CONTENTS OF VOL. II.— NO. 1. 



Agricultural Geology — 



1. Soils from decomposition of rocks, 1 



2. Classification of rocks, 3 



3. Composition of simple minerals. 9 



4. Character of granitic rocks, 12 



5. Drifted soil, 13 



Relations of Vegetables and Animals, 15 



Odd spells, by Giles B. Kellogg — 



1. The farmer, 21 



2. The temperance reform among farmers, 23 



Drift and Changes in the Position of Soils, 26 



Manures — their Action — 



1. Efficacy of organic and inorganic 34 



2. At what period to be applied, 36 



3. How to be applied, 38 



Guano: By E. E , Jr., 40 



How Plants Absorb Carbonic Acid : By Wm. Partridge, 45 



Agricultural Science — Education, &c., &c. : By N. S. Davis, 50 



Supposed Zeuglodon Celoides : By one of the Editors, 59 



farmers' miscellany. 



Husbandry in Central New- York, in Letters to John Coon, Esq., of 

 Albany: By one of the Editors, 



Letter 1, Hop Culture, 64 



" 2, Co. tlandville and Randall's farm, 69 



" 3, Randall's stock, 72 



" 4, Farm and farming of Mr. Hopkins, 76 



" 5, Culture of the teazel , 79 



" 6, Gleanings from Grealfield, 83 



" 7, Wool and its structure, with figures, 86 



Practical Directions for the Flower Garden — Parti. 



5. Management of Plants 89 



6. Bulbous roots — tubers, &c. , 90 



7. Carnation — rose, &c., 94 



8. Plants kept in rooms 98 



Animals useful to the farmer 101 



Improvement in agriculture, 104 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Wood's class book of Botany 107 



Transactions of New-York State Agricultural Society, 109 



