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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 GARDENER'S ASSISTANT; 2 00 



37i 

 3Vi 

 50 



THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 

 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, 

 BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 

 THOMAS' FRUIT CULTURIST, 

 SKINNERS CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 

 THE FARMER'S MINE, 

 HOARE ON THE VINE, 

 HANNAM'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. 



Hj" 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 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, neur the Penitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Price, until 1st of next month, for seven bar 

 rels or more, $1 87i per barrel, containing 4 bush, each, 

 Any number of barrels leas than seven, $2 each, or 37J 

 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 corn. 



JOSIAH TATUM. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



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Pruning young trees, -..,-. 233 



Poudrette on Indian Corn, 234 



Premiums of Philadelphia Ag. Society.— Dairy 



Husbandry, 235 



Subsoils, and their management, 236 



Farming in Holland, 237 



Whitney's Cotton Gin,— its effijcts, 239 



Cheese making 240 



Construction and management of Hot-beds, 241 



Corn, Lime.— Mt. Airy Agricultural College, 243 



Soiling Cattle, 245 



Lime.— Cultivation of Cranberries on upland, 246 



Hydraulic Ram, 247,249 



Cranberries. — Agricultural discussion, Albany, 251 



Potatoe Disease, 253 



Extension of Colman's Tour. — Isabella Grape 



vine, 256 



Composition for Peach Trees 257 



Pennsylvania Farming recommended in Md., 258 



White and brown bread, 259 



Farmers' daughters.— Extra cow, 260 



The Greedy Mole.— Gypsum.— Editorial Notices, 261 



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 advance. 



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 limited 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 lettered. 



For seven dollars paid in advance, a coTnptoesei of the 

 work will be furnished in numbers, including the 11th 

 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 ofliee within thirty miles of Philadelphia, 

 they will go free of charge. 



Joseph Rakestraw, Printer. 



