TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. Ill 



Abolition Societies, movements of, and anticipated 

 results 287 



Address of James M. Garnett, President, to the Agri- 

 cultural Society of Fredericksburg 615 



Address of T. M. Bondurant, President of the Buck- 

 ingham Agricultural Society 503 



Address of James Barbour, President, to the Agricul- 

 tural Convention 685 



Advice asked for, and comments thereon 447 



Agriculture, the unsettled state of opinions on 140 



Agriculture of Virginia sketch of its progress, and 

 causes of its decline and depression— an Address to 

 the Historical and Philosophical Society, by Edmund 

 Puffin 748 



Agriculture of Virginia and the Northern States, com- 

 parative view ot 186 



Agriculture of the United States, Strickland's obser- 

 vations on 201 



Agricultural Society of Buckingham, proceedings of 

 502 



Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg, proceedings 

 of 565 



Agricultural Society of Albemarle, proceedings of 5G6 



Agricultural Society of Florida, proceedings of 567 



Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, notice of by R. 

 R. Barton 607 



Agricultural books and papers published in the United 

 States 134 



Agricultural Convention, remarks on itsjalan and ob- 

 jects 556, 619; hints for its consideration 556; pro- 

 ceedings of 620; petition of, to the Legislature of 

 Virginia 620 



Agricultural professorship, advantages of one being in- 

 stituted in Va., by Gov. James Barbour 274 



Agricultural Societies, remarks on their constitutions, 

 and usual procedure 575 



Agricultural publications, influence of 141 



Agricultural publications, low priced, remarks on 226 



Amherst tillage, &c. of, by an Amherst Farmer 104 



Analogy, vegetable and animal, 22.9 



Annualized charcoal, oli'al of sugar refineries, a new 

 and valuable manure 568 



Anonymous writers, a proposition to exclude 507 



Ants, to destroy 291 



Apple tree, of large size 47.0 



Apple trees, soils suitable to 168 



Architecture, submarine; of the Alexandria aqueduct, 

 90 



Artesian wells — depths of the most remarkable, and 

 uses of 82 



Ashes, as manure 137, 175; of anthracite coal 232 



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Back river lau'ls, described by "A Gleaner" 

 Bacon, to cure well — the Smifhfieffl method 554 

 Barbour, James, on (he advantages of an agricultural 

 professorship, 274; his Address to the Agricultural 

 Convention, 685 

 Barton, R. R., on the Rockbridge Agricultural Socie- 

 ty — silk business — and internal improvements in 

 Virginia.. 607 



Bee-moth, to get rid of, 367 



Bees, management of, 370; burying, to pass through 

 the winter 109 



Beet-root, cultivation of in France 290 



Benners, L., his improvements by marling 225 



Bleaching mania 423 



Bone manure for corn, by A. Nicol 474 



Bones, as manure, general account of, by Sir John 

 Sinclair 596 



Bones of whales, proposed to he brought into Eng- 

 land for manure 292 



Booth, E. G., on making Irish Potatoes and mangel 

 wuitzel 434 



Bread fruit tree, seeds sent by J. S. Skinner 316 



Breeding stock, important facts observed in regard to 51 



Breeding, principles of 87 



Briers, to destroy 2s2 



British Farmers' Magazine borrows without giving due 

 credit, 511; further remarks on 716 



Broom corn, its culture, cost, and profit 176 



Bud'aloe, Petrified, 213 



Buffaloe Berry, account of 35 



Buhr stone in Va., by W. S. Morton 677 



Buildings destroyed by gunpowder, to arrest fires 595 



Burwell, Nathaniel, on wheat and cheat growing from 

 the same root, 556 



Cabbages, to keep in winter 492 



Calcareous earth, remarks on, and objections to that 

 term being limited to carbonate of lime — by J. E. 

 Muse, 664, 665. Remarks in reply 665 



Calcareous earth, for manure, discovered in Western 

 Pennsylvania 169 



Calcareous rocks, in Mecklenburg, Prince Edward and 

 Chesterfield, by W. S. Morton 517— remarks on 516 



Camak, James, on corn made without tillage 454 



Camel-lighters for carrying marl, described by H. 501 



Campbell, C. furnishes notes from old authors, on Va., 

 483 



Campbell, Hugh, on tarring seed corn 725 



Canada plums 260 



Canal, Chesapeake and Ohio, state of 135, 447 



Canal boats, swiit, 21, unparalleled speed of 194 



Canal, &c, of the James River and Kanawha, its ex- 

 pected beneficial effects in checking emigration, by 

 T. R. Dew 138 



Canal, Erie, enlargement of 275 



Carbon, animalized, a new manure, account of 120; 

 account of its falsification 120 



Caimichael, Win. his experiments on the effect of de- 

 priving corn of the green fodder 661; describes his 

 machine for raising marl 290 



Cats, anecdotes of 474 



Cattle, short-horned breed, origin and value of 159; list 

 of animals, and prices at which they sold 162 



Cauliflower, culture of 424 



Celery, to preserve through winter 281 



Cement, American, a new and valuable invention 148 



Champagne, American, manufacture of 213 



Chondrometer, for ascertaining the weight of grain — 

 by lames M. Garnett 286 



"Charity thinketh no evil" by "Mailer" 542 



