CONTENTS. 



VOLUME I— NUMBER 1. 



Page. 



Food of Plants, by Thomas Hun, M. D., 9 



What is to be done for American Agriculture, 25 



Education of the American Farmer, 36 



The claims of Agriculture upon Government — Rev. J. For- 

 syth , Newburgh, 39 



Sour Soils, 47 



Manures, 51 



Phosphate of Lime, 60 



Fertilizers in the Rocks, 62 



Free Martins— (i. C. Monell, M, D., Newburgh, 65 



New Publications : 



Draper's Treatise on the forces which produce the organiza- r, 



tion of Plants, 71 



Farmers' Miscellany : 



Draining — Jesse Ryder, Sing-Sing, 83 



Disease in Potatoes, 91 



Farmers' Clubs, 102 



Ploughing, 105 



Gardening — Liquid Manures, 108 



Adaptations of Nature, 109 



Germination, 110 



Charcoal, 112 



Inorganic parts of Plants, 114 



Injection of warm water into the Uterus of the Cow, 1 16 



Necessity of air, &c., 116 



Means for Improvement, 1 17 



Over-ripened Seed, 1 17 



Relation of clay to sandy Soil, 118 



Theories, 118 



Experiment — R. G. Rankin,.. 119 



