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Editorial Kolices, 



Vol. XI. 



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

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THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, full- 

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

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 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half-bound, 10 vols. 

 DOWNING'S Landscape Gardening, 

 Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 

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 AMERICAN Poulterer's Companion, 

 BOUSSINGAULT'S RURAL ECONOMY, 

 FARMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HAND-BOOK, 

 MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 

 STABLE ECONOMY, 

 SEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 

 BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 

 THOMAS' FRUIT CULTURIST, 

 SKINNERS CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR. 

 AMERICAN FARRIER, 

 THE FARMER'S MINE, 

 HOARE ON THE VINE, 

 HANNAMS Economy of Waste Manures, 

 LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 



ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 



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First quality African Guano, from the island of 

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 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- 

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 the manufSictory, 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- 

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 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. 

 Pbilada. 6tA Tive. 15th, 1847. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE 



Cause and Preventives of the Rust in Wheat, 361 



Roads, Cottages, Flowers, &c. in England, 302 



Profits of Farming, 3G3 



Culture of Asparagus.— Honesty the best policy, . 364 



Culture of the Cucumber, _«-. 3()5 



A Wash for Fruit trees.— Agricultural Survey of 



Washington Co. N. Y 3G6 



Horticultural Premiums.— Timothy Grass, 368 



Disease among Neat Cattle 369 



Comparative weight of Pork and Bacon, 371 



Potatoes, Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, 372 



Cause and Preventives of the Fly in Wheat.— 



Strawberries in Cincinnati. — Fibrous covering 



for Land, 374 



White wash, 375 



Digestion, 370 



Mount Airy Agricultural College. — The Daisy.— 



Productive Orchard 377 



Put the Tools in their places.— Remedy for the 



Yellows, 378 



Fruit and Vegetable Preserver, 379 



The Hessian Fly.— Value of Land, 380 



A visit to Virginia. — Editorial Notices, 3S2 



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