfects of emancipation of slaves in Jamaica 

 Carrots 



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ERRATUM I— Page 237, line 9, for " manure " read " measure." 



