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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; 37i 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 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 50 

 SKINNER'S Every Man his own Farrier, 50 



AMERICAN Poulterer's Companion, 1 25 



BOUSSINGAULTS RURAL ECONOMY, i 50 



FARMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HAND-BOOK, 1 00 

 MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 1 00 



STABLE ECONOMY, 1 00 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31^ 



BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 75 



THOMAS' FRUIT CULTURIST, 50 



SKINNERS CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 50 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMER'S MINE, 75 



HOARE ON THE VINE, 62i 



HANNAM'S Economy of Waste Manures, 25 



LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 25 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 25 



FAMILIAR LETTERS, n\ 



As well as his larger works on Chemistry and Agri- 

 culture. 



Subscriptions received for Colman's Agricultural 

 Tour— or single numbers sold. 



jlj" 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 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- 



iig 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. 

 Theresults on corn and wheat have been generally 

 very satisfactory. Farmers to the south and in the 



nterior, both of this State and of New Jersey, are 



iivited to try it. 



JOSIAH TATUM. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE 



Prospects in Virginia for new Settlers 329 



American Produce in England, 330 



Settlement of Delaware lands— Lard for London. 331 

 Raising cattle'in Berwickshire, England 332 



Address before the Cape May Agricultural Socie- 

 ty, N. J 334 



Improvements in Irish Agriculture, 337 



New Flower Garden in Paris. — Estimate of Crops 

 for 1845 340 



Preservation of Currants. — Potatoe Disease. — 

 Circulation of matter in the Animal and Vege- 

 table Kingdoms. 343 



Death of Dr. Mease. — Premiums of Horticultural 

 Society. 346 



Premiums of New Castle County Agricultural 

 Society, Del -. 347 



Dr. Parrish's Address before the Moorestown Ag- 

 ricultural Society, N.J 351 



Culture of Cabbage. — Editorial Notices 356 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



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 the work may be obtained neatly half-bound and let- 

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Joseph^Rakestraw, Printer. 



