TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. IX. 



Acids, action of, in soils 222 



Agricultural legislation 419 



Agricultural disputed questions 477, 539 



Agricultural periodicals, their usefulness not confined j 

 to their particular region 38 



Agricultural Society oi Cumberland, addresses to 65 

 639 



Agricultural Societ}', National, proposed 477 



Agricultural Society of Pee Dee, premiums offered 

 by 144 



Agricultural Society of Henrico, premiums, and pro- 

 posed exhibition of 240 ; show, premiums and fuir of 

 360 ; address to 430 ; explanation in regard to 442 ; 

 premiums offered by 493 



Agricultural Society of Maryland, extracts from Gen. 

 Emory's Address to 634 



Agricultural Sociel}'^of South Carolina, address to 91 

 of Queen Ann's, Md., address to 99 



Agricultural Societies, benefits of and objections to 

 57; suggestion for 493 ; of South Carolina, list of 

 559; extracts from proceedings of — of Pee Dee 

 185 ; ol Massachusetts, reports to on premium farms 

 592, 594; of Fredericksburg, addresses to 29, 678 



Agricultural Society, National, the establist;ment ad- 

 vocated 249 



Agricultural sfatistics accompanying the reports of 

 the census, their great want oi' truth 437; defend 

 ed 490 ; rejoinder 492 



Agricultural conversation meetings 68, 69, 140, 146, 224 



Agricultural exhibitions, proper subjects for 653 



Agriculture, Board of, the inefficacy of the law to es- 

 tablish 239, 323; appointment of members to 377; 

 proposed meeting 565 ; organization aid proceedings 

 of 688, 720; first report of, to the legislature 68S ; 

 plan of operations 689 ; queries by 690 



Agriculture, law of New York to i)roinote 296, 386 



Agriculture of lower South Carolina, great defects 

 of 287 



Agriculture, southern, northern opinions on 168 



Agriculture, propriety of its receiving aid (rom go- 

 vernment 336 



Agriculture of the Netherlands 402 



Alpaca 501 



Animals, domestic, their diseases and food 49 



Anti-friclion 269 



Apple gathering and keeping 603 



Apple jam 604 



Apple trees, soil most suitable for 173 



^lisiida gracilu. A. dicholoma, and A. oligantha, 

 poverty grass ()I3 



Artesian well at Paris 458 



Asparagus 102; on gathering 306 



Association for Bank Reform, establishment of 505 ; 

 earliest effects of 530 



Atmospherical moisture and temperature, its effects 

 on vegetation 522 



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Bacon, preserving 290 



Baldwin's patent corn and cob crusher 457 



Bank and bankrupt items of news 186 



Bank usury 533 



Banking, the Farmers' Register course in regard to, 

 attacked and defended 372, 617 



Banking, condition of, in New York 242; dividing 

 capital in Pennsylvania 242 



Banking reform, movement of the people for promot- 

 ing 505; association tor promoting currency and 

 banking reform 505; constitution 506 ; petition to 

 the legislature for resumption of specie payments 

 506 



Banking system of this country, essay on the abu.^es of 

 244; the several kinds of banks, of deposite 246; 

 of discount 246 ; of circulation 277 ; mixed opera- 

 tion 278; safest course of illustrated 278; the par- 

 ties who gain, and those who lose 279 ; the most 

 prosperous condition of 281; exceptions to general 

 positions 281 ; beginning of depreciation, and de- 

 cline and prostration of credit 282; proper course 

 for suspended banks 283; mode and rate of "cur- 

 tailing" 284 ; effects of irredeemable paper curren- 

 cy 285 ; loss and gain from, to the community and to 

 the banking interest 324; depreciation of notes of 

 solvent banks 324 ; and of insolvent 326 ; abuses 

 in selection of bank directors, and by their proce- 

 dure 327 ; banks dealing in exchange 329 ; reme- 

 dies for abuses 330 ; measures for thorough reform 

 332; paper money not necessary for remittances 

 332 ; savings banks (of deposite and discount 

 only) 333 



Bank notes, depreciated, affecting the profits of the 

 Farmers' Register 362 



Bank suspension, Gallatin's views of, 704 



Banks, non-specie paying, remedy against 664 ; bor- 

 rowing from, by the state, operation and effects of 

 684 ; the proper substitute for 685 ; suspension of 

 payment by 684, 685; of Virginia not preparing to 

 pay specie 531; proved not to be "specie-paying" 

 as they pretend to be 163 



Baths for factories 163 



Bee-moth 490 ; hiving 443, 656 



Bees, management of 207; (Affleck's pamphlet) 425 



Beet-culture, a first experiment of 47 



Beet, sugar 175 



Beets for cattle 44 



Bermuda grass 606 



Birds, preservation of, by law, in Pennsylvania 604 ; 

 prognostications of weather by 9 



Blackberry jam 602 



Blister flies 527, 528,502 



Blue-grass of Kentucky 58 ; (green-sward) minute 

 descrijition of 365 



Blue wash for walls 553 



Bone manure, experiments with 1, 475 ; on grass 

 lands 400 



Bones, decomposition of 229 



Bones as manure 250, 714 



Bottom heat 393 



Bramble, to eradicate 315 



Bran as manure 560 



Breeding of stock 547 ; in-and-in 544 



Butter, preservation of 585 



Buzzards, protection of 310 



