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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. X. 



We keep on hand at this office, and will supply our 

 friends with Agricultural works generally. Among 

 which are 



THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, full- 

 bound in leather;— Price $4 00 

 YOUATT ON THE HORSE, with J. S. Skin- 

 ner's very valuable Additions; 2 00 

 BRIDGEMAN'S GARDENER'S ASSISTANT; 2 00 

 THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 37^ 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 37^ 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 60 

 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half-bound, 9 vols. 7 50 



DOWNING'S Landscape Gardening, 3 50 



Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 1 75 

 SKINNER'S Every Man his own Farrier, 50 



AMERICAN Poulterer's Companion, 1 25 



BOUSSINGAULT'S RURAL ECONOMY, 1 50 



FARMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HAND-BOOK, 1 00 

 BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31i 



BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 75 



SKINNERS CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 50 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMER'S MINE, 75 



HANNAM'S Economy of Waste Manures, 25 



LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 25 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 25 



FAMILIAR LETTERS, 121 



As well as his larger works on Chemistry and Agri- 

 culture. 



Subscriptions received for Colman's Agricultural 

 Tour — or single numbers sold. 

 XSS" We are prepared to bind books to order. 



Seed Store, 



No. 23 Market Street, Philadelphia. 



The subscriber keeps constantly a supply of White 



and Red clover, and other grass seeds. Field seeds 



consisting of Spring and Winter Wheats, Potatoe, 



Oats, Barley, and choice varieties of Seed-corn. Also 



in season, Fruit and Shade Trees. Garden and Bird 



seeds generally. Guano in parcels to suit purchasers. 



M. S. POWELL. 



Philad., March ]5th. tf 



COATZS' SEED STORE, 



No. 49 Market Street. 



FRESH TURNIP SEED, 



Of the most approved varieties for Cattle and Table 

 use, with a complete Assortment of 



GRASS & GAJiDUN SEEDS, 



Of the finest Quality and best Varieties — Bird 

 Seeds, &c. " JOS. P. H. COATES, 



Successor to Oeorge M. Coates. 



ENGLISH SHEPHERD DOGS. 



A FEW of these valuable animals of pure blood, may 

 now be obtained at $5 each, delivered in Philadelphia. 

 The dam was selected in England last fall, for the 

 present owner, and the pups now o'd enough for de- 

 livery, were sired by a thorough bred Shepherd Dog 

 from the State of New York. Early application to be 

 made— post-paid— at the olfice of the Farmers' Cabi- 

 net, No. 50 N. Fourth street, Philadelphia. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAoe 



Large Dairy Establishments of London, 9 



Autumnal Ploughing 13 



The late Frost.— Society of Land Improvers, 14 



Fine Cows 16 



Bread stutTs— A Contrast 17 



Improvement of Crops, 18 



Broom Corn.— Milk 19 



Kyloe Breed of Cattle 20 



Oalilia— Gypsum in South Carolina, 21 



Sugar from Corn-stalks, 22 



Kerry Cows.— Yellow Locust, 33 



Rotation of Crops 24 



Usefulness of a (Covering on the Ground. — Spare 



the Birds.— The Alpaca 25 



Allen's Herd Book.— Use of Poudrette, 27 



^^niiit, Rust, and Chess 28 



Cultivation of Mushrooms. — London Breweries, 29 

 Germinating power of Seeds. — Amateur Farming, 30 

 Minutes of Philadelphia Ag. Society.— Thrifty 



and Unthrifty Farmers, 31 



Lichtning Rods, No 3 32 



Premiums of New Castle County Ag. Society, .... 33 



Manure.— Premiums Pa. Hort. Society, 37 



Editorial Notices, 38 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



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It is issued on the fifteenth of every month, in num- 

 bers of 32 octavo pages each. The subjects will be 

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Terms. — One dollar per annum, or five dollars for 

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All subscriptions must couimenre at the beginving 

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 of one or two of the former numbers, which had become 

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F'-r FIX dollars paid in advance, a complete set of the 

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 the work may be obtained neatly halfhouvd and let- 

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