CONTENTS. m 



CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANY. 



Experiments with manures and electricity : By J. E. Muse 119 



Philadelphia and horticulture 123 



Analysis of soils, in reply to D. S. Howard 12fi 



Letter from J. H. Coffin, and the Editor's remarks . 127 



— — S. P. Rollo " " " 12S 



— — W. Case " " " 129 



Greatest iron mine in the world 129 



Lead, silver and gold mine, in North Carolina 130 



Artichokes 130 



Hens 131 



EXTRACTS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 



Proceedings of the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists, with 



remarks by one of the Editors 132 



Report of James W. Gowen's farm 170 



American cheese 176 



Germination under colored glass 177 



VOLUME n.— NUMBER 2. 

 )n the agricultural adaptation of that portion of the Taconic region which 

 comprises tlie counties of Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer and Washington 

 in the State of New-York, and Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts : 



By E. Emmons 179 



The Lost Races : By E. Emmons 199 



iieat American Mastodon : By A. J. Prime 203 



education of the American farmer : By E. Emmons 212 



)n the study of entomology : By Hon. J. Barlow 218 



V birdseye view of the vegetable productions, climate, soil and agriculture of 

 the different countries of the American continent : By C. N. Bement. . . . 221 



lomething about manure and its application : By Jesse Ryder 



nsects injurious to vegetation : No. 3. — 



The wheat-fly : By Asa Fitch, M. D 233 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



'ravels in North America, in the years 1841 - 2, with geological observations 

 on the United States, Canada and Nova-Scotia : By Charles Lyell, F.R.S. 265 



'ransactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society 271 



he Botanical Text Book : By Asa Gray, M. D 281 



► Universal Pronouncing Gazetteer : Containing topographical, statistical and 

 ' other information of all the important places in the known world, from 

 the most recent and authentic sources, with a map : By Thomas Baldwin, 

 assisted by several other gentlemen 284 



farmer's MISCELLANY. 



usbandry in Central New-York : A series of letters — 



Letter 1 286 



— 2. Fair at Utica 288 



— 3. Onondaga county 290 



— -1. " " continued 291 



— -5. Cold and compact soils 294 



— 6. Mr. Geddes's farm 295 



— 7. Wool, etc 298 



— 8. Mr. Fuller's farm 301 



— 9. Corrections and additions to former letters 203 



•tter from J. H. Estabrook, M. D., Camden, Maine 304 



r. Prentiss's free martin : By E. Emmons 205 



I Hopkins, Esq., his opinion of the transformation of wheat into chess 308 



' manures : By A. J. Prime , 309 



