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Editorial Notices, 



Vol. XL 



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 leallior;— Trice $3 50 

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

 ner's very valuable Additions; 2 00 

 BUIDGEMAN'S GARDENER'S ASSISTANT; 2 00 

 THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 37i 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 37^ 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 Complete sots of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half-hound, 10 vols. 

 DOVVNING'S Landscape Gardening, 

 Dovvnino;'s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 

 SKINNER'S Every Man his own Farrier, 

 AMERICAN Poulterer's Companion, 

 BOUSSINGAULTS RURAL ECONOMY, 

 FARMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HAND-BOOK, 

 MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 

 STABLE ECONOMY, 

 BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 

 BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 

 THOMAS' FRUIT CULTURIST, 

 SKINNERS CATTLE & SHEEP DOTOE, 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 

 THE FARMER'S MINE, 

 HOARE ON THE VINE, 

 HANNAM'S Econo~niy of Waste Manures, 

 "lIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 

 FAMILIAR LETTERS, 



As well as his larger works on Chemistry and Agri- 

 culture. 



Subscriptions received for Colman's Agricultural 

 Tour — or single numbers sold. 



23^ We are prepared to bind books to order. 



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GUANO. 



TwENTY-nvE tons first quality Ichaboe Guano, in 

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

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

 No, 7 South Wliarves, 2nd Oil Store below 

 Market street, Philadelphia. 

 October 15th, 1845. tf. 



Poudrette» 



A valuable manure— of the best quality, prepared 

 in Philadelpliia, 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 

 hoard 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. It is found excfdient for buckwheat 

 and turnips. We are now able to supply the demand 

 for wheat. 



JOSIAH TATUM. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGB 



Premium Farm in New York, 9 



Manures for Grape Vims and Fruit Trees, 13 



[niprovident Society, 14 



Charring Vegetable refise.— Indian meal cakes.— 



Iron a remedy for Blight in Pear Trees 16 



Culture of Roses. — Dr. Mease, 17 



Preservation of Roofs, 18 



Statistics for wheat growers and millers 19 



Summer pruning fruit trees, and thinning fruit.— 

 Consumption of corn-meal in the West Indies, 20 



The Apple-tree 21 



Oat Fodder for Horses— Wonders of Insects, 22 



Peach Trees.— Potatoes 23 



White Dovenne, or St. Michael Pear.— The Field 



of Wheat 24 



Wild Ducks Tamed — Beavers.— Gum Arabic, 25 



Premiums of Penn. Horticultural Society, .-..-. .. . 2ij 



Culture of the Strawberry, 28 



Insects injurious to Fruit, 30 



Steeping Seeds — Tunnel under the Sea, 32 



J. Gowen's Report of Crops.— Dr. Brinckle's Straw- 

 berries, 33 



Essex Agricultural Transactions 37 



Editorial Notices 38 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



JOSIAH TATUM No. 50 NORTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. 



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

 bers of 32 octavo pages each. The subjects will be 

 illustrated by engravings, when they can be appropri- 

 ately introduced. 



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

 seven copies — payable in advarice. 



All subscriptions must commence at the heginving 

 of a volume. Having lately struck off a new edition 

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

 exhausted, we are now able to supply, to a limited ex- 

 tent, any of the back volumes. They may be had at 

 one dollar each, in numbers, or one dollar twenty-five 

 cents half-bound and lettered. 



For seven dollars paid in advance, & complete set of the 

 work will be furnished in numbers, including the lltli 

 volume. The whole can thus readily be forwarded by 

 mail. For twenty-five cents additional, per volume, 

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

 tered. Copies returned to the office of publication, 

 will also be bound upon >he same terms. 



Hy the decision of the Post Master General, the 

 "Cabinet," is subject only to newspaper postage. To 

 any Post office within thirty miles of Philadelphia, 

 they will go free of charge. 



Joseph Rakestraw, Printer. 



