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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 



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; 37i 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 37^ 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 Complete sets of the FARxMERS' 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 ECONOMY, 1 00 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31^ 



BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 75 



THOMAS' FRUIT CULTURIST, 50 



SKINNER'S CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 50 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMER'S MINE, 75 



HOARE ON THE VINE, 62^ 



HANNAMS Economy of Waste Manures, 25 



LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 25 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, , 25 



FAMILIAR LETTERS, 12i 



As well as his larger works on Chemistry and Agri- 

 culture. 



Subscriptions received for Colman's Agricultural 

 Tour— or single numbers sold. 

 Uj" 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, %l 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 lo 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. 



Memorial from Agriculturists of the U. States page 



to their respective State Legislatures, 169 



Experiment in Deep Ploughing, .-.« 171 



Cultivation of the Peach.— The Polatoe Failure— 



Non-liability of a Tenant to pay Rent, 172 



Bucks County Agricultural Exhibition, 173 



Good Domestics. — Large Farm in Maryland, 174 



Milk for the People.— Economy in Cooking Cran- 

 berries 175 



To Renovate an " Outcast," 176 



Potatoe Disease, 177 



Ploughing Match in Montgomery, Orange County, 



N. Y.— Fruit Trees.— Weevil, 178 



How to destroy Weevils, Moths, and other insects 



injurious to Wheat, 179 



Observations on the Potatoe Disease, 180 



Cactus.— Earle's Planting Plough.— How to judge 



Cattle.— Ag. Statistics of N. Y.— Lime, 181 



Destroying the Grub and Wire-worm. — Culture of 



the Grape, 162 



British Association, 183 



Landlord and Tenant, 184 



Wages of Labour, 185 



Manures, 186 



Answers to Queries of the State Ag. Soc. of S. C, 187 

 Officers of Philad. Ag. Soc— Report on Manure, 192 



Best Regulated Farms, 195 



Editorial Notices, 197 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



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