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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 leather;— Price $3 50 

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

 ner's very valuable Additions; 2 00 

 BRIDGEMAN'S GARDENERS ASSISTANT; 2 00 

 THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 37^ 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 37i 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half bound, 10 vols. 8 50 



DOVVNING'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 



BOUSSINGAULT'S RURAL ECONOMY, 1 50 



FARMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HAND-BOOK, 1 00 

 MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 1 00 



STABLE ECONOMY, 1 00 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31i 



BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 75 



THOMAS' FRUIT CULTURIST, 50 



SKINNER'S CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 50 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMER'S MINE, 75 



KOARE ON THE VINE, 62i 



HANNAM'S Economy of Waste Manures, 25 



LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 25 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 05 



" FAMILIAR LETTERS, 12^ 



As well as his larger works on Chemistry and Agri- 

 culture. 



Subscriptions received for Colman's Agricultural 

 Tour — or single numbers sold. 



H^" 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- 

 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. We are now able to supply the de- 

 mand for wheat. 



JOSIAH TATUM. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE 



Prospects in Virginia for new settlers, 4i 



Barn-yard manure and Charcoal as fertilizers, 43 



Improvement of Peat lands 44 



Spring-tooth Horse-rake. — The Alpaca 46 



Small-pox in the cow.— Value of Employment.— 



Ploughs and Ploughing, 47 



Faiining — Cows, ,. 4s 



Work in Ireland. — Independence of the Farmer, 49 



Rye Grass, 50 



Italian Mode of Cooking Maize.— Althea Rosa. — 



Good Nature, 51 



Diseases in Horses.— Composition for Shoes, &c, 52 



Winter Pears, \ 53 



The Potatoe.— The Orange Tree, 54 



Stone Coal. — Agiiculture .55 



The Parapotticoat to preserve Rose bushes. — Agri- 

 cultural Statistics of New York 57 



Black Wart of the Phim Tree.— Chicken salad, 58 



Consumptive patients in the cow stable, 59 



Indian Corn, 60 



Great produce of one acre. — Oaks of England, 61 



Why the East cannot compete with the West, 62 



Adulteration' of Milk, 64 



Seed Wheat.— Minutes of Pliila. Ag. Society. — 



Hussey's Wheat-reaping Machine, 65 



Selection of seed corn.— Horse-fork for unloading 



hay, 66 



Preservation of tomatoes. — Premium cows — Butter, 67 



Irrigation, 68 



Pin"Making.—Tlie Guano Trade 69 



A Brilliant Whitewash.— Editorial Notices, 70 



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 advante. 



All subscriptions must commence at the beginning 

 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 linilted 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 lettcrud. 



Forseven dollars paid in advance, a cojnpZc^e set of the 

 work will be furnished in numbers, including the Uth 

 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 the same terms. 



By 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, 



