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Editorial JVotices. 



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 

 YOUATT 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 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 ECONOMY, 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, 12^ 

 JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY OF MODERN 



GARDENING, 2 25 

 Subscriptions received for Colman's Agricultural 

 Tour — or single numbers sold, 

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AFRICAN GUANO. 



First quality African Guano, from the island of 

 Ichaboe, warranted genuine. Also a few tons Peruvian. 

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

 No. 7 South Wharves, 2nd Oil Store below 

 Market street. 

 Philadelphia, March 17th, 1847. 



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, near the Penitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Present price, $2 00 per barrel, containing 

 four bushels each, or 40 cents a bushel. Orders from 

 a distance, enclosing the cash, with cost of porter- 

 age, will be promptly attended to, by carefully deli- 

 vering 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 demand for corn. 



JOSIAH TATUM. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAOB 



Cultivation of Indian Corn in Europe, 297 



Animal Offals, ^^ 299 



Farmers' Club, N. Y.— The Dairy.— Be Economical, 302 



Culture of Tender Fruits in cold climates, 303 



Insects injurious to Wheat, 304 



Mammoth Corn, 305 



Agricultural Meeting at Boston State-house, .... 306 



The Ass and the Mule, 307 



Philadelphia Hay market.— Cottage culture of 

 Tea in China.— Keeping House.— Cement for 



Grafting, 308 



Transplanting Trees, 309 



Too much Work 312 



The British Grain Crop.— Incombustible Wash. — 



Measure of Grain.— Hybrid China Roses, 313 



J. S. Skinner's Address, delivered before the Frank- 

 lin and Hampden Agricultural Societies, 314 



The best mode of Feeding Cattle, 317 



Anthracite Coal, 320 



The six best Apples for the climate of Boston.— 



Brick Making 321 



Remarks on the purchase of a Horse, 322 



Premiums of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Soc. 323 

 Time for Budding Fruit Trees.— Prevention for 



Rot in the Potatoe Crop, 324 



Anthracite Coal. — Sheep Trade. — Nurseries. — 



Composition for Shoes, 325 



Editorial Notices, 326 



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