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Editorial JVctices. 



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; 37J 

 THE FARMER'S LAND MEASURER; 371 

 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 



FARxMERS' & EMIGRANTS' HAND-BOOK, 1 00 



MORRELL'S AMERICAN SHEPHERD, 1 00 



STABLE ECONOMY, 1 00 



SEVAN on the HONEY BEE, 31^ 



BUISTS' ROSE MANUAL, 75 



THOMAS' FRUIT CULTURIST. 50 



SKIN.NfiR'S CATTLE & SHEEP DOCTOR, 50 



AMERICAN FARRIER, 50 



THE FARMER'S MINE, 75 



HOARE ON THE VINE, 621 



HANNAM'o 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. 

 JlJ" 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 I7th, 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 <it 

 New Jersey, are invited to try it. We are now ready 

 to supply any demand for wheat. 



JOSIAH TATUM. 

 Fhilada. 8tA mo. Idth, 1847. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 

 Effect of different coloured light upon Plants page 201 



Gentle Words.— Gardening on the Bosphorus 202 



Blight of the Pear Tree 203 



Cranberries.- Agricultural Society, Newcastle Co. 205 

 Suggestions, whether Manures are more effica- 

 cious " ploughed in," or used as a " top-dressing" 207 



Feeding Stock 208 



Profits of Fruit Culture 209 



Chinese j'.!;ricultural population.— Floors of Por- 

 ticoes 210 



Geography and history of the Apple 211 



On ihe best mode of Feeding Cattle 213 



Rules for Selecting Cattle 214 



Advice to parents. — Report of an experiment on 



the growth of Turnips in summer 216 



Heated Rooms.— Agriculture .^ 218 



The distribution of Mineral substances on^iffer- 



ent parts of Plants 219 



Lord Leicester 220 



Strawberry Runners 221 



Animal poisons, their cure. — Importance of Phos- 

 phates 222 



Horticultural Premiums.- Iowa as an Agricul- 

 tural State 224 



Soiling 225 



Food of the Horse 227 



Drink and shade for Stock 229 



Hints to Farmers.— Editorial Notices, 230 



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