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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. X. 



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

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 which are 



THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, full- 

 bound in leather;— Price $3 50 

 YOU ATT ON THE HORSE, with J. S. Skin- 



ner's very valuable Additions; 2 00 



BRIDGEMANS GARDENER'S ASSISTANT; 2 00 

 THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 37| 



THE FARMERS LAND MEASURER; 37| 



DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 



Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half bound, 9 vols. 7 50 



DOWNING'S Landscape Gardening, 3 50 



Dovvning's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 1 50 

 SKINNER'S Every Man his own Farrier, 50 



AMERICAN Poulterer's Companion, 1 25 



BOUSSINGAULT'S RURAL ECONOMY, 1 50 



FARMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HANDBOOK, 1 00 

 MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 1 00 



STABLE ECONOMY, ^ 1 00 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31^ 



BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 75 



SKINNERS CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 50 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMER'S MINE, 75 



HOARE ON THE VINE, 50 



HANNAM'S Economy of Waste Manures, 25 



LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEIMISTRY, 25 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 25 



FAMILIAR LETTERS, 12i 



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GUANO. 



Twenty-five tons first quality Ichaboe Guano, in 

 bags or barrels, for sale in lots to suit purchasers, by 

 S. & J. J. ALLEN & CO., 

 No. 7 South Wharves, 2nd Oil Store below 

 Market street, Philadelphia. 



October 1.5th, 1845. tf. 



- Poiidrette. 



A valuable manure— of the best quality, prepared 

 in Philadelphia, for sale at the office of the Farm- 

 ers' Cabinet, No. 50, North Fourth Street, or at 

 the manufactory, near the Penitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Present price, for seven barrels or more, $1 75 

 per barrel, containing four bushels each. Any num- 

 ber of barrels less than seven, $2 each, or thirty-five 

 cents a bushel. Orders from a distance, enclos- 

 ing the cash, with cost of porterage, will be prompt- 

 ly attended to, by carefully delivering the barrels on 

 board of such conveyance as may be designated. 

 The results on corn and wheat have been generally 

 very satisfactory. Farmers to the south and in the 

 interior, both of this State and of New Jersey, are. 

 invited to try it. 



. JOSIAH TATUM. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE 



Address delivered at the Annual Exhibition of 



the N. Y. Agricultural Society 201 



Mildew or Blight in the Grape.— J. Gowen's 



Letter to Gen. Ttithatdson, 207 



The Vintage in France, 208 



Injudicious U.so of Manures, 210 



The Indian Corn Q,uostion, 211 



Hogs and their trade in the United States and 



Europe, 212 



Grain Crop of the United States 214 



Sagacity of an Ox — Meeting of the Philadelphia 



Ag. Society.— To improve Pear Trees. 215 



Raising Turkies.— Irrigation of Gardens, 216 



Prouty and Moore Ploughs 217 



New Jersey Horticultural Society.— Lime, 218 



Report on Farms, 222 



Prouty PiQugh " breeds corn," 223 



Sov\ing Wheat and Timothy, 224 



Raising Wheat and Cattle in Pennsylvania, 225 



Veterinary Institute, 226 



Raisins Water by a simple Process. — Prosperity 



of New Jersey.— Wheat, 228 



Preparing Seed Wheat. — Editorial Notices, 229 



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