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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 

 THE AMERICAN POULTRY BOOK; 37^ 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 37^ 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 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, 

 JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY OF MODERN 

 GARDENING, 

 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. 



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, $i 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 ready 

 to supply any demand for turnips, buckwheat, &c. 

 JOSIAH TATUM. 



Phtlada. 6th mo. 15th, 1847. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid, page 329 



Lettuce.— To determine the weight of Cattle, 332 



Selling Sheep, .-.-.- 333 



Dutch Husbandry,— Hasty Pudding, 335 



Eggs and Poultry.— Experience in Farming 336 



Transplanting Fruit Trees, in Spring and Autumn, 337 

 Potatoes and Lime.— The White Oak.— Exporta- 

 tion of Ice, 338 



Painting Houses, 339 



Enormous Grape Vine.— Renovation of worn out 



Land, 342 



Kephart's Patent Fruit and Vegetable Preserver, 345 

 Quality of Salt used in making Butter.— Prepara- 

 tion of Seed Wheat, 346 



The Mule vs. The Horse.— Th« Potatoe 347 



Spring Budding 348 



Brick Making.— How to make Hommony, 349 



Cranberries. — Sympathy of Birds. — Insect Sla- 

 very, 350 



Endurance of African Horses. — Cabbages, 351 



Birds and the Bird Law, 352 



To prevent Grain from Spoiling, 353 



Agricul. Meeting. — Disease of the Buttonwood, . . 354 



Swarming of Honey Bees, 355 



Economy of Labor-saving Utensils in a Kitchen 



or on a Farm, 356 



Editorial Notices, 358 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



JOSIAH TATUM No. 50 NORTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. 



It is issued on the fitXeenth of every month, in num- 

 bers of .32 octavo pages each. The subjects will be 

 illustrated by engravings, when they can be appropri- 

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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 co/np/ete set 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 »he same terms. 



By the decision of the Post Master General, the 

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