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Kdilnrial JVotices. 



Vol. XI. 



We keep on hand at this office, and will sapply our 

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THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, full- 

 bound in leather; — Price $3 50 

 YOUATT ON THE HORSE, with J. S. Skin- 

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 BRIDGEMAN'S GARDENER'S ASSISTANT; 2 00 

 THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 37^ 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 37i 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



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 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 Wjste Manures, 

 LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 

 ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 

 " FAMILIAR LETTERS, 



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AFRICAN GUANO. 



First quality African Guano, from the island of 

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 For Side by J. B. A. & S. ALLEN, 

 No. 7 South Wharves, 2nd Oil Store below 

 Market street. 

 Philadelphia, March 17th, 1847. 



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, 

 •SI 81^ per barrel, containing four bushels each. Any 

 number of barrels less than seven, $2 each, or 37^ 

 cents a bushel. Orders from a distance, enclos- 

 ing tl'.e 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. 



PAQ8 



Sheep, Mountain Lands, &c., in Virginia, 2(i5 



Potatoe Disease, 26(5, 273 



Anecdote of the Horse.— American Institute, 268 



Vinegar, 270 



Soap as a Manure. — Farm Accounts.— Sweet Po- 

 tatoes 271 



Woman's cares at home, 272 



Agricultural Colleges 274 



Lime on corn.— Age of plants.— California farmer, 275 

 Annual Exhibition— Premiums, New York, 276 



History of Short Horns in America, 278 



Shade and Fruit Trees, Insects, &c., 281 



Hydraulic Ram, its history, 282 



Bread stuffs, 283 



Propagating the Vine, ^84 



Horse power.— Habits of Swallows.— Fossil Corn, 286 



Dried Strawberries. — Large Hogs, 287 



To raise the best Gooseberries.- Horse Market in 



Dumfries 288 



Dix Pear.— Greasing Carriage- wheels. — Duke of 



Devonshire's Conservatory, 289 



Growing Roses from Seed, • 290 



Insanity in the Horse 291 



Iron Railway Bridge. — A Brilliant Whitewash. — 

 Editorial Notices, 292 



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