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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. XII. 



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 

 you ATT 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, II vols. 9 SO 



DOWNING'S Landscape Gardening, 3 50 



Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 1 50 



SKINNERS Every Man his own Farrier, 50 



AMERICAN Poulterer's Companion, 1 25 



BOUSSINGAULT'S RUR.AL ECONOMY, 1 50 



FARMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HAND-BOOK, 1 00 



MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 1 00 



STAELfi ECONOMY, 1 00 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31i 



BUISTS' ROSE M.\NUAL, - 75 



THOMAS' FRUIT CULTURIST. 50 



SKINNERS CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 50 



AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMER'S MINE, 75 



HOARE ON THE VINE, 62i 



HANVAM'S Economy of Waste Manures, 25 



LIEBIG'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 25 



ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, 25 



FAMILIAR LETTERS, 12i 

 JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY OF MODERN 



GARDENING, 2 25 

 Subscriptions received for Colman's Agricultural 

 Tour— or singly numbers sold. 

 |]3' We are prepared to bind books to order. 



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 I7tli, 1847. 



PoHdrette. 



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, $1 75 per barrel, containing 

 four bushels each, or 35 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. 



Fhilada. 8tk mo. le.tk, 1847. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Page 



Question of Breadstuffs— the demand and supply, 9 

 Dr. Franklin's mode of learning to Swim, — Club- 

 foot in the Horse, ]2 



Loss of Beef in cooking. — Comparative nutritive 

 powers of green and dry Fodder for Cattle.— Ir- 

 rigation .. ]3 



Great yield of Wheat.— Woollen ras?, 15 



Interesting Agricultural Pacts.— Good Advice to 



Boys.— Manure for Strawberries, ](i 



Preservation of Timber, 17 



A Productive Farm.— Ploughs, 19 



Phclp's Durham Cow.— To ?ave Horses from Fire — 

 Potatoe Disease. — American Institute.— Farmer's 



Club, 22 



Results of Industry.— Fuel in Paris, 23 



Mice.— The Potatoe, .^ 24 



Asricnltural Exhibition, Philadelphia, 25 



The Horse.— To prevent Lamps from Smoking, ... 20 

 Fresh Peach s in Winter.— Strawberries and Milk. 



— Pattern Farmer in Belmont County, 27 



Root Pruning and Management of Pear trees. — 

 Prices of Breadstiift's in Europe for 30 years past, 28 



Good and bad Farming, 29 



The Wood-peci er, :)0 



:tay-side Farming in Talbot Co. Maryland, 31 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Premiums, ... 32 



Hints to men of business, 34 



Pruning .* 35 



The Potatoe.— Editorial Notices, 37 



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 approprj. 

 ately inlroduccil. 



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 eight dollars paid iti advance, a co?npZc«ese{ of the 

 work will be furnished in numbers, including the 12th 

 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, 

 VI ill also be bound upon 'he same terms. 



By the decision of the Post Master General, the 

 "Cabinet," is subject only to newspaper postage. 



< Joseph Rakestraw, Printer. 



