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THE FARMERS' REGISTER-INDEX. 



Measuring corn in bulk 98, 153 



Melilot recommended 58, 629; objections to 210 



Milk, quality of, 269 



Milk-sickness 306 



Mines and mining of England 45 



Missourium, or leviathan skeleton, account of, 654 



Moisture of the soil and watering 479 



Money of the government, on the manner and cost of 



transferring, and the small need of a national bank 



for that purpose, 439 

 Mud as manure 615 

 Muscardine 36V, 448 



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Naras, an African fruit, 311 



JVew jersey, the barren sands of, 297 



Nevp York, western, sketches of, 40 



Nitrate of soda as manure 218, 220, 224, 261, 262, 



348; experiments with 483 

 Nitric acid, natural formation of, and supply to plants, 



712 

 Normandy, agricultural sketches of, 411 

 Nut grass, to extirpate, 534 - 

 Nutrition, vegetable and animal, 348 



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Oats transformed into rye S06 



Oil dregs as manure 248 



Oil-soap, and syringe for, 566 



Olive, value of, 28 



• Organic Ghemistry,' by Liebig, reviewed, 459 



Owl, used to decoy crows, 305 



Oxen, fi(ness of Durham cattle for, 377 



Oyster trade 536 



Pea, Indian 589 



Peach trees, affected by the yellows 357 

 Pear trees 390, 528; cultivation of 83 ; mode of guard 

 ing from the worm 153 , experiment upon 500; me- 

 thod of planting and managing 174; preserved from 

 blister flies and grubs by lime. 528 



Peas, field, as a crop 251 ; to prevent injury to stock 

 feeding on theui, 251 ; among corn, profit of 4 



Peat 560 ; conpressed for fuel 211 



Peat compost ^23' 



Peat meadows ^2 



Piggery, Wm^jAllen's 161 



Pine, cultivation of on the shores of Gascony 591 



Plants, growth of without mould 487 



Plum and peach trees, fish oil used upon 528 



Poll-evil, cure for 443 



Pools for water 72, 133 



Pork business of Cincinnati 416 



Potato, African, description of 2 



Population statistics 75 



Post-office regulations in England 105 



Potato, sweet, culture of 610 ; and keeping 629 



Potato ciop, (Irish) means of preventing the failure 

 of 566 



Potatoes grown under straw or leaves 520, 644 



Potatoes, Rohan 71, 169; value of 252; compared 

 with other kinds 297 



Poudrette, or night soil, the preparing of 207, 226; as 

 manure 129,130, 156, 



Praii-ies of Arkansas' 632 



Prairie soils from Alabami, analyses of 220 



P.ickly comfry 248 



Profits of publication, a sample of 507 



Public works of Pennsylvania 31 ; and profit of 311 



Pruning 619 



Pumpkins, productiveness of 161 



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Rats, fecundity of 561 ; means of destroying 353 ; to 

 prevent tLelr cutting through partitions 144 



I Reaping machine 129 ; Hussey's, proposal to try 302 ; 

 reports of performance 434, 436 



Rhubarb plant 13 ; for tarts 364 



Rice, synopsis of the culture of, on Black river 170 



Rice grass {leersia orizoides) 



Ridgmotit, a day at 658 



Roots 90 



Root culture in France 665 



Root feeding 58 



Rose, propagation of 33 



Rose bug 424 



Rotation of crops of Kentucky 10 ; change on West- 

 over farm 35 ; necessity of a proper one 614; query 

 on, 707 



Rotation of oats and tobacco, profitable and meliorat- 

 ing 308 ; objections to 557 



Rural comforts, French and American compared 385 



Ruta-baga 74 



Kye, a substitute for clover 299 



Salt, for stock 443 ; and as a preventive of disease 274 



as manure 105, 243 ; for cotton 55 

 Salt formation discovered in Virginia 458 

 Saltpetre, experiments with as manure 483 

 Sand drift, to restiain 229 

 Sandy Point estate, account of, and management 



213, 343, 485, 586 

 Sassafras sprouts, extirpation of 386 

 Sauer kraut, mode of preparing 105 

 Sausage making 83 



Sawdust, as material for manure 241, 536, 711 

 Scour in calves 401 ~ 



Scrofula, remedy for, 706 

 Season and crop's 314, 442, 506 

 Seed sowing and saving 578 



Seeds and implements imported by Jamas Ronaldson 

 . 176 



Sheep, comparison of different breeds of 49; salving 

 of, for the benefit of the fleece 417 ; poisoned by 

 the common red cherry 453 

 Shoes, water proof, varnish for 29 

 Shrubbery and flowers 553 

 Silk, bounty for in New York 209 ; product of, to the 



acre 171 

 Silk culture, on the prospects of 216; first fruits ot 



the season 376 ; in Arkansas, 307 

 Silk-culturists, caution to 303 

 Silk reeling in Tennessee 298 



Silk-worms, successful experiment in rearing in Ma- 

 thews 8; sprinkled with quick lime, to prevent dis- 

 ease 73 ; direction for killing the chrysalides of 

 125; paper nets for cleaning and ventilating 583; 

 the "two-crop" kind, compared with others 58; 

 disease of "muscardine," how treated 227 

 Silk-worms' eggs — Dr. Smith's new theory concern- 

 ing 375 

 Slugs, (or naked snails) destroyed by lime 216 

 Snails in flower gaidens, to destroy 228 

 Snake, cure for bite of 424 

 Snow storms in mountain district? 537 

 Soil, means of enriching 82 

 Soils, 224; relation of their constitution to their fertility 



and improvement 428. 

 Soils, and marling improvements of King William 



county 21 

 Soot as manure 230 



Specie, its scarcity not the cause of the suspension 

 of bank payments, but the suspension the cause 

 of continued decrease of specie 532 ; sold by the 

 banks of Virginia 533 

 Specie payments, resumption of by the banks, peti- 

 tion for 506; the necessary consequences of admit- 

 ting the plea for suspension 547 

 Spider, red, to destroy 242 

 Springs, Shocco mineral, of North Carolina chemical 



and geological account of 145 

 , Sfabes, damp 63, 117 



