FARMERS' REGISTER, 



Puvis, remarks on his Essay on Lime 721 



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Quinoa, Chenoaodium, account of 84 



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Rail Road Company of Petersburg — proceedings of 

 762. Report to, of the Board of Directors 762 



Rail Road, Raleigh and Gaston, expected value of 

 652 



Rail Road, proposed from Richmond to Petersburg, re- 

 port of the survey 593 



Rail Road, proposed from the Ohio to Charleston, S. C. 

 740 



Rail Roads in Virginia, state and prospects of 507 



Rail Roads, schemes of, for North Carolina, by P. Q. 

 766 



Rail Roads, desultory remarks on, by G. L. C. 634 



Railway from Lynchburg to Abingdon, proposed 446 



Railway from New Orleans to Nashville 384 



Railway, Portsmouth and Roanoke, progress of 125 



Railway, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, re- 

 port of the Directors 211 



Railway, hydrodynamic, proposed 118 



Railway, Liverpool and Manchester, trade on 9 



Railway proposed trom Wythe county to connect with 

 those now reaching the Roanoke 426 



Raking, a remedy for colic in horses 473 



Read, N. E. on draining 299 



Read, G. W. states the tillage and product of a crop of 

 corn 478 



Reasoning of brutes, by E. R. 474 



Review, English, of Essay on Calcareous Manures 

 717 



Review of Professor Ducatel's geological survey of the 

 tide-water region of Maryland 36 



Rice, on making it on dry land,by Agricola 62 



Rice bread 90 



Rocks, description of the principal, and statements of 

 their component parts 198 



Roots, on preserving for food, 463 



Rotation of crops 412 



Rotation, four shift, defence of, by John A. Selden, 

 p. 1 



Rotation, four field, rejoinder to the defence of, by W. 

 B. Harrison 241 



Rotation, four shift, advocoted in preference to the 

 three field, by W. T. T. 



Rotation, three shift, effects of, and reasons in support 

 of, by John Tabb 269 



Flotations of Holkham, Mr. Coke's estate 317 



Ruffm, Edmund, on the formation of prairies 321; his 

 address to Historical and Philosophical Society, on 

 the history, and causes of depression of Agricul- 

 ture in Va. 748 

 Rust, or mildew, of wheat, essay on 459 



Ruta Baga, uses and culture of, by J. H. Gibbon, 

 240, as a second growth after corn 246 



Scarlet Trefoil, remarks on 292, 296 



Scorzonera hispanica, food for silkworms 471 



Sea Islands of Virginia, a trip to, and remarks on 



531 

 Sea weed as manure 410 

 Season and state of crops during May, 1835, 63; in 



June, 1835, 190; in July, 255; in August 319; in Al 



bemarle and the Valley, by Win. Woods 190, in N. 



Carolina, by W. B. Lockhart 191 

 Seed, selection of 283 



Selden, John A. defends the four shift rotation 1 

 Shakers, farming and economy of 544 

 Sheep, protection of from wolves or dogs 248; hints on 



the management of 293; on the breeding, i - aising, fat- 

 tening 150, ?15, 305, 353, 446, 518, 581 

 Sheep, Saxony, defended 309 

 Sheep and hogs, of valuable breeds, imported by Cor- 



bin Warwick 127 

 Sheep husbandry, 196 and 393; (in New England) 15; 



breeds compared 45 

 Sheep farm, estimate of the cost and profits 197 

 Sheep, synopsis of the different breeds of 217 

 Sheep, British, comparison of the different breeds of, 150 

 Silk, American, superior quality of, 94 

 Silk culture— compared with hemp 612 — labor required 



for, 612 — price of making cocoons 613 

 Silk business, its progress 432 



Silk, history of its early use and trade, and the first in- 

 troduction of its culture into Europe 135 

 Silk culture, 291; profits of in Connecticut 94 

 Silk manufacture, profit of, 683 

 Silk of native cocoons, in Va. 163 

 Silk and mulberry culture, estimate of the expenses 

 and profits of 674 — attempts making in the South 677 

 Silkworms, instructions in the art of managing, chiefly 

 compiled from the work of Count Dandolo 374; fed 

 on scorzonera 471; fed on the leaves of the Osage 

 Orange 702 

 Skinner, J. S., sends seeds of the bread-truit tree 315 

 Slavery, observations on the good and evil effects; opi- 

 nion's of Fletcher of Salton on 749; its establish- 

 ment in Scotland proposed 748 

 Slaves, emancipated, result of an experiment with, 

 made under very favorable circumstances 430; re- 

 marks on 429 

 Smith, N. D., on the prairie soils of Arkansas 273 

 Smith, G. B. on milking cows 231 

 Smut, caught by clean wheat 414; nature of the dis- 

 ease, and means for preventing 337; experiments on 

 the means of preventing 743; the sulphate of soda 

 (Glauber's salts) found most effectual 745; process 

 described 746 

 Soil, on the effects of the nourishment of plants on 



608; on the good effects of covering, by J. R. 626 

 Soil, calcareous, necessary for vine culture 130 

 Soils from Alabama, analyses of, made by Dr. R. W. 



Gibbes 272 

 Soils, on the choice of, to apply manure on, by E. 

 T. T. 473; prairie, of Arkansas, some account of 

 273; ingredients of, inducing or preventing the 

 growth of certain plants 129 

 Soils of Tennessee, described and analyzed, by Pro- 

 fessor Troost 697, 698 

 Spade, substitute for, 727 

 Spark-catcher, for locomotive engines 261 

 Spaying of heifers, advantages of, 271 

 Spaying of cows 736, cases stated 747 

 Speed of men on foot, extraordinary performance 8 

 Squashes, hybrid 336 

 Steam, improvements in the use of 30 

 Steam carriages on common roads 21 

 Steam ploughs, remarks on 141 

 Steam power compared with horse power 394 

 Steamer, Swift, 55 

 Stimson, Earl, his farm described 18 

 Stink-weed, the same with "Florida Coffee;' 247 

 Strickland's observations on the U. S. of America 



201,262 

 Stubblefield, T. M. his experiments in marling 554 

 "Stump and barrel Legislation," by Jeremiah 126 

 Sugar, beet-root, amount of the manufacture in France 



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 Sugar made from various substances 464 

 Sumach, remarks and inquiries respecting, by J. S. S. 

 392 



Tabb, John, on the three-shift rotation; and spaying 

 heifers 269 



