FARMERS' REGISTER. 



Mares and foals, management of, S7 



Marl as manure, Essay on by M. Puvis, translated from 

 the French, 690, 705 



Marl, on means for facilitating the analyzing ol 575 



Marl, great depth of, underlying Norfolk, Va., and its 

 quality 269 



Marl of Tennessee, described by Professor Troost, 

 696 



Marl region of Va., described in the report of the geo- 

 logical reconnoissance, by Professor Win. B. Rogers 

 627 



Marling, statement of its effects on a poor farm, by T. 

 M. Stubblefielcl, 554 



Marling, improvements by in North Carolina, by L. 

 Benners, 225 



Marling labors of John Moore, by E. R. 310 



Marling, effects of, by Subscriber, 272 



Matoaca Manufacturing Company 248 



Meadow, on making 312 



Milk, how preserved for long voyages, 369 



Milk weed, (Asclepias Syriaca,) account of, 105 — re- 

 marks on, 106 



Mine, inundation of 703 



Mistakes in payments, and the means of amending or 

 correcting them 191 



Mite, cheese, natural history of, 580 



Moon, influence of on vegetation 142 



Moore, John, account of his marling labors, executed 

 under great disadvantages 



Morton, Anderson C. on experiments with gypsum on 

 tobacco, 547 



Morton, W. S. on calcareous rocks and gypsum found 

 in the middle region of Va. 517 — on the use of black- 

 smith's cinders as manure 546 — on buhr stone in 

 Va. — iron ore — clay for bricks — and charcoal as ma- 

 nure 677 



Mulberry, seed time of, 2S3; on the profits and increase 

 of, 465 — poor and dry soils best for, 465; on its cul- 

 ture 416 



Mulberry, native, improper opinions of its unfitness 

 for silkworms 433 



Mulberry,Chinese, opinions and facts for,and against its 

 being propagated by seeds 253, 734, 735, 736; on 

 its properties and mode of propagation 6S9, 466, 

 481 



Mulberry, White Italian, directions for sowing and 

 raising 309 



Mulberry trees, profit from a few 163 



Mulberry leaves, a profitable crop of 253 



Mule's colt, another from the same dam, 384, 440 



Muse, Joseph E. on calcareous manures, and the im- 

 proper limitation of the term "calcareous earth" 664, 

 665 



Mushrooms, cultivation of, 214; new mode of grow- 

 ing; 725; raising; from the mushroom stone 728 



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Nature furnishes rules to direct agricultural operations 



Nelson, Thomas C. on the conversion of wheat to 



cheat 555 

 New England, on the climate and soil of 291 

 Newton, Willoughby, on the nature and fertilizing 



properties of green sand, or "Jersey marl" 419 

 Nicol, A. on effects of heat on gypsum 125, remarks 



on his experiments 126 ; on Mr. Bauer's discoveries 



respecting the diseases of wheat, 59 

 Northampton, (Eastern shore of Va.) notes of a hasty 



view of the soil and agriculture of 233 







Oat, skinless, unproductiveness of, by Wm. Prince &. 

 Sons 564; statement of the product of. by James 

 M. Garnett, 287 



Oil, of cotton seed, 50 



Oils, vegetable, on the preparation of, 294 



Olive trees in Georgia, 246 



Orange trees in Georgia, 246 



I (sage orange, (Madura Aurantiaca,) account of 35; by 



T. S. P. 543; its leaves a good substitute for those of 



the mulberry 702 



i for hatching eggs in Egypt, 78 

 Overseers' journal and monthly reports, form of for 



southern plantations, by Farquhar Macrae, 163, 164, 



165 



■is. on the manner and time of employing them, 



by Ed. W. Hubard, 713 

 Oxalic acid, formation of in soil, stated by Professor 



Renwick 653 

 Oxalis crenata 678 

 Ox-chains, wooden, the advantage of, 722 



Painting houses, proper time for 127 



Palm leaf hats, manufacture of, 107 



Pea, Chicasaw, and pea fodder, by N. Herbemont 

 93 



Pea crop, on the benefit derived from 250 



Pea and potato harvest, on the plans of mixed crops, by 

 Agricola 92 



Peach trees, good treatment for 246 



Periodical publications on agriculture, great value of, 

 •508, 509 



Pisa, the use of in constructing houses 490 



Plant, pitcher, 294 



Plants, the relation of certain kinds to the ingredients 

 of the soils on which they grow, by H. B. C, 129, 441 

 remarks thereon 129 



Poor land, suggestions for the profitable culture and 

 improvement of, by M. N. 577 



Poplar, a remarkable one in Dinwiddie, by a "Subscri- 

 ber," 543 



Posts, durability of 336 



Posts for fences 308 



Potash as manure, compared with ashes 137 



Potato crop in Britain, cause of the failure investigated 

 143 



Potato, sweet, on planting, by M. 547 



Potato, tubers of, growing above ground, by Quintus 

 Barbour 383 



Potato cuttings, important experiment with 243 



Potatoes, Irish, management of to produce crops unu- 

 sually large 79 — remarks on the former piece 121 — 

 on the preservation of for more than a year 124 



Potatoes, Irish, directions for making the latter crop of 

 by E. G. Booth 434 



Poultry, on the hatching of, 253 



Powers, new moving, suggested 30 



Prairie soils of Alabama, some described by R. W. 

 Withers 498 



Prairie soils of Arkansas, by N. D. Smith, 273, and 

 556, report of their analysis 577 



Prairie soils, furnishing and wanting different manures 

 by "A Planter" 356 



Prairie lands cultivation of cotton on 409 



Prairies west of the Mississippi, described by G. W. 

 Featherstonhaugh, and his theory of their formation 

 147 



Prairies, inquiry into the causes of the formation of, 

 and the peculiar constitution of soil which favors or 

 prevents the destruction of the growth of forests, by 

 Edmund Ruffin 321 



Price, Essay on, by Professor T. R.Dew, 65 — remarks 

 on 65 



Pride of India, (or China,) value of its leaves as ma- 

 nure 699 



Private correspondence, extracts of, 254, 319, 509, 510 



Public works for improvement, and political jobs, by T. 



Putrescent manures, treatise on 559, 583, 654, 729 



