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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 $3 50 

 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; 37i 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 37^ 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half-bound, 9 vols. 7 50 



DOWNINGS Landscape Gardening, 3 50 



Downing'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' HAND-BOOK, 1 00 

 MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 1 00 



STABLE ECONOMY, g 1 00 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31^ 



BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 75 



SKINNER'S CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 50 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMERS MINE, 75 



HOARE ON THE VINE, 62i 



HANNAM'S Economy of Waste Manures, 25 



LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 25 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 25 



FAMILIAR LETTERS, 12i 



As well as his larger works on Chemistry and Agri- 

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Subscriptions received for Colman's Agricultural 

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53" We are prepared to bind books to order. 



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 15th, 1845. tf. 



Poudrette. 



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 tlie 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, $3 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. 



PAGB 



Potatoe Eot— Objections to various Theories. 233 



Ploughing near Salerno. — Agricultural School.-— 



Old Bread the best 235 



Aitificial Duck-hatching in China 236 



American Ag. Association. — To preserve Shoes. 237 



Potatoe Rot. — James Gowen's Letter 238 



Bishop Doane's Oration 239 



Raising Sheep in the West. — Corn Laws 240 



Diseased Potatoes. — Filtering 241 



Papers at Farmers' Club 242 



T. B. Thorpe's Address.— Potatoe Jelly 243 



The Old North State and Oregon.— The Voice. 244 

 Coal Ashes.— Degeneration of Potatoes.— Early 



Potatoes 245 



Introduction of the Alpaca 246 



Ploughs — Ploughing. — Productions of the West. 247 

 AirChurn.— Effects of crossing on the constitution. 248 



Dorking and Poland Fowls 249 



Ploughing.— Cattle-Philadelphia Ag. Society. 251 



James Gowen on Improved Farming 253 



Plan of a Good Barn 255 



General Rules for Ploughing 250 



Agricultural Meeting. — Is Indian Corn a native 



of this Country .' 259 



Fine Ears of Corn 260 



Editorial Notices 261 



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