232 



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 lealhnr;— Price $3 50 

 YOU ATT ON THE HORSE, with J. S. Skin- 

 ner's very valuable Adilitions; 2 00 

 BRIDGEMAN'S GARDENER'S ASSISTANT; 2 00 

 THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 37^ 

 THE FARMERS LAND MEASUPtER; 37J 

 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' HANDBOOK, 1 00 

 MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 1 00 



STABLE ECONOMY, 1 00 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31^ 



EUISTS' 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, 62i 



HANNAM'S 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. 

 Ilj" 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 F.\RM- 

 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 



Settling in New Countries, 201 



Premium Farm, .-«-. 204 



Making Cheese.— How to decoy and destroy Ants, 205 



The Reading Railroad 207 



Good Housewifery, .' 209 



Bone-dust— Super- phosphate of Lime, 210 



Improvement in Axles. — Hints to Farmers.— Plant 



Trees, 212 



Surplus of Salem County, N. J.— Mildew, 213 



Largo Hogs of Chester County Breed.— Potatoe 



Disease 215 



Alderney Cows. — Labour, 216 



Machine for Raising Water, 217 



Improvement in Artificial Legs 218 



Address of Morris Longstreth before the Jeflferson- 



ville Ag. Association of Montgomery County, 219 



Vinegar Making 227 



Editorial Notices, 229 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



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 cents half-bound and lettered. 



For seven dollars paid in advance, a co?/i;)toe set of the 

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