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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 

 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; 37i 

 DANA'S MUCK MANUAL; 50 

 Complete sets of the FARMERS' CABINET, 



half bound, 11 vols. 9 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' HANDBOOK, 1 00 



MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 1 00 



STABLE ECONOMY, 1 00 



BEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31^ 



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, 62^ 



HANNAM'S Economy of Waste Manures, 25 



UEBIG'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 single numbers sold. 

 HJ" 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 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, $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 wheal. 



JOSIAH TATUM. 



Philada. 8th mo ICth, 1S47. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE 



Adulterated Milk 41 



Mexican Fariuiiig.— Vermont Farming 43 



Horses— Oxi;ii, 44 



Fattening Poultry. — Order on Farms. — Children's 



Boots and Shoes, 46 



Age of Poultry. — Portable Soup. — A Modern 



Farmer, 47 



Management of the Manure heap 48 



Burlington County Agricultural Society, 50 



Plank Roads 51 



The whole Secret of Growing Quinces «*. . . 54 



Wool.— Terrace Cultivation in China 5(i 



Frying.— Transplanting Fruit Trees in the Spring 



and Autumn, 57 



Sympathy of Birds 58 



To Cook Bacon, Ham, &c.— Lightning Rods.— Cul- 

 tivation of Onions, 59 



Nutrition of Superfine Flour, or Whole Meal, .... 00 



Marl on Worn-out Lands, 61 



Committees of Philada. Agricultural Society. — 



Nurseries. — Grape 63 



Reclaimed Swamp, 64 



Pickles 65 



Malaga Raisin Vineyards, 60 



Advantages of having Field work always in a for- 

 ward Slate C7 



Weevil in VVht-at, 63 



Uestruclioii of Trees and Birds. — Altering — Early 

 Onions.— Preparation of Seed Wheat. — Summer 

 Crops of Pea^.— Editorial Notices, 69 



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 he 

 illustrated by engravings, when they can be appropri 

 ately introduced. 



Terms.— One dollar per annum, or five dollars for 

 seven copies — payable in advance. 



AH subscriptions must commence at the beginning 

 of a volume. Having lately struck olT a new edition 

 of one or two of the former numbers, which had becoine 

 e.vhausled, 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 ei^'ht dollars paid in advance, a fo;H;</«(e5cf 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, 

 will also be bound upon 'he same terms. 



By the decision of the Post Master General, the 

 "Cabinet," is subject only to newspaper postage. 



Joseph RakestraM, Printer. 



