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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. VIII. 



FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, EVER- 

 GREENS, SHRUBBERY, &c., 

 In great variety, for sale as heretofore, by the sub- 

 scriber, at his Nursery, near Haddington, four miles 

 west of Philadelphia. Orders sent by mail, or left at 

 the office of the Farmer's Cabinet— where Catalogues 

 may be obtained— will be attended to, and the trees 

 well packed, when ordered to distant places. City 

 gardeners supplied with trees suitable for the stre<ts, 

 at a liberal discount. SAMUEL RIIOADS. 



Tenth mo. i5tk, 1843. 



WHOLESALE & RETAIL SEED & IMPLEMENT 

 WAREHOUSE. 

 Constantly for sale. Corn ShcUers of every variety, 

 for hand or horse power; Straw and Corn-stalk Cut 

 ters, of different patterns, from -So to $30 each. Grain 

 Fans, of various kinds, from $8 to $30 each;— Corn 

 Crackers, Sausage Cutters, Sausage Stuffers, Apple 

 Parers, Churns on a new plan, which are cheap and 

 good;— Self sharpening Premium Ploughs;— Subsoil 

 Ploughs; Agricultural Furnaces; Cooking Stoves, &.C., 

 for sale low, by D. O. PROUTY, 



JVo. 176, Market street, above Fifth, Philad. 



Agricultural Implement Manufactory, 



No. 196, Market street, two doors above Sixth street, 

 and two doors below the Red Lion Hotel : 



Where are manufactured and for sale, lower than can 

 be purchased elsewhere, Horse Powers and Threshing 

 Machines, Fanning Mills, Corn Shellers, Straw and 

 Hay Cutters, Horse Rakes, Ploughs, Harrows, Cultiva- 

 tors, Seed Planters, Cheese Presses, Churns, Pumps, 

 and every kind of farming implement generally in use. 

 Also, Beach's Self-sharpening Plough and castings— 

 and Wiley's two-pointed do. Every description of im- 

 plement made to order, or repaired by e.xperienced 

 workmen, and warranted. Slater's Patent Corn Shel- 

 ler and Grinder. EDWIN CHANDLER, 



JIgentfor Agricultural Machines of every description. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the Ninth 

 month, (September,) 1843, was nearly five inches. 



4.856 inches. 

 Penn. Hospital, 10th mo. 1st, 1843. 



POUDRETTE. 

 The manufacture of this article having now got fairly 

 underway in Philadelphia, we shall have it constantly 

 on hand, and for sale at the office of the Farmer's Cab- 

 inet; price one dollar and fifty cents per barrel, con- 

 taining four bushels; or seven barrels for ten dollars — 

 or thirty cents a bushel, at the manufactory. Orders 

 from a distance, enclosing the cash, with cost of por- 

 terage, will be promptly attended to, by carefully de- 

 livering the barrels on board of such conveyance as 

 may be designated. Farmers to the South, and in the 

 interior, both of this State and New Jersey, are in- 

 vited to try the article this fall on their wheat; and in 

 the spring, on their corn, vegetables, &c. The concern 

 is under the care of D. K. Minor, whose establishment 

 has been for several years in operation in New York, 

 where the demand is continually increasing. 



We have learned from several of our friends, that 

 the potato crop in some parts of several counties of this 

 State, as well as in parts of Delaware and Maryland, 

 is very much a failure. They have not only rotted in 

 the ground, but where they have been dug, and were 

 apparently sound, they have very soon decayed — become 

 very offensive, and entirely worthless for man or beast. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Deep Ploughing page 73 



Worms in the blood of a Dog 74 



Remedy for Indigestion.— Can't and Won't 75 



Seedling Fruit Trees 76 



Disinterestedness, 78 



Improved Durham Cattle 79 



Valley of the Mississippi 80 



Centre-draught Plough.— Moral duties of the Phy- 

 sician 81 



Prouty and Mears' Plough 83 



Early Health.— St. John's Wort.— Great Milker 83 

 The Mechanic in Straits. — Top-dressing with Fer 



menting Manures - 84 



Curicia Result 85 



Ergot.— Inoculation of Cheese, &c 86 



The Caniida Thistle.— Hatching Apparatus 87 



Experiments, &c., on the Production of Butter 88 

 Mott's Patent Agriculturist's Furnace. — Cultiva- 

 tion of the Sun flower, &c 89 



On the preparation and use of Manures 90 



Trip to Rochester— New York Cattle Show 95 



How to be rich.— A good Hint 96 



Agricultural Fair and Premiums, &c 97 



Editorial Notices 101 



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