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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- 



bounil in Icathi'r;— Price $3 50 



YOU ATT 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; 37* 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half-bound, 10 vols. 8 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 



BOUSSINGAULT'S RURAL ECONOMY, 1 50 



FARMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HAND-BOOK, 1 00 

 MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 1 00 



STABLE ECONOiMY, 1 00 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31i 



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, 121 



As well as his larger works on Chemistry and Agri- 

 culture. 



Subscriptions received for Colman's Agricultural 

 Tour— or single numbers sold. 



|lj=" 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, .fl 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. 



PAOE 



Insect in the Corn -•■« 105 



Newcastle Co. Ag. Soc— To Preserve Peach trees, 107 



Potatoe Disease, 108 



New material for Shingles, 109 



Gathering and Packing Fruit.— Agricultural Fairs, 110 



The Poplar— the Tulip bt'aring Liriodendron Ill 



Experiments with the Pear upon the Apple,- 112 



Lime for Potatoes, 114 



Dr. Wm. Darlington's Address before the Chester 



County Horticultural Society, 115 



Bucks County Agricultural Exhibition, 120 



Management of Poultry.— Harvest and the Corn 



Market, 121 



To Preserve Grapes.— Potatoes. — Arrival of Poul- 

 try from America, 122 



Green corn in mid-autumn. — Crops in Great 



Britain 123 



Twenty fine varieties of Strawberries, 124 



Laziness, an incurable disease.— Grape, 125 



Hyacinths in glasses.— The Alpaca, 12G 



Golden- fruited Orange Tree, 127 



Curing Hay Tid 



Curing Hams.- Ag. Society in Prince George's 



Co.,Md., 131 



Editorial Notices, 132 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



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