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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. XI. 



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; 37^ 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; "ill 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half-bound, 10 vols. 

 DOWNING'S Landscape Gardening, 

 Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 

 SKINNER'S Every Man his own Farrier, 

 AMERICAN Poulterer's Companion, 

 BOUSSINGAULT'S RURAL ECONOMY, 

 FARMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HAND-BOOK, 

 MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 

 STABLE ECONOMY, 

 BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 

 CUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 

 THOMAS' FRUIT CULTURIST, 

 SKINNERS CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 

 THE FARMER'S MINE, 

 HOARE ON THE VINE, 

 HAN NAM'S Economy 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. 



25' We are prepared to bind books to order. 



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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 15th, 1845. tf. 



Pondrette. 



A valuable rasnurc— of the best quality, prepared 

 in Pltilad(;.phia, 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 bushol. 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. 



CONTESTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



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Soiling, or House Feeding, 73 



The Potatoc, 76 



The Noisette or Champney Rose, 77 



Good Housewifery and Evil. — Mustard Plant. — 



Value of Sm(jke, 78 



Imported Stock, ►^-t 79 



Adaptation of Farming to Circumstances, ..' 82 



Potatoe Rot, 85 



Overgrown Wheat and tender Straw. — Profits of 



Farming, 86 



Hay-making.— To destroy Roaches, 87 



List of Premiums of Philadelphia Ag. Society, 88 



Report of do., 90 



Potatoe Disease, 92 



Strawberries.— Destructive Insects, 93 



Irrigation, 94 



Newcastle County Agricultural Society, 97 



To have good Vinegar 99 



Elihu Burritt in England.— Editorial Notices, 100 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



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

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All subscriptions must commence at the beginning 

 of a volume. Having lately struck ofl" a new edition 

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

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 cents half-bound and lettered. 



For seven dollars paid in advance, a comptoeset of the 

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 voluu;?. The whole can thus readily be forwarded by 

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

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