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THE FARMERS REGISTER— INDEX. 



Cabbage, as food tor hogs 44 

 Cabbage woniis 80 



Calcareous earth discovered in a new locality (in 

 South Carolina) 217 ; essa}- on 202 



Calcareous deposites in Carolina 177 



Calcareous manures, long continued action of, and 

 especially in preventing rust in wheat 173 



Calcareous lock and soils of South Alabama 59 



Calcareous soil important to grape vines 307 



Calves should not run with their dams 49 



Candles, saving in 145 



Canker-worms 218, 358, 478 ; locality of 436 



Carbon in plants, source of 503 



Carolina Planter, union of Farmers' Register with 1 



Carrier pigeons 456 



Carrot, white 175, 208, 209 



Cassia asp era, sandy beach bean 612 



Cassia chamacrista, Eastern Shore bean, described 611 



Caterpillars, destruction of 363 



Cats and animals of the cat kind in North America 693 



Cattle pens, temporary 299 



Cattle 90 ; principles of breeding 543 ; recipe for dis- 

 eases of 272; short-horn or Durham, as milkers 307; 

 portraits and puffs of 228 



Cave, Mammoth, of Kentucky, account of 14 



Cement, hydraulic, and common lime from the rock 

 marl of Virginia 270 



Charcoal, action of, on vegetation 488 ; for diseased 

 lungs of hogs 554 



Cheat, modes of producing, from wheat 482 ; the 

 transmutatioii from wheat, affirmed and denied 11 ; 

 reward offered for the proof 12 ; experiment in con- 

 tradiction 12 



Chickens 218 



'Chrysanthemums 8 



£!ider making 661 



Climate of America 308 



•Clover and other grasses, in France 476 



Coal ashes, analysis of, 707 



Coal dust, a substitute for soil 567 



■Colts, on castrating 443 



Commercial reports, 63, 127, 184, 251, 314, 378 



Commercial system of the Dutch 567 



Compost dressing for mowing grounds 390 



Corn, essay on cultivation of 193 



Corn crushed for stock 36, 290 



Corn culture in South Carolina 539 



Corn from seed 2000 years old 677 



Corn, experiment in planting, as to distances, and 

 number of stalks at a place 551 



Corn, Indian, culture of 116, 193 ; in France 583 



Corn sheller 128 



Corn, new utensil for cutting down 605; stocking 70S 



Cotton and corn, a dialogue 454 



Cotton culture in India 274 



Cotton, experiment of different distances of 296 



Cotton planters, convention of 37 ; American, in In- 

 dia 536 

 •Cotton, Egyptian, cultivated in Mississippi 312 

 (Cotton raanul'acturing. America ahead of England in 17 



Cotton, picking out 144 



Cotton, report on culture of, to Barnwell Agricultural 

 Society 593 



Cotton gin 347 



Cotton trade 269 



Cotton worms 603 



Cotton stalks, on burning 143, 294 



Cows, treatment of, before and after calving 455; used 

 for ploughing 401 



Crab apple jam 606 



Credit, the honest and beneficial system compared 

 with the predatory and injurious 367 



Curculio 4, 45, 582 ; and fruit worms 4 



Currency ,'bad, cause of 77; as affecting the interests 

 of agriculture 156, 157 



Cijnodon dactyhn, wire-grass, de?cribed, 568 



D 

 Dahlia 603 



Dairy management 321 

 Dog, natural history of the 230 

 Draining 154; thorough 158; of the swamp lands in 



North Carolina 5 

 Driving nails in hard wood 577 

 Duck, Eider, in Iceland 555 



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Editorial articles and remarks — denying the transmu- 

 tation of wheat to cheat, and offering a reward lor 

 the proof 11; on the soils and marling of King Wil- 

 liam county 21; reaping and thrashing machines 33; 

 on objections to agricultural periodicals, and espe- 

 cially to the Farmers' Register 38; on salt as manure 

 for cotton 55, 56; on the farms and farming of the 

 rich Lexington district, Ky. 56; on the general inef- 

 ficiency of agricultural societies, and the causes 57; 

 on the calcareous soils and rock of South Alabama 

 59; on the fallacy of a new supposed discovery as to 

 Hessian fly 62; on agricultural conversation meetings 

 68; green-sand in Georgia 87; on measuring corn in 

 the ear 99; on the confusion in the vulgar names of 

 grasses 113, 115; account of wire-grass 115; on green- 

 sand experiments, &c. at Coggin's Point farm 118; 

 on poudrette 130, 131: on the injurious effects of 

 the existing banking system and depreciated cur- 

 rency on agricultural interests 157; on Dr. Horton's 

 *' Prize Essay" 159; on the false pretences of the 

 banks of Virginia to pay specie 163; on Mr. Ronald- 

 son's importation of seeds and implements 176; on 

 melilot, and the controversy thereon 211; Essay on 

 the abuses of the banking system, commenced 244; 

 on the marl of South Carolina 217; on previous ar- 

 ticles OR green-sand 233, 4, 5, 6; on the plan of fur- 

 nishing a nomenclature of the grasses 238; on the 

 defects of the law establishing the Board of Agri- 

 culture 239; on the proposal of a National Agricul- 

 tural Society 249; on the reports of marling in James 

 City and Surry counties 264 ; the defects of the 

 agriculture of lower South Carolina 287; on proposal 

 to try Hussey's reaping machine 303; transmutation 

 of plants 306; season and crops 314, on patent family 

 freezer 345; on show, &c., of the Henrico Agricul- 

 tural Society 360, 442; on the depreciated paper 

 currency, and its injurious effect on the receipts of 

 the Farmers' Register 362; the treatment of banks 

 and banking in the Farmers' Register defended 372, 

 617; on the water-borne marl and limestone of Jamee 

 river 3S8, 9; on the marl of South Carolina 415; on 

 Judge Beatty's opinions on soils 429; on error in re- 

 gard to paper money and exchange in J. H. Turner's 

 Address 433; on failunes to give credits for selected 

 articles 438; on the proper time to reap wheat 470; 

 on the alleged modes of producing cheat from wheat 

 482; on specimens of greensward and blue grass, &c. 

 518; Irish potatoes raised under straw and leaves 520; 

 the necessary consequences of admitting the plea 

 for continued suspension of specie payments 547; 

 soils of Surry county 563; on collecting specimens 

 of fossil shells 565; on the plan of describing grasses 

 568; on wire grass (cynodon dactyloH) 569; spelt 

 (lolium temulentum) 569; rye-grass (lolium peren- 

 ne) 571; the Westover Manuscripts 577; on no- 

 tices of grasses 611; on grounds of preference ol 

 different kinds of wheat 644; surface manuring 

 645 ; correction of misstatement in regard to the 

 Missourium 654; to subscribers 663; on the pro- 

 ceedings of the Board of Agriculture 688; on the 

 degenerating of wheat 706; on "the stone house," 

 710; abandonment of the ♦Southern Magazine,' 720 



Everglades of Florida 241 



Farm in Kentucky, profits of 83 



